Posts Tagged ‘experiences’

‘Nice to meet you, I’m an European volunteer and proud of it!’

Last October EVS volunteer Ruben Bortignon (24) from Italy moved to Finland for one year to work for a coordinating organization. He has a lot of different tasks…for instance helping with the EVS applications and creating PowerPoint presentations about Youth in Action. In the near future he will also attend a training to become a mentor for short term volunteers and he will be involved by organizing a youth exchange.You are able to follow Ruben on his own blog (in Italian language): Ruben il Finnico! But especially for the readers of the YouthNetworks blog, Ruben wrote a report about his experience… in English!!

‘Here you go, you’re into it! At last you are having the experience you have been dreaming so long about! You’re alone, no friends, no girlfriend, you’re not in your town, neither the air your breath nor the sun that shines are the ones you’ve grown used to: you’re in Finland! Now there is no excuse: it’s you and the unknown; and two paths diverge in front of you… either you fight, or you go back home.…. Read the rest of this entry »

Audele Uruguay is a sending and hosting organization from Uruguay Latin America. The Uruguayan Association for the Promotion of Spanish as a Foreign Language is an organization that brings together people who want to promote and teach Spanish as a foreign language.

On their new blog you are able to read experience reports of EVS volunteers. For example Dionysia, a Greek EVS volunteer writing about her stay in Uruguay and Melisa, an Uruguayan EVS volunteer in Slovakia. Or read about the experiences of Lisa from Germany, a high school and Spanish Student in Uruguay: “This trip was amazing for me, I want to come back, and maybe it is possible in two years. My family was so nice to me, Guillermo was beautiful and the classmates in the school were nice. I found a second family and new friends… Read more on the Audele blog.

Are you currently an EVS volunteer and do you use Twitter to share your experiences? Let us know! We could create a link on this blog so we will all be able to follow you on Twitter!

Do you want to read more about the experiences of EVS-volunteers? In this category you will soon be able to read a monthly experience report of an EVS-volunteer. If you can’t wait, you can already read some reports on this website.  For example the story of Ielse organizing parties and trips for people in a community in France, Susan observing dolphins in Wales or Willem working with Roma children in Spain. Still not satisfied after reading this stories? Take a look at MyEVS.net. ,on this site you can read stories of EVS-volunteers, take a look at their pictures and add comments.

Watch this YouthNetworks blog regular if you are curious for the experiences of EVS-volunteers, ’cause you will soon be able te read more!