Blog: volunteering experiences

Here you can discover the EVS stories from some of the volunteers within the project Planting Cities; have a look on what they experienced in India, China, Italy or Slovenia.

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The Alessandro’s experience in India

The Alessandro’s experience in India

For me the EVS experience was fantastic. Very constructive and I would say, enlightening; First, because every single day seemed to be always surrounded by something magical, in a way, or another, but in the end I was also pleased with the minor inconveniences, such...

Five months full of color, life and love in India

Five months full of color, life and love in India

I arrived in Bhubaneswar (India) full of fears, uncertainties, everything around me was unknown but with the curiosity of a little girl on her first day of school. the first days were a complete shock, I had to get used to any situation, even the most banal thing...

Every single memory is unique and priceless…

Every single memory is unique and priceless…

When Maša (my roommate) and I arrived in Jiamusi it was beginning of April. It was still pretty cold… Ok, it was really cold! We were wearing 5 or 6 layers of clothes. On the streets there were few people not what you’d expect of a city with 2,5 million people. The...

A Chinese volunteer in Palermo – Ye Wu’s Experience

A Chinese volunteer in Palermo – Ye Wu’s Experience

I am Ye Wu from China, an EVS volunteer hosted by CESIE in Palermo (Italy) within the project Planting Cities (Erasmus+, KA2 – Capacity Building in the field of youth). Before I came here, I was attending university in China and I always wanted to challenge myself and...