Tania, me and some other Volunteers spent this weekend at Sara's house (the house of her host parents) in Vejle. We were seven girls from Italy, Spain, Austria and Germany.
On Saturday Sara picked all of us up at the train station. She had to drive twice to take us to her home. In the afternoon - after we had talked for hours - we went to buy food and drinks for the weekend. We had some Spanish omlette (made by Tania) for lunch and Italian pasta for dinner. Afterwards we had a good time talking and watched a movie together.
One of the best things about the European Volunteer Service is that you will get to know a lot of other volunteers in the country you go to. Thereby you meet people from all over the world (even if you don't have any roommates). The camps that I also wrote about earlier are mandatory and part of an EVS. It might sound boring to be forced to go on camps, but it is actually a lot of fun and soooo easy to make new friends since all of the people attending have something in common. You're in a foreign country, you may miss your home, you may find certain things strange, you might have some problems in your project or host family and so on....... but I can guarantee you that whatever it might be: you will not be the only one. And the camps are a great opportunity to share and talk about your experiences (and get some advice if needed).
We've had such a nice time during this weekend and I'm sure it's not the last time we visited each other!
(The picture above is a screenshot of a video that we were recording earlier. We were singing "happy birthday" in our different languages at the same time and sent it to Fatou who turned 25 today)
