Walk on the Polako side of life Written by Per Aida Díaz SolàJuly 2016 “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” Henry Miller I can feel a balkan feeling spreading in my body. It’s the polako rythm of life, a new way of seeing life, a new way of loving…
Volunteer: Sathyanarayanan Mohan Written by Sathyanarayanan MohanJune 2016 After coming over to (Belgium) Europe and staying here for the past few months for my EVS, I feel my exposure has opened up so many opportunities to meet new people, cultivate friendships, explore and understand new ways of life and understand various cultures. This brief but eventful…
Italian Voice from the Heart Written by Italian volunteerJune 2016 This past autumn I was in Italy, waiting for the results of my exams and for the beginning of the courses. It was a feeling I’d had for a long time, but it had always remained latent, behind a mountain of other worthless commitments. Suddenly, I…
EVS: (E)xperience (V)ia (S)olidarity Written by Angelilki KavallieratouJanuary 2016 Ask people around you what is EVS. Do you think that they know the answer? Well, it is difficult to say that with certainty but the common reaction that people have when I am saying that I am doing my EVS is with a huge question mark….
With love from Sri Lanka Written by MathildeFebruary 2015 Dear SCI, Wow! It has been two amazing months here and I have been surrounded by so sweet and open hearted people, who have made my daily life so fantastic. Right from the beginning you took so good care of us and SCI became really quickly like…
EVS in Belgium and Someone Rides a Bike Written by Victoria MarinovaFebruary 2014 “December is a universe…” a friend once wrote. Today is the first of December, exactly one month since I jumped into my EVS experience and my life in Antwerp, Belgium started. A cup of hot coffee, a song from Beirut playing on the…
From Workcamp To World Tour Written by Evgeniy EvchenkoFebruary 2014 “In a month I’m going to travel around the world, but let’s start from the beginning… Exactly one year ago, I crossed the border of the Russian Federation the first time, I went to Belgium. I flew there as a volunteer with the short-term EVS project….