no matter how different we are, it is never too late to communicate

I am now on the half way of my volunteering experience. I met a lot of people from different

countries and cultures, some I liked some I didn't. As a person I accept people to be part of my life with the condition to have a lot of things in common r, I don’t know if this is right or wrong.

Me and my roommate we didn’t have a good relationship, we stayed in the same room but we never said even good morning to each other. We barely talked. We have never communicated to solve the problem. We only sent negative waves.

Volunteering for who?

It’s hard to believe that I have been here for four months already. I had lived abroad before and also did so many volunteering projects with disadvantaged children before. However, I have never felt that I could actually ‘touch someone’s life, that dense. Here, in my project building communities through volunteering, I have the feeling that volunteering can change someone’s life.

Since high school, I have been volunteered in different associations and the experiences I have made me the person I am now. Volunteerism is a dialectical relationship and transforms while interacting on both sides. The aspect of life that we never had a chance to learn before, or already forgotten how to learn is taught us by the children. Having expectations is not an obstacle on the way of happiness, in fact making a smile on a child dispels all the expectations. It helps you how to have fewer expectations from life and live in the present.

First days in Baia Mare

The week before I came to Baia Mare, I was so anxious because I didn´t know which experiences were waiting for me. When I arrived to my new home I was tired and there were a lot of people in the kitchen that impressed me. First days I met so many people and I started making new friends like Tânia and Alejandro- Tania is in the same project as me and lives with me. In the house we are 7 people from different countries and cultures.

The first day of school I felt so nervous because I didn´t know how the children were going to react when they meet me. However, when I arrived everyone welcomed me very warmly and they asked me my name and how I was which made me very happy.

EVS - ON Arrival - my subject

EVS on Arrival Training is my subject for today we were fifty two people like always the only Tunisian and for sure a lot of Turkish.

We had a lot of workshop sometimes boring sometimes funny  emotional in others my best was the cultural differences we had to split in teams and I like working in teams we were five volunteering  Tunisian, Armenian, Argentina, Spanish and the last one from Denmark .

TYPS - Horse Assisted Education

In perioada 10-13.10.2019, a avut loc in Tarnobrzeg (Polonia) al doilea training inclus in cadrul proiectului Typs. In cadrul trainingului 12 lucratori de tineret din cadrul celor trei organizatii – Greentin, Ecocompartimos, Esteka (cate 4 din fiecare organizatie partenera) au invatat noi metode pe care sa le aplice in activitatile de tineret. Coordonatorul activitatii, Horse Assisted Education a fost Esteka.

Proiectul Typs a fost finantat prin intermediul programului Erasmus+

 W dniach 10-13.10.2019 r. W Tarnobrzegu (Polska) odbyło się drugie szkolenie w ramach projektu Typs. Podczas tego szkolenia 12 pracowników młodzieżowych (po 4 dla każdej organizacji) uczyło się nowych metod edukacji poza formalnej celem zastosowania ich w pracy z młodzieżą. Koordynatorem działania programu szkoleniowego metoda Horse Assisted Education było stowarzyszenie Esteka.

Projekt Typs został sfinansowany przez Program Erasmus +

First steps into emotional intelligence

October is the Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month and to start a journey to develop emotional intelligence, we should first understand the concept and its importance.

In simple terms, emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise and manage emotions, our own and from others, while, intellectual intelligence, measured by the IQ, refers to the ability to learn, understand and process information. There is no strict correlation between them, which means people can have high IQs and low emotional intelligence, vice versa and even high score in both or neither.

Time flies

Time flies! I already have been here for two months! When I first arrived in Baia Mare, I was so nervous. However, when I got yellow house, I realized that there was nothing to be nervous about. The other volunteers welcomed me very nicely and I had the feeling that everything was gonna be alright. The day after I have arrived, we had some activities in library with the children from Foster house. When you put a smile on child's face, you become the happiest person in the world. This is what I felt in the second day. Those smiles and warm hugs took my tiredness away and I had the feeling that I was ready for this volunteering experience for 10 months.

In the second week, we went to rural school which was in Asuaju de Sus. The age of students in the school was between 7 and 13. Because it was still summer holiday, we had some outdoor activities. Taught them how to make a bird from origami, played games and at the end put the smile on their 

faces, with so many hugs of course

After a week, we joint VoluHub. VoluHub was an event that Yellow Shirts Association has organized.