Asociația SUPER TINERI (ASIRYS)

 OMG, there is a lot to tell, as I promised in the last report: 1) Mid-Term Evaluation Trip 2) First Couchsurfing experience 3) The cat is missing 4) Last-last residency 5) Bolivian and English Culture nights 6) Ukrainian Culture night (!!!) So, let's talk about things in order. Our month started with a trip to Bucharest, the capital of Romania. A wonderful, big city with lovely architecture and a slightly confusing subway system. But at first, we're here not for that but for the mid-term evaluation. Volunteers from all across Romania came there to share experiences and participate in activities. I'll be blatantly truthful; the program was mediocre. However, the stories from volunteers, on the other hand - that's a different story! We (actually just Carla) had to make a video to show our program and what we are doing here. We also had warm-ups, some treasure-hunting, etc. Most of the volunteers found that pretty boring, especially that one day when we all had to talk ab

 (The photos are not in order...) I'm going to start in chronological order. 1) The cat is still coming to our house (I guess he thinks we are a hotel or something...) 2) We finished our residency at Moldova School. 3) I spent 2 amazing weeks of my holiday in the house of a local volunteer, with his family, on Christmas and New Year. 4) Caravans Caravans Caravans Caravans... 5) We held JEMOM exhibition. About Moldova school: It wasn't the easiest residency for me. To be exact, it was the most difficult one. (And everyone expected the first school to be the hardest one). Have you ever tried to teach some of the visual art stuff to blind kids without a translator? Well, it's not easy. I tried to make a clay workshop for it to be tactile, but with my luck, I got the smallest kids, and those usually come with some embarrassing situations as additional luggage. I hope that for the next generation, there will be some teacher-volunteer introduction first. To be honest, I'm jus

 So the third month of my volunteering has passed. Oh, the horror. Let's remember what happened. 1) The dog went to Germany. 2) We worked for a whole week in Moldova. 3) We held another exhibition. 4) We held a lot of workshops. 5) It seems we got a cat. 6) I found a yoga mat and started practicing. In fact, it's hard to remember everything that happened. My days were so busy that everything blurred together. But let's go in order. So, the dog went to Germany. Now, one of the things that all the volunteers do for fun is to watch the videos that Dajana's family sends her. Good for him, what can I say. A week in Moldova. Oh, that week. Every day we spent the night in a different place. The schedule was like this: you wake up bright and early. You go to some village. In that village, they show you the district. Usually it's a church, a cemetery, some kind of administrative building. Then you conduct a workshop for children. You have 20 minutes for each group of 6-10 ch

To be completely honest, I am writing this report very late. First thing to notice: It's getting colder now, so we finally winning the battle against flies in our home! I am teaching beading classes at a local school. I have the youngest students, all of whom are girls. I really enjoy teaching them, and I mean that with all my heart. Of course, some of them are not very interested, and one girl left the lesson in the end, but I am not upset at all. This is a good opportunity to learn how to teach. By the way, don't they drink black tea in Romania? I saw herbal teas on the shelves and only two kinds of black tea. It's really strange for me because, in Ukraine, I always have a choice of 6+ varieties of black tea from different brands and flavors. Immediately, the girls saw me drinking black tea in the WhatsApp group and started asking me what it was. I even took a couple of screenshots of such comments like "Tomorrow I'm going with my mother to buy black tea." S

This month was… interesting. I didn’t even realize, that it passed. Firstly, I was figuring out how to live with so many people in one house and a roommate. I'm still in the process, to be honest. Who will cook? How to clean? How to get rid of annoying flies? How to go to the shop? Will we hang out together? Some of them are still questions. We all have different levels of English, sometimes it's the problem, but usually we are helping each other, so it's another way to bond. For all of the people, who will experience something like this, I want you to know: there will be arguments. I'm aware that you read it all the time, but I assume, that you think, that you will be calm and professional about this. But here is one fact that I wasn't thinking about before: you will live together. It's not like living in a dormitory, it's more like having 11 siblings. So be prepared, but don't be scared. You got this.   We got a dog. Just a puppy, he has been with us f