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answer to JackHi Jack! Yes, I understand perfectly that a student's point of view is totaly different. It always is... This whole article what I've written is more complex with your comment. Thanks for it! An interesting day in an international schoolToday I went to the ISK which is a school in Utrecht for immigrant children. They come to the country with their family and they can attend this school for 2 years to learn the language and other subjects (nature, maths, etc..). SalesOhhh! Not, any more!!! I don't want any sales because they are like a torture... I mean you see clothes, furnitures, kitchen stuff and others day by day through the windows that they are 40-50-70 % cheaper and here the sales take like 2 months and the things are cheaper and cheaper and you're just buying and buying stuff even you have a small EVS money and absolutely no place in your room... But anyway I found some really nice clothes for very cheap price:))) and maybe I can talk with my stomac to not be hungry for some weeks now but be happy for the new clothes;)
3 monthsYes, today exactly 3 months that I am here. You could follow that lots of things happened in these months... Now I feel a little more that I am part of the life here. I don't have the feeling what you have at the beginning of every this kind of long-term trips that you are out of every group and they are very kind but they look you like a stranger. After 3 months I know much more my tasks and my place in the work. Last week we made a schadule with Sirio and try to follow it because we said a lot that we wanted this and that but soemhow we just didn't do later. Now I have a feeling that everything is more organised and we are more effective with the articles. Actually I thought that I will speak better Dutch after 3 months but I have to say it's not easy. Mainly because I don't have to. Everybody around me got used to communicate me and Sirio in English so beside to learn the language (rules, words everything) we have to change their behaviour as well to talk with us in Dutch and not English which is much slower of cours. So everything is fine, I enjoy to be here:))) But definitaly I have to get some really good waterproof stuff to not be wet always because this is Holland and here there is rain always:( but this I knew before...
EVS communityIn Hungary I was working for the EVS program from an official point of view. I got to know lot of EVS volunteers and I perfectly knew that EVS is a fantastic program. But of course it's a totally other thing when I am a volunteer and I have my own experiences. So I didn't finish my story about Greece... After Florina I went to Larisa to visit another project where another Dutch EVS volunteer will be for some months. And there I found myself in the middle of an EVS community. I knew it before that this is a magic world and the fact that you are an EVS volunteer is enough to meet very nice and interesting people, get free food and accomodation all over Europe! I spent 4 days in Larisa and it was just great!!! Thanks for Daan', Tinne', Thomas' and Kostas' hospitality I felt really at home there. We talked a lot, it was just that we know each other for a long-long time but it was the first time that we meet. Actually I didn't expect but I could also visit the seaside and the Meteora. Meteora is amazing!!! I already have been once but this is the place from what is never enough! High rocks with monasteries on the top! And because Daan likes eat and cooks we ate very nice warm pasta with tomato sauce on the top:) By the way from Kalambaka we hitchhiked and meet again very helpful people and even a Porsche took up us:) I came back to Netherlands via Germany. There I found another nice EVS community and with a Hungarian boy (we were in the same pre-departure training) I could talk a lot in Hungarian, what I enjoyed very much after a little bit more than 2 months English. But come back to Holland it was also very nice. I felt a bit that I am coming home... | LinksMyEVS albumCategoriesWho's nearby? | |||