Sagunt

In August, the Casal Jove closes for vacation, so we volunteers also get some time to rest. This summer, I decided to stay here in Spain and enjoy the sun, the sea, and the beautiful Spanish landscapes. I traveled around Spain a bit and took part in the summer festival in Puerto de Sagunto.However, this

At the end of June started the summer school of Casal Jove. It’s a five and a half weeks in which the kids come in the morning and come back after lunch. There are six different schools that are open during this week, and everyone of them has four groups of people divided by age.

Once every month Casal Jove organizes a big event. Every event has different activities for the different ages of the participants, and everything is themed around the theme of the month. During the event, the participants of the activities of Casal Jove comes with their families. The first one was Hallowen. We organized handcraft activities

This marks the beginning of the second part of my project, which includes organizing summer activities that will run until the end of July. For three weeks, I will be assisting the monitores in summer schools with groups of young children. For the remaining two weeks, I will be engaged in the camps with older

The time has come for the last part of the training. I completed the first part remotely, through online meetings; however, I was fortunate to attend this part in person.It was a journey full of surprises. I left Valencia with two other people I already knew, and gradually we met more people on the train.

It feels like I’ve been here for a short time, yet seven months have already passed. A bit of melancholy is setting in due to the end of the project, and along with it, the end of the winter activities organized by Casale. May is the final month, when the activities of the groups, courses,

These months at Casale have made me realize how much I enjoy this work. Therefore, I decided to also attend the “Monitor de ocio y tiempo libre” so I can continue even after my ESC year ends. I participated in all the activities organized by Casale, such as my cooking course, programming, and activities with

My experience here on Erasmus and with this project keeps getting better, with more activities, collaboration, and enthusiasm. And in March, it was time for celebrations, not only for my birthday but also for the Valencian folklore festival. Not only the city of Valencia, but also Sagunto and other towns transform during this period, filled

In March I did my curso de monitor. I attended online classes in the first two weeks, and then I went to Leon to participate in the camp.I was a little bit scared about the language at the beginning, because I was the only one not speaking Spanish as a native, but I never had

I came to Spain knowing that I had to search for a job after the end of the project and that i needed to decide what I had to do with my life. Luckily just after the first month I understood that I wanted to remain in Spain working as a professional educator (monitor in

In those six month my spanish improved a lot. I studied it in middle school, but I was very bad at the time, and in the next thirteen years I lost all my skills and knowledge. When I arrived in Spain, I wasn’t even able to introduce myself. During my first month I was surprised

In February, my fourth month here begins, months in which I have learned a lot and also worked hard to learn as much as possible from others and to tackle this huge event organized by the Casale: the manga festival. They were intense weeks full of research to find activities suitable for the event and

This year in Spain, I wanted to make the most of it, and the Christmas atmosphere is one of the things not to be missed. I feel very fortunate to be part of this project and to have met wonderful people at work who are now friends and who involve me in their lives and

During the festivity of Christmas and Easter and during five weeks in the summer Casal Jove organize activities everyday for the young people that are not going to school. This meant for me staying in Sagunto for Christmas. We were helping in the morning the monitores in doing the activities with the kids, and in

L’esperienza di volontariato, secondo me, deve essere vissuta pienamente, condividendo le proprie conoscenze e competenze, come la mia passione per la cucina. Ecco perché a Casal Giove, da dicembre in poi, c’è un corso settimanale di cucina italiana completamente organizzato da me. Fino a un mese prima ero nella mia stanza a studiare e sognare

Mi chiamo Donata e sono una studentessa universitaria italiana. Sono nata in Sicilia da genitori che amano viaggiare e ho iniziato ad esplorare il mondo fin da giovane. Per frequentare l’università di marketing e iniziare a vivere lontano dalla mia terra d’origine, ho dovuto spostarmi di 1000 km da casa, iniziando una nuova esperienza che

The “Let’s Chat” is the first activity that I started to organize alone using non formal education. It is an hour of games in english for people from eleven to fourteen years old, made with two different group every week. The goal is not to teach english, but to make them practise the knowledge they

At the end of October, just in time for the Halloween celebration, arrived the other volunteer of my project, Donata. I think it my be intresting to describe our working routine. There are actually two Casales in witch we organize activities: the one in Puerto and the one in Sagunto. I normally work in Puerto

My first month in Sagunto was a pretty intense experience. I was the only volunteer in the project at the moment and I couldn’t speak spanish. It never happened to me before to not being able to communicate, because when i did my first Erasmus + experience my english was already decent. It was tought

Hi, I am Luca, and I’m volunteering now in Puerto de Sagunto.Why did I decided to leave? Because I always wanted to try to live abroad, because I’m going to finish university but i don’t know what i want to do with my life, and because after Covid I was feeling a sense of emptiness