Author: Alisa Vardevanyan

365 or maybe a few more days passed by, but I feel it was just instant when I’ve just arrived and now it’s time to say goodbye.  

Say goodbye to the city that completed the warm environment for a year for me, goodbye to the organization that supported us till the end, goodbye to the youth centre that in a short time became a place for expressing and understanding ourselves, goodbye to stores, malls, streets, goodbye to the culture that gave us lots of feelings, happiness, and joy and finally, goodbye to the people who have made this year for me, people or maybe just a person who became the biggest achievement for the year for me. 

After all the things I have tried to count, I don’t even know if it can be possible to count the number of things I studied and the experiences that I got. But I still can name something: the experience I have got was the best opportunity to see myself in different fields and to build myself in a professional and personal perspective. Which, I can truly declare, I did completely.   

Besides all these, I also remember how many times I got upset during this year, and how many times I told myself that this is it. Sometimes, I even thought to simply leave the project, but something always pushed me back, and now I am so happy about that. When I look back on how my personality was a year ago, and how it is right now, I feel much more developed, grown, and flexible.   

I really wish that my story becomes a source of motivation for you, the one who is reading it. And I hope that in the future, I will have the chance to read your story as well. 

Online session … It looks boring … But no this was only from the beginning … After this sessions we passed about one month …. And Armando (from Spain ) who is volunteer in Oradea wrote me a massage that a group of volunteers are coming to Timisoara for a trip . I was pretty excited .Imagine new people , new faces, fun, friends and so on .

They came , ten people from Spain, Turkey , Portugal and we . From the first moments the environment was amazing , it looks that we know each other , started to speak from our volunteering , countries ,languages .It was amazing . Than we were hungry , decided to go to it Shaurma , we went , we stand line , waiting for the Shaurma ,and when it was our turn they told us ,«Finished ». We didn’t know should we laugh, or what. Than went to a restaurant .We sat , started eating , speaking. Somehow knew each other , what we like , what we don’t … It’s time to discover the city .

Decided to go to river , but without drinks this couldn’t happen it was time to look for drinks , because it was already dark , late stores were closed , but finally we found drinks . This was the easiest part. When we went to the river , there was a party, we could control our feelings and turn into the party we joined . Drinking , speaking , dancing , having fun . And at four o’clock arrived home. This is not all. Our journey we continued next day. They had free tour , and we joined them a little bit speak , and than boat , the feelings and fun was making us amazed and from the other side the hot weather was killing us …This didn’t interrupted us , we enjoyed …

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They left ,but we promised to meet again . I was amazed how cool people they were …

You never know who will you meet next step , what will happen and what will you do . Just study to enjoy people and what is happening around you….

Never imagine something will happen like this…. good and bad at the same time .

I am Alisa who is an international volunteer in Romania . I had the opportunity and used it , but unfortunately I did it when COVID19 started . For the first days I was thinking that okey, everything damaged and everything is going to be awful . I was wrong ….

Today I decided to share the skills and an experience that I got until now.

When we were in quarantine which was awful for the beginning , because we couldn’t go out or do something just for passing the day ,but this was only the beginning . A few days after we started enjoy it.Because the situation started to teach a lot of things an experience that I am sure we were not allow to get in other case.

Let’s bring you some examples. During this days I started to appreciate what I have , such as the communication with friends, before I didn’t have time to communicate with them a lot ,and really I understood that not only they need it to communicate with me but also me need and too much .

Another experience which is mostly connected not only my personality but also with FITT as well it’s that now somehow I have ideas that I can use not only for Youth Centers but also for my next ideas and steps as well.

Now somehow I know what are the good ways to facilitate ,what are the skills that need facilitatter and I have some knowledge about human rights and I know how can we make influence to others as well not only recognize their rights but also study to respect others as well.

During this days I studied to control the time more easily .Which is again a big achievement for me .

After all this again want to mention the fact of having fun ,even celebrating birthdays in quarantine makes us enjoy every single moment of volunteering.

Nothing can not stop us to do our steps….