Goodby Georgiana!

The last week for Georgiana was full with activities. She started to work for a calendar of the project so she had meetings with Natalie, the designer that helped her a lot. Looking forward to see the calendar printed.

She also had the last activity in school. She visit some students and she talked about EVS, Volunteers United projects, about her experience and activities that she did in JACis, prepared some games for youth and encouraged them to take part in different non formal activities.

The rest of the day she was busy saying goodbye to her friends, packing and preparing for leaving. On  Friday she had her goodbye party. JACis participants prepared some activities and said a big thank you for all her involvement during the last year.

It seams that Volunteers United arrived at the end. Now that we look back we can't believe that it's been one year already. One year in which we met a lot of people from all over the word, we've created friendships, we sow a lot of beautiful places, we discovered new traditions, cultures, we learned new languages, we did a lot of activities and we had beautiful results. There is one year full of memories, learning outcomes, something that we will never forget. We are all grateful to JACIs that made this possible and we are looking forward for the next opportunity that we will have to see each other again.

Begining of schools and apple week (1-13 th of September)

The schools has started and the good thing is that a lot of new people came in JACIs. The list with names was so long in the first week and we were very happy.

But the youth were not so happy about the beginning of the school. They already had long lesson and homework so JACis was the perfect place to come after school, complain about these problems and relax with a big cup of tea.


Between 7th and 11th of September we had apple week. Georgiana and Vija prepared  a lot of activities. That was pretty intense:
On Monday Vija cooked for us pancakes with apples very tasty. A new recipe to remember! The rest of the day we cut a lot of apples from color paper and we decorated JACis.

 On Tuesday we have stated to prepare our trip to the apple garden. We created a big apple as a gift for the owner of the garden.

On Wednesday, during the visit to the apple trees, the owner explain us his business, how he started, what kind of products he grow and sell, he presented us different kind of apples and how he takes care about them. We were very impressed to see besides a lot of apples trees, big and healthy tomatoes,  cucumbers, potatoes etc.
Wednesday was also Julia's birthday. Happy birthday Julia!
Thursday we cooked together apple pie  and we celebrate Karina Birthday, the last day of Agita and Olga in JACis. We had a big meal with a lot good food that Olga cooked for us.

Friday we paryicipated to a quiz  with some games about apples and Olga made another cake with apples.