EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Since one week, we welcome a new volunteer : Anders from Luxembourg Anders will stay with us six month and will work in Los Tilos with Hristina and Ray. Soon, you will be able to learn more about him with his profile!

I know this article is less funny than the others, even boring I dare say....but it can be useful for those who want to learn a bit of Spanish before coming here.  Thanks to our Spanish teacher (today was our last lesson after 6 month in Spain !!), I can give you some useful links.

  Who is Don Bosco? John Bosco is a priest of the 19th century born in the north of Italy in a family of poor farmer. Raised by his mother in the catholic religion, he left his family at the age of twelve, lived few years in streets (when he will show his skills as magician, juggler and acrobat) than met Br. Joseph Calosso, an elderly priest who will support his first schooling. He become priest in 1846 in Turin and dedicated his life to the education of street children. John Bosco believed more in love than in punishment in teaching and his method is based on three components : Reason, religion and Kindness, that will be called later The preventive system. He founded the Salesian order in 1859, dedicated to the education of boys, and in 1871 with the help of Maria Mazzarello, The institute of the Daughters of Mary help of Christians that will do the same work with girls. Don Bosco died in 1888 at the age of 71, but he managed to create a network of organizations all arou...

(source: wikicommons) What's this "entroido" everybody is talking about lately in Santiago? Well, if you don't know that "entroido" means "carnival" in Galician it's quite hard to associate all the parties, disguises and the special food this magic word is implying. Generally, celebrating carnival is a phenomenon present in many different cultures of the world, whether the famous "Carnaval de Rio de Janeiro", the German and Austrian "Fasching" or "Fasnacht", or the "Mardi Gras" in New Orleans - carnival is everywhere! However, this article is going to present you a type of carnival which is unique in Spain, full of strange stuff as "peliqueiros", "cigarrones", "gaitas", "queimada" y "orellas" (the last two terms being food) - in one word, "entroido", the carnival of Galicia!

The socio-cultural center "Vite" is located in the district "Vite" of Santiago de Compostela and offers a wide range of facilities. In addition to that, there are activities for kids, teenagers and the elderly as well as a variety of workshops.  

Since one week, we welcome a new volunteer : Ray from Luxembourg Ray will stay with us five month and will work in Los Tilos with Hristina. To learn more, have a look on his profile

Muros Two weeks ago we had a short trip to the small fishing village “Muros”, located approximately one hour and fifteen minutes (to say, in car; with Spanish public transportation: forever) from Santiago.