Last Days!

My EVS is coming to the end. I can say that these were the fastest 6 months of my life, for sure! These last two weeks have been too intense between our personal projects in Hellenic Youth Participation and in the communities as well. On the 5 th of December, was the Internation day of…

Final countdown!

The time to leave is almost coming! I can’t believe that more than 4 months already passed. These weeks I’ve learned a lot of new things by sharing this experience with more people from others countries, including amazing greek people that I’ve met. In HYP we have another volunteer doing a project on webdesign. He…

News

It’s been a while since I shared something about my experience here. We were expecting two new volunteers, and here they are! Davor and Mariana. The first day I met them we went to the city center with the best tour guide ever: Xristos. It reminded me our firsts days here exploring everything and knowing…

Random !

The weather is changing in Athens, those super hot summer days are gone and now it’s getting even better for me. As usal I have been exploring and getting lost all the time and I love when I get lost because I find always a place that I’ve never been before and I met really…

Changes

Things are going too fast! Hania and Ola are now in Granada, Spain and Isabel also spent 2 weeks in USA. Now in Ola and Hania’s house there is a new girl, Martina from Slovakia who is living in Athens for the second time. Before Hania left to Granada., we went to a typical taverna…

Welcome to paradise

15th of August and it is time to leave Athens… many troubles on the way but I caught the ferry at the last minute… 8 hours later and I am at the port of Koufonisia.. what a relief! The first thing to do… take my clothes off and go for a swim. Few hours later and…

Exploring and Learning !

Particularly, the 3rd week was my favourite one. My process of learning increased a lot. Fist of all, during this week me and Isabel went to “Migrants Forum” We met with a volunteer from there ( Rosa) and we discussed about the lessons, and, in the same day we started. I have no words to…

The journey :)

Last week was meaningful! We participated in the Park Challenge which was amazing… I loved to see those people all enthusiastic about it and the games we played were super original and cool. I am realizing how things are done in HYP and PPP team is just perfect.   The greek lessons with Ariadrini  helped…

2nd week!

It was perfect! So many things happening. We started the week with greek lessons. It was very usefull because we learnt the alphabet and some words in greek. After the lessons we went to an amazing beach party and we also learnt the typical greek dance. We really had a good time. During the week…

EVS experience

My name is Raquel and I am from Madeira Island, Portugal. I am 23 years old and I am visiting Greece for the first time and it is also the first time that I am participating in an EVS programme. I studied managment of events for almost 3 years and before that I studied Linguistics…