Volunteering in Agras – Vritta – Nisi Wetland

One summer in Greece ! My last blog was about the departure of the boys. Since then, a lot of things have happened. It was a sunny, hot summer, full of new acquaintances and travels ! “Pame kalokairi” First we had our second seminar, at the end of July. It was still in Athens in […]

I have been now in Estonia since june and I’m adapting slowly. It’s weird that when I came out from the plane i had this feeling that I have been there only one day- 6 months went so fast like a blink of an eye . I had really good time in Greece- I met […]

Herkese şimdiden güle güle demek istiyorum. Son 5 ayımı burada geçirdim ve gerçekten çok güzel bir zamandı. Çok güzel deneyimlerim oldu ve birçok yeni arkadaş edindim. Yunanistan’da geçirdiğim bu zamanları asla unutmayacağım. Beni tanıyan ve burada bana yardımcı olan herkese çok çok teşekkür ediyorum. Unutmayın her zaman bir gönüllü arkadaşınız Istanbul’da yaşıyor. Umud ediyorum ki […]

Eirini said us that two new French volunteer will go Gialova will come to here the last weekend of march. We will be 6 volunteer. On first of april, Nestor (Greek volunteer) left the house and he went to Thessaloniki. On the same day Eirini wanted us to cleaning house for girls. We cleaned to […]

Veria ve hareketli bir gun daha… Daha onceden kus yuvasi yapacagimizi biliyorduk fakat nasil birsey oldugunu bilmiyordum. Veria Edessa’dan buyuk bir sehir. Guzel gunesli bir gunde cocuklar ile butun gun kus yuvasi yaptiktan sonra Veria gezimize basladik. Bizi gezdiren iki kisinin isimlerini hatirlamiyorum ve bu konuda kendilerinden ozur diliyorum. Kus yuvasi yapmak icin once topraklari […]

In 03.4.12 We were in Edessa for an activity with children called «Unstructured Areas». First we shared the childrens in different groups by giving them cards which had written on different bird names and their calls. They had to find eachother by making these bird voices- it was so funny to see them running around […]

After our trip in Kalamata me and Pierre had our Midterm seminary in Athens for five days. This time there participated 45 volunteers of all over the Greece. It was great to see again the volunteers from the first seminary who I havent seen a long time and also I met a lot of new […]

When in Vrita there was a lot of snow our internet stopped working and it was impossible to go to birdmonitoring becouse of the cold and our coordinator couldnt come to the village with her car. So we couldnt do any work and me and Pierre decided to go for a travel in the south […]

Few weeks back there was -8 °C of cold and a lot of snow. It was so cold that working outside was almost impossible. Vrita was like an isolated island with no way out. Becouse if there is snow and ice on the roads its almost impossible to drive with a car which isnt a […]

My name is ali akçelik 25 years old and ı studied economics. On 5 January 2012 I came to Greece for 6 months for  EVS. Aircraft landed after 13 hours. After a long and cold journey, we reached to Edessa. When We reach the bus, we meet Eirini and we went by taxi to the Vrita village. When we came here we saw […]