Trainings in Geres

From Outumn we started EVS arriving and mid-term trainings in Peneda-Gerês National Park  (Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês). More accurately in youth hostel - Pousada de Juventude do Gerês.

The nature of this park is amazing. Its making staying for training realy amazing, one can go walk around, see mountains. Really good place to relax and feel the north beauty of Portugal.

Important: How our new volunteers feel themselves coming to Olhao.

4 new volunteers from different countries came here to Olhao to work with kids. Our team becomming bigger again!

First days in new country with new people sure can put young person into stress. Thats why we wonder How does the new volunteer who recently arrived in the city feels. Also it will be nice to compare the impression in the beging of EVS and after some time.

So, further are first impressions of our volunteers:

Climate challange

Coming to the south Portugal we all expect to have warm sunny days. And its true! After -5C in Ukraine I came on 17th of January to Algarve, the warmest region in Portugal, and took off my light Autumn coat, having +23C. I remember that day very good - Hungarian volunteer Lisy met me just in t-shirt. I was feeling so good, warming myself on the sun. We had sun in winter almost every day and for the whole day. Having so much sun was like a paradise for me. We even based in the ocean in the super cold water.

BUT, not all days are so warm and there is no central heating inside houses. So, in winter, at daytime it's colder inside the buildings than outside. It's a problem, especially, when rooms are not on the  sun side. For me and Lisy it was hard to get used to coldness at home, so we used electric heaters a lot.

Yoga in the project

Our volonteers Inna and Lisy like yoga!

😊 💚 And happily now we started to have yoga in organisation - one sesion for kids and one for grown-ups a week. Its realy nice, because  we believe that yoga can help not only body, but also our mind.

Lets do yoga!!! 💪

Week of youth

From 15 till 19 of october we had youth of week.
For us it was really different week with a lot of events. We were celebrating the birthsday of our association MOJU, having sunset party with kids, helping in school with seminars and activity about neighborhood discrimination, having dinner all together with members of association.

 

Now we know more about Ukraine!!!

Last friday we had an oportunity to get to know Ukraine better.

Our monthly event "intercultural night" was presented by ukrainian volonteer Inna. We could try a lot of ukrainian national food and get some fresh look from insider personally. Also we had time to have a good conversation with all the volonteers, new and old. We had fun!!!

Do you know that Ukraine became independent not so long ago, in 1991?! Its a young country which tries to join EU and deal with armed attack of Russia on the east.

Know Olhão Part 5 Architecture

Know Olhão Part 5 

Architecture

Olhão is the largest fishing port of the Algarve.  In this small town you can see different type of architecture. From typical parish church (The Chapel of Senhor dos Aflitos and the Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosári)….

…..to buildings covered with Azulejo ( а form of Spanish and Portuguese painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework).