A EVS adventure!

Memories of March

This month reserved me a lot of surprise til the end. In fact between the 24th till the 28th of March me, together with Enes and Nadja we took part in the MTE (Mid Term Evaluation) that like the OAT it has to be done from the NA for the volunteers that are working in the different country in Europe. This meeting is also useful for the self evaluation of the EVS volunteers during them stage that can be long term or short term.

From left to right Me, Nadja and Enes
In background Bran Castle

Before the activity started, together with Nadja and Enes we went to visit Bran castle. The travel was really long and it look like and odyssey especially in the round trip back. The travel  was really long but lucky for us we took the sleeping wagon that for a travel like this is really good  (tips that I suggest for future volunteers in case you want to do long travel with the Train).
We arrive in the hotel really early and we choose to go travel around the area. We went to see the Bran castle that it is really a good place, touristic and  surrounded by natural landscape. After we went inside the castle to see how was the life in the court. The castle it really amazing and we had a lot of fun and we took a lot of pictures in the castle.
After we saw Bran castle we come back in Poiana Brasov in the Hotel Poiana Silver Mountain, to meet all the others participants and have the first meeting with all of them. We more than 70 volunteers in my opinion maybe too many to build connection with all of them but also interesting because there were a lot of stories to listen and adventure done from different people .

During the meeting we share each others our experience and the activities done until now with the children results and possible actions. In the end of the meeting I realize how much is important for me know go and have a University degree and I am more focus on what I want to do. I like to help and support, make people think and improve competences as problem solving.
Maybe that I can become a trainer till the end of this EVS will be difficult but, I am sure that I can improve my self and that one day I can become a trainer, which is committed to promoting knowledge, education and social inclusion.
In only few more months my experience will arrive to an end but as I always wrote I will do all my best do collect all the experience possible that this adventure is giving to me and I will  help and support all the people that will join to work to promote education. 

Labor Omnia Vincit

Memories of March - Time to be United

Flyer of the Event "Time to be United"

Between 16 and 24 March, the European Action Week Against Racism will be marked by activities all around Europe to combat racism and prejudice. Coordinated by "UNITED" for Intercultural Action, the pan-European network of anti racist NGOs, this annual campaign sees civil society groups, educational institutions and city governments come together to protest against racism and stand up for inclusive European societies. Together with Dominique we choose to develop a new big event in Resita, and we join in the idea of UNITED, because every single action can change the world and and we choose to take took part in the event "Time to be United". Together with my colleges Eleni, Sarah, Esra, Simon and Lucia we develop double ideas to have more influence on the community. The first idea was a "Walk and Talk" with interview around the city, and the second a NF (Non Formal) activities led in the association NevoParudimos on the 21 of March

Part 1 Walk and talk - Dissemination Campaign

The day was ideal for a "Walk and Talk" and we found a lot of volunteers that were interesting to join in our interview giving us a lot of opinions, it was funny and interesting

The activity was really funny and  also Dominique join in our activity around the city , it was a good moment we spent had a lot of fun, and we find interesting lightening the opinion of different people.

During the activity we took some video interview with local people to collect impression and opinions about "Racism" what is it for them and how they live it.

Volunteers and a citizen of Resita involved in the campaign

(from left to right - Lucia - Simon - Citizen - Michele - Eleni - Sarah)

Part 2 - Racism in the school - Activity in Nevo Parudimos

During the 21 of March we developed two activities with students of the University 'Eftmie Murgu of Resita' and students of the Colegiul-National Diaconovici-Tietz.

The activity stated with a big energizer in the yard of the University where we split the participants in two group. One that was coordinate by Eleni and Esra and the second from Sarah and me. In this activity we involve the students to discover and find solution on how to reduce  the racism incidents in the different schools or in other environment.

The activity was really good and also the students get fun, spending a different day based on inclusion and active participation.

In the end of the day we show also the video made with the help of Sarah that we record during the 18th of March.

I was really happy of the work  done and of the effort spent to develop such activities. 

My EVS is not over yet and I am sure that I will develop new activities based on Inclusion for the people of the community and collaboration between all of us.

Wipe Out Hate!

Memories of November

Together against the discrimination 

As promised some time ago we collaborated once again with the municipal library of  Resita and with my dear friend Dominuque.
Together we made an event called "Wipe Out Hate" which featured the Municipal Library, the Nevo Parudimos Association and the Gimnaziale School n. 2 Resita. The event served to remind adults and teach the younger ones which are the values ​​that make us unique and not different and how we can be better citizens for tomorrow.


With the "Wipe Out Hate" event we created a workshop based on non-formal activities together with 20 young people from the Resita school.
The workshop allowed us to teach young people the difference between a Stereotype and a Prejudice and how they affect our daily lives and our actions especially towards what is different or new to us.
The event was not coincidentally realized on November 9th which is also the International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism and with the 80th anniversary of the Night of Crystals.

As promised to Dominque, immediately after the event "Nocturna Bibliotecilor" we are committed to creating a new non-formal activity, to train young people on what are the concepts related to social discrimination.
The activity was carried out by two of my colleagues Eleni and Nadia and I was very happy to collaborate with them, I like their energy during the activities and they are very diligent while they develop the activities.
They have prepared a PPT (PowerPoint Document) collecting phrases and stereotypes from friends scattered around the world, so you can help young people recognize what a stereotype is. Their commitment was really essential to carry out the activity.

It was really interesting to see how much information they got during the preparation and how they organized them to realize non-formal activity. The workshop was very interesting and we also received good feedback from the teachers who were present during the activity. I hope to be able to reaffirm other activities together with the local library and as we say in Italy "There are two without three" but I'm sure that this is also a stereotype ;)!

Before concluding this month I'm sure there will be some excellent updates, let's say that this month started in a totally unexpected, but really pleasant. I learned that there are very interesting conferences that are worth participating in.
I am sure that from now on the activities will become more and more interesting and I have many reasons for which to continue the path that I started which I do not intend to finish :) .....