on our way to fame ;)

Labas visiems,

Time flies I can tell you, there‘s constantly something happening and the days would have to have a few more hours than just 24 to keep you up to date frequently. However, I‘ll try to catch up with some of the most interesting things that happened the past few days. A little hint for the start: We‘re TV stars now ;)

Last week on Monday we had a lovely visitor at our school: our fellow volunteer Jolanda from Austria who is currently doing her EVS at a high school in Šiauliai. There she is working for the school’s radio station together with two more volunteers from France and Spain. A further part of her work is the school’s newspaper for which she decided to write an article about our “Panevėžio ‘Šviesos’ Specialioji Ugdymo Centras”. Fine, Emily, Laia and me had the pleasure to show her around at our school and dormitory and also to show her some parts of our work. Jolanda visited lessons in Fine’s and Laia’s classes as well as she watched Laia’s dancing activity in the afternoon. It was sort of a funny feeling to be the guide for someone else, thinking of the fact that just a few months ago we were the ones who needed guidance through the back then huge seemingly school ground. But I think we did a pretty good job, Jolanda seemed quite impressed by all the things we told her. And also for us it was a very enjoyable time, it was a pity to see her leave again in the end of the day. It’s always nice to see other volunteers and it’s very interesting to also sort of work together. We’re really looking forward to reading Jolanda’s article when it’s done :)

after meeting Rasa and Kristina with Jolanda

The following Wednesday we got – quite surprisingly – a visit from a Lithuanian TV station. For one of their shows they wanted to bring a reportage about us four EVS volunteers at the “Panevėžio ‘Šviesos’ Specialioji Ugdymo Centras”, our work and our impressions of Lithuania. I think some of us got quite nervous about, I mean it doesn’t happen every day that you have to talk in front of a camera :) What I liked especially about it was that they also wanted to see our own initiatives. Like that also my Bocce players got the chance to present themselves in front of the camera. And I can tell you that they did a really good job. They were real professionals not being bothered by the camera and showing their skills from their best side. But to be completely honest, as soon as the camera was gone they were all going crazy about being on TV ;) In the meantime the reportage is finished and we watched it altogether this week. Unfortunately you can’t see too much of the Bocce activity but my players were very proud of It anyway. Generally I think the reportage got really really nice, of course I didn’t understand all the Lithuanian talking but there sure are some really nice impressions of our work. So to see what I am talking about you should check it our yourself and get some image of what we four are doing all the time here. You can find the reportage on the internet at www.gntv.lt/cia-ir-dabar-20150129 Take a look at it :)

So you see, we spread the news about our stay here in many different directions. The number one source to really stay up to date will further be our fabulous blog. Don’t forget to check it out from time to time ;)

Iki pasimatymo,

Monika