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March 2014

Yordanka and the colours.

 

Once upon a time there was a sweet, smiley, bulgarian girl named Yordanka. No, she was not a princess and she didn’t wear a diamond crown, but she had something much more precious-she brought all the colours in her heart. She was this little fairy that used to turn everything grey and sad into a shiny rainbow. I will tell you a little secret: sometimes even fairies are sad and bored and are losing there special powers, but not Yordanka! Once she finds in herself even a little piece of a grumpy mood a small unicorn rises out of her smile and turns everything into colours and smiles. 

 The End. 

Mar 28, 2014 1 note
Rolling in the deep...

…into the Croatian culture, yes we do! Not only the Croatian language lessons are included in the “extra-knowledge-package” that is provided for us, the volunteers with capital “V” almost sounds like V. I. P., doesn’t it? :) Thanks to our friend Lovro we had the chance to hear a big variety of presentations aimed to introduce us to the depths of Croatian culture. Now we know that in Dalmatia for example we can have for lunch black risoto (my favourite) and in Slavonia the so called  "Čobanac". Lovro showed us a huge diversity of music: one of the most impressive-TwoCellos-simply genious! We know some funny facts also-vallium was invented in Croatia, maybe that’s why some of the Croatians are so calm and relaxed, hmmm… (joke time!) :) Very impressive and inspirational is the tradition of the croatian people to produce their own food, drinks and home-made souvenirs. You can try in Croatia not only one of the best olive oils in the world, but also a pumpkin oil, which, I promise you, deserves tasting especially as a ingredient in a fresh salad combined with a glass of soft red home-made wine. :) Oh, and I was about to forget, the islands… Those islands! Lovro has graduated from Geography so now we know some secret places to explore. Don’t be jelous, be a volunteer and for sure whenever you come to Murter don’t hesitate-knock on the door of Argonauta and there always will be hidden at least one small beautiful story about Croatia behind the door. We are waiting for you!

Mar 28, 2014
"Kad si sretan...

…lupi dlanom ti o dlan! Kad si sretan i kad želiš s drugim dijelit sreću svu
Kad si sretan lupi dlanom ti o dlan!“ Tako, dobro!

   Every EVS volunteer has the unique chance to recieve free language lessons in the language of the hosting country. This is one of the best aspects of the voluntary service-no matter if you are in Spain, Norwey, Croatia you as a volunteer always have a period in which you are taught in the language of the certain country for free. Can you imagine-you go abroad somewhere and you are not only practising already known foreign languages, but also after the end of the voluntary period you are enriched with some knowledge about a totally new language. :) There is another possible situation as well: if you can speak already this language you can help to the other volunteers to learn it. Actually, this is what happened with our friend Dominika: coming from Poland and graduated from Croatian philology plus being of a Croatian descent, she organized for us a language course and I would say, quite funny, jako dobro, mi smo vrlo sretani! As long as we are coming from countries belonging to different language groups: Greek, Roman and Slavic, for every one of us the difficulty of the lessons is different: some of us can hardly pronounce ”č", “ć” and “š”, others bought “Ottelo” in Croatian, but this is another stroy. So far the word “Bok!” has obsessed everyone’s daily life and with Otelo or without him we are everytime able to say: “Jedna Žuja!" 

 

Mar 28, 2014
Knock, knock, some guets are coming to us.

 Two days ago we met for a first time with two archaeologists from the museum of Sibenik. They came to visit us and to tell some more information about the local archaeological heritage and we finaly received a short scientific lecture about Colentum, which hopefully we can use in our future projects and especially in the writing of the Management Plan of Colentum. 

Mar 7, 2014
The Cosy Corner is here!

Nobody likes an office athmosphere that makes you think only of the connection between your humped back and dusty computer. Creativity needs colours, softness and a cosy space. We need it more than everything so we did our best to create these circumstances: found the most reddish couch in the whole Dalmatia, cleaned it so it is shinier than a summer smile and reorganised the space a bit and now we can use as well the old aquarium. 

P.S. Some pillows and benches are joining Argonauta’s cosy corner soon. :)

Mar 7, 2014
#evs
Meeting the other volunteers in Croatia.

  Far away from the chilling coast of Dalmatia, among the infinite meadows of Slavonia in a small town, called Orahovica was held our on-arrival trainig for EVS volunteers. We had the chance to learn a lot about the European Voluntary Service Program from two highy qualified trainers-Daniela and Suncana, who not only explained us how the program works, but also revealed different asspects of the non-formal education’s values and gave us ideas and useful contacts to implement during our voluntary period. The best thing on this type of meetings is that you are gathering together with all the others making EVS in Croatia at the same time volunteers and have a chance to share ideas and experience. Beleive me, you will meet at least one person with whom you can come up with a common idea for a project. You have to be always brave enough to dream and to see your dreams implemented in the reality and when you have another dreamer next to you a much bigger chance occures to see your plans not only in your imagination. :) Dare to dream, dream bravely and constantly. 

Mar 7, 2014
#evs #croatia #volunteering
Supporting our friends

   Last Saturday we were invited by our friends from the NGO “Modrave-Betina-Murter” to join in the construction of a touristic info-point, which is located really close to Vransko jezero. Actually this is their first project so they needed help not only from other NGO friends, but also from the local community. We were very happy to see that people from Modrava, Betina and Murter were really supportive and creative during the building of the info-centre. A curious and important fact is that the walls as well as the other constructions are made in the dry-stone technique, a traditional Dalmatian method for building and constructing. After the hard-working day we had this not less typical than the dry-stone technique dalamatian lunch-pastasuta. ^^ We hope that in the summer this place will be full with happy faces willing to know more about Dalmatian culture and why not to try a hot plate of pastasuta. :)

Mar 3, 2014
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