International Award Gala

Last saturday 23th of november finally we had the launching gala of the International Award.
The days before the gala was so stressing, but finally everything went perfect.
We meet all the leaders, instructors and participants at Schengen Bar, and the gala started!
After a speech-introduction of Alina Posirca, the ambassador from United Kindom came to the stage to speak to our participants. Was a very big pleasure for all hear him.

After some more speechs, finally, one of the most importants moments of the night.... the speech of the EVS volunteers :P
Eliise and Marco were responsible of the speech, and they did it very good.

The gala was a very nice opportunity to us to meet our students, talk with them and know their expectations about the program.

From here i want to say a BIG thank you to all the people who came to the gala and also to all the people who work very hard to make it possible!

Carles S.

The International Award programme is about to start!!!

            

We came here as volunteers to teach you our skills, mentor and motivate you to finish the programme. In the International Award words: we are going to be leaders and instructors. Some of you have probably met us in the leadering-meetings and hopefully many of you are going to meet us in different classes. We teach you our languages and skills, for example: Turkish, graphic design, Kurdish dances, Spanish, photography, Italian, basketball.

We are far from being professional teachers, but I’m sure that’s not a bad thing. We came here to Romania just for the programme and we are very motivated and excited to share our knowledge with you. Moreover, International Award is about mutual learning: we teach you and you teach us. Maybe without even realizing it. We start our classes mostly in English, but who knows, maybe in May we’ll be able to do it in Romanian. Also, maybe in May you will be dancing Kurdish dances or the shy girl who loves reading will be the best in debating or the football fan the best in creative writing?

It’s all about you, about your will and motivation and we and other leaders are here to help you find the strength in you. Why not come out of your comfort zone and try something you have never tried before?

We are doing it: we left our home countries to come to Romania, which we didn’t know much about, to teach. I’m sure only one year ago most of us would have never imagined doing anything like this, but here we are, and very happy about it! We can not wait to finally start the programme, hopefully you have the same feelings!

PICNIC IN MOGOSOAIA :)

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  Picnic in Mogosoaia

  Saturday 2 november it was a great weather and we decided to go somewhere out of Bucharest (Mogosoaia) . I guessed that picnic will be good to know each other better and talked about our experience in EVS  and we spent good time together in Mogosoaia with family of C.A.D.D.R.U .We was all together:EVS volunteers and management and  this picnic activity was wonderful and useful for speak about us and how is working together so I think is a good idea to organize some more action activities like this picnic .Let me talk about barbecue that was the main reason for be togetherJ  and I am felling that someone is saying:finally !!! Anyway I will write  only the wonderful things about it because  it was my first time to eat barbecue without spicy,that is think is fundamental, but this doesn’t mean that barbecue was bad ,just a bit different from how I’m used to do in my country. We just used salt and beer for barbecue and then I got so good taste from meat of chicken without spicy and i will use those kind of information when I don’t have enough spicy for cooking at homeJ . I made barbecue with Alina and Larisa's sweet, helpful and nicest mother  that I'm calling  Mama because while cooking barbecue i felt me like her son J! After the barbecue we visited the Mogosoaia museum and Palace, it was big but a little empty,so we decided to go to play football in the grass and having fun all together!
  Then when we came back to the office we decided to do a party with all EVS volunteers and Romanian friends to say “WELCOME” to our new volunteer Marco from Sicily,we had a great international party with guys from many different country and I hope we will do more often.See you soon with new articles about our EVS experiences!!              
  Yusuf Akyil                                                                                                                                                                                                 11.11.2013