A few weeks ago, all three of us volunteers finally got the chance to participate in our on-arrival training that all EVS volunteers get when they arrive to the country. Confusingly, it's called on-arrival, but for most volunteers it is actually usually 1-2 months into the project until it actually takes place. Our training was held in Cercedilla, in the mountains near Madrid.
The training was 5 days long and we spent most of it inside the Albergue Villa Castora, which is a youth hostel, since the weather was not exactly ideal for outdoor activities. Nevertheless, it was a very enjoyable week and our trainers, Alvaro, Carlos and Patri made sure that there was plenty to do every second of the day!
We had a wide variety of workshops, some very practical, like how to use our Cigna insurance, some very philosophical and thought provoking and a lot that was simply great for teambuilding. Speaking of an awesome team, we had about 25 participants, mostly volunteers from the Madrid area, but we also had one person from Extremadura, one from near Malaga and of course us from Granada! We learned about EVS and the goals of Erasmus+ in general, practical tools for running our projects and also a lot about equality, discrimination and citizenship.
It was't all just being in and around the hostel of course, one day we also hopped on the bus and headed over to Segovia. It is an absolutely beautiful place! The most striking feature I think is the 2000 year old Roman aqueduct that runs through the town, but it was also the permanent residence of the king of Spain for quite some time, so it has a beautiful castle, a huge cathedral and just a very pretty old town center.
Really, the whole training flew by so quickly... On the way home on the bus to Granada all three of us probably looked like zombies, but if you asked us, all of us would have said that we'd stay another day!
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