wtorek, 29 sierpnia 2017

You should do it!

We are Marta and Montse and we are volunteers in Europe at Your Playground EVS. We are really happy of having this opportunity. It is being a great experience because we have worked with kids and it was so funny. Also, our responsibles had helped us a lot. Moreover, this allowed us to meet new people and learn more about different cultures.
Poland is in a great geographical situation and we could visit other countries as Hungary, Check Republic, Germany and Austria, and learn about their culture and gastronomy It was an incredible experience. Also we love Wroclaw because it is really beautiful and lively.
We recommend others to participate in projects like this.

PD. Polish lessons were really funny.

piątek, 18 sierpnia 2017

Wroclaw in my mind…

Wroclaw in my mind…
I’m going to tell you about my living in Wroclaw… in one week will complete two month I’ve been here. My first expression was- oh my god what a calm and beautiful city! After Tbilisi-my hometown it seems really quite, calm, you feel secure in the streets. In Georgia people don’t follow the street rules, they cross the red. Here everything is OK with that cars street rules are more obeyed by people than in other countries… like it\s in Wroclaw I feel really secure here. Maybe the reason is that it\s not capital city and there are not so many different people from different countries and culture and second reason is that here is perfectly developed the biking system so the amount of the cars is really small. Here cars move slowly people, don’t rush in the streets every building is dyed in faded pastel colors and this fits so much to the character of the city, even people in the streets wear clothes so simple style with pastel colors. As I mentioned they don’t like vulgar or hipster outfit… the style is standard but with good taste. A little shock was for me that couples love walking in the streets with holding their hands and this become for me a symbol of this city. I’ve never seen sooo many couples with holding hands in other countries, they look so romantic at that time…
Despite of everything is so calm and quite on weekends I saw that sometimes they can get mad and waste their energy. First two weeks I worked hard but finally came that weekend when I could go out. When I neared The market square- the center of the city I felt the noise the action and when I entered the place I saw whole city concentrated between the buildings of market square everyone was drunk hugging kissing each other laughing out loud the music was on everywhere every pub and bar was overcrowded people had fan. I wasn’t surprised that beer is the main thing for the event. But it was funny for me when I saw the big containers on the table with a tap, men were pouring beer by themselves from it and drinking so they didn’t wasted their precious time for ordering new glasses and bother a waiter. In market square is always positive aura that pleasure is have fun there or just walking under the sun. If you love beer, pubs, esthetic and beautiful places, river, bridges and colors this city is for you.
Besides that city has very good location for traveling. It is very close to Berlin, Prague, Vienna even you can visit Budapest. For example time you need from Wroclaw to Berlin is 3:30 hours by bus or car. I mostly used blablacar. You can be registered on that website: blablacar.com and find a driver who has the same direction as you, see the price what he is offering (in most cases it’s cheaper than a bus or a train), also read the references from other passengers who have already traveled with them to get sure that its safe, pack your backpack and get ready for your trip. From Wroclaw I visited Berlin, Prague and Vienna. In some of them I tried couchsurfing. This one is a website for surfers and hosts, there you can find each other and offer your flat for free or find hot and ask to get you in there flat. In that case you can check its safety with the references. Except the fact that it’s free I like it more than hotel because I met some good people with that type of traveling so I advise you the same if you are not a huge fan of comfort.
Wroclaw is a lovely, beautiful city with very good location so if you have a chance to live here don’t think a lot, it’s really worth!