ESM – Easter Edition
For orthodox christian Easter is on 1st of May but for the catholic christian is in less than a week so Liina and Ania decided to dedicate one of the last editions of English Speaking Meeting to Easter holiday. All the conversations and games chosen for this meeting were based on the Easter topic. But this was not all, they also organized a workshop for decorating eggs.
Pentru creștinii ortodocși Paștele se sărbătorește pe 1 May, dar pentru cei catolici e la mai puțin de o săptămână distanță, așadar Liina și Ania a decis să dedice una dintre ultimele ediții ale Întâlnirii de Vorbit Engleză sărbătorii pascale. Toate conversațiile și jocurile alese pentru această întâlnire au avut Paștele ca subiect. Și asta nu e tot, ele au organizat și un atelier de decorat ouă.
Now almost at the end is pretty obvious that all these meetings in which youngsters and volunteers discussed different topics and played games were very useful, they made them open up and feel much more comfortable in speaking to others, using a foreign language, English in this case.
Acum, aproape de final, e destul de evident că aceste întâlniri în care tinerii și voluntarii au discutat diferite subiecte și au jucat jocuri, au fost foarte folositoare. I-au determinat să se deschidă și să se simtă mult mai confortabil atunci când vorbesc într-o limbă străină, engleza în acest caz.
After EVS – Life perspectives
Apropiindu-se de finalul stagiilor SEV cei patru voluntari cu ajutorul mentorului lor au început să își facă planuri de viitor, să caute variante de urmat.
Sophie – odată ce se va întoarce în Franța va lucra pentru MRJC – o organizație neguvernamentală franceză care implementează proiecte în domeniul tineretului. Acolo se va ocupa de unul din proiectele lor, un schimb de tineri pentru care Curba de Cultură este partener.
Ania – își dorește să continue studiile dar totodată vrea să folosească toată această experiență acumulată. Până se va decide însă exact ce va face, își va lua o slujbă de vară în Italia, una din țările pe care le adoră.
Liina – are planuri de întoarcere în România, în luna iunie va lua parte la un Schimb de Tineri implementat în partea de nord a țării, în Poiana Negrii. Apoi va lucra o perioadă la un hostel în Brașov. Își dorește foarte mult să rămână în România, căci e o țară de care s-a îndrăgostit.
Franck – va munci alături de Sophie în schimbul de tineri din luna august. Mai apoi speră să poată face și el parte din echipa MRJC și poate să își continue studiile.
Cam acestea sunt planurile celor patru voluntari cu o lună înainte de întoarcerea în țările natale.
Getting closer to the end of their EVS stages the fourth volunteers with their mentor’s help started to make some future plans, to look for options to follow. Let’s see one by one:
Sophie – once back in France she is going to work for MRJC – a french NGO in the youth sector. There she is going to take care of one of their projects, a Youth Exchange, for which Curba de Cultură is partner.
Ania – wants to finish her studies but as well she wishes to use all the skills gained. until she is sure of what she will do she got a summer job in Italy, a country that she loves.
Liina – has plans to return to Romania. In June she will participate in a Youth Exchange in the North part of Romania, Poiana Negrii. Afer that she will work for a while in a hostel in Brasov. She wishes to stay in Romania, because she fell in love with it.
Franck – is going to help Sohie with the Youth Exchange in August. After that he hope to become part of the MRJC team, and maybe to continue his studies.
For now, a month before departure these are their plans.
Holiday activities – Activitati de vacanta
Between 7th and 14th of February there was a school holiday. We, at Curba de Cultură took advantage of it and we even had activities planned in two locations in two different projects. Anyhow here we will talk about what our EVS volunteers prepared, but if you want to find out more about that period click here.
Under the name of Winter Fun, Liina and Ania with the help of Franck and Sophie organised three captivating days for the children and youngsters in Schiulești.
Tuesday was boardgames day – children had the opportunity of learning new boarding games, practicing or even teaching others how to play. The games form Curba de Cultură’s collection proved their value and utility once more.
Wednesday in the afternoon the girls projected Monster Inc, a funny and catchy animation to which they added popcorn and so the day ended in an optimistic and joyful note.
Friday was the day which brought a Treasure Hunt. And even though there was lots of wind and a cold weather the hunt for finding the clues which lead to the treasure heated up everyone, organizers and participants at the same time.
Între 7 si 14 Februarie a fost vacanță școlară. Noi, la Curba de Cultură am profitat de asta și am avut chiar activități planificate în două locații, în două proiecte diferite. Aici vom vorbi însă despre activitățile pregătite de voluntarii SEV, dar dacă doriți să aflați mai multe despre perioada respectivă, click aici.
Sub numele de Winter Fun, Liina și Ania, cu ajutorul lui Franck și al lui Sophie au organizat trei zile captivante pentru copii și tinerii dind Schiulești.
Marți a fost ziua de boardgames – copii au avut ocazia de a învăța noi jocuri, de a le exersa pe cele pe care le știau deja și de a-i învăța pe ceilalți să joace. Jocurile din colecția Curbei de Cultură s-au dovedit încă o dată valoroase și utile.
Miercuri după amiază fetele au făcut proiecție de film, Monster Inc. o animație captivantă și amuzantă căreia i-au adăugat popcorn. Așa se face că ziua s-a încheiat într-o notă optimistă și distractivă.
Vineri a fost ziua care a adus Vânăoarea de Comori. Și chiar dacă a fost o zi cu mult vânt și vreme rece, cursa găsirii indiciilor care au condus spre comoară ia- încălzit pe toți, organizatori și participanți deopotrivă.
Mid-Term Evaluation
I was on MidTerm Evaluation for 4 days. First of all, I must say that my last day was so crazy that I actually lost all my ideas and words that I was going to say about the entire Mid-term. Today I am a mess and probably my post will not be long and so understandable at some point. Plus I will not talk about the sessions that we had inside the training room from 10 to 19, because it will be boring to read it.
For people who don’t know about this mid term – basically, Mid-Term Evaluation brings together a lot of EVS volunteers who are somewhere in the middle of their projects. The days consist of sessions with different topics. For example:
- Youthpass-what it exactly is and how to fill it.
- Me in my project. Creating an EVS graph with all the ups and downs that have either brought my mood up or have brought it down nearly close to zero.
- Life after EVS.
- A tool fair, where people could share their teaching methods that they use in their projects, so other volunteers could get some ideas to use in their activities.
- And so on and so on.
And I have to mention that I finally met my first Estonian in Romania. The meeting took place in Busteni, and it is located in really amazing place. Every time when I got out from our hotel with Ania or Sophie, both of them had to listen to me ”WOW”-ing for many times. Probably they finally got sick of it.
Right behind the hotel I could see huge mountains that most of the time were literally in the middle of the clouds. I told my friends that I found my place and thats it, I will stay there.
All the people in the MT (at least the ones who I communicated with) were so super friendly and fun. And actually I even met a guy who probably has the same craziness level as I have. And can you imagine, there really exists someone who seemed to be surprised in a good way that I am a huge fan of hobbit and LOTR.
Being there was juuuussst great.On the first day of MT I went just for a walk with some people during the lunch break and I ended up rolling around in the snow, making snow angels and having a snowball fight (which, by the way, I believe that girls won). And by the way- it felt freaking good to act like a kid for an hour.
The same evening I thought how awesome would it be to go hiking in the mountains that are behind my hotel. Or at least go and see the waterfall that I have heard about. But the problem was that I only had enough free time during the evening, when it was obviously too dark to hike in the forest. SO I planned (yes, you read it correctly, i really PLANNED) something cool for the next morning. Luckily, someone decided to join me – so I had a super good motivation to get out of bed so early. We left the hotel at 8 and just hiked up up up, through the forest, until the waterfall. I surprised myself, because I have NEVER been a morning person, when people talk too much with me after I have just woken up, I have this killer-look for a long time. I have never woken up early in the morning because of something like this. And well, lets say that actually it was not only about hiking.
After our small walk I felt really good and I was even more motivated to go hiking the next morning, that time even higher, as far as the time allows me to go. Because why not? I don’t come to Busteni often and I don’t have a lot of people with who I could take some long ways up to the mountains and have fun conversations. I had a plan that I will leave even earlier to have more time for hiking. BUT, like always when I make plans, then the plans change. Something happened, which kept me awake all night, my sleepiness was gone very quickly. Basically I spent all my night sitting in the lobby, sitting on the stairs, sitting on the floor, sitting sitting sitting everywhere and talking. In the morning I felt like a zombie so I decided not to go hiking. WHICH MEANS that I will go back to Busteni as soon as possible and do what I didn’t do.
Something from someone: Time flies fu*king fast when you are doing something that you enjoy. So make the most of your EVS, because it will end. And believe me, it will end quickly. 1 month feels sometimes like 2 weeks in my case.
Liina,
Estonian volunteer in Romania
Portret de voluntar – Ania (Polonia)
I would describe myself as small, brave and open-minded girl. I try to be helpful for other people and I expect them to be the same to me. I do not like fight, argue with the others and I can’t stand when somebody is rude and impolite.
I would like to spend at least half of the year as the volunteer. I am ready to make one year break before I will go for my master degree studies. I would like to gain a lot of experience during this year and don’t waste my time for doing nothing. That’s why I am so motivated to go for that kind of stage. I just want to maximize my life in the best way I can. I am young and brave, if I can help others and at the same time gain a lot of for myself I want to do it. I just don’t want to waste my time just for education at polish university, I know that I can do more and I want to try.
Ania is coming from Poland from quite a big city, Lublin and she is experimenting living and working in a rural area. And so far she did quite a good job.
Mă descriu drept o fată mignonă, curajoasă și cu o minte deschisă. Încerc întotdeauna să fiu de folos celor din jur și mă aștept ca și cei din jur să facă la fel pentru mine. Nu îmi place violența, certurile și nu suport disrespectul și impolitețea.
Vreau să îmi petrec cel puțin o jumătate de an ca voluntar. Sunt dispusă la o pauză de un an înainte de a-mi continua studiile de master. Vreau să câștig experiență și nu să irosesc acest an făcând nimic. Asta e ceea ce mă motivează să iau parte într-un astfel de stagiu. Vreau să îmi cresc șansele din viață în cel mai bun mod posibil. Sunt tânără, curajoasă, iar dacă pot să îi ajut pe ceilalți și să câștig din asta, atunci vreau să fac acest lucru. În acest moment educația într-o universitate poloneză e o pierdere de timp, știu că pot mai mult și voi încerca mai mult.
Ania vine din Polonia, dintr-un oraș destul de mare, Lublin iar acum experimentează traiul într-o zonă rurală. Până în prezent pare că se descurcă.