Volunteer Day

5th of December is International day of Volunteers and it was a perfect opportunity to show to the others how the life of volunteers looks like and to make visible our contributions like a volunteers.

This day Nicolas and me went to Os Tilos -  place where Ann and Daria are working. They invite us to represent ourselves and to explain to the children what we are exactly doing here in Spain, so far away from our homes.

The idea was to answer on the children’s questions in the form of the TV show. Therefore, we came to the classroom costumed, and sat at the table like in some TV show.  Children were playing the role of the journalists from numerous TV and Radio stations with questions written on the papers. They have microphone and they were well prepared with various questions.  They were so interested to find out things about volunteering and also about ourselves, so next to questions like what is exactly volunteering job and what are we doing, they also asked questions like how many languages are we speaking, where are we living, what are we doing in free time, what we like the most in Spain and so on. Ann and Tony prepared one video about us and what we are doing here so we showed it to the children at the beginning of the “show”.

After formal part, we stayed a little bit longer with the children. They were so curious to know more things about us and we were very pleased to respond to them. Time we spent with children passed so fast and soon came the time when we had to say goodbye to them. They invite us to come again to Os Tilos and we promised that we will, another occasion with some other interesting topic. 

Tamara Popov