Asociația SUPER TINERI (ASIRYS)

My August started with a little trip to Bucharest where we were saying last goodbyes to Craftastic Youth Exchange participants. My first impressions are that the streets of Bucharest are really crowded and full of movement in all possible directions, but the walk we had in the Old Town of Bucharest was pleasingly calm and gave me a safe place feeling with all the old buildings and cobblestone underneath my feet. I am glad that in August I could proceed with my Body Painting Lab and giving free space of expressing themselves underneath connecting topics. Every time it made me happier and happier to see all of my young artists getting much free and letting themselves be the personalities they are. Seeing their interest and support in these workshops for me is really heart-warming and important. In August I finally had an opportunity to try out my hands in creating with clay. I am really grateful that Demet led us into the new world of this art which feels like meditation and releasing al

July was fulfilled with a lot of activities and emotions, so it is quite hard to make a summary of everything that happened.  One more lovely experience was the trip to Oboroceni, where we were welcomed to do workshops for kids age 7-15. The workshop I created was dedicated to Romanian nature, so kids had the task to make small paintings on rocks with a part of Romania they love the most. I was really pleased that kids were enjoying that and taking the activity quite seriously, creating mini paintings with such accurateness. And then comes the part about the biggest adventure and challenge during July – we were getting ready for a European Youth exchange project in our youth center. The name of it was “Craftastic” and the main idea was to create workshops and experience exchange about recycling and upcycling everyday plastic items which are not being used anymore. So that gave me a reason to do a small research on this topic and to know about it more. We welcomed people from different

Hello, everyone! My name is Krista and I arrived in Romania from Latvia on 18th June. My adventures here started a bit more different than I was expecting, because during the time when I needed to explore Târgu Frumos, meet local kids and youngsters, I was actually getting to know local doctors. And one thing I can add is that I got really happy for meeting doctors and nurses who speak English, so there were no issues explaining what kind of medical help I need, I definitely was satisfied with medical care quality and attitude in Iași hospital and ER in Târgu Frumos. Approximately after a week I was more ready to hop in right adventures and started getting to know more and more local volunteers, children and the structure how everything is being planned in here. I was amazed how much local teenagers are interested in planning and hosting events by themselves as well about the variety of their interests. Pleasant surprise as well appeared when I saw that kids are enjoying a lot playing