This is my life now

It’s been four months since I arrived to Romania, a lot of things happened, a lot of things changed. In myself, in my project.

As I increased my stay in the EVS while my roommates finished their project two months ago, suddenly was like starting again, new house, new roommates, new schedule…It wasn’t easy, I felt that I wasn´t home and then I was even further from home, it was like getting out from your comfort zone and then increase it even more. But from the beginning, I got used to it. I meet new people and had a lot of adventures and misadventures. Sometimes I try to imagine how had been my life if I just decided to go back home when my previous roommates did it too, but I think, I wouldn´t had learnt so much, almost nothing. Cause the beginning its excitement for a new country & new culture, but after two months, it becomes to be your life, not a short dream, you experience it very different, you have also daily routine and slow down to appreciate also the small things that are surrounding you.
Esther Perez - EVS volunteer
Volunteering&Sustainable Development II - Erasmus+

Them, you, the youth

I never imagined myself as a teacher, is something that simply was not in my life plans, but suddenly everything changed, even the perspective of my own way.

Being with the kids in the different schools had made me realized how important it is the education, how in my past I never put myself in the skin of the professors I had, and how hard it is their job.

Education need of professionals that are willing to help, not for a salary to take home, but for really creating a change in the future of the society, children want to learn but they need to have fun and enjoy in the place they are. An environment where the creative and interacting skills can be developed and grown.

This is something that I learned thanks to this experience, and now I feel that I am good on this and I should find the way to keep being involved in the education field.

I am now organizing a youth exchange and also I applied to a training to become a trainer, inspired by the ones I had on my OAT (on arrival training) and the people and experiences I had here.

And I feel glad to discover this part of me.

Esther Pérez - EVS volunteer

Project – Volunteering&Sustainable Development II – Erasmus+