LIFE+ | Volunteer@ICDET Weekly Diary by Fatih

Monday me and Alper came to the office late because we didn’t know where my keys at and we were looking for them so we’ve missed the office meeting . I’ve met Zahari and we talked about my expectations, my fears and stuff like that. After that we made a weekly plan for me and that was all for Monday.

Tuesday went to the Free Sofia Tour and it was great to learn about the history of Sofia. I have some photo’s to show from that tour so here they are.

Wednesday we had a session session with Zahari about how to make a decent CV and after that, we had a mentoring session with Ivanov about working ethics and stuff like that and after that session with Ivanov we’ve played some playstation and i’ve litterally destroyed Ivanov and Alper in mortal kombat.(It would be really shame if I didn’t mentioned about that detail lol.) And that was all.

Thursday we went to the event of a company named Beta House. We’ve talked with some people who were working for them but they didn’t gave us much detail about the company and how do they work and they were all talking Bulgarian so that wasn’t much of a good event for me.

And Friday i’m here writing my summary and if I have to rate the week i mean it was a good week and that’s all I can say about this week,

Oh and i want to share this foto with you📷

This is probably the weirdest building I’ve ever seen in my life. Just look at that lol.

LIFE+ | VOLUNTEER@ICDET Weekly diary : One Week of EVS in Hindsight

“...live a life you will remember” said Avicii in The Nights and i totally agree with him. So this is how i remember our EVS life from the last week in Sofia. Each day has it’s own tag according to the events and activities have been made. Here we go…

#bulgariart

Thanks to #EuropeanNightofMuseums we got to taste of Bulgarian culture through so many special collections in different galleries such as National Gallery, Art Gallery Europe and Enakor Auction House.

#sun-day

What else we could possibly be doing on a sunny day in Sofia? Of course we went to South Park and appreciate the good weather.

#enjoyingresbonsibly

Since the big event is coming up, final preparations made in our Gaze+bo office; learned how to use media materials and built our teams for the occasion.

#inthemaking

Aye Aye captain! Plovdiv is waiting ahead. We made a guide for the participants of the event which we are the hosting organisation for the European Capital of Culture 2019. Just betweens us: I am also excited to see the city! But first, i have to pick up the participants from the airport :)

#inaction

Conference time! Finally our preparations is gonna pay off. I picked up participants from Portugal and they are such amazing people with their positivity.

#dialogue&silence

A day full of dialogue! First we were in charge of the events we organised: Migration + Action= Global Reaction. We dived into the topic and made a lot of interviews with Erasmus+ project professionals. It was challenging to be in front of the camera and ask questions in English in some topic i barely memorise.

Second, there was a street event in Vitosha boulevard which you sit on the street in front of someone you don’t know and make some real eye contacts -without distraction of a smartphone- then of course having real conversation with your street-mate. I met 4 different people from different ages and stories. The last one is the most memorable: Yevgenia - a mother of 9 years old! She is a drawer and quit her handmade jewelry craft because she realised that women are buying those jewelries just to fill the emotional hole of theirs. She thinks some brands are more successful than others discovering this emotional hole and making people believe that they can fill it buying their products. She also doesn’t send her daughter to school because in her opinion school is not life.

Wow! That was fast, wasn’t it? See you next week :)

HAPPY 9 MAY - EUROPE DAY

Happy May 09 - Europe Day! Let us be united and together achieve our goals! Happy holiday!