EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Every year, the Center Don Bosco offers a free awareness campaign and this year I had the opportunity to help planning the activities and the whole project and I keep participating in the sessions of 1 hour or 1,5 hour. After having our more or less filled up calendar about the consulted hours with the schools, the learning process and fun could have started with the children of different schools. The fact that we received children aged between 7 and 15 years old incited changes in our activities in order to have as adecuate activities as possible for every ages counting on the differencies of interest in the different games and activities at every stage of our life. This year's topic was the emotions what was a really good choice in my opinion because most children knew the new animated movie of 2015 called Inside Out. It was a good start because they might have been reflecting without realizing it what meant help in the collaboration. Now that I have spoken about the les...

November 28 th , 2015 I had the opportunity to assist to the VII EMAX what this year was organized in Padrón. The event gave space to share experiences associatives and publicize the developed work of the associations in different areas. The aim was to create a space of reflection where can be ciculated the importance of the no-formal education, the participation and the compromise of the youth as much in nivel individual as through associations. How is it for a european volunteer? This is a really good opportunity to meet local volunteers like european volunteers of other associations and we have the possibility to deepen a little more in our center's activities or to get know the activities of other associations. It can be useful, especially, if we have to give some information about our hosting center with our quite fresh knowledge because it helps me to know more about it or to know better what is it about. The conferencies were in galician a...

Magosto is usually celebrated between 1st of November (all Saints) and 11 of November (San Martín de Tours). It is the best period to celebrate Magosto because it corresponds to the season of chestnuts. In the center Don Bosco, we started to collect chestnuts with the children one month before the celebration. On Saturday, November 14 th the whole team of Don Bosco (monitors, supervisors, coordinators) realized the celebration of Magosto. We prepared traditional games before and children or other motivated participants were expected from 5 pm. The event started with the traditional games and then some memories about last year were recalled in the theater by the director of Don Bosco. Also there was a performance realized by the participants of a leasure time course . To finish the celebration in a good way, chestnuts were offered to every participants and also there were scouts selling “piedras de Santiago” to finance some of their activities. ...

In the opinion of the most experts, the On arrival training is always very impressive for the new volunteers. Probably, many people has already decided to write a few words about this event but I also would like to share my thoughts. We had three incredibles trainers/formers who were highly prepared for any kind of question or situation. But, why do we need so much this training? For me, firstly, it was a good training because we meet other current volunteers, we get to know a bit their personality, their activities/ project, but it was also good think about our rights and duties or getting to know the organizations that can help us if we have problems during our stay. Of course, there are different types of problems and this training also helps us to be able to distinguish them and to know what could be the appropiate solution. Also, it is very important that we get to know better our personality, abilities, knowledge and aims. As this event brought 18 volunteers (17 in Galicia, 1...

The last Friday, the volunteers of Santiago de Compostela presented their country to share their culture. This intercultural party took place in form of a TV game. Each volunteer had 10 min to present his country in a funny and entertaining way. After each presentation, the « spectators » -the guests- should choose a note between 1 until 5 to value the presentation. Between each presentation the organizers, the 3 volunteers of Don Bosco Judith, Marie and Tom had prepared interval acts like a weather report, the horoscope, and rumours to fill the break. At the end of the party, guests and volunteers shared tradicional food and drinks of the diferent countries.

The EVS's volunteers will present their country on May 22th   in Don Bosco.  You are welcome !

During his SVE, the volunteer takes part in two trainings:   The first oneis in the  begining of the project, it is called " the arrival's training " The second is in the middle of the project, is called a " middle evaluation of EVS"   From April 20 to April 24, 6 of all the volunteers of Santiago de Compostela were to Molina, a little village, in the north of Malaga. We have done our training with other 150 volunteers. This week was the occasion to see persons that we meet to the first training. We came on Monday evening, after 14 hours of trip, so we were so tired! During 3 days, we had different workshop from 9h30 until 19h30. Of course the journey was long but finaly there was a big dynamic and each volounteer participated.     We spoke about a  lot of things like our projetc, the evaluation of it, we spoke about the Youthpass, we shared our experience, our skills, and a lot of information, We presented our...