EVS!? What is that? “Just a crazy good time”

That’s just one of  the many positive quotes I heard while watching short movies about EVS on YouTube. But it’s not the words that make me go crazy and gets me excited. It is the smiling faces of young people that have a good time in a foreign country.It is the faces of toddlers and elderly people who are affected by young volunteers in many ways. The curiosity you see in a young Bulgarian child’s eyes while playing with the ponytail of a German young adult, and the music in the background that gives me goosebumps. It’s young people being themselves, inspire and try to help another.

It’s only happiness we see on YouTube, even though there might not only be happiness on an EVS experience. There can be hard times, when you miss your family and friends, or when something happens that might be weird in your eyes, or when something sad is happening that affects you. But that’s also what EVS is. You learn by experience, about other cultures, you get rid of prejudices, actually, you get closer to your inner core. You learn what’s important in your life, what you want to do with your life. Actually, EVS gives you the opportunity to meet yourself.

What I’ve discovered by just looking at short EVS movies on YouTube is that EVS changes you in a direction that gives you more meaning in life, and all the new friends you gain is worth mentioning as well.