Slovakian afternoon in Tabanovce camp

          

             Daily stereotype, this is one of the main problems in refugee camp in Tabanovce for refugees, they have place to sleep, food to eat, but no too much activities to do in the camp. So as an EVS volunteers we decided to make some activities with refugees and getting know each other better through the cuisine looked as a good idea, s we started to have common cooking time in a camp. We had French, Polish, Turkish and Finnish afternoons and the last one (26.9.2017) was mine Slovakian afternoon.

          I decided to cook in Slovakia widespread and traditional dish called in slovak language „Zemiakové placky“ I am just guessing that english equivalent could be potatoes pancakes J, but I am not sure. At the morning me, one french volunteer and two Legis employees went to shop to buy all needed ingredients. Rainy weather welcomed us in a camp, but we started to cook in a small kitchen. Dish is not very dificult to prepare and also ingredients are usually very cheap. All you need is potatoes, onions, garlic, eggs, salt, oil and flour. Despite bad weather a few refugees decided to help us, which was the main aim of the cooking, so in the rhytm of Slovakian folk music we were preparing one of the traditional Slovakian meal. The entire process took around 2 hours, we cooked a lot, so everybody could try it. I am very happy that all participants on common eating liked the meal, but the more important thing is that we spent some time together, we were talking with each other and were doing something which helped refugees to escape a little bit from their daily routine.