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.
Portret de voluntar – Sophie (Franta)
I am very attached to rural areas I also come from this kind of area and I think encouraging them to invest in their people is what they need to continue living. I want to share my various experience and skills I gained in the animation field and I think that through it I can contribute to the social economy and the sustainable development of the community. I wish to offer to youngsters a safe environment where they can express themselves, dream, play, meet, accept differences, share opinions and take responsibilities and all these outside school.
Beside the above mentioned things I am also good at organizing events, trips, vacations and moreover trainings for personal development of children and youngsters. So yeah, this is me, Sophie, I am French, I am 24 and I am doing my EVS in Romania, here with Curba de Cultură.
Sunt foarte atașată de mediul rural, chiar provin dintr-o astfel de zonă și consider că a încuraja comunitățile rurale să investească în proprii oameni este ceea ce au ei nevoie pentru a asigura existența comunității. Doresc să împărtășesc experiența pe care o am și abilitățile pe care le dețin în domeniul animației. Cred cu tărie că prin acestea pot contribui la economia socială și dezvoltarea sustenabilă a comunității. Vreau să ofer tinerilor un mediu sigur în care să se poată exprima, să poată visa, să se poată juca, să se poată întâlni, să învețe să accepte differențele, să împărtășească opinii și să își asume responsabilități, și toate înafara școlii.
Pe lângă toate cele menționate mai sus, pot spune că sunt pricepută la a organiza evenimente, drumeții, vacanțe și chiar mai mult, traininguri pentru dezvoltare personală pentru copii și tineri. Dap, asta sunt eu, Sophie, sunt franțuzoaică, am 24 de ani și îmi fac SEV-ul în România la Curba de Cultură.
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
Discovering…
A month passed since Sophie joined the team of Curba de Cultură. In this time she started to discover the surroundings and the people, she had trips, walks and she got invited to festivities. Also the locals had to go through the same process, of getting used to see foreigners, to meet her on the streets and in the schools where she started to go, to do activities with pupils and to show them the usage of learning a foreign language.
A trecut aproape o lună de când Sophie s-a alăturat echipei Curba de Cultură. În acest timp a explorat împrejurimile și s-a întâlnit cu diverși oameni, a făcut plimbări în natură și a fost invitată la diferite evenimente. În același timp și localnicii au trebuit să treacă prin același proces de adaptare, să se obișnuiască să vadă străini, să o întâlnească pe Sophie pe stradă sau în școlile unde a început să facă activități cu copiii.
Also Sophie met Anamaria, the mentor who is going to help her get the best from the learning experience of this EVS.
Sophie a întâlnit-o și pe Anamaria, cea care îi va fi mentor pe durata stagiului și care o va ajuta să învețe cât mai mult pe durata acestui stagiu SEV.
The first volunteer is here!
Starting from May 2015 Curba de Cultură is hosting EVS volunteers. This is a great news for us but even a better one for the local community of Izvoarele. People here will have the chance of meeting foreigners, of speaking some words in English and of finding out more about other European countries.
Începând cu luna mai 2015 Curba de Cultură găzduiește voluntari SEV. Aceasta este o veste bună pentru noi și una excelentă pentru comunitatea locală din Izvoarele. locuitorii comunei vor avea ocazia de a întâlni străini, de a vorbi în engleză și de a afla mai multe despre celelalte țări europene.
Sophie France is our first volunteer here, she arrived after a long trip by bus from France and after getting used to the place and getting used to speaking only in English she’ll start the work. She seems happy to be here and excited to discover rural Romania, which is way different from rural France.
Sophie France este primul nostru voluntar aici. Ea a venit din Franța după o lungă călătorie cu autobuzul. După ce se va mai obișnui puțin cu locul și cu faptul că trebuie să vorbească doar în Engleză, ea va începe munca. Este foarte încântată să fie aici și dornică să descopere România rurală, care este cu mult mai diferită de Franța rurală.
Here you have some pictures taken by her. Iar aici aveți câteva dintre pozele ei: 
