Angela

I’m Angela, I’m 26 years old and I come from Hungary, a small country in the heart of Europe.
I arrived in this town in the beginning of January, I like Mantova very much (except for the fog), it’s very nice and much smaller, cleaner and calmer than Budapest.

I have been living here for 2 months now. I work in the district of Mantova called Lunetta, in the Centre of Aggregation of the Youth (C.A.G.) as a volunteer (what a suprise… J).
The staff of the C.A.G. organizes the „afterschool” in the elementary school for children with learning difficulties: we help them to their homeworks, to be prepared for the next school-day. On the other hand a „space for children” (3 times a week) and a „space for teenagers” (3 times a week) are organized in the afternoon, during which and where they can play together, they can take part in different laboratories (for ex. of art, of music, of stories), they can do different activities; in one word: where they can spend their freetime in a bit organized and controlled way, but under circumstances friendly and free enough. In addition the C.A.G. organizes other events too: trips, swimming pool, amusement park, theatre, parties for children.

I like this work very much, it’s a type of work absolutely unknown for me until now, it’s a new and nice experience for me to try it and to do it. It’s an absolutely different life for me, and that’s why I’m here. I did my degree in jurisprudence and I worked more than 2 years in that field of work, which I didn’t like much. First of all that’s why I decided to „change life”, to come here in Italy and to work as a volunteer.

I hope that in the end of „my project” I will manage to learn some other things about myself, and I will know how and where to continue my adult-life.