EVS on-arrival training

EVS European Voluntary Service is a part of Youth in Action -project of European Union. It offers you to have unpaid and full-time voluntary activities in a foreign country within or outside the EU. Projects take usually from 3 to 12 months and they're for people aged 18 to 30. 
You can read more about EVS here.

On January 20.-24. all EVS-volunteers gathered together to have on-arrival training in Hotel Krek in Lesce. We had a group of 21 people from all around Europe; Belorussia, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine. For this group we had two trainers, Alenka Oblak and Henk Persyn and besides them also EVS-coordinator Jerneja Modic.

During the training we had different activities and tasks to do. For example teambuilding, information about volunteer's rights and responsibilites and what can you learn during the EVS project. We were also talking about how to get into a whole new culture with new people and environment around. One of the biggest tasks was the project day. In a group of 4-5 people we had to make a team project what was somehow connected to Slovenia and local people and something what no one of the group had never done before. Our group envented kind of survival kit with humour and big smile for EVS volunteers  - "How to get married in sLOVEnia". We had the idea because we have heard that many long-term volunteers have found a boy- or girlfriend from Slovenia and after EVS stayed here. Project was a lot of fun and we also learned very much about working as a team.

It was really awesome to meet all the volunteers in Slovenia. After on-arrival training we will keep in touch on freetime and propably even have some working projects together!