EVS in Santiago de Compostela

2015 is the birthday of the Bicentenary of Don Bosco's Birth. Two weeks before the event, the animators organized a lot of games about Don Bosco and his life (competitions of drawings, quiz, movie about Don Bosco's life,...) To celebrate this, the center Don Bosco organized a party with several animations: singer, Tyroleans, mass, and appetizer. For this event, Don Bosco welcomed about sixty people (parents and children) This event was the opportunity to pay a tribute to Don Bosco. Marie.  

Every year Don Bosco's Centor  proposes a theme for the carnaval and prepare the event with the children. This year the theme was THE SHOWER ! During two weeks the volunteers and the children prepared disguises: shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, sponge bob, etc. And we are participated in the parade!

This week end two volunteers were in Baiona to visit this city and to enjoy the party. What is the party ? Baiona, in the province of Pontevedra, celebrates this festival with the arrival of the caravel Pinta at its port carrying the news of the discovery of America. In memory of this historic event, many events are held in March. The streets of the old town and nearby walks recreate a true medieval festival offering products characteristic of the fifteenth century craftsmanship. Visitors will encounter are musicians, jugglers, acrobats and other craftsmen who will lead their stay. Marie.   

The  20 of january fifty children who are 6 - 7 years old came to Don Bosco to watch & participate in the activity "pirate". This activity is supervised by a coordinator and three volunteers. It is the recreational activity that allows to discuss around the subject of the inclusion. The objective is that the children think about the inclusion, what is good or bad, how it is necessary to act etc.

 The Don Bosco volunteers prepared a little Christmas movie...

Five of us volunteers are living in street named Rua de San Pedro. We are lucky because place where 3 of us are working is only two minutes far away from our apartment and when it is raining (what is not so unusual in Santiago) we don’t need to walk so far away and only our foot are wet J But even better thing about our street is that twice a year there are celebrations – One is in May and another not much later, at the end of June. Last week we had an opportunity to enjoy one of them. 3th of May it was Spring Fair, in Spanish called Feria de Primavera. For a long time our street was full of workers who were making reconstructions of street and that day it was so strange not to be awakened by the sound of machines, but by the voices of many people and children who were from the early morning at the street.  Through the open window were coming inside the smell of barbecue and sound of typical Galician music. It was the sign that it is time to go out and check what all offers Spr...

Those days we organized the “mañás de semana santa” with the monitors  (Lara, Crisitna, María, Tamara, Suso, Angelillo, Toni, Alberto and me). We prepared a lot of activities for the children in order to play and learn. We had sportive activities, animation games (palmada, los ángeles, el pañuelito,…), songs (baby shark, cuando un pirata baila, …) and handcrafts too. We did these handcrafts in order to prepare the LIP DUB: make posters, cut confetis, find costumes… Besides, we also realized a stop motion with plasticine with the older group of children. A Lip Dub is a video promoting a center or a company by presenting it in a fun way. Usually people are dancing and wearing costumes during the presentation. A stop motion is an animation technique where you shoot a lot of photos in a row to give the sensation of movement. Involve children in this type of project is really a pleasure for them. In this activity we developed the responsibility aspect and they learned to be patient i...