Mais uma experiência SVE que chega ao fim! A Roxana gostou muito da sua experiência em Portugal! Apesar de ter vivenciados todos os altos e baixos que correspondem a uma dinâmica intercultural tão intensa como a fornecida nesta Ação do Programa Juventude em Ação, no fim de tantos meses de aventuras o saldo não podia deixar de ser positivo. Leiam mais em seguida:
"I remember I
was so excited and anxious for my next moving in Portugal for so long time!!
And now, after the end of the project, I take some time to think about: I feel
not different but sure richer, with a different perspective about being
European citizen, about relationships and myself. Unforgettable and intense are
some of the words that I can fish from my mind.
Also difficult and complicated, indeed, I couldn't get yet the reason
why some things happened.
I know more
myself, something new is disclosed to me about myself, and fears, limits and
resources and I learned to protect myself from unusual things and discussion. I
had the fear not to enjoy enough the possibilities; I have thought it was
easier to adapt myself that things came by themselves. For two times, I was
almost to drop out of the project, something said me that I wanted to managed
it and I just found a solution. So I said to myself to rest easy about and
enjoying the present!
Everyone
faces his EVS experiences in a different way and with the tools they own in
that moment, and sure in the end I own more of those tools. In the beginning I
couldn't image how complicated could be live in another country, I mix it up a
lot of time! I wonder why a lot of
things, but to the question: if you could, would you repeat this experience?
The answer is SIMMMMM.
I attended
in the first month the language class, then I start this adventure, and when
the project went closed in the end of summer, I came back in Lisbon. It was a
project that I chose also because it had the swifts departure and when I read
that project in Cabeça Gorda I was pretty aware about limited possibilities of
a small village, in the movements for example, and how wary a little village
could let new people in, but I considered they were used to have European
volunteers, but I wanted to try.
Alentejo's
experience left me good memories. My house was often full of children, the
neighbors took a lot of care of me, in the end I was just starting to be part
of them. I went to the seaside with new people known there, made shopping and
had nice talk. I have learned to project different activities with them, mostly
based on recycling materials (this was the general project), and different
games especially with water both in the swimming pool and in the big school
where we had a lot of space. I like a lot those children and was one of the
reasons for not give up. Two ideas had a big success, making wallet with fruit
juice box and making colored butterfly to decorate the walls of the
associations.
The general experience was also quite tough because of the association, the
biggest misunderstanding we had was about the things we were supposed to do:
responsibilities in taking care of the children, the material things we had for
making activities and the accommodation. Some months
later, I had the possibility to talk about this in coordinating association and
it was a constructive chat because it made me more clear the things. I had a nice
summer with a lot of good time with the children and with new people. I learned
Portuguese fast and a I got warm welcome from the people that lived there. But
the proposal of a new project in Lisbon was irresistible for me.
In Lisbon, I met my new tutor, Conceição who introduced me to the ALEM. This
association works with 5 other institutions: I chose to do make my volunteering
activity in Liga and A.P.I.A.
The first one is a big association born to house
people with neural diseases and deficiency where they spent the day in
different activities according with their faculties and medical needs trying to
gain more autonomy and mantain their physical condition.
The second APIA is a
nursery in the highest neighborhood of Lisbon. It was an
abandoned house occupied in the 70's by parents that need a place where someone
could babysit their children during working times. Each turned shift from work
and made artistic activity with the children. Now is a nursery dedicated to
artistic, plastic, and theatric activities, with children from 6 months to 6
years, before school starts.
I stayed for the most part with the little
children from 1 to 2 years helping teacher during some activity, like
introduction to music and theatre, gym and playing with them in other times.
What I really liked to learn to managed a group of so little children, and see
them growing up. They changed a lot in five months, gained new relational and
practical abilities. It was really a joy when they all run at me, and huge me
and leave me to help them to eat and put in bed to rest up after lunch.
In the LIGA
I felt really comfortable, it was so difficult to say goodbye. I received so
much from all them, that i couldn't pay back enough. I learn from the humanity
of all them, workers and customers. That was unexpected to me also if I had
already other experience in volunteering work with people with reduced ability,
and I'm continuing to do this, after my coming back in Italy. In this time I
lived the everyday life with them, known them so closely.
I make some
activities with them like preparing pizza, or tiramisu an Italian cake with
coffee and biscuit. I had a little group with whom make artistic sedimentation.
In the beginning wasn't so natural because I felt so sorry for them, but then I
focused on their genuineness and vital force and who they are now not more what
they could be without their reduced ability.
They are so
friendly each other, comprehensive and curious about you and all the things you
want to say. They are people that want to learn, grow up, love, have friends,
spend good time and enjoying life.
I wanted to
conclude with something so simple that I flatty realized: there isn't real
trip, if you live it for yourself."
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