European Voluntary Service

This is Pekarna's blog for EVS volunteers. Pekarna is a sending and hosting/receiving organisation for EVS volunteers and their volunteers (send and hosted ones) will keep you up to date about their work.

Evropska prostovoljska služba

Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Maribor te vabi, da se tudi ti pridružiš množici prostovljcev/-k Evropske prostovoljne službe (EVS) in odpotuješ v organizacijo po svoji izbiri v drugo državo EU. Smo pošiljajoča in gostiteljska organizacija EVS, ki mladim od 17. in do 30. leta za obdobje največ enega leta uredi vse podrobnosti za brezskrbno in povsem brezplačno delovanje v tujini.
Evropska prostovoljna služba je del programa ERASMUS + Mladi v akciji.

Za bolj podrobne informacije nas lahko kontaktiraš na: evs@pekarna.org



Monday 2 March 2015

Zdravo, Salut! by Cécile


Zdravo, Salut!

My name is Cécile, and I am an evs volunteer in Pekarna Magdalenske mreže with Marek. I am from France (Nantes). I came the first of february, and I am here until the begining of december. I choose Maribor to do my EVS because of Pekarna Magdalenske Mreže, they have the most interesting projects in my opinion. And also because I didn't know anything about Slovenia, and slavic culture as well.
I am here to totally make a break with my daily, I was a freelance illustrator, which I had a lot of difficulties to earn my living with. And I wanted to do some experience abroad, it was missing in my life. I am here to meet new people and new culture, to give a hand, build some projects, learn from teamworks.
Here is a drawing of my first sight of Maribor. Of course it is only one aspect of it, because If I've put all what I saw, it could be very weird. I noticed that Maribor has a lot of bakeries (Pekarna), and even my NGO wear this noun. I didn't travel a lot, but I thought that the bread was mostly a french stuff. In Maribor we can eat everywhere, and take a tea or a coffee in cosy and nice places.You will also notice that it is a quite naive vision, of course you can choose to not take it literally. I mean, I know that people from Maribor are clever so far, and this world isn't perfect, right? :)

To be continued.
Cécile Bondon