My name is Gergely Ferencz, but most people call me Dura. I’m a 22 years old boy from Hungary.<\/p>\n
After having finished cooking school, I started working as a temporary employee. Then I saw a volunteer opportunity in Finland and I went there to try it for a month. It was the first time I was engaged in a short-term volunteer service and it was so awesome.<\/p>\n
After some time I saw on Facebook a volunteer opportunity in Palermo (Italy) for 9 months\u00a0 I immediately checked the details because I always wanted to travel to Italy. I had never worked with mentally disabled adults before, but I thought it was time to start.<\/p>\n
On November 4th in 2016 I arrived in Palermo: my first impressions were positive, mainly because of the mountains and the beaches I fell in love with. The city has authentically beautiful squares and churches and Italian gastronomy is simply great.<\/p>\n
I started working in a project with five girls (one from France, one from Germany, one from Sweden and two form Spain). We are an awesome team of nice, friendly and cool volunteers.<\/p>\n
I feel lucky I’ve got a great mentor such as Balaram Gaire.<\/p>\n
I didn’t have any Italian language skills before coming to Palermo, but I have participated in a course that helped me a lot to speak and understand Italian. One of our working languages is Italian so I involuntarily picked up the language. I understand a lot now but talking is still a bit difficult for me.<\/p>\n
I didn’t regret my decision of participating in a project targeted at disabled people. Even though on my very first day at work, I still had fears, I discovered they had disappeared by the end of the day.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of nice people there: it’s a great experience to deal with people with disabilities and all the workers are extremely helpful and patient.<\/p>\n
We play games, we carry out skill development sessions, we make ornaments and gifts and we organise shows and create choreographies for different holiday festivals.<\/p>\n
I live in a cozy little flat with 3 other volunteers: two Norwegian girls and one Kenyan guy, Felix Nzeki, who\u2019s also my roommate.<\/p>\n
This great experience in Sicily has changed my life.My self-esteem and teamwork skills have improved a lot. This project taught me self-sufficiency and helped me overcome my fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This great experience in Sicily has changed my life: this is Gergely Able Like You 3 EVS experience working with people with disabilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":57710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26913],"tags":[],"unita":[],"class_list":["post-53399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t