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
