My friends come to visit me in my paradise

As you already know I had the chance to come and do my EVS in the paradise or with its popular name Tenerife. So when my friends from my spanish course understand this they started to collect money so they can come here to visit me and practice their spanish for a few days.

So they came here after a long and tiring journey and understood how cold it could be on 18 degrees. But they were really happy, it was only one day kind of bad weather and all of the others great. Unfortunately these 6 days passed so fast that we didn't feel them at all.

We could see one small part of my paradise and the greatest thing was that they love it. None of them expected to have so many and different things on such a small island. So much that even I couldn't see all of them since 8 months. All of them were charmed by the Masca. The nature there, as one one of my friends said this is the way she imagine the tropical forests. We also hike up Teide and conquered it. Well I really can't express in this post all of the great moment that we spent here. You can see just part of it from the photos.

I hope that this is just the first of our common adventures.

Tenerife volunteer exchange

The last weekend of march which was the Easter here we make a small exchange with young people form the island who are interested in the volunteering. This experience was really interesting because I discovered new things and new ideas from the people. This is the magnificent thing when you are working with young and different people, that even if you are doing the very same activity with different people it is always different and original.

This weekend we had a great time together talking about volunteering on a local and international level. This is that thing that inspires me to see the young people who really wants to help and something significant for the others. That's why I decided that I will continue working with young people and programs like Youth in Action and inspiring other people to be brave enough to make their dreams come true.

Easter traditions around Europe

Well staying during Easter here and living with people from all over the Europe was really interesting experience. We shared the way everybody are celebrating in home. There is a lot of things that are the same but also a lot interesting differences. For example the painting of easter eggs. The easter bunny and so on. So we just decided to share our diversity and make couple of workshops for painting eggs explaining our traditions as here they are not used to paint eggs at all. We had a lot of fun doing this and also whole week eating eggs.

The really interesting thing for me was that here on Tenerife each family has their own way to celebrate the festival and it is not so generally accepted that it is a family festival like in Bulgaria. They have the tradition to eat fish at Thursday and generally the Holy week is more important than the Easter by itself. And in Bulgaria is the other way around. This was the strange thing for me. But it is really nice that not everyone are staying home and you always have company for going to the beach.