LIFE+ | To make trip to your hometown as EVS

ICDET sended long term EVS for trip back home for few days....

It is amazing that Bulgaria is so close to Romania. This gave us opportunity to visit my country not only once. We went first in Sofia It was such an adventure because the GPS chose a completely unknown to me road and in stead of using a bridge to cross the Danube river we ended up taking the ferry

The first visit to Bulgaria was just incredible because we were so many volunteers that we just by synchronization happen to be in Sofia at the same time. I hosted in my ex-apartment 8 people from Turkey, Spain, Italy and France. It was such a mess Thankfully, my best friend was so kind and patient with all of us

Everybody loved Sofia which made me really proud and happy of my country and capital We enjoyed traditional restaurants with typical food and music.

We had a taste also from the normal city culture to spend time in the parks chilling with your friends, drinking beer and just relaxing with the nice weather and beautiful scenery. Lots of fun all the time was the program for everybody everywhere

For me personally it was a very heartwarming experience because I got to meet my closest people again after months not seeing each other. It was also great to enjoy the company of super adorable cats again because in Romania we don’t have a pet now, so it was just so nice to be able to play again with these lovely fluffy creatures

Looking forward to all the next amazing trips to come…

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LIFE+ | EVS @ ICDET Weekly Diary 7

People are saying that if time is moving fast, you enjoy it. If it is true, I am enjoying my EVS in ICDET too much. I even cannot say when that week passed! But do not worry, it does not mean that it was not productive. Just the opposite.

We made two more E+xpo editions, this time at schools. First one, at the 4th primary school in Druzhba district of Sofia was focused on cultural differences. Kids had a chance to explore Polish and Italian cuisine, language and celebrations. Basically, that was an English lesson in practice. I hope that kids enjoyed that experience as we did. Next event took place on Friday at one of high schools. You can imagine- the end of the school year, June, amazing weather and the last lesson… Despite that approximately 50 people came to explore Erasmus+ world! We had a presentation about European Union and Erasmus+ opportunities. We were aware that 10th and 11th grade is the best age to start international experience. To be honest, I feel that at least few students will apply for Youth Exchange this summer. If yes, it will mean that we succeeded.

And like every other week, interviews and editing. Developing our media portal and discussing new ideas. Media is our main focus, but personal projects are also very important. Mauro’s project is also getting bigger and bigger. Hopefully, now he will have a partner that will help him. I am more than sure that together they will create an amazing thing! Keep fingers crossed for us, we both need lots of positive energy and support now!

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LIFE + | Definitely we experienced a lot of joy, creativity, laughter and fun together with them

Here is part of a LIFE+ sended long term EVS by ICDET Bulgaria - Tanyana in Romania...

For nearly 4 months we’ve been working in one school here in Vâlcea. We’ve been in the classes of our children from the foundation helping them improve their integration with the others.

We did that with organizing many fun and diverse activities that all of which had a learning element and were focused on development of different social life skills like better communication, expression of emotions and self, creativity, physical mobility, coordination, trust and many others.

Working with children always brings so many positive emotions, at least to me. The children in the school are always very happy to see us and to participate in everything we have prepared for them.

Definitely we experienced a lot of joy, creativity, laughter and fun together with them

Looking forward to seeing all of them the next school year

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