The week begun with the reward ceremony for the Chess tournament. The rewards were given by  Georgi himself. The first place went to Nikita. The second to Anrik, the third to Renars. There was one more additional price for Sasha.

 

The week continued in the same interesting manner as in Wednesday we went to Zeimus to see an exhibition made by Alyona – an Armenian volunteer who is working in the senior’s home in Rezekne. This was her final project – an exhibition of cartoon dolls made by her and the seniors with whom she’s working. It was really interesting for us, the JACis volunteers and in the same time maybe even gave us ideas for our own project.

What I personally really liked was that to each doll there was a quot from some famous person. All the quots were for the goodness in the man – how to find it and how to perseve it.

Thursday on the other hand was a day for Georgia as Georgi presented a presentation for his country explaining about its history and georgraphy and in the same time telling us interesting facts about Georgian culture. It was really informative as me myself didn’t know a lot of the things that he said. 

Once again I realized that beeing an EVS vlunteer means also getting to know not only the country you are working in but also the culture of the nationalities you are working with.

The week ended on a happy note as Friday was the day in which we had a lot of guests.

Firsty the woman who organized the Cherity Christmas market came to thank us for the coloboration and the postcards we made with the kids from JACi. We talked a lot about the meaning of the Cherity. She told us about one interesting conception from a book: It was about a girl who constantly lost important things in life – her family, the people she loved, her senses, even her leg. But she continued living happy for the things that were left. I think we all thought that it was the better way of living.  

Seondly in Friday was the welcoming party in JACis for the two new volunteers in Rezekne who will work in the theater Yorik – Nastq from Russia and Kike (Enrique) from Spain. Nastq love to dance and probably will work as an actress in the plays and Kike will help with the decors and managing the events. They were both really excited to start working.
On the other hand we all were happy to have two new volunteers and expect future coloborations with them and with the Yorik theater.