Hello, I’m Laurin from Germany and I’m volunteering at GYE in Rustavi for one year. I have been here for already 2 months and so many great things happened already!
My tasks
are mainly doing German conversation clubs for youngsters and young adults which
I really enjoy, but also supporting ERASMUS+ youth exchanges by running
energizers and get-to-know-each-other games and general support for the group
leaders. The youth centre also offers other activities, such as national
evenings or outdoor activities which I help with. In the future I will also
assist teachers in one school for German and French classes.
Working
with international people brings me a lot pleasure, it is so cool to have
volunteers from different nationalities (although many of them are German) and
Georgians and other European people. It helps to reflect on your own culture
but also gives you so many opportunities to learn about other cultures.
Although I
had some difficulties in the first weeks, I feel very lucky to have a safe
place here in Rustavi where I can be myself as a queer person and have people
around me who support me regardless of their nationality. I didn’t expect that,
but I guess I’m generally surprised by the extreme comity of Georgian people, which
certainly doesn’t exist in this form in Germany.
As I have just
finished school, it is the first time for me to live in a foreign environment
without my family for a longer period of time. I love my flatmates a lot, we
support each other and have a great time together.
I’m very
glad that I took this opportunity, there is no other place I would rather be
than here now.
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