Taking the Highway to our Greek lessons

Kalispera everyone!

   Here we are again :). We hope that you had a great week and that you'll have a even better weekend! ;) So, this has been a very exciting week for us. We were working very hard, gathering ideas, brainstorming, preparing the materials for our first big event... Highway to our world was very busy, lots of traffic at the Home Cafe ;). No kidding, it was great! We had so much fun and we hope that people who where there with us felt the same! Thanks so much to everybody who joined us in this great adventure. But don't worry if you missed it because we will put some photos on our Facebook page so you can catch a glimpse of the atmosphere ;). Next time we want to see all of you there, do we have a deal? :)

Did we tell you that we are attending an intensive course of Greek language? I think we didn't so we will do it now. Our Greek lessons began on Monday and they are really intensive! It's 5 hours per day, 4 weeks in total... Yes, we know that is a lot! We totally agree on that. But we are enjoying it very much. It's interesting, something completely new, especially for some of us who are seeing these amazing Greek letters for the first time in their life! :)

But we are not the only ones who are having small inconvenients with the Greek alphabet and grammar. The people from our language group have them, too :P. We are a colorful mixture of cultures from all around the world. It's just wonderful how we are all different, but in the same time so similar, especially when it comes to conquesting the Greek language ;).

No need to say that we are very thankful to our YEU Cyprus family for giving us the opportunity to learn this beautiful language, thank you guys! <3 We really appreciate all that you are doing for us :). Now all we need is some language practice with native speakers, any volunteers?

That's all for today folks! Stay tuned on our "Tune your souls" and our Facebook and Twitter pages!

P.S. If you have any ideas, you are creative and willing to share your free time with us, please feel free to contact us via Facebook or Email ;)

Anna, Doris, Lenka and Pablo

unCONVENTIONal time

Kalimera to you all!


Last week it was a very unconventional one for us!
In fact, we had the opportunity to be part of the YEU Convention which takes place every year in a different country, and...guess what? This time it is based in Cyprus.
At first, it was difficult to imagine what this "convention" was. To us it sounded just as an empty word, because we didn't know much about it. But then, day after day, that empty word started to fill in with meaning, faces, smiles and much more.

Even though some people arrived during the weekend, most of the participants joined on Monday the 20th and stayed here in Nicosia until Friday morning, when they left to continue their adventure in Pedulas. Four days full of fun and new encounters and who knows what else they are experiencing right know.
We also had the privilege to host some of the participants at our house and even if it was unexpected (especially for a guy who rang our doorbell at 5.30 in the morning) and a little bit crowded (8 people queueing for the shower), it worked well. Unfortunately, we don't have a car and we live quite far from the place of their meeting, which caused them some delays and a little bit of wandering lost in the city.

But back to the convention: what is it and what is it about? Basically, it is a meeting among people who are part of the different YEU organizations in all Europe, to get to know each other, exchange contacts, ideas, projects, but also to discuss a specific topic. This year the chosen topic was youth unemployment, a very important and concrete problem in our current society. Of course, the topic was faced using non formal education with different games and activities, to involve people in a more active way.

On Thursday evening we also invited people from the convention to our radio show "Tune your Souls", and they kindly accepted to participate, answering all of our curious questions and bringing some music from their countries. So if you missed it and you want to know more about the convention, here is the link http://listenagain.mycyradio.eu/index.php?id=5029

Personally, we enjoyed very much finding ourselves surrounded by all this mixture of cultures (from the Balkans to the Iberian peninsula, from Netherland to Cyprus), taking part in this event, (even if just from the outside), feeling part of a huge mechanism which moves thanks to the hard work, the passion, the energy and also the love of pleople who made it possible.

So that is all for today...who knows what else is coming?!
Un grande abbraccio

Anna, Doris, Lenka and Pablo

Adventure starts...

Hello everybody!

We are Lenka, Doris, Anna and Pablo, 4 EVS from Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy and Spain who will spend the next 9 months working with YEU Cyprus.

It has been a week since we arrived to this beautiful island. At the moment we only have thankful words to all the people we have met during these days. We are excited and amazed with everything that might happen to us in the next 9 months!

We are still getting used to our life here, to our beautiful house, our new workplace and, despite it has been only one week, it seems to us that it was a whole month. We did many things such as enjoying a typical taverna in Protaras (thank you Sotiris), enjoying the clean and warm Mediterranean sea, taking a bath in Konnos beach at 1 A.M., discovering the beautiful salt lake and the mosque in Larnaka (thank you Sotiris again, and Giorgos as well =D). We've already learnt how to make a real Cypriot frappé (Giorgos we love you!).

Our first impressions are that people are incredibly friendly and easygoing: you ask for directions and they want to drive you there! No matter if you don't know them too much: whatever you need, whatever you ask for, whatever they think you would like, they always will try to help you!

We've already have our first experience doing our own radio show at CCMC community radio, by the way we have to do some promoting so......TUNE YOUR SOULS, every THURSDAY from 7 to 8 P.M. (Cypriot time). http://www.cypruscommunitymedia.org/
You can also check our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tune-your-soul/505964202888328?ref=hl and our twitter! https://twitter.com/TuneYourSouls

We still can't talk about our future projects and events because we're still working on them, we will let you know! But in advance we can tell you that on the 30th of July we're organizing our first event in Nicosia so you can learn more about us. ;)

And of course we can't finish our first post without thanking Iliana and Yiota and our wonderful mentors: Sotiris, Giorgos, Anthi and Irini for being so nice to us and making our arrival to this wonderful adventure easier!

Stay tuned for next week!

Anna, Doris, Lenka and Pablo