Now i think it already turned into a tradition!
Here is the 2nd Traditional Sunday Dinner from EVS 16 -17 : The DoggyBags!

Enjoy😇

(time order)

Sara Amghar

Rosa Vernooij

Renee Hoogenboom

Laura Gimenez

Oskar Schrattenecker

Rüya Hazar

Kalimera to all of you,

I am Sara, I am french and I am 21 years old. Since yesterday, I am a new volunteer in Kalamata and  will stay here for a year (maybe more ...?) in order to give some help to the horse riding center of kalamata and the Kefiap as well. More over, I will give french lessons at the Youth Center of the city. 

I met people I will work with and I am really excited to start being part of the project. Horse riding center is a real peacefull place for anybody who needs to connect his mind with his body. The couple of therapist working there are sensitive and receptive people, so if you have any physycal pain, just go to the horse riding center :) !

Now it's been a week that I am here and I can already say that I like my life here. Some of you will probably think that it is too early to say it but I feel that I am simply happy here. There are a lot of reasons why I feel like that now : the group of volunteer in Kalamata is really nice, the city has a kind of charm, people of the city are always trying to understand me when I speak english, I live by the sea... and theses are only few reasons. Ok, I can admit : I LOVE KALAMATA !

Now, let's see what it's gonna be...

Hi ! My name is Laura and I’m 24 years old. I come from a small town in France called Le Thor (yeah like the north god), it’s around Marseille. I have a bachelor degree but I wanted to do something else this year, something that will give me life and work experiences: I wanted to be useful.

I’ll work in KANE’s office as the webdesigner of the team and I’ll stay in Kalamata for 1 year; I’m really looking forward to it! I have quite a lot of hobbies; I love to draw, write, read, play video games, watching movies and tv show and so on.

This year far away will give me the opportunity to know more about myself and I hope I’ll meet a lot of great people and have a lot of fun!

Hi everyone! My name is Rosa and I am 17 years old. I come from a small town called Woerden in the Netherlands. I just graduated from high school, so now I am taking a gap year before I will go to university. I like hanging out with friends, watching a movie, going for a hike and cooking.

I will stay in Kalamata for 9 months to work in the Day care centre for autistic children.

We visited Kalamata in the beginning of August for one weekend, so we got to see a little bit of Kalamata already. The people here have been really nice, but it is so different from the Netherlands. I hope to become more independent here and meet new friends. I am also looking forward very much to learning about autistic children and how to approach them. 

-Rosa

Hi there,

My name is Renee, I am seventeen years old and I am from the Netherlands.
I arrived last monday and I will stay here for ten months.
My work will be therapeutic horseriding and in the keviab.
I just finished highschool and I didn't wanted to study immediately, then I came across EVS and it turned out to be the perfect thing to do this year. Because I am doing something good and I will learn a lot from it.
I hope that when I come back I will have new friends and have a lot more life experience.
I chose this work because I find it really interesting and I am so curious to see what the effect of the horses has on the children.
About myself, I am from Nijmegen a city in the east of the Netherlands, it is not really well known outside of the Netherlands.
I really like to cook and try new things and for sports I really like to do yoga and pilates.
Next year when I come back I do want to study, I want to study art history so Greece is a good country for me. Also the study is mostly in english so I hope to improve my english this year, which I expect will happen.

-Renee Hoogenboom

Familie visit1/2

Hello my name is Oskar Schrattenecker, and i am a Volunteer in the Youth Center of Kalamata. I am 18 years old and was born in Austria, in the middle of march i started my Evs project.

A lot of interesting things happend during my stay here. But now i want to talk about the visit of my Mother and my Sister.

On 14 of August my Mother and my Sister arrived in Kalamata/Greece. They stayed till 1st of September.
My familie lived with me in the Apartment of the Volunteers, we all shared one room, but there were no problems with that.

The first week (15-22) we only stayed in Kalamata, we went to the beach on a daily level, and visited some interesting places, such as the Local Market every Wednesday and Saturday, the Castel of Kalamata and the archeological Museum of Messini.

The second week we started to go a little bit around Kalamata.
On 23 of August we rent a car and went to Polilimno, a beautifull river with a lot of small lakes and Waterfalls inside a small canyon. After Polilimno we went to Voidokilia Beach, a beach near the city Pylos, its also a beautifull place. Its a big bay and the its very shallow the water is  very clear so you can snorkl very good although there is not so much to see.
It was a nice trip althoug at the end a thunderstorm appeared and it started to rain very heavily. We had to run back to the car to be not soaking wet.

On the 25 we went to Kardamili by bus, unfortunatly we missed our station and we went to the next town, but since the locals are very friendly we could hitchhike back to Kardamili.
In Kardamili we visited the old town of Kardamili, its an old castle and its very beautifull and interesting, also from the castle there is a nice small trail to the curch of Sofia.
On the trail you have an amazing view over Kardamili and the sea. 

The next days we also went to Ancient Messene and to Athens. I will narrate this in another blog here.

-Oskar Schrattenecker

« Metamorphosis»

Youth center Gallery project

18th of June  2016, 17 :00 – 00 :00, Youth center Kalamata

Artists :

Angie Mpaltouma// Tasos Spiliotopoulos // Antigoni Kourampa //Pavlina athanasopoulou // Hamid Roshangar // Konstandina Toska // Sofia Kostea // Marie-Noëlle Bondois // Adamantia-Nathalie Vlachogianni // Mpousounis Nikos

Kalamata As the Third pre-event of KALAMATA STREET FESTIVAL, we will celebrate the summer with

« Metamorphosis » - Youth center gallery project.

The project : During one Day the Youth center will be transformed like gallery. Some local amateur Artist will show you them work.

The Idea : The art is everytime around us, we just need to be careful and we will find art everywhere. The word « Artist » or « Art » can be difficult to define. Some people will say art need to have some rules and everyone is not able to create. But this project want to show that an artist is just someone who create something firstly for express himself and give him own vision of the world. Every participant of this project will say to you “I’m not an artist” but whatever they create something and is the most important because they show a better world. Let beyond the border of our imagination!!

Presentation artists:

-         Angie Mpaltouma// Photographie

"the simple way to happiness"

 Happiness is all around us. She hiding in the simple things in life. But it's in our arms if we will see her. So my photos are this time simple..just to let you see how easy is to smile..even in common moments.

-         Hamid Roshangar// Painting

" I put paint on the canvas until it looks like the sitter, then I add lines, shades n highlights from the memory to express my feelings about the sitter"

-         Konstandina Toska// Decoupage

Use paper patterns to change the look of objects from wood, paper, glass, stone, metalic or plastic surfaces.

It is colage with painting and we can use it everywere! Wherever we can paint we can also decoupage.

We stick paper patterns with special glue to an object and when it dryes we apply 4-5 times varnish to make it water proof.

Our only constraint the paper we use must be as thin as posible.

-         Sofia Kostea // Photography

My name is Sofia K. I am an amateur photographer for almost 5 years now. I love portrait photography. Every glance, smile and special-unique moment attract my interest and the "clicks" begin. I adore travelling, through that I reborn, I am filling up with energy and I am finding the real meaning of life. Colours, odours, sea breeze, light... are leaving their mark on my photos and are inviting you to travel for a few minutes both with your mind and heart... Have a Good Trip!!!

Adamantia-Nathalie Vlachogianni

« I want to be a fashion photographer it's one of my passions maybe.. But also i love travelling and i m trying to do as many trips i can

These photos are from my trips abroad »

Tasos Spiliotopoulos

My name is Tasos Spiliotopoulos, I’m 32 years old and photography is a way of expression for me. At the photos that I participate to this exhition, I present the filings that comes from the scenes on them. To those specific, I show the loneliness and the simplicity.

Antigoni Kourampa

"True love has to come easily, with a pure flow and stick inside you like a rock. That's photography for me. First time I touched the camera,the deal was shield. Being able to match my passions, hiking and photography is an indescribable feeling for me. Traveling and meeting with landscapes and people is a joy by itself but having the opportunity to "grab" the present moment and carry it with you for years ,anywhere, sharing the thoughts and images with others is priceless! As close to a time travel as it can get

Pavlina athanasopoulou

Marie-Noelle Bondois

As a Evs, my own project is to create with some local people an exhibition about everything and to transform the Youth center like a gallery for 1 day.

My project is to make also video and is for that I will present a personnaly video which about my best moment in kalamata.