EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Every sunday I play football with erasmus students. We play at Campus Sur, at campo verde. The point is for everybody to have a good time. It's not really competetive, like this things can sometimes get. Everybody that comes can play, no restrictions on age, sex, race, or skill level. Usually it's really fun, but sometimes someone gets injured, which is common when it comes to sports. We play on grass, so many guys wear football shoes with studs. So, in the heat of the game, our friend Kenichi from Japan was hit with these studs on his leg (precisely on his tibia, the bone that connects the knee to the foot) and his skin teared open. A guy that works at the university restaurant had a car, so he transported him to the hospital. He ended up with nine stiches, but is good and getting well just fine. Still, it's a reminder that we need to be carefull.

On friday was Andrijana's slava. Ofcourse you are wondering what is Slava? Slava is a tradition connected to orthodox christian religion, and typical only for Serbian nation. It is a day when Serbian family selebrates it's saint. But when is this day? How does it work? It is not one day in a year, because every family chooses a saint to selebrate. For example St. Nicola's day is 19.12, St. George's day is 6.5... All the families that selebrates St. Nicolas make a selebration on 19.12. Usually, this tradition is carried from genration to generation on the fathers' side, so my father selebrates St. John, his father selebrated St. John before him and so on. On this day, we invite our cousins, neighbours and friends and make a fiesta. We welcome them with sweet grain when they arrive. After all the guest arrive we start with the ceremony. It can vary, depending on how much a family follows church rules. Somethimes a priest comes to the house to do the whole ceremon

It's the 31th of October, or as we all know this day, Halloween. But in Galicia on this day for many generations a different holiday was held, The name is Samhain. This day marked the end of summer and beginning of winter, end of light and beginning of darkness. It is a day when live stock was pulled from the fields and into the barns. The live stock was smothered and preparations for winter began. Also, it was believed that on this day a door from the other world was opened, so the dead were able to cross and visit our world. On the feast, a special place was put in honor of the dead, but also people was trying to protect themselves with spells, potions and other. Shamain is also known as the Day of the dead. Yes, I know, it sounds like a zombie movie.. Today, Samhain in almost completly replaced with halloween, but in Ludoteca Marta and the monitores were equally concetrated on including both Halloween and Samhain in the programme for the children (at least I think so, my spa