Hello beautiful people :))
Greetings from Turkey... I am Ana-Maria, from Timişoara, Romania and I will be a volunteer in IYACA in Turkey for two months.
Why Turkey? Why Ankara? Why this project? Everyone has been asking me this lately. Sometimes I ask myself that too. Why did I choose to use this unique opportunity to do a short-term EVS in this city, and to work at something unrelated to what I studied in University? The answer is simple: I wanted to visit and to learn more about this country since I saw the first turkish TV series, since I met the first Turk, since I saw the first pictures of her landscapes. So when I saw that I had the opportunity to apply for an EVS in the country of my dreams, I did not hesitate to do this, not even for a moment. In the next second, I filled in all the necessary papers and I waited the response from the Iyaca association (the hosting organization).
I was the happiest person in the world when I found out that I was accepted for this EVS. Everyone told me to think twice before taking this step in order to have no regrets later. I have been asked by the family many times if I'm sure I want to live alone in a foreign country, where I do not know anyone and there are dangers all the way.