Christmas is coming (9th - 14th. December)

Two weeks until Christmas and though it’s not even cold outside we already started with the Christmas decorations. It was of course all hand-maded – from the volunteers and from the JACis kids.

Prokop particularly organized  a competition  for the longest garlands. And even if there was no prize for the first place with no doubt all the garlands were equally pretty. What do you think?

During this week were also the first official activities of Lyudmila – the last volunteer to come to JACis from Bulgaria. She and the kids had some ice-braking games, talked, played and all in all get to know each other better. Even if she was a little scared at first she quickly came to love the cozy atmosphere in the center.

Preparing for the holidays we in JACis started thinking of our own contribution to the charity Christmas market in front of the orthodox church which will be on 22nd of December. Pilar finally came with the wonderful idea of making our own postcards from carton and crewels. Of course everybody took part in it and in two a week (from Friday to Friday) more than twenty postcards were made. How do you think they turned out?

Saturday  the 14th was a working day for us even though it didn’t really feel like it. We atended the First youth forum in the youth center Zeimuls, where different organizations and volunteers presented their projects from the past year. The whole event was very interesting  and educational for us as EVS volunteers, even if it was all in Latvian.

There was one big happy surprisse. JACis won „Rēzeknes pilsētas jauniešu virzītājspēks”. Of course after that we come back to the JACis’s building to party. It surely was a memorable evening.