The group is still busy with making natural products, but here is a picture of the view from yesterday's hike. We're all good! :-)

The nature

Today we had some fun and did some quiz games in the morning.

Luckily the weather allowed us to take a nice small hike around. It was a nice experience to spend some time in the nature and enjoyed the landscape.

Offline committments

The journey is continuing..

Yesterday we did some canoing and discovered Tokaj city, in the beautiful Hungarian summer.

Today we continued by learning more about the balace of online and offline world and we made our promises what we want to change in our life back home.

Adventure OFFLINE

Do you know what does the picture say?
Everybody is okay, we are enjoying the Hungarian summer and having fun!
I hope tonight we won't get lost in the forest during our nightwalk!!
So excited.. !!!!  :)

OFFLINE Youth Exchange, Baskó

We are challanging ourselves for one week for being in the present in the end of world by being offline.
It is going to be exciting... :)

Halfway on the road - Bianka in Chile and holidays

The time is flying very fast. Of course all heard this sentence, and before my EVS I was not quite agree with this. But it is true, the period of EVS is passing really really fast.
Here we are, Bianka is in Chile for 3 months, which means that I am in the halfway of my work here.
I feel like I still have so many things to do, so much to learn, but now let's just look back what I have done until now.

Firstly I was really excited about the holidays, that I will spend my time here, in Chile. I think this was my most difficult time here, without friends, family, hungarian food (Note: I made "bejgli", which for my is the main food in christmas!!! :D ), and snow. But I am really satisfied and I learnt that cristmas and holidays is really not about gifts and all this material things, but actually depends on our motivation, and the people around us.

I was really lucky to celebrate christmas with one of my friends' family in chilien way. Which is hard to define because there are not much traditional things what they are doing, it is depends on the family. From the 6th of december they made christmas tree, which is tipically articial.
Here 24 and 25 is christmas holiday (26 is a normal day) when my family did a huge 'asado' (grill-party) with a looooooot of kind of meat and salad. In midnight we went out to the street to look for 'viejo pascuero' (Santa Claus) with the children, but we couldn't find anything, but surprisingly he visited the house, when we got back. Magic of Santa Claus :)
 
In new years' eve I celebrated with other studens from the university, which was an awesome international experience.
Chiliens celebrate usually with their family, with drinks, and  they eat a lot.In midnight with  hugs they drink champagne,  eat 12 drops of grape for good luck, and run a circle with baggage around the house if they want to travel in the news year. And those, who would like to have god luck in the new year, they wear yellow underwear.

And this three months I improved my Spanish, my Chilien Spanish, design better poster with less time, taking responsibilies, and more confident to express myself, and every day I know more people, amazing people.
For the future I have many things to do. Helping more to the organization, taking more decisions, enjoying every moments, and slowly very slowly taking decicions my afterlife.
But now I am here, and maybe the semester here at the university has ended, but I start this year with a lot of energy, open heart and open mind to the future!

Corral - Valdivia

 Panguipulli 

Sunshine baby!! Bianka in Chile, Part 3.

Hola a todos!

I am Bianka from Chile. The sunny days, and the lovely spring arrived, which brings me a lot of energy and motivation. This is the first time for me when I can enjoy it, and I do not have to afraid of the upcoming exams like before.  

The last weeks I participated many events of my organization. It is amazing the wide scales of project in the CEM. From supporting music festival of the university, Emprendizaje Colaborativo Class for students to support local enterprises, just to mention some amongst the many projects.

I also try to bring some Bianka – Hungarian vibe to the every day life of office. For example ‘egészségedre’ became an often-used word in the office (when somebody sneeze) or in a pub, too. 

I am improve my photoshop, poster making skills, my teaching skills, and of course, last but not least: Spanish.

 At personal level I am feel still really great, and blessed every day, that I can be here. Because honestly I have never thought this before, that I will write a blog from south Chile.
The weekend we have visited Niebla, approximately 17 km far from Valdivia, where we saw the ruins of a Spanish colonial fort and its museum. I am amazed how close I felt the touch of the 17. century, which we had studied in books in Hungary! Amazing!

 

 

I visited with the staff of my organisation an other town of the region, where they also have territorial projects with women. Los Lagos has 18.000 habintantes, and it shows other face of the region.

 As a volunteer I have the privilege to develop my own project in my organization. I hold Hungarian class for people, who have interest for our language and culture. But there aren't stereoptypes about Hungary, because they do not have a lot of information about it. So far I had only one, but in the next classes I am really motivated and happy to show not only my culture , but maybe grow consciousness about the diversity of Europe for the chiliens.

Besos desde Chile

Bianka