DADOS DE EMBARQUE
Nome: Camille Hoebanx
Origem: Bélgica
My name is Camille,
I'm 26 years old and I'm from Belgium. I am doing an EVS here in Lisbon with
ALEM. I will stay here till July. I am going to work with children, giving them
art workshop and helping the teachers with theirs tasks. I'll work also with disabled
people, in art workshop and dance workshop. My main job will take place in an
highschool. We are going to try to make a blog and a newspapers with the
teenagers having as main thematic the human rights, for me it's quite
challenging to work with teenagers, I really think that with patience and
motivation we could be able to do very nice stuff with them.
It has take some time to start our projects,
we had to be patient, but now the machine has been set in motion and the story
of my work's adventure will be for another chapter.
Let's start from the
very beginning.
October, 7th,
I arrived in Lisbon airport and hours after hours others, at that time unknowed
faces, were arriving too. Teresa was waiting for us.
We discovered the
house that would be ours for one year, and of course we discovered the faces of
those who were going to be part of our daily life for one year.
Even if we all wanted
to come here to do a voluntary service, it didn't mean that we were going to
get along well. But, actually, in a very short time, I started to feel like at
home and to appreciate different little things about each of my new roomates
who will become not just roomates but friends.
The first month, we
explored the city and the surroundings. We enjoyed the beach in Cascais, visit
Sintra, Belem and start to get use to the metro « linha vermelha »,
you always have to begin with something...
My first impressions
of Lisbon were, I think like everyone can feel about it. Beautiful and charming
city, beautiful light, fado place, very nice facades,...
It's difficult to
tell you my impressions now because I don't feel like a turist anymore, but I
don't feel the city as mine neither. But I know it will come with the time...
I already feel like
it's quite small, you always meet people you know, it's like feeling like in a
town being in a capital, it remembers me Brussels and I think I like it, maybe
because I grew up in the countryside...
To conclude, this
beginning, in the end, promises a lot of new experiences, encounters, and nice
stuff to be remembered after.
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