LAST ACTIVITIES OF THE YEAR

This year is going to end, and making a balance, I can say that it started not very good for me, but at last my life has changed completely and for good. Activities in Szansa and Dolina Milosci ended over a week ago. I can say that I miss all the activities, and especially, children . But this break, I think we all deserve, comes in handy to fill us with more energy and enthusiasm to start next year. Aula Española ended and although it was not as successful as expected, I can say that the attendants were very nice and we had great time together. Anyway, I think about what was wrong and how I can improve it. Spanish lessons for children also ended  and very positively. This activity is working really good, but, anyway , I have to think about how to make it better and offer the best to my students. In the last class we saw a Spanish animated film Planet 51, very funny ! Thanks to the parents and children for your interest!

Another recent activity that I attended was Frappe Latte with Rademenez. It is organized by the Embassy of Youth in Szansa. That activity is part of a serie of talks with important people from cultural backgrounds. On this time, the guest was the rapper and bboy Rademenz, from a town near Glogów: Zielona Góra. Although I could not quite understand everything he said,  it was a very entertaining evening and I can say he is a great artist. Thanks, again, for your visit Radi! See you soon!

Nothing more to say today. The next post I am preparing will be the last of this incredible year! See you in the next post!

VIGILIA IN KŁODA

On Saturday 21, Dolina Miłości held in Kłoda a "Vigilia Lunch" which is what they call the celebration that takes place in the days before Christmas. There, children represented a live nativity scene and sang carols. In addition to a superb meal, I received a gift from the organization. It was a surprise to me! Thank you very much! I am very happy because next year I will also do activities in this town and is great for me, because I love children there too. Thank you all and Merry Christmas!

AGAIN IN BUKWICA!!

After a long week (I was sick)  I could reinstate my work  in Bukwica. On Wednesday I went to Bukwica and I met again with children. Here, we perform manual activities about Christmas: decorations for the Christmas tree, drawings about this period ... Really, they are artists! This day I also spoke with Monika about the ideas I have for next year. I suggested to her one day and set a specific time to give Spanish classes. I have discussed new activities that I can make and I have also offered to help with English homework for kids. Next Saturday  I have also invited to a lunch of Dolina Milosci organization. I am very happy! thank you!

ANGELS FOR FILIP

On December 17, we met almost all members of the organization Szansa. We met in a restaurant and there, we enjoyed a lovely evening and we also had dinner. In this evening, we received as a gift a doll, which is a angel, made by hand. These "angels" are made by the grandmother of a child who needs a very expensive treatment for the disease he has. She makes these angels and put on sale in order to raise money to pay for that expensive treatment. I was very happy, because besides being for a good cause, these angels are beautiful. And for me, an ideal gift because I love angels and because my angel, it seems to me! She has the same hair like me! hehehe. It was a wonderful evening! Thanks for everything!

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FEELINGS VI: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

It is already December and I have reached the half of my project. Christmas is here, and as always, at least for me, is a period of constant stress. I think I am a little lost... 

Am I really offering the 100% of my ability? or rather, Have I reached a point of comfort where I have been stuck? All that has happened to me in the last two months in my social and private life have shaken my reality. I have experienced several disappointments, though these were necessary, have been quite painful. I am in a new place, with strange people and I know that disappointment must happen to know who should be in my life and who does not. I trust people fast and often, I am very innocent. So my sadness is deeper. Because when I feel,  I really feel, so my heart is so full of scars.I think I need to change my priorities and put myself first. But it is so difficult ... I think, nevertheless, that I am learning and growing as a good person. I still have a long way to go in some aspects of my life I am, sometimes, that little girl who cried while her mother showed her a mirror and said, "Look how ugly you get if you cry" ... Yes, I am a little lost and I recognize that I am not offering all the best of me. I am a very sentimental person and every disappointment or problem shaking my life like a hurricane that just leaves disaster in his way. But on the other hand, I am seeing and recognizing the problem so I can find the solution.I have wonderful people around me that I can learn from them and which definitely, I know I can trust. Every day I am grateful for it. I am very lucky! I get to do my part and devote myself to take care of me. Stop making excuses and love me. I have so much love to give but a part, I  must reserve it for me. And although I am disappointed, I must give thanks to these people who were once in my life and then disappeared, for showing me what I want and I do not want in my life, for making me stronger and for showing me which way to go to find value me as I deserve.

I have never liked Christmas. No good memories. But this Christmas will be very special. I know it. I do not want gifts, just ask to be happy (which I am but I want to keep this happiness) and I want happiness for all the people I appreciate. Actually, I would like  that everyone being happy but I know that is a utopia. I was thinking I want to do something good, beneficial, this Christmas. But  with the momentary chaos that reigns my life is a bit tricky to think clearly. I must place order first, learn how to be assertive and then I will can put my ideas to work. I often behave in a way that even scares me ... I dress up as someone I am not to avoid that hurt me? What revolution of feelings I have! I need to activate the blogoff valve because I am afraid if I do not do it, sooner or later I will bust. I must learn how to let it go... I have much to learn! 

Good thing I love my job here,  I have wonderful people around me, I live in a city that I love every day more and more, I have my family away, but I always carry them in my heart ... Lucky I have learned to see life with eyes full of optimism. I am happy, I do not know what i am complaining! 

Friends, Merry Christmas! 

I wish at least the same happiness that I have.

Everything will be ok! 

Wesołych świąt in Bukwica (Mikołaj)

Today is a special day for children in Poland. Today we visit us Santa Claus (here is Mikołaj). In Bukwica, we celebrated it yesterday. He came with all his gifts to local of  Dolina Miłości and divided it to the children. What happy faces! I love it! In addition, there were plenty of sweets and we made balls for decorating the Christmas tree. It was a very special day, indeed! Thank you all and Mikołaj, for making this possible! 

Wesołych świąt!!

SUNDAY MORNING AT THE MUSEUM

Yesterday morning I went, with children from Bukwica and Monika, to the museum Glogów. We visited several museum exhibitions about the mines, (Poland's main business is mining); the Jews in this city during the Second World War; an exhibition about water and inventions (and how flooded  Glogów in the past) and another about old coins. Most interestingly of all, that in this building, Napoleon stayed! For me it is amazing! This is why I love Glogów, because it is full of history! 

After visiting the museum, we went to eat at an Italian restaurant. How children enjoyed! I love to see them so happy! It was a Sunday morning very interesting! Thanks for everything!