Youth Exchange!!

THERE'S LIFE AFTER EVS

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Joe, Daga and Kalina came back to Georgia to be part of the youth exchange (end of july/ beginning august) they created while being evs. Here are some pictures!

More fun pics HERE and HERE and HERE.



EXTRA : (Tom during Advance planned visit)

News of our office !

The 18 / 07 /2011, our upstairs neighbor had forgotten to close his or her tap water. You can see the results in our office. I had cleaned the office just the day before......

With Emelie, Albin, Gus and Lekso we moved our office into the living room of our flat.

 Finally finished the work, we started to clean the office the first of August 2011 with Emelie and Albin.

We hope that this cleaning doesn't cause another disaster !

Yoann, your apprentice journalist.

Anaklia gallery

My favorite T-shirts ;)

small help: HEALTHY ;)

LIFE ;)

Apple ;)

running competition ;)

choose one: flower, windmill,snowflake ;)

kind of meditation

Anaklia 2011 - first international camp

Ireka Spirka and Mary Shperi came back yesterday from the international camp "Patrioti" organised by the georgian governement, located on the shore of Black Sea near the city of Anaklia.

Other than being very tired, we are coming back with mixed feelings, but we for sure going to miss our (new) friends from Latvia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tchetchenia, Ukraine, Georgia, ...

The way to Anaklia was quite long and hot, in those old yellow city buses, and when we arrived it was raining. We discovered that the camp is the middle of a big sand area, but we didn't have the right to go out anyway. We were all put in different rooms to encourage intercultural learning! After a few understanding problems, we finally enjoyed sleeping together! ;-) 

Then we saw that there are 4 toilets per house, with only one door (that you can't lock). Same for shower. After some 'shame' we ended up not caring. There's no point is judging when everybody's equal!

We ended up having big stomach-aches, but also because of too salty food with too much bread and not enough vegetables. Which for a camp named "healthy lifestyle" was quite surprising but after all everything was free!

We soon enjoyed swimming in the black sea (quite dirty color though you go out being yellow!) and taking sunbathes. Now we have a perfect tan! Some games activities were organised everyday. Mary's group (mesame) won the Brain Game, and Irka ended up in table tennis semi-finals (group meotre).

We also took a bicycle trip to the Abhazian border (but only Irka, not enough bikes for the rest of people!), to Zugdidi (Dadiani Palace Museum) and to Batumi (very tiring city game!).

When came back with an even longer ride - 10 hours because of many stops and also because of THE camp song, which is quite awful in itself, but even more after hearing it everyday for 10 days!!! Remember sharing is caring, so please join the Pinguin's dance!!

For now, Irka is attending a polish wedding in polish embassy (Tbilisi), Yoann Albin and Emelie are attending their on-arrival training in Tbilisi as well. And on 25th of July we will welcome ex-EVS Daga, Joe and Kalina for the youth exchange they prepared. They should meet Mary at the airport who is going to France and Germany for different volunteering activities.

Quite a busy summer for EVSs so stay tuned!!! (also for some pictures of the camp)

Come to visit

Beautiful day, but for European people too hot. Still volunteers cannot use to Georgian climate;) but how our Georgian friends said „will be worse in August;)” . So stop complaining and go somewhere!!!!

One of my favorite places in Tbilisi, Dry Bridge and bazar!

Because Cristinas birthday was approaching so fast, I hit on an idea: buying our favorite homemade wine, some small gift and go to Cristy!!!! Now she lives in hostel in Tbilisi, and there is great place for meetings and parties...big balcony with hammock;)! And amazing view for old part of Tbilisi, president palace and Sameba church!!!!

Firstly, we visited one of our favorite places in Tbilisi, Dry Bridge with cool bazar, where you can buy everything, really everything!!!! yess, it's perfect place to spend all your pocket money;)

We bought small bracelet, quite a lot of wine and we were walking to Cristinas place. And then we were enjoying the evening!

 

                               Avtushka Pietrushka                                                                   Ilo Shpilo
              

It was nice to see also our Georgian friends: Ilo Shpilo and Avtushka Pietrushka, a bit tired after summer camps;) But like alweys in good mood;)!!!! I hope that new members of our EVS family (Emelie and Albin) also enjoyed this time!!!

                                   Cristy and Me                                                                  Albin and Emelie

And one more time the best wishes for Cristy!!!!

"Cristy is your birthday, Happy birthday Cristy";D  

Irka Shmirka