Which is your zodiac sign?

YASAS!

Today I would like to talk about a very serious topic.. Well, let's get our thinking caps on and start thinking then

I am sure you have already hear about some of these words: zodiac sign, ascendant, horoscopes, tarot, natal chart houses, birth chart calculator, love compatibility, water signs, air signs, fire signs, earth signs, elements, ruling planets, and so on.

All of these concepts belong to Astrology.

“Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events”.

The scientific community rejects astrology as having no explanatory power for describing the universe, and consider it a pseudoscience. Do you know that some cultures have attached importance to astronomical events? Indian, Chinese, Maya. Do you know even Adolf Hitler used astrology to time his actions? Ok, this is not a good example.

Believe or not in astrology? I don't have an answer, there are a lot of debates about this topic, many people can't start the day without reading them horoscope, and other people reject these beliefs.

I admit, I have already calculated my ascendant and my natal chart house and I have read all about my zodiac sign, my kind of sign.

What about horoscope. What do you think? I don't believe so much in horoscope, but I really love the weekly one made by Rob Brezsny (you can find on this link http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/). Let me say that this is a particular kind of horoscope, often it start with a poetry, aphorisms or anecdote.

On January, when YEU wrote me that I was selected for this EVS my horoscope was:

..... The future is headed your way in a big hurry. It may not be completely here for a few weeks, but even then it will have arrived ahead of schedule. Should you be alarmed? Should you work yourself into an agitated state and draw premature conclusions? Hell, no! Treat this sudden onrush of tomorrow as a bracing opportunity to be as creative as you dare. Cultivate a beginner's mind. Be alert for unexpected openings that you assumed would take longer to appear .....

In this case Rob was right. EVS was my unexpected future and my right way to go.

Come back to our topic, when I meet new people I like ask their zodiac sign for try to do “field research”. Sometimes people reply me: “try to guess”, so I start to put some questions, like: Do you like travelling? What are your hobbies? Do you attach to the environment where you grew up? Are you lazy? Are you tidy or untidy? Most of the time I don't figure out the correct zodiac sign, but sometimes it happens.

Maybe in 3, 5, 10 years I could arrive to one of these conclusions: Astrology is real or it is a “malakia”. I don't know, but I would like to finish with a request for you: try to do your personal research. It could be a very funny way to know people, always starts an interesting conversation.

The First Month is over

We started to live our everyday life in Nicosia. Preparing different programs, going to the shelter, take part of the programs, running a radio show and have a lot of fun.

The last weeks was quite eventful. We had our first Movie Nights (screenings) and a Veggie Kitchen.

We watched together „Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu?” and „La Haine”, one comedy for the beginning and one drama to continue. Both of them were really successful, and we all very enjoyed them. The following week we will have a comedy again, called „La famille Bélier”. We hope we will see a lot of you again.

On Wednesday Gioia and Juanjo organized the Veggie Kitchen in Utopia Collectiva, where they showed us how to prepare some delicious vegetarian food. We prepared together three Spanish omelet, Tortilla with a very tasty salad and for desert an Italian curiosity, chocolate salami, which was amazing. We couldn’t stop eating it. The next one will be in June.

On every Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock we have our radio show in Cyprus Community Media Centre. Last week we introduced ourselves and we talked about our countries. If you couldn´t listen to it, you have the chance to listen the podcast! The next week we will speak about vegetarianism, so stayed tuned!

But of course we had a lot of fun, not just work. On the last Saturday we visited a small festival, where we had the chance to try ourselves as mascots. It was a big challenge because of the heat, but we survived and now we are richer with this experience.

We will continue our programs on the next week with a Quiz Night and as we said before with the next movie. Don’t miss them! Follow our facebook page, where you can find all of the information about the upcoming events

Open Mind-Open World

 Hello everybody!

After three weeks in Nicosia, eventually we organized our first event as part of the Cultural Caravan Project! Concretely, last Sunday 8th of May at the office of YEU Cyprus. The event was about a little introduction of us as new volunteers and of our countries. We prepared different activities and games along the two weeks before the event. All of us worked hard so that everything was well. And it was.

But we have not just worked from our arrival until now. In fact, the first week was to settle in the city and with the organization. A little tourist route around the old city to know their most important spots and a visit to the places where we are going to do the different projects from now on and some frendly meetings and excursions with the board members to meet better each other. We have also had time to go out and try the most famous beer here, "KEO". Well, not only try, something else let´s say. And of course the beverage star in Cyprus in general and at the office in particular, the Frappe coffee. Our officer Dimitris has introduce us the love for this cold drink, very suitable for keeping us active and refresh us from the hot weather at the same time.

Besides that, we have also had the chance to meet a lot of nice people during the few time we have stayed here. And we are sure that this is only the begining. We all expect to meet a lot of new people and involve them in our future projects and share with them our hobbies and culture.

This is all for now. We will continue writing about our experiences in Cyprus weekly. Follow us through our Facebook page and keep inform about our activities and events in our Newsletter.

See you next week!!