Asociația SUPER TINERI (ASIRYS)

We're nearing the end of our project here in Romania, and there's a bittersweet feeling in the air because time flew by so fast! A lot happened this month. We went to Bucharest for a mid-year gathering organized by the National Agency. We met many fellow volunteers from different cultures, sharing projects and ideas.  After the event, we explored Bucharest for three days, with my favorite part being Therme Bucharest. Then we visited Dracula’s Castle in Brașov and toured the city. Returning to Târgu Frumos, we began preparing for our current project on the Rroma community. It's been quite an adventure, learning about their culture and visiting their neighborhoods. Soon, we'll showcase our artwork in an exhibition. We're excited and hope to see you there!    Hassan Mohamed Fathi Mostafa Ghonim is from Egypt, and he is participating in a six-month volunteering program within Arts Lab 5.0, a project co-funded by the European Union through the European Solidarity Corps

This month I can say that I enjoyed so much. It’s been so much movement and very dynamic, with lots of different things happening. First of all, I’ve could recover a lot my energy after my friend visit, it made me so happy and I appreciated that a lot. Even though the JEMOM exhibition and preparation had been very weird and with not the best situation, also I was constantly thinking ethically if I should participate on it or not, finally I was happy of my work and the experience, even if it wasn’t with the best conditions. Just after the exhibition we had the mid term and I’ve really enjoyed going all of us together in a trip, but at the same time, it disappointed me the place and the fact of being inside a hotel 24/7. We’ve all had the feeling of very weird energies because of the place in general, and I felt I didn’t take advantage from the opportunity as much as I wanted to, there was some ways of doing some of the activities that I was thinking it would be better to do it in a diff

One of the most important issues in the past month was Haşmet, the 12th member of our house. 🐾He is a fat and extremely cute cat who is addicted to food.🫠  I put him name.  He injured his neck twice because he kept going and fighting with other cats.  Finally we had to take him to the doctor and he got stitches.  I hope we will neuter him in about a week.🙏 As for the business issue, we opened our 3rd exhibition.  The subject of our exhibition was the Jewish massacre.  It was an emotionally heavy exhibition for me.  We worked with visually impaired children for this exhibition.  That's why it was so much more meaningful.  Afterwards, we went to Bucharest for the first time for mid-term.  We attended a 3-day training.  Afterwards, we took advantage of our free time.  I think we walked around Bucharest with my volunteer friend from another project.  From there I went to Brașov and finally saw Bran Castle, which I have been wanting to see for a long time.  I came back with a lot of

Now that I came back from Bolivia, I was scared to not adapt to the rhythm of Art Lab again. But in reality this project is always challenging this type of mentality because there’s no room for doubt, here everything is action.  In that sense the next day of my return we went to a caravan to a village and I helped a bit with social media. Meanwhile my friends were presenting for the last time workshops with the subject of Cucuteni. It was very fun and we also met people that made the best wine we ever tried. After that we went to see a church that was getting painted which I never thought I would see. To see the sketches of a church in progress was one of the most interesting experiences.  In general it was such a nice experience to get back to the rhythm.  The same week we had the exhibition of victims of the Holocaust, the Jemom Museum. I wasn’t here in Romania meanwhile they were doing the investigation part so Mihaela recommended me to focus more on the lgbtq+ part of the genocide.

In the fifth month of volunteering in Romania, I traveled with my group to Bucharest for the midterm training, and we stayed in a hotel with other volunteers from various organizations. After that, I traveled with my friends to other places in Bucharest to discover the sights. We went to Sinaia, one of the most beautiful places in Romania, where there is a great palace, a wonderful monastery, and an ancient church. We also visited many museums. Also, in this month, we went to Pașcani to learn traditional Romanian dance from a professor. I should also mention that we hosted four cultural nights: Bolivian, English, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It was truly amazing, almost like traveling through these countries. Furthermore, we visited a special artist who has a great museum in his house. He has many amazing canvases depicting Van Gogh in his village, Jesus or God. I will never forget this moment. Yes, also in this month, I did a residency at a school focusing on Rroma culture. It was really n