Hello everyone,
I am just in the
middle of my EVS Project, I have mixed emotions. I am highly greatful for my
time spent so far, also I am happy cause
I still have one month, but I am sad to know it will pass away as fast as the
previous month did. My first blog was about my arriving and first impressions
but for now I feel much more riches of
experiences, about a different culture,
life style and it is really satisfying. I would like to never stop the exploration.
Even in one month, the differences in Daily life became habitual but there are
still million things what I could learn about Turkey. At least I have learned
to travel in the crazy traffic without heart attack, I get used to use roughly
the turkish keyboard, I got to know I
love Turkish food, and now I know I am able to drink 2 liters of tea per a day.
I learned, some body expressions means something totally different than in
Hungary, maybe it was the most difficult part of my learning, to change my
reflex reactions. For example what is “What’s up” for us, for Turkish peaople
means “No”. What is “What’s up” for them,
that’s obviously flirting for us. But I
had no problems about this differences, I experienced kindness and conforming
from turkish people, especially if I try to use that few basic words what I
have learned. J
Weekly we are visiting a school and spending our time with sweet 6-7 years old
children. Every week has some surprise for us from the cutties. They are
speaking only Turkish, they just get acquainted with English language, and – of
course – they don’t know what is
foreigner. They think we can speak Turkish, we just acting like we wouldn’t know. So I am listening many stories and
expressions from the children, I have no idea what about. J At the beggining I didn’t know how to deal with this particular
situation, but time to time I realised how open are they even If we can’t
understand each other in every cases, we are playing and learning
together, it’s awesome. Joyful and
useful cooperation; they learning English, I’m learning Turkish – and get many
hugs and smiles every time. I am planning to learn some adorable Turkish
children’s song. Especially one song stucked in my mind, I hum it every day, so
I need to learn it for my soul peace. J
I had luck to be
part in a Project with IYACA about non-formal education what was organized in
Antalya. After 5 hours around travelling
by car, the beautiful weather greeted us. +15-20 degrees, sunshine, and I even
didn’t talk about the city. But go step by step. Many people participated from
7 countries and wanted to learn together about the Project’s topic and also
about each other. Many many sessions, games and fun could build a lovely group
from all around the World. I am so greatful for the knowladge what I could get
during the Project. Also we had tour in the city. From the morning till evening
we visited the most famous signseens. I was amazed. Especially the old part of
the city stole my heart with the pretty houses, narrow streets beautiful natüre
and sea view.
I am really thankful for IYACA for all experiences,
knowladge and fun what I had during my EVS, I am happy for the time ahead me,
and next destination is İstanbul.
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