12 marzo 2012

My Mid-term Evaluation in Naples


From 21 till 24 of February we had mid-term training in Naples and we all liked it very much! The station was our place of a meeting. Most of us arrived before the time, so we had a walk round the city, met a lot of other volunteers. As I understood it is easy to see other volunteers if you are volunteer yourself, there is something common between all of us.  At least we all were very glad to warm days in Naples after snowing and cold weather. So at 2 p. m. organizers arrive, gave us badges with our names and we went to our hotel. And I never felt myself so strange, because all 50 volunteers when they saw my surname were coming up to me and trying to read it, I think they were shocked! Ok, try yourself to read this DROGOMOSHCHENKO!
Beautiful weather and the sea made all of us happy. And I understood how much do I miss our Ukrainian Black Sea, because it is difficult to live far from the sea if you were shores girl for all your life before! And it was so great to receive this opportunity to stay for 4 days near the sea.
 It was very cool to meet our friends from on-arrival training in Rimini and also new volunteers. But this time the meeting was organized in a different way. We had more free time to get to know each other better, to talk about our work on the projects, about our own countries. During the training we were talking about our projects, about the problems and the ways to solve them, we were working in groups doing different tasks. And this time organizers were ready to translate everything in English if we did not understand well.  Also the organizer prepared surprise for us and we had masquerade party! It was not very convenient to eat in masks, but the atmosphere was magic! And in 2 days we had a party. We were dancing Turkish dances, chatting, trying to learn new for us Spanish dances and it was cool!
We decided to work hard to have one free day. So, on the last day we went to Pompei all together. I was in Naples before, but did not have time to see Pompei and it was a great surprise to all of us!
I returned home to Lucera tired and with great memories!
Thank you for this time!

Julia- EVS Volunteer
"A Solidarity Shelter"

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