miércoles, 19 de mayo de 2010

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EVS France 2010

Hello, to everybody! you had the greetings of Modeste since France. It's with pleasure that i inform you about my news. Then after two workweeks with the young people during Easter holidays (from 19 till 30 april). The animators of my structure and I, we had been able to realize a show(entertainment) of tale, of dance and percussion in the tour(ballot) of an african tale what give this result we had to film. See this link...




Then i was in the seminar of traning of the volunteers in France from 30 till 06 may in Montpellier at the edge of the Mediterranean sea called "seminar on arrival" whith 27 volunteers come from various countries in the world.
Throughtout this seminar many many subjects were detailed to us on the voluntary service generally.
I assure you that it was a strong time time for everything the volunteers one lived one time of userfriendliness (conviviality), of sharing and learning( apprenticeship) of the other cultures. Here is the video about our formation in Montpellier in mai 2010. Shall see you what we lived together...

martes, 18 de mayo de 2010




Dumela Rra/ Mma
Le kae!!! ( How are you )
This language is Setswana, from Botswana, the country of Janet and Matshi !!!!!!
I'm in Maun, the little village in northwest of Botswana. Is the most famous place of Safaris in Africa!!!!
My time here is great and now in this days start winter !!!! Some people told me in June Maun it's so really freeze!!!
In this three months I did a lot of differents things but I haven't got time or space for explain all!!! Im working with kids in the schools, we do it differents clubs about HIV-AIDS and sexual education!!! I shooting different videos for that NGO about HIV, the impact of migration to the families,...
My life here it's so really diferrent than in my country, but I like it because is quite and relaxing !!! The people it's so relly friendly, and with some friends every weekend we organize some dinners, a kind of intercultural nights!!!!
I want to sharing with you some pictures about my work here
This blog is a great idea!!!! and it's so really important to sharing our experiences, life in the differents 8 countries.

See you soon people!!!!
tsamaya sentle

Biel Martínez Lorca.

viernes, 14 de mayo de 2010

Hola euroafrican friends!!
Sa ka ramba????!!! (How are you??!!)
Hi from Cristina and all sector 19 of Ouagadougou!!
Here time is great. I still didn’t understand the reason why the “europeen people” talk a lot about Africa just in terms of economy, poverty, lack of money, need of charity or opportunity to gain profit, etc.. Yes, this is true, the economy and the capitalism is not developed as in “Occident”, (maybe this s not totally a pity), but in terms of culture, good mood and habits, the Burkina Faso is a land rich, precious. Also from the point of view of the protection of cultural roots and tradition, the solidarity, the friendship among the people (also with the “White nassara”), I really think that they are more developed than us.
Well, today I wants to introduce you the activity of Mjca named “Parascolaire”. There are a lot of professionist and animators involved in this Project: sometimes the children have the chance to meet artist of theatre, and also griots and storytellers. The activities are always introduced by a session improvised by musicians and animators of Mjca (djimbè, singers, dans). In the 2nd and 3rd photoes below you can see my friends Jah Ahmad and Bovard: they entertein well the children with their crazy marionettes, djimbè, African songs and acrobats. Then, there is a time for amusement and to have fun for the children, but also to learn and to do “sensibilisation”!! This is the reason why Mjca is always busy to promote social theme as “The journèe mondial du paludisme”. The volunteers organised a petit show to sensibilise the population about the malaria (it’is more developed here). We also gaved out to public the brochure with info and contact with the medical facilities. In the 1rd photo below you can see my friends Safi, Margot, Madame Rabot (they travel for Mjca), and then Jasmina Badolo, my tutor and president of the association Dunia la vie. Last but not least my friend Denis and me went often to local schools to promote activities of Mjca, and… what a surprise!! We had the chance to attend the “journèe of defilèe”. So in this festivity the schoolchildrens have the chance to dress in traditional habits of the different ethnie burkinabè (Mossi, Bissa, Gourounssi, Peull, etc)... What you see in the last foto is a dress of “Mossi people”, the ethnie more common at Ouagadougou.


Here we are, me and my super super friend Alino: we drink from the calibass, the traditional cup burkinabè..
Now for me it’s time to go ‘cause here the travel here goes on, and on…
Cheers and wend sik lafi!!
cristina

lunes, 10 de mayo de 2010

Todo corre bem





hello Everone from Matshidiso in Portugal,todo corre bem,that means everything is going well,im having such a great time.We had the intercultural party wich was wonderfull,then visited a place called Sintra which was such fun and we got to visit old palaces and see how royalty used to live in Portugal.There was Fado night when we went to listen to Portuguese singers and so many other things,visit around Lisbon and visit to a theater.Ok let me not make anyone jealous. I am now able to get around on my own which is a great accoumplishement since i was so worried about it because the transport system here is different from the one in Botswana. I must say im still not satisfied with the weather,i cant wait till its very hot and no rain whatsoever. Its been two weeks since i officially started work. Portuguese classes just ended and now the challenge begins for me to practice. I am so sorry i still dont have photos for you but promise to post them in a week´s time.