Episode III: Summer camps for kids

Hi volunteers in Lithuania, I'm Luca from Kurtuvenai. Today I want to write about Summer Camps for Kids in Kurtuvenai Regional Park. For 2 months during the summer, the Park has organized summer camps for kids: the main activity during the day was horse riding but with did also others; exursion in the forest, archery, birds watching, bats watching, traditional lithuanian game and sports. For 4 weeks I was one of the group leaders, a wonderful experience, I learned more and more about the nature and culture of Lithuania and it was a good opportunity to improve my lithuanian :) (was very funny when I tried to talk in lithuanian with the kids). Definitly, summuer camps were a very good manner to spend my summer here in Kurtuvenai Regional Park.

EVENTS IN OUR CARE HOME

Hello everybody!!!

It is Esther from Birstonas another time.

Today i am going to speak about the differents events tha

t we had and in wich we participated in our care home during this months.

My and my colleague Iryna participated in differents events in Poland with our care home, this events consisted in do diferents activities with other cares homes from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia etc.

The activitis consist in sing typical songs, make theater, show the works and projects etc. We was helping that everythings was ok with the residents of our care home, their needs etc.

For me this activities was really funny and the big oportunity to saw another country and how they work there. It was a very enriching experience.

Now I show you some photos of this events.

Other event in wich our care home participate was in Vilnius, a Talent Competition.

I was singing and dancing with our resedents and we won diploma for international participation, original and funny.

This event was really important for me, cause I felt fully integrated, could sing in Lithuanian...

I put here the pictures and a video in the next page.

Episode II: the first 3 months

Hi volunteers, it's Luca from Kurtuvenai. Let me tell you about our (me and Diana) first task. In the first 3 months we checked the conditions of the information system objects around the park, for example information panels or road signs. It was a great opportunity to discover the park and go in all the most important places, we saw a lot of beautiful nature and natural monuments. Finally we wrote a report about the problems we have seen and it was a very useful job for the responsible for land management. In the picture you can see Diana while is checking the conditions of that road sign.

See you in the next episode

Luca

Better later than never!!!

Hi dear volunteers in Lithuania (the land of the beautiful ladies), I'm Luca, an italian volunteer in Kurtuvenai Regional Park. I've been here since the 5th of may and i'm leaving in december, so i'm in the middle of my experience. I know, it's too late to write only now about my experience, but let me try to start now to be more responsable.

Do you want to learn how to ride a horse? Come in Kurtuvenai, is the perfect place!! Never in my life i could imagine to learn how to ride a horse...and now, thanks to my EVS, i'm learning and it's wonderful. One of my dream, when I was a child, was to become a knight (not only a Jedi) or a wanderer in the Middle Earth...and this is my first step :).

Of course, here in Kurtuvenai there are other works to do, we are not playing all the time...but I leave this topic for the next episode in this EVS diary!!!!

A lot of kisses

Luca