My first month of EVS - Multi Kulti and Camp

I came to Kumanovo at the beginning of April to make my three months volunteering service both in the Multi Kulti as well as refugee camp. In the past I had little experience in volunteering and I was very curious how it works in Macedonia. My work started in Multi Kulti where me and other voulnteers work with kids. I was surprised how nice and communicative are the children and how many questions they ask :) I think that the overall idea of this center is very valuable. Albanian and Macedonian children can integrate here through learning and playing. Kids broaden my knowladge about Albanian and Macedonian culture a lot. I can see also the interest in learning Polish language, which encourages me to prepare lessons for youth.

Second part of my volunteering Program for Tolerance and Acceptance is volunteering in the refugee camp in Tabanovce. When it comes to the work with children I could, more or less expect what will happen there, which I cannot say about the camp. In Poland we don't have the refugees, so all of the information about them is from media. For me it was important to sense this topic with my own eyes and ears, but I was a bit afraid too. People in the camp went through very hard route and I didn't know how to talk with them about it. Also I was not really sure, if they really want to speak about it. When I eventually entered the camp I was very surprised in the positive way. People live, or at least try their normal lives. They laugh a lot, talk about their previous jobs, about their friends and relatives. What shocked me the most, was the smile on each face. Whenever we ask them the simplest question "How are you?"they always reply "Very good". Their behaviour made me think about my own attitude toward life. Even though my lesson is not finished yet, now I know that I will think twice before start complaining about something. Many of people around the Europe are fraid of the refugees, but perhaps we should learn from them...?

When it comes to the day to day-to-day activities these are games like:voleyball,basketball or beloved ping pong.

Also we play cards, draw, paint and simply talk. Refugees are also very curious about our lives and countries where we live. My first experience in the camp is very positive and I value it a lot. 

Ania

2 Days in Ohrid!

Ohrid, best place in Balcans. 

Me and other volunteers went to Ohrid in last Easter holiday. It was short travel but it was very nice trip. I have heard somethings about Ohrid and i was wondering its. I feel lucky because i am in Macedonia and i have seen Ohrid.

It was very funny trip. Firstly, we went out in morning and the road lasted 3,5 hours. We started to touring as soon as we left. We did boat tour around the Ohrid Lake. The lake was very clear and fresh. In addition it had amazing landscape.



We visit a lot of place in Ohrid. For example; churches, castle and ancient theatre. They was very beautiful historical build.

La semaine derniere ainsi que cette semaine nous avons profite du beau temps pour travailler dehors. Tout d'abord nous avons peint une planche en blanc er creer des cases pour en faire un jeux. Une fois les cases creeent, nous devions les peindre et les enfants nous ont aides.

  Une fois cela termine nous avons dessine des serpents et des echelles pour creer le jeux snake. Et pour terminer nous avons ajoute les nombres, repasser les cases a l'aide de marqueur, et effectue des finitions.

C'etait agreable de travailler, peindre, dessiner a l'exterieur avec les enfants sous ce beau temps. 

Une fois le snake termine, nous avons fait un monopoly.  Nous avons peint les cases, puis nomme les differents lieux, avec des endroits de Kumanovo comme par exemple le green market, le multikulty, le tinex, et des noms de bars ou restaurants. Et nous avons eg