First week of holidays (1-7th of June)

The week started really active.
In the morning, Paul, Tamara and Clémence played music for a children camp. It was their first day. They didn't know each other. Clémence and Tamara created a workshop with one group of children. They talked about their countries, played some games with them. The children were really happy, Tamara and Clémence were really surprised how much they knew about France and Italy.

After this, all of us prepared the football tournament. It was a great day, with  great weather. You can read more details about it in the article.

The days after we finish the garden with some children. We planted mint, lavender, tarragon, sage and basil. We are looking forward to see all of this growing during the summer. Also, we want to show a movie outside. So for this we build a a structure to support a screen.

Then built a bowling game. We painted some plastic bottles. It's a great game during the summer to play outside.

On Thursday we went to Zeimuls and played some games with the children of the camp. They were really happy and really active.

On Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday, Georgiana, Aija and Vlad participated to a training organised by another EVS volunteer, Almi, in Saldus. They spent 2 days in a very beautiful camping ground, where they learned a lot of interesting things about what it means to be a leader. Splitted in 3 gropus they participated in different nonformal activities aimed to show the importance of communication, time management, resource management, feedback, teamwork etc.

In the third day they visit a youth center in Pampali, 2 museums and a ceramic center.They made new friends, shared a lot of impresions with youth and volunteers from other cities and they enjoyed a lot all the time spend in this training.

After that Georgiana decided to visit the west part of Latvia. She spend 2 days in Liepaja and Ventspils where she was impressed by the landscape and the beauty of these cities.

Clemence during the weekend went to visit Jurmala with Erasmus students. For them this was the last weekend in Latvia. 

Our big football tournament

On first of June 2015 the JACis volunteers organized a football (soccer) tournament in Rezekne. The idea was to make a tournament which is open to everyone, no matter if boy or girl or professional or hobby player. They were separated into two age groups from 12 to 15 and 16 to 25. First there weren’t so many teams but in the end 11 teams participated, 7 teams in the younger age group and 4 in the older one! On Monday, they all met at the mini pitch in Daugava stadium and began to play. At the same time, Moritz and Clemence prepared the kubb game and a fire to bake bread, which the youngsters really enjoyed. The first group took really long because they were playing in two groups and then the winners against each other. The winner team got a coupon for free bowling and the second place a coupon for LaPizza and they all were so happy! Then around 2 o clock the older group started playing and had some really interesting matches. In the end the Erasmus student team won much deserved although the other teams were pretty good too. They were also super happy because they won a coupon for their favorite bar in Rezekne, where they will celebrate their victory ;)
All in all it was a successful event, because of good cooperation and support of the local football coach Andris and of course because of Vijas great connections and efforts at persuasion to make people participate! A very big thank you also goes to Agita who helped me a lot at convincing sponsors and preparing everything! Our generous sponsors were, Swedbank, who gave a lot of sweets for all the youngsters, Lapizza who gave some gift cards for free food and Sansibar who gave a really big coupon worth 30€! And also the support of the other volunteers Clem and Moritz was really good, they were helping a lot to keep the children busy who were not playing! So here is a big thank you to all supporters and participants!