EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Thursday, march 13th we received a Polish delegation thanks to the exchange project “via regia” which makes easier the cooperation between trainers from different countries, in this case Sapnish and Polish. “Through culture to the common future” is the slogan of the European union to promote this kind of action. To receive Polishes the toy library prepared a tipical dance from Poland, a Spanish rap with Javi and a great painting from Toni representing the union between Santiago de Compostela and Będzin (the polish city). Through this day Polishes could see the Don Bosco center, the environment, the children, the trainers and everyone enjoy the Galician sun ! Nico

The 4th March it was Santiago’s carnival, we were inside the parade dressed like the people in the movie Charlie and the chocolate factory. We had children from the sport team, the toy library and the scouts, we were together to celebrate this moment and represent the Don Bosco’s center. We had lots of different character from the movie: Charlie and his father, Willy Wonka, lumpa lumpa, the child who eats chocolate and his mother, the girl with the chewing gum and her mother, … . To represent the chocolate factory we had a float made by Tony and helped by the children from the toy library. Also to animate the parade we had different dance and songs with the lumpas lumpasand we throw out sweets for the spectators. The parade began in the train station finishing in Alameda’s park. We have seen lots of people along the parade whereas it was raining y it was cold. People liked the costumes, they were enjoyed and some people were well costumed, for example, policeman super heroe or vampi

From 3rd to 5th march we prepared some days for the carnival camp. The activities were scheduled by our regular monitors from the toy library. We had scheduled different types of games, crafts, songs and tales. To be more efficient we divided the children in 2 groups : the little kids (from 4 to 8 years old) and the bigger (from 8 to 12 years old). At first we began with traditional presentations games like Cestas de frutas, te gustan tus vecinos, tu color preferido , … .  After to encourage the children we had songs to start up and tales like for example: los coches que se chocan, voy en busca de un León, hola me llamo Curro o la Sandía, … . Then with the crafts we built carton planes, joke glasses, plaster masks, balloons decorated. At the end, the children were glad to take it and play with their own creations. Also we took advantage of the good weather to do activities out like sportive or other kind of activity like escondite or el brile. At the end of the camp,

To celebrate Don Bosco’s day, the center organized a party on Saturday,February 1 st . There were different activities planned for the children and the adults. We began with a short movie about Don Bosco’s story and his interest in helping the people. After the scouts showed a dance they had prepared in order to thank Don Bosco’s actions with an original choreography. We continued with a snack with chocolate and cakes. And in the same time, we inaugurated the foam machine, on the playground where the children could enjoy it. Moreover there was a circus demonstration thanks to Raquel, acrobatics with silks. Finally children were satisfied by this kind of activities which develop the flexibility and allow them to test their own limits.   Nicolas