Let's start the Summer

At the end of this month the classes end for the youngest children we work with, so to close the course with them and say goodbye we had a picnic with the whole class in the countryside. We continue going to school, this month has been a little complicated for me because the classes we have gone to many of them did not speak English so communication became a little more complicated so to make it easier we did several games with them in which they participated and were more encouraged to interact with us.

We continued to offer our help at the Dog shelter. It is one of the best activities of the week as we play with the dogs, brush them and help with the cleaning.

This month went by again at an incredible speed

 

This month went by again at an incredible speed! I had the opportunity to have 1 week of vacation, so I went alone to Bucharest. This week was incredible, I met lovely, interesting, and surprising people! The city is huge, very pretty, the architecture is different from Baia Mare. Traveling alone allowed me to go beyond the limits of my comfort zone, to go on an adventure without plans, without great expectations, I was pleasantly surprised! We were finally able to go to school and high school to do activities in English, the preparation of the activities is always interesting, and having to adapt to the students during the activities is surprising. Interacting with the students in "real life" makes my project meaningful, even though the online activities are interesting being able to go into the classrooms and talk to the students is a great opportunity during this pandemic!

Oferta de voluntariat - Stagiu in Spania (Toledo)

 

Apel voluntari! Cautam doi voluntari  disponibili pentru un stagiu de voluntariat de 2 luni in Spania (Toledo), in perioada 14.06-31.07. 2021. Ecocompartimos, organizatia de gazduire, va organiza tabere de vara internationale pentru copii din grupul tinta si are nevoie de ajutorul unor tineri veseli si energici. Sarcinile voluntarilor includ pregatirea si implementarea de activitati de educatie non-formala. Cei interesati pot obtine mai multe informatii trimitand un email la centrulgreentin@yahoo.com

I feel at home!

 

We started this month with 2 weeks of quarantine because Gönül had the Covid. These 2 weeks stuck in the apartment seemed long, the evenings and weekends seemed endless. We continued our online work with the children and teenagers. Once we were free, we started our awareness campaign on the value of water. We started our presentations on March 22, the World Water Day. We made many presentations for 2 weeks. We tried to make young people aware of the importance of water and its pollution which is harmful to the planet. Being able to meet many students from Baia Mare and the surroundings was for me an enriching experience even if sometimes the online meetings are not always easy, the students were involved and curious during this awareness campaign.

Discovering new skills

 

We started the month of March having to do two weeks of quarantine, because, unfortunately, Gönül was infected with Covid. Althoug, sometimes, not be able to leave the house made me a little sad, but having activities to plan and prepare for made it easier. It was also fun to do the quarantine with friends instead of being with my family.  During the months of March and

April, Manon and I carried out the Educational Campaign "Valuing Water". This campaign has given me the opportunity to learn more about water pollution, to learn how to use different online tools to create videos and make presentations, as well as, it has been a challenge for me to do the different talks in schools. I like to make talks and I feel comfortable doing them in Spanish and Portuguese because they are languages that I control, but to make these talks even if it was not a very complex topic has been a challenge for me because I don’t have a high English level, so it is more difficult for me to express myself and make myself understood properly.

 

Here comes the sun!

 

I have been here for three months now and everything is going great. I feel at home and I hope this feeling will last! At the beginning of the month, we went on a little hike, with my roommates and my coordinator, we were able to enjoy the nature and have a good time all together. This month we had our arrival training, this training was online, we were able to meet many volunteers living all over Romania, some volunteers are in Baia Mare. We were lucky enough to meet them and show them around the city, get to know each other during a dinner.  The classes with the children are still online, I am impatient to meet them. As time goes by, I feel I understand them more and more, seeing their evolution with their participation in English activities even if sometimes being behind the computer can be demotivating.

La revedere, iarnă!

 

It has been a very good month for me as I have been traveling around different areas of the Maramures region; Cavnic, Sighetu Marmației, Săpânța, Desești among others. Northern Romania has beautiful sites (some of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites) that are worth visiting and that, unhappily are not very well known.  This is the first month that we are living together with Gönül. For me it is an enriching experience to be able to live with her in the same house because I have not had many opportunities to converse with a person whose religion is Islamic or from Turkey. Thanks to this, I have been able to learn more about what is currently happening in Turkey, taste different typical dishes, learn new words in Turkish, as well as find similarities between Turkey and Spain. She is a very nice person, and her company makes our days at home more pleasant.