Last monday we flight from Gaziantep to Istanbul to join the on-arrival training course in Şile, a sea place 2 hours away from Istanbul.
We spent 5 days getting to know each others, twenty volunteers from all over the Europe have just started their EVS long-term project in Turkey, and not only in Gaziantep, even if the Antep representation was the more crowded one!
There were people coming from Ankara, the capital city, from Istanbul, the well known multicultural and artistic town, then from Bursa, a nice village on the sea, just few hours on boat from Istanbul; a couple of volunteers were coming from a farm in Küçükköy and finally two others were from Dyarbakır, our anatolic neighbour city!
The origin of our hosting organizations were very different and also the volunteers all together created a very coloured and multicultural team. We had Italy, the more popular, then UK with 3 young volunteers and so on Poland, Russia, Belorussia, Spain, Azerbajan, Greece, Estonia, Austria, Germany, Hungaria ....did I miss somebody!?
Our three trainers came from Izmir and told us beautiful things about that city that increased our will to travel. Everyone was happy with his project and we have been awarded that this is just the beginning ... :) and probably the hardest time will have to come, but we did not lose our positivity!
Every day was divided between activities and 'coffee breaks', informal moments of chating and getting to know each others. Day by day we learnt how to approach other people and we increased our knowledge about what EVS is and how it will go on.
The moment that I liked the most was the group activity with the simulation of the 'electric fence'... Many ropes were put between trees to create a kind of fence...the idea was that of an electric fence and our aim to pass through it without touching the ropes! It firstly looked to us like a 'mission impossible' but then we manage how to solve the problem and the people were incredebly thrown through the fence with such a fluency! That's "team job".
We spent one afternoon and one night in Istanbul, without any guide so I took some pictures and wondered in the street captured by colours and windows...
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