Hello everyone one more week!
Taking advantage of the starting of the activities at YEU Cyprus, our organization, through Cultural Caravan, our project about non-formal education, I would like to make a little description of what does it mean for me, Juanjo, the concept of volunteer.
My first experience as a volunteer it was in a primary school in England two years ago. As a first contact with voluntary work I was a bit lost at the beginning. I was in a 3rd and 4th year classroom and my level of English was not good at all. Sometimes the teacher gave me some tasks in order to help the children, but some other times I felt a bit useless in the classroom. Because of my English, I never took the initative to be more useful during the class hours. Honestly, this part of the experience wasn´t good for me in these moments, but now I realize that it was a great experience in my life. Now that I feel more comfortable with the language and because of the EVS experience in Cyprus, I´m enjoying much more the feeling of being a volunteer.
For me being volunteer as part of the EVS program means to live in another country, means to share your life and experiences with the people that surround you, means to get into a new culture with new people, means to be an open minded person in order to be able to appreciate and understand things that happen in these specific environment. But above all, for me being volunteer is to do your best to help other people and to grow up yourself as a person in a professional and personal way.
So far I´ve lived a big amount of great experiences in my time in Cyprus, and I´m sure that also my mates of journey in the EVS experience. And this is what really enriches me, this amount of good moments, situations lived with other people and the thought that probably all this won´t happen again in the same way.
To conclude, just to say that we still have lots of things to discover and enjoy about the volunteer service and although sometimes not everything works as one would wish, in the end we have to keep and save the good moments of this experience!
Taking advantage of the starting of the activities at YEU Cyprus, our organization, through Cultural Caravan, our project about non-formal education, I would like to make a little description of what does it mean for me, Juanjo, the concept of volunteer.
My first experience as a volunteer it was in a primary school in England two years ago. As a first contact with voluntary work I was a bit lost at the beginning. I was in a 3rd and 4th year classroom and my level of English was not good at all. Sometimes the teacher gave me some tasks in order to help the children, but some other times I felt a bit useless in the classroom. Because of my English, I never took the initative to be more useful during the class hours. Honestly, this part of the experience wasn´t good for me in these moments, but now I realize that it was a great experience in my life. Now that I feel more comfortable with the language and because of the EVS experience in Cyprus, I´m enjoying much more the feeling of being a volunteer.
For me being volunteer as part of the EVS program means to live in another country, means to share your life and experiences with the people that surround you, means to get into a new culture with new people, means to be an open minded person in order to be able to appreciate and understand things that happen in these specific environment. But above all, for me being volunteer is to do your best to help other people and to grow up yourself as a person in a professional and personal way.
So far I´ve lived a big amount of great experiences in my time in Cyprus, and I´m sure that also my mates of journey in the EVS experience. And this is what really enriches me, this amount of good moments, situations lived with other people and the thought that probably all this won´t happen again in the same way.
To conclude, just to say that we still have lots of things to discover and enjoy about the volunteer service and although sometimes not everything works as one would wish, in the end we have to keep and save the good moments of this experience!
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