This week took place one of the most important events
in the year for our hosting organization – The Gala day or the day of the volunteer. The
place where all happened was our main office in the town – Okraglak.
- Our work about Gala
About this event we worked really hard and prepared
certain things to present the idea of our project and also the thing to be a
volunteer. We made lucky papers or in other words small papers with quotes of
worldwide popular persons connected with the idea of being and doing a voluntary
service. Also we made a funny and very cute picture place (a big picture with
wholes for the faces representing a simple conversation between boy and a girl
about volunteering), but honestly our idea didn`t work like we thought in the
beginning, because people there were too shy and didn`t understand the English
lines on it. So not many of them took a picture with it - it was a pity at some
point!
The other big part of our work and preparation about
the Gala were the flyers that we made about our activities here (The Language
Coffee and The Tandem of Languages). Honestly people looked interested about
them but also like with the picture place the fact that they were on English didn`t
help a lot.
After all we had our reserved place in the whole Gala
event with our things and it was nice. People stopped there to congratulated us
and we had the chance to present our job.
- The Gala or the work of our local organization
In general the whole official part was around one hour
or a little bit more. Ewa and Christina (the chefs of Centrum Wolontariatu)
presented all of the projects and things that they did in the last year. Ewa
made a presentation and explained about all of the small and big projects that
they realized through the year with the local schools and the voluntary clubs
in Zamosc. Later it followed another presentation from another woman of our
organization about their part of theater and art activities with the students
and seniors.
Before everything to finish Ewa and Christina recognize
the work of all of the local volunteers through the year (which was really nice
and fully deserved), the local school clubs, teachers and to the persons who helped
them.
Actually we were impressed from the fact how many
people here do a voluntary service and from the fact how many of them are young
people and students, which is a great fact for the community of Zamosc!
In the end of course of the event there was some
scheduled time for food and drinks. We enjoy it a lot and spent good time with
the students that we met and the people that we know from Okraglak. In general
for us it was a little bit difficult because everything was only in Polish and
almost all of the people spoke only in Polish but we enjoy the event and the
time spent with the people there! ;) 
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