Hi everyone, or as they say here, Moin! My name is Sergio and I´m 22 years. I´m from Gran Canaria, Spain. After finishing my studies, I didn’t know what the next step in my life would be, but what I knew for sure was that I wanted to go to a foreign country for a […]
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Hello again! It has been awhile since I have sat down and reflected on the past couple of months. Time has gone by pretty fast! I guess that is a bad thing… or is it? Just a reminder – my name is Alex, I’m 20 years old and I’m currently doing my ESC project in
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Last week I had a crucial moment that changed once again my perspective on my time here in North Macedonia. On a party I was asked how much time I have left in Macedonia and when I will return to Germany. I answered: “I think in around 6 months.” A friend interrupted me there and
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Hello everyone! More than half of my project has already passed, it’s time for a new report. In my cultural center there are more concerts and more people come, so there is a little more work. It was also interesting during the autumn holidays, I helped to do workshops for children and I learned a
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There is something so beautiful about every new path we take, every new decision that WE make that shapes our way and our character. Such a powerful and strong OWN willpower drives our every move, or at least we wish to believe so, because the truth is, that none of that would be possible without
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I remember when we had our mid-term training in Skopje, the facilitator introduced us to the “Stages of a year abroad.” Thanks to that I can clearly tell that I am in the “Accepting and Embracing” phase. I have faced the cultural differences and I realise that my time in Macedonia will come to end
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It is difficult to tell in a few lines what this experience has meant for me and how it has influenced my choices of life and my way of looking at it. When I arrived in Bremen, I did not have many expectations, I had not left to pursue my dream or with a specific
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“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -Susan Jeffers The beginning of something new, exciting and unknown, can also be the most terrifying moment. At least for me, it wasn’t easy to step outside my comfort zone and decide to live abroad for ten months in order to be part of VulcanicaMente’s European Solidarity Corps
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Soo, my volunteering project is over. But the energy and the motivation that this experience had been offering to me for the past 12 months is still ongoing. I have been volunteering at Theater11 in Bremen for the past year. This theater has a great mission that I really esteemed; to help young people with
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Its October and now summer is finally over. That’s what they told me. I still have problems to believe that. The summer is over. In Greece. For real. It rained today. It rained a lot and I finally have to admit to myself that its not enough anymore to wear my lovely sun-yellow textile sneakers
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