This week started great, being the first week that I started working in my youth center since we started the project. A lot of things are missing still from my youth center a floor, light, the windows need to change and some other small things here and there and it will become the perfect place for the people in the neighborhood to enjoy and a safe space for young and old alike.
I have been thinking of my youth center as a story it
has beginning middle and ending with hundreds of challenges and solutions you
never know when something will turn bad and you never know if what you are
doing at any particular moment will bring good results. Hopefully, the end
result will be a positive change in that particular neighborhood.
And although I am still alone in the youth center which
means the person that was supposed to work with me did not manage to arrive
before the whole Corona situation started, I am hopeful that I will manage to
create a wonderful experience for the young people in my area when we will be
able to open officially.
To end this week’s post I have a plant growing inside
my youth center and I have no idea what to do with it, and also about 5 million
spiders floating around, so that is fun as well. See you next week, stay tuned
and safe!!
Being a part these past few months of an esc project was probably the worst time that I have ever spend in any country ever. My name is Marietta, and currently I am working on a project for FITT, I am a political scientist and I am doing my masters in Diplomatic and International Relations, I am from one of the most beautiful cities in Greece, Volos. I always have really high expectations and most of the time I end up getting disappointed and this is what happened with the past two months here in Timisoara.
The first couple of days here where amazing we were going out to parties, to really nice coffee places the project was starting to seem like it was going to be amazing. Almost all of the volunteers arrived and we were little by little started to form a team. Then Corona started and with that we were made to stay in our home 2 weeks before the rest of Romania, which means more or less we have been closed inside our home for more than two months.
This situation created a difficulty in actually working for the project. Everything turned to the virtual world which I do not appreciate and the only thing I could do was plan and micromanage every little detail of the activities that I want to do in my youth center when this situation will finish.
Leaving the difficulties aside though and the horrible mental state that this virus has created I have to recognize that part of the organization that hosts me here in Timisoara tried to help out and create for the team a program that will have us at least a little bit involved.
Now the past week we started again to plan more actively for our youth centers and for the first time in months the reason for which we are here is seemed to be actualized. I am really excited to go and fix the garden from my youth center and I was informed that in the next few days I will have a floor which I have been waiting for since last summer.
So everything has been moving forward little by little and after every storm should always be a rainbow, hopefully there is going to be a rainbow in our situation. This is only the first of many posts. Stay tuned and always safe.
