I haven’t been writing for a while, and now I have
quite a few posts to write as many things happened. I will start from the
oldest event – on arrival training. Such trainings are organized for all EVS
volunteers. The aim of such session is to gain information about EVS, support
during the project. Our training took place in the end of November in Slavske,
nice small town in Carpathian Mountains. In fact most of information I already
received from both my Host Organization and Sending Organization, so I listened
to it for a third time. It doesn’t mean that the whole 5 days were boring and
useless, as we got more detailed information, it was a great opportunity to get
to know other volunteers and exchange our experience, ideas, fears,
disappointments, just anything, and also we can got some cultural information
from first hand, talk more about cultural differences, so called cultural
shock, and analyze/simulate some crisis or conflict situation which can be
useful in our work on project.
First impression hearing the stories of other
volunteers was that we (me and Daphnee) are very lucky, because we don’t have
any problem with a flat, we live in really great conditions, we even didn’t
expect, we have good communication with organization and people. I don’t want
to present some idyllic dream we are living here, that’s too much of course,
but this training let me realize that we should appreciate what we have here
very much.
We met a lot of people who do their EVS in Ukraine,
Belarus and Moldova and are from various European countries. the biggest group
was from…PolandJ And unusual for me for the first time I was happy to see so many Polish
people abroadJ J On such events people quite fast create relation with each other,
somehow get attached, and it’s always quite sad to leave. It’s obvious that we
won’t stay in touch with all people, its’ impossible, but I hope that some
acquaintances will survive. Anyway, just meeting all of these people was very
good and interesting experience, I’m always very happy to get to know
foreigners and learn something about their countries, see the differences. And
now our travels to some places in Ukraine are easier as we know people there.
And writing from perspective we had already two visits from our training
friends, but about it I’ll write in next posts.
Some pictures from Slavske:
Plan of our activities
and plan after some creative changes :D
 |
Polish group
Brak komentarzy:
Prześlij komentarz