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sábado, 28 de mayo de 2016

How to make a frog?

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Have you ever thought how to make a frog? DO it now. There are no rules except: do not talk about it with anyone. No more limits. Have you got it? So now, I'll show you the frog you have to do – your task is to INVENT HOW TO DO exactly this frog. Is that more or less easy for you? So now, I'll SHOW YOU HOW to do it. Which way do you prefer, as the best for you?

The frog is just an example of activity, which can let realized ourselves our expectations, style of thinking and learning, because our EVS, as a part of our life long learning proces, is the main topic of mid term evaluation. 

We met in Malaga: the city of cathedral, alcazar, plaza de toros – like in the most of andalusian cities, and famous from Picasso. You can enjoy or miss it all, but, for sure, you can not miss almost hundred of EVS volunteers waiting for their new adventure. We went to Mollina. Sorry – where? Again? Town in the middle of nowhere? It seems like quite huge campus, where we were living in, is the only thing in this place. It have this advantages, that you can focus on yourself, training subjects and people, who you are with now, trying to do mission impossible – get to know everybody. The good thing of beeing with 100 people in that kind of place is connected with the farewell party... but it is a secret – you will see.




OK, so what all this mid term is about? As the arrival was about more general things like: Erasmus, EVS and some working techniques, now you have impression that this is your own coaching training. Why? Because you have time to think about your project, expectations, style of learning, style of relaxing, style of solving the problems and share it and compare with the other people from your group to discovering, inspiring, supporting. You can realised where you are, what for, why here and what to do with that. You can also realised, that not just you have problems or sometimes worse mood, not just you still haven't spoke spanish perfectly, miss your home or have no idea, what are you doing here, instead of creating a „normal life” somewhere else.

As I remember, my motto after arrival was: there is always a light in the end of the tunnel. So now, after mid term, it is: think and think pink ( kisses for Pink Panter group, if you read it), let your dreams fly all over the sky and just love life, with all the surprises it brings. There are different frogs and many ways of how to do them, just do your.


viernes, 6 de mayo de 2016

Constitution in the rythm of flamenco

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When in Poland we hang our white-red flags, put the flowers on the statue, listen politics speach and, ewentualy, dancing polonaise because of celebrating first in Europe 3rd May constitution. In Andalusia wear flamenco dress and go dancing under the flowery cross to celebrate Dia de la Cruz. 

It is said that the byzantine emperor – Constantine the Great had a dream where he can see a cross on the sky with the description: under this sign is your victory. The emperor took the cross to set a battle and he really won it. Then Constantine sent his mother – Helen to Jerusalem to find the Jesus cross and she did. She also divided it into 3 part and each of it left in each christian city: Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinopole. The emperor declared christianity the state religion. Follow this tradition the 3rd of May is the Day of the Cross.


In Granada the celebrations of this day started in1625 it became a cross of alabaster in the district of San Lazaro and all locals celebrated by singing and dancing with it. Then they continued the tradition in the most typical neighborhoods of the Albayzín and Realejo, and children began to build small altars decorated with shawls, pottery and copper.






Today, many of these traditions are preserved, including put a pair of scissors stabbed into a pero (in Granada they called that the apples) but it means also – but. It mean to not criticize the cross decorations (It is pretty, but...). It is also tradition that the children ask for chavico (little money) for the cross.









During The Day of the Cross in Granada we can see crosses decorated on all over the city – in public and private places, where the people set the table and invite for the vine, tapas, singing and dancing to celebrate this day. There is also a contest for the best decorated cross. And I regret that I do not have a horse and flamenco dress to look more local than the fascinated giri could not decided where and what make the photo first.