Sometimes it happens

This week started very interesting. My two months work is damaged. If you remember I was painting a logo on the windows of the Spelotheek. Half painting I need to make for new because it peeled off from the windows. So you can imagine what I felt when I saw that. Inside I was crying :(. Ok I have little bit time to try to fix that but I don't have motivation do that again. Maybe after a trip to London.

And that’s not all. Also last week I needed to lead workshop about candy bouquets but no one sign in. I thought that it is good idea to make candy bouquets for Valentine day but people thought differently. Yes, not the best starting of week, I know.

Wednesday came TV Limburg to my working place. They wanted to make small reportage about EVS in Limburg. You can guess that all was not so good as I wanted. Of course I spoke English but this also wasn’t grammatically correct. And one sentence I said also in Dutch.:) If that will heard my Dutch teacher he will have a shock, maybe he will fell into a coma. Dad, mom, you don’t see that because TV Limburg isn’t available in online. But I try to get a copy.

Weekend I spent very good. I was skating on the lake in the Zolder. Yes, yes in Belgium. Something inconceivable. Two weeks we had a very cold weather. Also Belgians said that happens once per 20 years. I don’t need to go back to Latvia to enjoy winter activities. Of course that the list should be complete I fall down on my a.... ! But this week was very instructive and I understood that this way I come stronger. And I don’t need so deeply to survive the failures.

  

This weekend I will go to London with another EVSers. I hope that black stripe of the week will end. And of course one week less in my project. So very soon I will go home. :( Back to the cold winter and snow and my fat cat. My family said that he all the time eat and sleeps, sleeps and eat. Like a Garfield. When I come home he will have a diet.:) And me also, to much Belgian’s chocolate.

Welcome in the Year of the Dragon

Hello everybody in this amazing year!

Almost one month I didn’t update my blog. Sorry, but I was to busy and lazy to do that. But I have a new information with which I can share. So I will start with last year. The Christmas holiday I spent with my lovely host family. We went to place near to Brussels. I’m sorry but I don’t remember name of that place. Anyway it is not so important. There I was introduced with Belgium Christmas traditions and I need to say in Latvia we celebrate the same way. Too much eating, eating, eating… But it was nice to celebrate Christmas and New year without my family for first time.

January I started new language module - next level. Now I am very smart in Dutch but I understand more than I can speak. It is not so easy. Together with my host family I visited “90th European Motor Show Brussels”. Oh, that was unimaginable- new, shiny cars, motorcycles, scooter etc. Of course also price of the cars was like a telephone number :) There were lot of very rich and business people. For sure, cause cars were expensive. Very expensive. But there were also cheaper cars. As you can imagine my favorite car was one that I can only dream about. I have to work more than just one life to afford car like that.

 

 

 

The end of January I had Mid Term Training in De Waterman in Brussels for EVS volunteers. I met again 32 volunteers from all Europe and other places. It was very useful to hear experiences of other volunteers. After that i understood that myproject is really good. We spent together 3 funny days. But I was only one which project finish so fast, the other EVS have almost one year projects. The time goes very fast - sometimes to fast :(
Also back way was full of adventures. In Belgium they put together 2 trains and in one place day separated and went every train to different destination. Of course I sat in wrong part. But I was lucky that I understood that and in the right station I switch the train’s :)

 

All EVS volunteers

My project will finish after 1 month – still do not believe that. But I made a list of my EVS activities and I realized that I was really busy all this 5 months but sometimes I was lazy. I could do more but I did my best. Now I have a month to write final report and to make a summary. Of course I will lead some workshops in Loca Loca and do necessaries activities. I hope that I will have a time to reflect that in my blog.

Outside is little bit could ( -10 in night) and all people freezing but I came from Latvia so for me it is normal winter. So interesting to see that. :) This week it was first snow here uhuuu, now I fill like a home. I need in winter snow, only in that way it is a real winter. Otherwise it is very, very long and boring autumn :)

It's look so wonderful. I like snow :) 

 

 

P.S. Today is snowing more. Result - the traffic is paralyzed in Belgium.  :) Good that tomorrow starts  weekend. Maybe I will make a snowman when comes more warmer. :))