It’s unbelievable
how busy and diverse your program can be when you are a volunteer!
For example
last Monday I attended all the classes that the Youth Center in Kalamata is running.
I wanted to get an idea how it is before taking the decision for which one to
subscribe. So in one day in a row, I took part in Yoga, Trash Art, Tai-Chi and
Salsa for Beginners. Even if those activities are supposed to be for fun and
relaxation, it was really tiring to focus on 4 different things for 5 hours!
Now I’m in
the process of “exploring the new”, but honestly that requires a lot of energy!
My biggest
discovery for this week is Kyttaro Bar! I’m so excited about it, because there
I found one of my favorite things in life - Weiss beer, all kind of rock, reggae,
ska, electro swing and very party environment…
Then, in the
middle of the week something very interesting happened. It’s some of those meetings
that are meant to happen, because they are already recorded in a parallel reality
in the Universe, where there is no past, present and future, but time is ONE
and it’s a matter of the perfect synchronized moment to be materialized on Earth.
So, a guy found me in a Facebook event of the Youth Center of Kalamata. We
met during the presentation that one of the local hiking clubs - ΠεριηγητέςΜεσσηνίας-Messinian Travellers gave in the Kentro. As himself, he is a traveler,
this guy was attracted by the name of the event, while he was passing through Kalamata during
his trans-continental-for-several-months trip. In the beginning I wasn’t very sociable
and not in the mood for talks because of the accumulated tiredness from the
previous days, but then the vibes we exchanged were so peaceful and nice that we couldn’t stop
talking and share experiences for hours. I prepared masala chai, and that’s how
we discovered a common topic – about the rainbow gatherings. It was such a warm
feeling that Universe sends me a “rainbow brother” here in my “new” life on the “new”
place. The funny part is that on the last Rainbow Gathering that he has joined, he has met
the same people that I did during the Balkan Rainbow. In those moments you
remember how communication was happening before Facebook existed. As this guy
travels a lot, constantly, which is like my biggest dream, the strongest
message from our conversation that will stay forever in my mind is that when
someone starts travelling around the world, in the beginning he/she is just a
tourist and a traveler, but then later in time, they become a messenger. Because
moving from one place to another, you always bring something to the new place,
that you took from the previous one – an impression, a story, a memory, a
daily life cultural-differences experience… and then from speechless traveler you
become a storyteller who make the others travelling by their minds and that’s beautiful! To read the breathtaking stories about traveling, written by the Volunteers of Kalamata, take a look on our magazine LiNK here!
Another
exciting moment from this week was my first Bulgarian language class for
foreigners in Kentro Neon Kalamatas. Not surprisingly I started the class by showing to my students the Cyrillic alphabet and joking that if Cyril and Methodius hadn’t invented it 11-12 centuries ago, now
neither me I would suffer to study Greek, neither them to study Bulgarian, but that’s
how it is. If people from Kalamata would like to have fun with me and a
language where „З“ and „Ч“ are
not numbers, but letters, you are very welcome to join my workshop!
I just wanna
mention that I really love working in a “volunteer’s” atmosphere! There is no
other place, job or activity that I could compare with the energy, enthusiasm
and freshness of the volunteer’s vibes! And then of course the productivity
gets higher than in a “normal” environment. Like this Friday. Look at these photos and tell me isn’t it like the paradise of the working process? We have a wall full of notes with ideas and plans for future activities.
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