The three days before the hollidays

This week was one of the shortest we had in JACis - only three days. On the other hand however we tried to make the days we have as good as possible.

On Monday we busied ourselves and a few kids in JACis with a game I like to call Comics Jam and learned in Bulgaria. It's a process if making different comics but instead of creating one alone the people have to work together -drawing one picture of the story and giving the pepper to somebody else. This way the stories become even more interesting and funny.






This Monday the Jam was rather small but I have plans to make it into a bigger event.

On the other day, Tuseday, Prokop did his workshop - how to make a flowerpot out of used stuff, in particular - used plastic bottles, coffee beans, pepper, etc. I think the flowerpots turned to be pretty interesting and the kids liked doing it. What do you think?






The same day we collaborated yet again with 'Angels with us' and went to Zeimuls to work with disabled children. This events are always interesting and even a little bit emotional for us, as working with this kind of children is difficult but educational with the same time and definitely can fill you up with humbleness.

Friday was anticipated they from the volunteers of the project "Connected by rivers". Why? Because this was the day four Polish people, two volunteers and two leaders, from the project come to Rezekne for a meeting.


I asked Agita, a Latvian volunteer to the project, to tell me a little bit about her feelings to the meeting.
' I really liked meeting with the Polish people who worked on the project ‘Connected by rivers’. To this day the only contact we had with them was through the internet and it was interesting to see them in person and to be able to talk about the project. Together we walked around the Rezekne town and we were really pleased that they liked it and appreciated the new cultural centers.
I could tell they are really nice people and we all hope to meet again in the future – trough the project and not.'

We, the EVS volunteers in JACis however, after meeting with the Polish guests decided we have to still work with the JACis kids and, leaded by Georgi and Prokop, take them out to for a play of football. Where we do this event all the children really enjoy it we can see how passionate they are for the game. The competition between the two teams was great.
Let just say that in the end our team won ;)