Youth- exchange in Italy

by Svenja

One week ago I went with a nice group of young people to the youth- exchange in Benestare, Italy. We met in Bratislava, took the flight from Vienna to Rome and after with the night train to the south of Italy, Calabria! Here the weather was so nice and we had a nice welcome with the italian participants. Right in the morning we also met the other participants from all around Europe: Estonia, Hugary and Czech Republic. It was a really nice atmosphere and through different art workshops about handcraft, european citizenship and tolerance all our people became closer and more opened. We organised international evenings where all groups could present their country, so we learned some important sentences in different languages and a lot of different dances. Our slovak group made a really nice presentation about slovak food and tounge twisters and also some workshops about handcraft in Slovakia.
In the end we grew to a big family and everybody was really sad when we had to leave. But we know:

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day!

 

 

The other' slovakia

by Svenja

This weekend was a big day for most of the volunteers in Slovakia: The photo exhibition "The other Slovakia" in Bratislava opened on Friday in the GuNaGu theatre. 40 volunteers send their pictures about Slovakia, themselves and about their work. On Friday at 6 pm the exhibition opened with a dancing workshop and after the best pictures were chosen by a slovak jury. Everybody was really excited and there were many pictures with whole different inspiratons and views- how the volunteers are.
After the opening we had a small party with typical slovak food and went into the city. It was nice to meet all the people again we met at the on- arrival- training and many more volunteers who are already at the end of the project. We could talk about our expectations and about expiriences during our EVS.
We hope that we also could make a small exhibitions about the volunteers pictures in Trencin next year.
The exhibition will stay in Bratislava for one more week and will travel then all around Slovakia to Kosice!
Here are the pictures I send for the competition.

vzdy divadlo

by Svenja
 

V decembri budem hrať spolu s Divadlom Normálka v klube Lúč divadelnú hru "Luna Pagáčová Izabella". Je to o dievčine menom Izabella, ktorej otec sa chce stať slávnym. Hrám Izabellinu dcéru. Moj otec je nemecký futbalista, s ktorým Izabella kedysi prezila krátky románik. Dufam, ze hra bude mať úspech a nájde si veľa divákov.

And there was always this theatre...

by Svenja 

In Germany I always played a lot of theatre and because I do not want to loose my skills here, I joined the theatre group in Klub Luc in the town wich is called "Divadlo Normalka". The people are very funny and of course crazy like always in theatre... and I love that! We will perform a play on 12th of December wich is called "Zvlnený studený front". It is a comedy about a girl whose father wants her to be famous. I just have a small role, but it is really funny and it practices my slovak a lot!
-Tak pod'me chlapci, kto je na rade? Ja som ju prebal'ovala minule.-
But the pronounciation is really hard and I hope that I will be better in December for the performance... it is in just one month so the time runs.
Also I would be pleased when you would join us as audience on 12th December!
Till then, I will practise a lot and hope you will like it :)

Football class

By Paulo

In the penultimate Friday during in the afternoon I was help the football training at primary school ZŠ UI. L. Novomeskéno close to Kca, It was very entertaining the children are 10 years and good future in football. The coach Miro speaks very well English, this very good now that I am not speaking Slovak language yet. The children speaks a lot things in English. The enough asked, Do play football? What football player do you prefer? What is best player do you think? This day the coach gave me ticket from I see Trenčin team play on friday. I was looking the Trencin win per 2x 1 for Slovak second division. This tuesday I went back to training with the boys again, but the weater isn't good, so We was training on the gymnasium. On Monday they played floor ball was my second contact with floor ball, all Friday I am playing together Peter and each day I was thinking this sport more better, some friends in Brazil wants to learn play floor ball. A great sport to practice in Brazil.

English and chemistry class

by Paulo

In the Monday and Tuesday I was at school I knew many Englishes classes, In the class I showed me and the children asked me some things about me and the questions sometimes was normal questions how: What your name?, Do you like football?, How old are you?, and so many funny questions how: Do you have girlfriend? Teacher! Is he your husband? What your cellphone number?. In the Tuesday I was chemistry class, I understand a few things because of Slovak language and I talk if the teacher about the some experiments that I can show in laboratory. We resolved that we will show a experiment about vitamin C next week. In the afternoon I showed somethings about the Brazilian fauna in English class. I help in basketball training too just I was looking with the children playing right. I liked very much all the people and school the student, teacher and director . They were very receptive with me.