My last week before Christmas was actually really crazy and busy and I had to travel a lot. The main reason about that was because my Arrival Seminar situated in Warsaw from the dates of 14-th of December till 20-th.
The Arrival Seminar is the obligatory part of every EVS project that you must do and go.This is a one week meeting and living with other volunteers like you who are also doing an EVS projects in Poland.
In my seminar we were twenty people from all of Europe and not only. There were people from France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Cabo Verde, Italy, Ukraine and etc., actually I was the only volunteer from Bulgaria there. I don`t want to lie that the beginning of the week there was really hard for me because I was alone from my country and without my friend and colleague Fani and all of the other people were together and at some point already know each other because a lot of the other projects are really big and include sometimes even five or more people who are living and working together in the same city of Poland. My case was a little bit different but honestly now I really don`t regret about that. Because like always happen you are finding your kind of people and in my case they were from Spain and not only. We had great time together and after this meeting I found out the best and lowest points of our project and work here in Zamosc,Poland.
The structure of the seminar is every day to do something different and to explore more about Poland, others and of course about your project and work here. We had timetable for day with different activities and tasks and of course we had a lot of free time also to enjoy Warsaw and to getting to know each other. We started with tasks to present our first impressions from Poland and the way we felt when we arrived here. Activities to present our countries and languages and also activities to help us getting better with our skills about Polish language and the Polish culture and manners.
My most favourite part and task was the one to choose a topic and do a small research about it in a group with others. We had to ask Polish people on the streets about their opinion and also to find our own way to discover more info. Mine group`s topic was about the homophobia in Poland - LGBT rights and the role of the man and women in the Polish society. As you can imagine the topic is taboo and also something that is not easy to ask others so I can say that our research it was hard but in the same time fun and useful.We have met great people and we visit two organisations in Warsaw, one about the women rights and one about transgender rights and protection.
For the end of all I can say that for sure my arrival seminar wasn`t what I expected. It was full of surprices and I had to go out for another time from my comfort zone here in Poland, but definitely it deserves it because I have met great people, had fun and found so much new things about Poland, people and the life here. :)
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