Midterm training

Midterm training! We were really looking forward for this event and finally it came! and what is it? The mid-term evaluation allows volunteers to assess their experience so far and to reflect on the activities, role and support of the Host Organisation and on their own contribution.Overall, the mid-term evaluation should offer a relaxed and informal atmosphere so the volunteers feel comfortable sharing experiences and saying whatever is important for them.

So the main task of Midterm training  is- for me- meeting other volunteers and sharing our experiences with them, because I think it really helps to hear the others problems and experiences. 

It is one of the best evs event so everybody is really excited where it will be, who will be there and so on:) So we got information in first week of February and when I saw who is gonna be there I was very happy:) and next week we also knew where it will be and we found out it is the best combination- these people and this place! uau! because we were really afraid that it will be in Velenje (we have been already 4 times there) or in Krško. :) but no! It was near Bled! so we took our red devil and full of expectations we went toward to the place of the event.I was checking hotel before, of course:) and I have to say, it was one of the best hotel which I have ever visited! We got the best room:)hahaha:) because we are couple. Here some photos are: :)

So hotel was perfect! Not just how it looked like, but also hotel employees were fabulous! I have never seen so nice and helpful employees who try to find decision in every situation! Also food were so delicious.:)

We were group of 24 people- 3 trainers and 21 evs volunteers- from Czech:), Spain, Portuguese, Belarussia, Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Sweden -I hope that´s all:)We really enjoyed it. We learnt a lot of things, we found out that we have similar opinion about Slovenians.- you can read here:)

We also improved our English- from Czech English we were transferred to Turkish English-  Are you Coffee? Are you party? Are you beer? :) this is simple example of the best turkish speakers in Turkey:)After training we decided to take opportunity that we are close Austria and we went to visit Klagenfurt and two castles. It was very nice experience, not maybe for our Red devil, because we had to cross mountainSo thank you everybody for amazing week! 

Disaster in Postojna

Hello everybody!
I hope you are enjoying this nice winter weather:) We enjoyed a lot in Postojna:) I think everybody knows about natural disaster which was in Postojna two weeks ago.
When we were coming from Ljubljana, everything had started. And what did we do in Ljubljana?
We were invited by one EVS girl from Croatia to help them with 7th International Arts Exhibition "Play with me" so we said YES:) of course. And it was very very nice experience. The exhibition is mainly dedicated to children and youngsters, especially those with special needs. Due to not knowing the population our society is still full of prejudices which believe that people with special needs are incompetent and different instead of getting to know their qualities and the similarities between us.The exhibition offers a unique opportunity of bringing one and the other closer together, regardless of age, education and other specifics. It is a great way of connecting and getting to know eachother through common activities by which grounds for a more understanding and open society are being build.So our tasks were animating the kids and helping them to put their own artwork on the walls of Cankarjev dom. I think about 600 kids came! so It was really big event and I really liked:)

Ok so it was on Friday. We visited some museum in Ljubljana, because we got free ticket. But a lot of snow were, so we decided to go back around 5 p.m. We were lucky because some nice guy cleaned our car from snow, so we were able to go away from snow storm to Postojna:) But it took us 3,5 hours!! Usually it is just 35 minutes, but this time it was crazy. We got stuck in trafic jam, and we didnt know what was happening, because we did not move for one hour. When we arrived we found out that they had closed the road! Everywhere were a lot of snow, but when we were closer to Postojna, snow was changed to rain.and the temperature was around 0 degrees = ice disaster! When we woke up, we didnt wake up to Postojna, but to Ice kingom!! It was amazing! Everywhere was ice! Around 1 p.m. electricity started to switch off every half our and after 3 hours it stopped to work for other 6 days :D For us it was not problem, because we didnt know what was going on. We expected, ok maybe today we will be without electricity and tomorrow it will be ok, but no:)Fortunately we wont leave alone, but with coworkers from our centre, so they told us what was happening. So we knew that the water is not drinkable, we knew that main electrical wiring is destroyed, but if they didnt tell us, we wouldnt know it...because you could not get any informations.No posters, no public radio (rediffusion?:), nothing.. I am not sure how crisis situations are solved in Czech, but I hope better:)So we were really lucky, because our flat  owners bought agregator, so at least we had heat and we could charged our mobile phones. But I heard some people had in the house just 5 degrees! CRAZY!I think we enjoyed first 2 days, it was romantic, we were playing cards, we were watching movies, but after we started to be quite bored. It is not just about dark evening, but nothing worked so we didnt have anything to do. After 5 days, scouts opened Krizni centre at Hight School and I could help there. (Adam left to Czech on Wednesday) People came to warm up themselves, to eat, because scouts were cooking there (a lot of people couldnt cook, because they didnt have gass) to charge their phones, to be with people, to know what is going on atc.. I think it was perfect idea and it was very good organized, but it came quite late.(but it was not fault of scouts, because I think everybody expected support from City. But everybody survived and I think it was very interesting experience. I am just really sorry for trees, because half of them are broken:(

CZECH NIGHT

Czech night was taking place on 15th January in our Mladinski center. We promoted our night by posters and facebook event. We did not have any idea how many people will attend. Finally maybe 25 people came. 
First I would like to say thank to all people who came and supported our event. It was really important for us and it showed us, who is really interested about our culture and also who is interested in us. 
One of the biggest ,,thanks" belongs to our turkish friends- Hasan and Ugur, who came from Valenje (150 km) and without them our evening wouldn’t be what it was. Also I was really glad , how many people came from our slovenian circle. I was really happy to see you there! I can not forget to say thanks  also people from ŠENT (centre for mental health) who came. They had known us just one day and despite of the bad bus conection  (some of them  could stay just 45 minutes) they came! I really appreciate this!
and thanks also our slovenian friends who supported us and helped us with preparation!!

So our evening started with welcome drink- Slivovice and people really liked our czech version :) In Slovenia, they have also Slivovica. After we were presenting our country. We started with short powerpoint presentation about czech stereotypes, some comparions Czech/Slovenia and after we continued with some funny movie. I hope visitors appreciate our way of presenting (funny videos about our presidents- Václav Klaus and pen:), Miloš Zeman and his ,,medical" condition during visit of crown jewels).
But we also showed some interesting czech people, places which are in Unesco an so on.
After presentation we started with beer degustation and degustation of czech food. 
So the most popular beer was PERLA :) and the worst was STAROČECH :) but generally people really liked our czech beers. We had about 15 different types of them so I think everybody enjoyed this degustation. Visitors also really liked BRAMBORAK, which I cooked and what almost nobody liked was UTOPENEC. But I was not surprised of Utopenec, because I think that the taste is really specific.:)


I hope everybody had nice evening and thank you again for your support!

Happy new year!

Hello everybody!
I am back with my adds:) All the best for the coming year! I hope you enjoyed Christmas holiday and you are full of energy.
So when I should start... Ok. Before Christmas we organized our second own event. The name was Izmenjava oblačila- Clothing swap. Here is short report and some photos:

Clothing swap bazaar was taking place on 14th December in Šotor pred Primorko. The main target was to swap the clothes, toys and books with the other people. The rest of the stuffs will be donated to the Hospital in Stara Gora. We were really happy that a lot of people came with their clothes, toys and books. But not so many people wanted to swap, so in the end we had lot of stuffs for Hospital in Stara Gora. The director of hospital was really pleased and happy, so everybody who came with their stuffs can have nice feeling for helping people in need. 

We would like to thank everyone for their generosity. We hope that next time more people will come and will want to swap their clothes or help the disadvantaged people.

Our first hademade poster

I think this event was really good. Not so many people came with their stuffs, but we had a success. We got a lot of clothes from young man and the director was really happy because of that- they really need large men´s clothes. We plan to do this event again. 

So this was before Christmas. We left in Czech aroud 18.12. but before we had our Postojna´s chrismas with Adam:) We found one tree in the forest who was already cut and instead of holder for tree we used summer wheel :) 

Our Christmas tree- haha:), my first christmas cookies

Kdo jiný může obdarovat svoji přítelkyni prdicím polštářkem :D

And after our Christmas it was time to go to Czech! We shared our car with other two very nice girls- we found them in prevoz.org( slovenian version of Spolujizda) Journey was really funny, because our car got some special shaking disease. When we were over 90 km/h the car shaked like really old washmachine. We were afraid that car will fall apart but fortunately the way from Slovenia to Czech is almost always downhill. So we knew that we would reach the czechboarder at least by gravity.(It says Adam, but I know that our red car is strong guy who has never disappointed!)
We had amazing time there and I would like to say thank you my family for everything :-*

Here are some photos from czech Christmas (more for my friends from abroad) 

My mother´s Betlem from gingerbread

Preparation of czech traditional Christmas dinner- carp with potato salate

Our Christmas tree- a little bit better than my and Adam´s in Postojna:)) and presents:)

We had a lot of fun also with our friends. I would like to post some photos here, because I know that they are reading this blog:) 

Hi to very good readers of my blog! Enjoy your Sunday:)

and Hi to bad readers of my blog! But I give you second chance! If you let me know that you recognized yourselves I will reveal your faces- otherwise I will erase your phone numbers! :)

And also celebration of New year for excelent! Thank you all 

But now we are back in Postojna and on Wednesday one big event is going to be! and it is CZECH EVENING! We bought a lot of czech beers, cheese, sweets and so on and we will present our country on Wednesday. We wanted to do something not so big, but today we got email that also television will be there:) and because we put on the posters that the beer degustation will be there, almost everybody who we know told that he/she will come:) So I am really excited and I hope that everybody will enjoy it! 

This is all for today because today I am not so in english mood:)