Hello to everybody!
My name is Isabel, I am 18 years old and I want to tell you about my EVS (European Voluntary Service) experience in Italy.
Firstly, I would like to mention that when I was in Spain, I was thinking how it would be in Italy. I expected to be a little bit lonely, because I didn’t know almost anybody, couldn’t speak Italian and had never been abroad alone.
This is my second stay in Italy. For the first time I was here with a group of Spanish youngsters that I already knew. It was for one week and the name of the project was “Black on White”. During the exchange I had first time an occasion to get to know youngsters coming from other counties, like France, Turkey, Italy and live with them.
During the project I got to know Vittoria and Irene who work for Alce Nero Cooperative. It was them who told me what EVS was about and proposed me to take part in the project in Mantova.
When I came to Italy to work as a volunteer, Vittoria showed me the apartment where I met my flat mates Fanny, Ivana, Angela and Joschka.
My job:
I worked in three different CREDs (City Summer Centres), always with the children. First one was in Montanara where I worked with Michela. There were forty children. At the beginning it was difficult to communicate and understand them but in few weeks I have started to comprehend them better. It didn’t take me long time adapting to all these new activities because I like working with the kids.
After this experience in Montanara I was in Porto Mantovano where I worked with Ivana, the volunteer who lives with me, and finally in Cred of Mantova.
During these two months in Italy, usually at the weekends, I had the possibility to see other cities with my flat mates and other friends that I got to know in Mantova. For example Genoa with its aquarium and during the Buskers’ festival also Ferrara.
This EVS was a positive experience for me. It also helped me to change some ideas which I had before coming to Italy. In fact I thought that studying was useless, but now I think that when I get back to Spain, I will continue in the studies and I would like to become a sport teacher.
Sincerely, I am very proud of having this opportunity and that I have managed to live with persons coming from different places.
Firstly, I would like to mention that when I was in Spain, I was thinking how it would be in Italy. I expected to be a little bit lonely, because I didn’t know almost anybody, couldn’t speak Italian and had never been abroad alone.
This is my second stay in Italy. For the first time I was here with a group of Spanish youngsters that I already knew. It was for one week and the name of the project was “Black on White”. During the exchange I had first time an occasion to get to know youngsters coming from other counties, like France, Turkey, Italy and live with them.
During the project I got to know Vittoria and Irene who work for Alce Nero Cooperative. It was them who told me what EVS was about and proposed me to take part in the project in Mantova.
When I came to Italy to work as a volunteer, Vittoria showed me the apartment where I met my flat mates Fanny, Ivana, Angela and Joschka.
My job:
I worked in three different CREDs (City Summer Centres), always with the children. First one was in Montanara where I worked with Michela. There were forty children. At the beginning it was difficult to communicate and understand them but in few weeks I have started to comprehend them better. It didn’t take me long time adapting to all these new activities because I like working with the kids.
After this experience in Montanara I was in Porto Mantovano where I worked with Ivana, the volunteer who lives with me, and finally in Cred of Mantova.
During these two months in Italy, usually at the weekends, I had the possibility to see other cities with my flat mates and other friends that I got to know in Mantova. For example Genoa with its aquarium and during the Buskers’ festival also Ferrara.
This EVS was a positive experience for me. It also helped me to change some ideas which I had before coming to Italy. In fact I thought that studying was useless, but now I think that when I get back to Spain, I will continue in the studies and I would like to become a sport teacher.
Sincerely, I am very proud of having this opportunity and that I have managed to live with persons coming from different places.
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