Hi again!

As promised, in this entry we would like to briefly introduce new volunteers to you. “Intergeneration Dialogue” team is definitely gone, but only 1 or 2 days after, new volunteers, all from Poland, arrived to Donetsk, where they will deal with children in playgrounds and continue somehow with previous work in Raduga and Polish Community.

Their arrival to Donetsk was not perfect. Jorge and Aija, apart from some mentors, went to the airport to pick them up, not without waiting 45 minutes for lovely 73a bus. In a rainy and windy day, our delay was not important in the end, because flight from Kiev was also delayed. Once at the airport, we waited for them at the entrance, where mentors were standing, eager to meet them and offer typical Ukrainian hospitality: sharing bread and salt, and drinking a shot of vodka. Then Aija lead some Polish to Kirova and Jorge to Karpinskogo.

In all, they are six volunteers, and here they go:

Kuba                      Oleksandra              Paula

Sylwia                        Alan                   Sebastian

After this first, busy day and a deserved rest either in Kirova or Karpinskogo, they all came to office last Tuesday, where they were introduced to flat rules and were asked their objective or aim for the project. In the afternoon, Axel started a basic but indispensable Russian workshop on how to survive in Donetsk. This included how to manage when in marshutka, how to make them stop or how to survive in the supermarket. 

On Wednesday they had to overcome street game so that they could know more about Donetsk and get used to the city and its peculiarities, but we will check how they managed in the next entry: we had too much excitement for today!

Bye for now,

Jorge.