My EVS in Sverzov, Slovakia

From Italy to Slovakia I arrived in the village of Sverzov on the 7th August 2017 after a very long bus travel through Europe and Slovakia. Watching through the glass of my buses and trains, since the first day, i was impressed by the wonderful landscape, made of high hills and thin trees, houses with…

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Dear Diary… I’m Nayra!

Dear Diary, It starts my experience in Pesaro. I leave on stand by a life in Barcelona to introduce me on one of the experiences that I hope will be the most enriching of my life. I bring a backpack full of illusions, hope, fears, expectations, ideas and motivation. I’ve only been in Pesaro for…

Ciao Pesaro!

Ciao! My name is Léa, I'm 25 years old and I'm from Nice, in France. I've been here for three days now, and even if I don't know what the future holds, I feel that I'm on the right tracks. To understand why I'm here, let's fast rewind to March 2017. I had been living…

A Month of Resilience

From October to November 2017, we took part, as Vicolocorto, in Resilienza Lab, a series of events organized by Fondazione Wanda di Ferdinando in collaboration with Settenove, Vicolocorto, Centro per le famiglie di Pesaro and Non c'è Problema as well as Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino. The project was divided into three parts: Resilience and Work, Resilience…

Back to school! Linguistic support by EVS volunteers

As volunteers at Vicolocorto, one of our tasks is to promote the learning of foreign languages and, more specifically, English as a lingua franca. For this purpose, one of the main activities we are currently undertaking is the linguistic support at schools. We assist in some English classes with kids aged between 12 and 18…

Sono qui!

  This is me, Filipa. I'm 28 years old and I'm from Portugal. Olá! This is me, Karolina. I'm 22 years old and I'm from Poland. Cześć! (...while having our first lunch break in a random cafe by the sea) Filipa: It all started at Bologna’s central station at a non-existent “Mc Donald’s meeting-point” on…