EVS in Santiago de Compostela

On March, during the Easter week, I didn't see any procession but I lived one of my most intense EVS experience. Indeed, with three other friends, we decided during this week to do a part of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. We had five days to go from Santiago to arrive Fisterra , also known as « the end of the wo rld ». When we left Santiago on Wednesday, 23 th March, it was really sunny. All seemed perfect.

One week before leaving Galicia and ending my EVS, I would like to record what happened last year, what I lived during my experience as a european volunteer. According to me, it was one of the best years of my life. Why ? For many reasons. First of all, I always wanted to learn Spanish. When I arrived in Santiago de Compostela in November, I didn’t speak a word of Spanish. Then, ten months later, thanks to Spanish lessons and local people, I am able to speak Spanish with people, to understand and make me understand, to organise activities with the children of my center, to watch movies in Spanish, to ask at the restaurant.. Even if it was very difficult at the beginning to be in another country without being able to speak its language, now I feel proud to be able to communicate with people and to have done it.