Ya no queda nada !!

Hola !!! Aquí Carmen !!

Pasó Diciembre con sus fiestas y sus viajecitos ( aproveché unas vacaciones que tenía pendientes para visitar Madeira com mi compañera Gosia y con más amigos, fue un viaje inolvidable !!! . Y estuvimos también en Sevilla para pasar la Navidad con mi familia, y Gosia vino conmigo y creo que gustó de la experiencia !! ) . En Fin de Año quisimos que fuera especial y lo pasamos con nuestros amigos en casa, fue una noche única !! Y en vez de uvas, comimos pasas para recibir al 2012 !! jajajaja. Diciembre fue genial !!

Y llegó Enero y la vuelta al trabajo con su rutina, y pasa el tiempo y se acerca el fin, y ahora me encuentro extraña.... sólo quedan 10 días para que el proyecto acabe, estamos ultimando todo: el relatorio final del voluntariado, la YouthPass, algunos cosillas que vamos a dejar para el recuerdo, comenzamos a despedirnos de la gente y avisando que la próxima será nuestra última semana, y pensando en nuestra fiesta de despedida !!
Voy a echar de menos el trabajo, pero sobre todo voy a echar menos trabajar con los abuelos en las clases de informática y voy a echar de menos a Da. Isabel.... pero todo llega a su fin y en este caso, el fin de nuestro voluntariado está llegando...
En mi caso, voy a comenzar una nueva vida en Lisboa, no vuelvo para España de momento, y tengo claro que si mi futuro trabajo me lo permite, no voy a poder desvincularme de ciertas personas y actividades que consiguieron formar ya parte de mi vida... estoy a la expectativa de todo lo que vaya a acontecer....

Os mantendré informados en mi próximo mensaje !!

Besitos !!!

countdown

The final countdown started. I will spend in Portugal only 19 days more, so only a little more then two weeks.
I am not crying or at leats I am trying not to :)
This week is also very cold and this is bad for my health ( I have a cold, not serious but very iritaiting).
My work goes normal, unfortunetly donia Isabel is still sick and spends most of her day in bed, I am very worried because she shouldn´t be alone and that´s how the situation is and I cannot do anything to change this.
Lessons with kids goes well and always very noisy. Last time I tought them dance KRAKOWIAK, well at least a little :)

Bem-vindo 2012 ano

Welcome in new 2012 year, according to same news nad the Mai´s calendar, the last year of our lives :)
I am expecting that the world has quite big chances to avoid the end, but unfortunetly I have no chances to avoid the end of my EVS. Yes, it happend, this January is my last month in Portugal. My family is happy that I am coming back, and I.... I want to go back as much as I want to stay :) After all this was my home for almost 9 months.
This year christmas I spent in Sevilla in Spain. Thi was my first time in this beautuful country I really enjoyed it.
New Year in Lisbon, the party in our house was really great. One bad thing, later we had to clean all that mess.
An today my second day of work. Almost nothing change for me, this last month I hope will be calm.

Dezember and no snow

Dear readers,

how serious it sounds :)
Dezember in Portugal came and everybody is preparing himself to christmas. The streets are full of christmas decorations, shops full of christmas promotions. But I have very difficult time with accepting that christmas are almost here, its too warm, now snow and so on...

I've just come back from 4 days long weekend at pretty Madeira. It was really nice to spend some time ine this garden durning warm, sunny days with good friends. I really didn't want to came back.
But you cannot escape your duties, and even the greatest holidays need to be ended. So I came back to work this week, I work alone because Carmen is helping with intercambio. I do not complain, of course not :) I can manage everything with no difficulties.

Bem dia,

Dezember almost here and getting up early in the morning became much harder :)
My daily life is very good organized now. Normal work in the morning with old ladies under my care, in the evenings intercultural lessson with children or office work.
My lessons goes quite well, we have only one problems. The grils just cannot stop talking..............

Llegó Noviembre y esto avanza rápido !!

Se me está pasando el tiempo volando !!!
Ya está aquí Noviembre y tenemos muchas actividades por delante: intercambios, visitas, actividades intergeneracionales, seminarios... y nuestro trabajo !!
Comenzamos ya a trabajar con los jóvenes en un programa de integración y educación sociocultural, y estamos muy contentas !! Está siendo muy gratificante.
Seguimos visitando a mi adorada Señora Isabel, y ahora visitamos a otra señora, Da. Ziza, que tiene un pequeño trastorno y necesita de compañía y ayuda... esperemos hacer lo correcto para con ella....
Además de todo eso, estamos trabajando en un proyecto para el programa Youth In Action, con el fin de presentarlo y que sea aprobado para que nuestra organización reciba más voluntarios en el futuro.
La semana pasada participamos en unas jornadas para el envejecimiento activo en las que nuestra organización colaboró dando la posibilidad al colectiivo senior de divertirse activamente jugando a la videoconsola Wii, y fue toda una expectación !! Os dejo unas fotillos !!

Seguiré contando mas experiencias en el proximo post !!
Un abrazo !!!

Mª Carmen Martín

End of october and autum arrival

Hello after almost one month,

but with all my regret it was no my and Carmen fault, that for such a long time we haven´t written anything.
Carmen had "a small accident" with very hot oil and she had to stay in bed this whole month. But I can write that now everything is alright, and this week is also her first week at work.

And about me lets start from the beginning:

1. Intercambio
One week in beautiful Oreiras (near the Lisbon, in front of the beach) with teams from Latvia, Cyprus, Italia, Croatia, Belgium, Espania and of course Portugal. Plus one beautiful Polish girl.
The topic of this intercambio were homeless people. We have lots of meetings with representatives of the various NGOs, which have been working for homeless.
We also spent one night with street teams on Lisbon´s streets and were helping them distribute food to homeless. That was really strong and emotional experience. I would have never thought that I will survive something like this. It is really difficult to describe this and all this people who came to us not pnçy for a food but mainly to speak, to ask about us, to speak about themselves.
To see photos from this day I invite to Facebook of NGO which I was:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.173982746017563.44739.100002175156557&type=3.
And at the finish of activities we have prepared a special action in Lisbon: flashmob and massages to collect the money for one of NGO  we had worked.
And one more thing, some of participants of intercambio slept one night on street. Volunteered, to feel how it is.
To see more I Invite to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWL19HZln_o

2. Donia Ziza
We have with Carmen a new ward, her name is Donia Ziza. She is pretty nice and she really like to speak a lot. Unfortunately she has some mental problems like obsessions about some things, so work with her is really difficult. She doesn´t want to agree for changes in her house and in the way she lives. She just can´t see that our proposals for changes are good for her. Well, we need to be really stubborn and don´t lose hope.

3. Loja Social
We started our project with kids. Now only first group, only girls, but very very noisy. I really like it, but I really want also to sew lips of some of them. I surived 2 classes with one group, tomorrow I will meet the second one.

And of course my usual work: Entrajuda, donia Isabel, donia Matilde. And normal spending of free time: Barrio Alto, old and new friends. And the weather change, this week the autum came with rain, lower temperature and cold wind. Of course its not a Poland, but I think my portuguese summer came to en end.

Best wishes to everyone
Gosia