European voluntary service project ''YOUTH PLATFORM'': March 2018

2018/03/29

International cultural afternoon with Jesus and Robert :) March 2018

On March we had an interesting day with our volunteers, we made one intercultural event, where Jesús and Robert presented their countries, with presentations, funny games and dances, and with national food and songs. It was a full day where the participants had a really good time.

You can see some photos below😃

At the end of the event, the participants who still were with us, could enjoy dancing "Bachata" one of the most popular latin dances in the World.🎵🎵

2018/03/20

Holiday Funny Week

Last week (12-16), when some people were enjoying the holiday days at home doing boring things, we were doing a lot of funny things in our office. Do you want to know which things we've done?. So, we will show you in this post:

Monday 12: Names and Ice breaking games.

On monday we were knowing each others, so we made funny name games, the people really loved the game of "I'm going to Riga".

Playing "I'm going to Riga"

Remember name and movement game

Tuesday 13: Armenian Cuisine. (Aylazan)

On Tuesday, we learnt how to cook one of the traditional meal from Armenia, "Aylazan".

Wednesday 14: Spanish Cuisine. (Tortilla Española)

On wednesday, we learnt how to cook the most famous food from Spain, the Tortilla (but the real Tortilla, please, not the "burrito" from Mexico which you named Tortilla here😓)

Thursday 15: Speeching and table games.

Thursday was a full day. In the morning we made a speech in the library about voluntary work, and about EVS (European Voluntary Service)

In the afternoon, we played table games in the office! We had such games as chess, UNO, Jenga and so on.

Friday 16: Moving games

Last day we played motion games, really funny!

In the break, we had an amazing visit, with a really big colleccion of coins from different parts of the world.

2018/03/19

Spend happy and useful time with us

2018/03/13

Concert trip to Lūznava

Today is saturday, the 10th of March. We are invited to Lūznava manor to hear the classic concert of Ian Maksin. Lūznava is not far from Rēzekne. We went there by car.
The concert will take place in Lūznava manor/Lūznava.
This manor is very old and has very rich history. It was built in the early 20th century as a place for art and music. Over the decades it experienced historic change, becoming a school, military headquarters, then school again, parish administration and library. At last in 2015 reborn anew to inspire and become a true home for MUSE.

First steps in Rēzekne...

Hey hello!!! With you are Jesus and Robert. The volunteers that are in Rēzekne/Latvia.
Today we were free, so we decided to go for a walk to get to know the town.
We worn warm clothes because it was cold outside and went out.

First we visited the monument "United for Latvia" and made some photos...

Tropic guy in winter Rēzekne :)

Already experienced guy in winter Rēzekne :)

In the same place where situated the monument "United for Latvia" we saw very beautiful church.⛪️

We continue our journey, and our next station was the ruins of the ancient castle.🏰
We made some funny pictures and videos there.

Our next station was GORS. One of the more interesting places of Rezekne.

Our celebrating of March 8 in Rezekne

Today was the 8 of March, international women's day. So I woke up today at 08:00 o'clock, and Jesus after one and a half hour if I am not mistaken. After having breakfast I started to send the congratulations to the girls that I know. After couple of hours we decided to go to the supermarket and buy some chocolate as a gift for the 8 of March. As we thought that giving flowers is not convenient and practic, because they will spoil after a couple of days. So we bought chocolate for our girl (meitene) mentors, and 2 more chocolates for the girls that we will meet in the street. The same day we had been invited to the concert in Joriks. So we took our chocolates and went to the concert. On our way to Joriks unfortunately we didn't meet any girls. So when entered the concert hall, we left our clothes in the wardrobe, where the beautiful Latvian girls were working. So I chose one girl and congratulated her with the 8 of March, and gave her the chocolate.

And the project can start

2018/03/12

The feeling of the beginning of a new adventure

Hello dears, I'm Jesús and I would like to share with you my arrival moments in Rezekne.

First thing, as maybe you guessed, I had a loooong way from Gran Canaria, Spain (If you don't know where is, don't worry, you can check it on the following map):

My eurotrip to come here: Gran Canaria --> Stockholm --> Vilnius --> Rezekne

I had to sleep the first night in the Stochkolm's airport, due to I arrived at 23:55 and I had the next flight at 9:00 next day (Well, to be honest, I was watching Game of Throne all the night)

The next morning, I arrived on Vilnius at 11:00. (With a good eye bags by the way) and I spent my first three days discovering this city and the places around, and doing such things as trying to dive in a frozen lake.

Here you have the proof (Lake of Trakai)

And, finally, It was time to travel to Rezekne (4 days after I left my home), so I took a bus from Vilnius at 18:00 (By the way, It was a really fancy bus, even with TV in each seat, I felt like a superstar or a rich people, of course I'm not 😞)

I arrived on Rezekne after 4 hours in the bus, and something that I didn't expect happened. Amazing people of my organization was waiting for me. They picked me up in the bus station, and they were preparing an amazing welcome in my new home, with delicious food, and some traditional latvian candies (and some balsam of course)