{"id":50658,"date":"2012-01-20T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/in-action\/mobility\/european-voluntary-service-evs-a-valuable-experience\/"},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:17:35","slug":"european-voluntary-service-evs-a-valuable-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/experiences\/european-voluntary-service-evs-a-valuable-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"European Voluntary Service (EVS) \u2013 A valuable experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 10 months ago, I started my EVS in Palermo, Sicily. Last March I was sitting on the airplane to Italy, I didn\u2019t speak Italian and I didn\u2019t have any idea of what was expecting me. In December I came back.<\/p>\n

When I arrived in Palermo it was a rainy and cloudy day. My mentor, Salvatore Danile picked me up at the central station in Palermo, showed me my new flat and gave me a very strange key. Everything was very different from what I had imagined. I joined a group of volunteers from all over Europe and I met many friendly people from Cesie. My project was called Ubuntu III and my working place was\u201dIl Giardino di Madre Teresa\u201c a multicultural kindergarten, founded by Rosita Marchese about two years ago. We had more or less 30-40 children in the age from 1 to5 years. I had never worked with children before, so I had my first experiences there. The children fascinated me, because they were so curious, clever and they were always laughing so much. We had great children in the kindergarten and I loved and still love, each and one of them. The first period was very difficult for me. I never travelled a lot, I had no idea what a \u201dterminal\u201c was , I never lived abroad before, I didn’t know any person in Italy and I couldn’t speak Italian \u2013 so you can imagine – communication was a big challenge for me. Somehow I was managing everything better and better as time went by. I organized workshops with the children, learned Italian (even when it was not that easy) and fell in love with Palermo. I loved \u201dMonte Pellegrino\u201c, I loved the view from our house, which overlooked the \u201dVucciria\u201c neighbourhood, the people, who were screaming at the market and finally I also loved my strange key. I got to know Italian culture, I saw African concerts and was eating international dinners. I got to now my limits and learned how to go over them. I became a very multifaceted, open-minded person, who is able to show that. EVS is a great chance! I realized that it doesn’t matter which background or personal experiences I have, if I decide what I want, then I have to work to obtain it and I can do everything in my life and I know that this is a big opportunity. I came back with a lot of wonderful and valuable experiences and gifts. I want to thank again Roberta Lo Bianco, Salvatore Danile and Rosita Marchese for their support during all these nine months! Thank you!<\/p>\n

Sinem Akdeniz \u2013 January.2012<\/p>\n

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