classes

English/Polish Classes

Weekly we are going to the office to have Polish classes and English classes. It is nice to learn this way because we feel comfortable with Adam and he have a nice sense of humor =)  .

The classes are very interactive and we are improving class by class.  

Short term EVS

EVS Presentation

We were preparing some information for the short term EVS volunteers that are coming in the summer. We wrote some information about what they should bring, some information about Poland and Leszno and we made a presentation about our EVS project and what we normally do.

You can see the presentation here

https://powerpoint.office.live.com/p/PowerPointView.aspx?FBsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdownload%2Ffile_preview.php%3Fid%3D619869021375301%26time%3D1369739887%26metadata&access_token=1019030836%3AAVImYEWxP--_UBiJLzr556ssQ37MH7WYOnH79CA69GAdOA&title=EVS+CAT+short+term.pptx 

mother's day

Mother's Day 

5 Senses of Culture

26th of May, on Mother's day, we went to Wilsona park in Poznan with Horyzonty association, to interact with the kids. We made our country presentations and in the stage we read a polish poem and danced Macarena.

It was the last day of 5 senses of culture. We had such good moments doing it and we met amazing people. Cheers

Swimming pool

Swimming pool with students of school nº3

We are so lucky volunteers =)
Yesterday, 22 of May, a class of School nº3 of Leszno invited us to go to the swimming pool. We loved to drop the slides with the kids and to play in the water. We behave like 12 years kids but it doesn't matter because we had lots of fun. 

Cannoying Day with Fundacja Mobilni Polacy

On Sunday 19th of May we went to Milicz to join Fundacja Mobilni Polacy for a cannoying afternoon. We had an amazing afternoon with the other volunteers and people from the organization. The weather was perfect and it would be the perfect day if Polish mosquito's didn't exist.

catan tournament

Catan Tournament

The Catan tournament took place on Saturday 18 of May. With around 21 players, people had fun and had the opportunity to compete for good prices. In the end everybody as happy and with the desire to come again next year. 

Free time

Free Time

On our Free time we like to hang out with our friends, other volunteers and travel and travel a lot. here you can see some photos.

shopping

Shopping 

So we made this Post because we want you to know our funny but practical way to go shopping.

It is a strange but creative way to do it, way more comfortable. At the beginning i think that people thought that we are crazy, but now they are used to it . haha  

Travel Time

Travel Time

When we have free time we like to travel and meet new places.

We travelled around Poland and as well to some countries around.

This time we went in Budapeste, Hungry.

A beautiful city very rich in History, monuments and green spaces.

The City is famous as well because of the Thermaes that we had the opportunity to try. We really recommend

5 Senses

5 Senses of Culture

We are taking part in a good initiative in Horyzonte, a organization from Poznan.

The aim is to give the opportunity to kids and teenagers to know something more about different Cultures explained by native people.

5 Senses because we share our Culture using the different senses: things you can smell, touch, see, taste and ear.

Zumba Marathon

Zumba Marathon 

On 13h of April we went to the Zumba marathon in Leszno. 

I (Miguel) took part in the program singing and dancing "Ai se eu te pego", the Brazilian song while the teachers were teaching the crowd how to dance it.

We  enjoyed the Marathon dancing as well.

(as you can see in the photo, Carmen dancing).

Bike Trip

On 9th of May we were invited to went to the Forest by bicycle with a class of School nº3 of Leszno.

It was a very nice ride till there and we never were there before.

We spend a good afternoon surrounded by nature, we played some games and had nice conversations that its always a good way to know them better. 

We are planing to go there more often because it's a good way to make sport and being connected with Nature.

Presentations

Presentations 

In every School that's how we are treated.

Everybody is very kind with us and we love the good mood always around.

Thank you all.

New office party

New office party

We have a new home now so we made a party to celebrate it.

We join some of CAT family and we had a lot of fun.

They used the moment that we were all together and made me a surprise for my birthday ( Miguel ) 

I was very happy and grateful because they remembered. 

Thank you sooooooo much =)

Language Coffee

Language Coffee

Language Coffee, its our new Project. We will have different Languages starting with Portuguese and Spanish.

You have all the information here.

We are waiting for you.

Radio ELKA talk about Us

Us in Radio ELKA 

We went in School nº2 for one more presentation with some different classes and Radio ELKA wrote about it.

You can see the full article here:

http://elka.pl/content/view/64135/80/

Catan Tournament 

On May 18th the Catan tournament will take place. 

We and the Youth council of Leszno are the organizers.

It will start at 10:00 in Osiedlowy Dom Kultury Gronowo and everybody can participate, it costs only 5 PLN.

Join us in this great activity and if you have the skills of a champion, you can win really good prizes. 

Day of Europe

One more year of Europe Day.
 It was an amazing day with a lot of activities, workshops and shows on the stage. We start the event with a colourful and noisy parade to the Market square.
We had dances, singers, quizzes, and some volunteers of different countries showing interesting things from their culture on the stage. We had as well workshops of jewellery, paints, draws, drums, boardgames, joggling, etc.
Despite of the weather that wasn't the best one, people were having fun and participated. Especially the kids that had a lot of things to take part in.
We had fun and the event was a success, to repeat over and over again.

Presentation in School nº7

Other Presentation about Portugal and Spain this time in School nº 7 , we really think that is important to make this presentations because they give us the opportunity to teach them about our countries and the opportunity to be in contact with foreigners who don't speak their language. All the time in every school they are amazed with us. It is a very good feeling.

Presentation about Portugal and Spain

On 4th of April we went to the Leszno kindergarden nº2 to show a little bit of our country to the kids. 

They were very exited and they even know some Portuguese and Spanish football players.

After the presentations we made, with all the kids, coloured maps of our countries.

They liked that different day very much and probably we will back soon =)

Monthly Activities

We were preparing a poster with Magda with all the activities that we will have this month. We decided to do it very colourful and we had a lot of fun acting like kids =)

If you want to see it just pass in the office, you can find the poster on the window between our photos.

ON ARRIVAL TRAINING

On last week of February we had our On arrival training in Warsaw. It is a meeting in the beginning of the project where you receive some informational about EVS and about Polish culture.

We had the opportunity to know some other voluntaries making EVS in poland. They were great people and we had a lot of fun, now we have some friends to visit all around Poland =)

Valentine's Party

On 14 of february we took part on valentine's party in School of Wschowa. We create a band with some students and played some songs.
The experience was so good that we repeted again in Valentine's party in Lasocice School.

We had a lot of fun and we made a lot of friends in the school. During the preparation for the concert we had some rehearsals and we were adding more and more students. It was a very nice experience that we would like to repeat.