HATE SPEECH FIGHTERS WORKSHOP

Hello, I will write today about a workshop we had about hate speech, it was held both in Pultusk and in Warsaw, and I was taking actively part in the one of Warsaw that was in English but I was aswell a participant in the Polish one which took part in Pultusk as a listener.

So the workshop was lead by two girls, Aleksandra and Anna, aka Ola and Ania, they are two Polish girls who work in Warsaw and are spreading the fight against hate speech around the habitants of different Polish cities.

At the beginning of the workshop we started with some ice breaking games, to know each other and our names, we put as well pappers with our names in our chest, but before that they explained the rules of the meeting, like no interruptions and respect for the participants of the meeting

The first part was the introduction about what the workcamp was going about and telling us what was the parts of the meetings as well as the breaks we were going to do and how it was going to be directed.

Then we start with the first step, what is for use "Hate Speech", they give numbers to the participants to make groups and then a small time to discuss between the groups what is hate speech for them, so they started to discuss and share definitions between themselves until they agreed on one definition, and after that, they merge those small groups into two a bit bigger groups to make them discuss their own definitions again and have a clear one to show to the rest of the people, it was nice talk and everyone got their conclusions, after that they told us the definition according to the European Commision.

after that we were talking about our thoughs on the topic and then we had a coffee break.

Then we started again and we analized different situations that can happen in the daily life and they wanted us to tell our opinion about it, so we were talking and discusing again, the good thing is the wide variety of opinions.

then we had some kind of simulation where you get into the role of a different person, such as a bling man, old woman, etc. and they ask you questions and you have to advance if you could do it or stay if you couldn't, it makes us to be in the feet of someone else life, still the interpretations were different according to the positivism of the person, so from the same role can be different results.

In the end we had a summary and we talked about everything, was a good meeting and I hope they can continue with it in different places.

See you soon!

Meeting about Spanish Culture

Hello everyone!

This Monday after the Spanish Lessons we organized a meeting for Students from Pultusk, the meeting was about Spain, so we prepared Spanish food like Paella, Tortilla de Patatas and Gazpacho, and we started to talk about Spain and different possibilities and differences between Spain and Poland,

In general the meeting was good, and after talking about Spain, we were talking about workcamps and the possibilities they offer, as well as about a meeting we have on Saturday at 12:00, that will last until 15:00, about hate speech, you should come, will be very nice, and you will learn a lot!

It was a pleasure to write to you today, see you next time.

How to go for EVS

Today we went to Centrum Integracji z Rynkiem Pracy (CIRP) to talk with them about how to go for an EVS in different countries and the possibilities it gives to them.

http://cirp.wz.uw.edu.pl/

Cheap Travelling

Today we are going to Sumarize the meeting about the cheap travelling.


By Bus

Simply, look for a bus and travel around Europe with a cheap prices, some of our volunteers do that thing, using services like Polskibus.pl or Ecolines.net, you also have LuxExpress with the "economic" part Simple. there are a los of connection to different countries of Easter and Central Europe, and if booked earlier the prices start from 25 cents.

http://ecolines.net/en/
http://www.polskibus.com/
http://www.luxexpress.eu/pl

By Car.

Here the options that the volunteers prefer are "BlaBlaCar" or simply hitchhikking, this is the cheapest way, if you want to spend a bit more you can always find a group of five people and rent a car, take into consideration, that for crossing country borders with a rented car there is an extra insurance you have to pay.
http://www.blablacar.pl/
http://www.carpooling.pl/
http://www.rentalcars.com/

By Plane.

Here comes the fastest and in some cases the cheapest way to travel, you know about those low cost companies? with flights at not common times? well, there are tons of them, and you can travel for example from Poland to Spain for just 20€, I will put a wide list of low cost companies after, but remember that there is also good offers that people post in internet, and pages like lastminute.com where you can find exceptional offers just one day before

Ryanair, Easyjet, GermanWings, Wizzair, Spanair, Vueling, AirSerbia, Nikki, are some of the cheapest ones, they don't offer the same quality of services inside the plane as the normal ones, but the quality and security of the planes are totally the same.

http://www.ryanair.com/
http://www.easyjet.com
https://wizzair.com
http://www.vueling.com/
and much more!



Now you arrive to your destination, and you are wondering where to stay? Well, depend on the country, but in most cases the options are the same, Hotel  > Apartment > AirRnR > Hostel > Pensions/Albergs > CouchSurfing

to find those places, use pages like booking.com, tripadvisor.com, hostelworld.com and similars

http://www.booking.com/
http://www.hostelworld.com/
https://www.airbnb.com
http://www.couchsurfing.org/

There is a good way to travel, WORKCAMPS, ERASMUS, VOLUNTEERING, AIESEC, AEGEE, for more information about workcamps check www.fiye.pl. as is long to explain in a blog, anyway. Explore the world, and discover the posibilities

if you have any question about where to travel, and some tips, feel free to comment and we will answer.

More information about Erasmus, and Aiesec is comming soon in separate posts, for AEGEE check http://www.aegee.org/

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Have a nice day

Easter with Seniors.

Hello Hello! so we were going to prepare easter food for seniors, we wanted to cook some dessert from Russia and some starter from Spanish, even when the Spanish one is not typical for easter they wanted eggs.

We went to Osrodek Wsparcia Srodowiskowego, Zaulek Street to prepare the food, we boiled eggs and made the pasta for the cake, and waited there until it was ready, after a few hours almost everything was ready, even tho the cake was a bit strange, but still, was edible, the things for the eggs were saved to prepare on the next day, also old people from pultusk were preparing food there

From 11 to 15 we were there cooking and after that we went back home to wait for the next day.

The next day in the morning I came to finish my food and after that we started to serve food upstair and we sitted with the seniors to start eating.

but first like an hour of speechs and the priest putting water in the food, in the end was nice, lot of food, and people were enjoying it. Join us next year!

Hello Hello everyone! :D

This Saturday 21th of March Hugo went along with Aleksandr to the University of Humanities of Pultusk. The teacher Joanna wanted Hugo to explain a bit of Spanish to some of the youngest students they had there, that belong to the children university, Sylwia, the coordinator of the project agreed with it,and the preparations started for the event. The main idea was to show the children different parts of Spain, like Geography, Food, Culture, some words, and we also singed a song.

The lessons started at 12:00, thus we arrived to the Uniersity at 11:45 to be sure that we weren't late, we started preparing the projector to see if everything was ready and fine, and after that the people started to arrive to the class, first children and then the parents of the children, until we were around 30 people there.

The beggining was a presentation of us, were Joanna introduced me and Sasha, and then I started with a bit introduction about Spain, what is it, where is it, and so on. After that we started with the geography and typical dishes, the best part started when we were teaching them the alphabet and a few words and of course the time we were singing.

We had two songs prepared, thanks to Aleksandr, Capitan Cobarde of Albertucho and Susanita tiene un Ratón. People were singing with us or at least trying and as a farewell we prepared for them a "tortilla de patatas" sadly not much of the children like it, but their parents do, so we can say that there was something for everyone ;)

Enjoy the week and see you soon!

Pancakes day to celebrate the end of the Russian Carnival

Hello! Today we had thanks to the colaboration of Sasha the day of the pancakes to conmemorate the end of the Russian Carnival, the idea was to gather people from different places and countries, of course also from Pultusk, to prepare everyone typicall pancakes from their countries, to share it with the rest of the assistants

The meeting was going to be interesting, at the beggining Sasha explained us about the different traditions in his country, and was showing some videos to us as well, the one I liked the most was when they have to climb a snow castle to take the flag, while the rest of the people try you don't climb it, according to him, before they were using horses and so on, but not anymore, so it became a bit softer

After some talking between us, the main part of the event started, A few Kilos of pancakes getting ready to be devoured by all of us, there was a lot of kinds of, sweet pancakes swimming in condensed milk, normal pancakes with jam, pancakes made with mushrooms, some filled with meat and mushrooms, and my favourite one, that I would call it a pancake cake, it was a cake shaped composed by different pancakes, with salmon, white cheese, spinach, and many other things, that was really delicious.

We also had pancakes from Stefan and form Alicja, one with Apples other with jam, the assistance was of 15 people, We had a girl from Greece, two girls from Portugal, one girl from Germany, one girl from Italy, two boys from Spain, and the rest of people from Pultusk, and small towns close to it, a total of 15 people as said without forgetting Sasha and Ignat from Russia

The event was supposed to start at 14:00 and last until 20:00, but it was delayed a bit, because the international people were a bit late with their busses, there was also a Karaoke to sing while eating and after eating, we were eating for 6 hours, and more people were joining later. At around 8 p.m the volunteers from Warsaw had to leave by bus back home,

Everyone enjoyed the day and they liked the pancakes and were really happy about it, Would be nice to do similar things in the future, meetings with food.

The overall experience was good and it went smoth all the time, enjoy your pancakes and see you soon!