volunteers life

salut!

what a nice Sunday at home (some people already noticed that I really start to call my flat in France as "home" !)
this week I had the first real experience working with children and circus staff, we had an animation for 5 long days, so we were participating in all activities together with them- waking up, eating, playing games, teaching circus, taking shower, going sleep, trying to talk- and , of course, everything in French! I wont say it was easy, but definitely I'm satisfied! In the end of December (yea , unfortunately in Christmas time) I will have a seminar course that will give me a real rights to work with a children. I hope there will be great people and all that won't spoil my Christmas and New Year! ;)

oh, and , of course, after long week with children, my weekend I spent together with LATVIANS! yea, there was a youth exchange happening very near to my home, and I went there to take part in some activities and just have fun with youngsters from Czech, Hungary, Estonia.
and it was weird to wake up hearing Latvian language! I got my black bread and some woman magazines from LV , and the newspapers from my village where I used to write an articles.. So now I'm just taking my free Sunday for doing nothing- eating, reading and sleeping, getting myself ready for the next week!
and it is soooo gooood! ;)

i was checking some Ryanair flights from Frankfurt Hahn to other places , like Bali, Palma Mallorca, Valencia, Porto etc- and it is so cheap, that u can get there and back for less that 80€! ohh, I'm waiting for spring time, when I will take some trip just to enjoy the sun and beach!

but for now, I still haven't been in Luxembourg, to see the town and buy some cheaper bottle of Martini! (because of low taxes! )

bien, Je vais continuer lire mes revues aux Lettonie ;)

bisous!

i just became 19! ;)

yea , so nice day- and now in the evening, im sitting in my room and yess- I have internet in my bed! ;)
great!

and im eating my last Latvian chocolate. sooo goooood! ;)

Tsau! (That's how they say in Estonian! But looks than Latvians and even more Italians say the same! ;)

So, what have I done in these weeks-?
First of all I was in PARIS! I spent there four days and my conclusion is that it is really exciting place- with a lot of prominent buildings; of course everybody knows Eifel Tower and Louvre's pyramids, Montmartre, champs Elise and many others. It is very international city- my coach surfer Arthur was from Thailand, he was living together with Argentinean and we spend one evening together with guys from Hungary and The Czech Republic. Yea and I was in one house party (thanks to Arthur!) Where almost no one's motherland was France (so everybody was speaking English and I adapted quite well!) and also I will remember Paris because of great ride with a bike through the city in the middle of the night ;) njamm!

Together with my ex coach surfer, but now I can say- friend Eloy, I was I Strasbourg. We were hitch-hiking all day to get there (stupid auto routs!), but finally it was nice visit- we saw the buildings of European Parliament, Petite France, the biggest cathedral in France (anyway- Metz's cathedral is better ;) and yea- we tasted Alsatian food called flam. We returned in Metz with train, because we were not very excited about risky thing to stand on auto routs again for a quite long time.

Yesterday I finally saw some live concerts in Metz and of course went to shisha's bar to drink cherry bear. Nice. And today I slept till 12 o clock! Jeaaaaa

There is just 2 months and I will return in Latvia for 10 days! I have sent a lot of postcards and some letters through snail mail to my friends and family, and it's a pleasure to get back news from my country in the same way. You even can not compare email and a letter that has been written with an arm.

Great.

Mamma- I'm coming! ;)

It's so good that the 1st November here in France is a holiday- excellent day for just having rest!
This week is just in the middle, but there are several interesting things happened. First of all- four days I went in CIRCUS SCHOOL! Together with smaller and bigger children I learned jugglery (it was so hard for me!), diabolo, assiete, monocycle (huh, very uncomfortable sitting on it!), roll- America and some other circus staff. Yea, my resume about this all is that everything depends on training- u can spend hours to learn some small things and u need a big will to do that. For now my jugglery (u know- game with 3 balls!) is not very good, but I will practise it and I'm sure that at least till the Christmas time it will works excellent! (if earlier- I will give to know!)

Yup, and yesterday- it was Halloweens evening!
I have to admit that I had no mask, but it doesn't changed nothing and the evening was great! I have started to like bear and the best one is with cherry's taste. There is Irish pub in Metz and yesterday is was crowded! So we moved to place where I had never been- to gays club! Wow, wow, wow- I would say- it was not so bad. At least no one of girls who also were there found me attractive and I could be happy about it! BAR LATINO were we went later- yea, it was smth cool! I mean music and dances- there is no better way of having sport as just pure dancing. I will return there- it's for sure!

Also I have found shisha's bar (waterpipes) in Metz and spent there two nice evenings. And cherry bear – so good there ;)

Next week seems to be very interesting- and the reason is – I'M GOING TO PARIS!
I will spend there 4 full days staying to coach surfer named Arthurs. I will meet my Latvian mentor and friend Liva, and just enjoy this enormous and marvellous city.

Yea, there is also trip to Nancy and Strasbourg before Paris. So great!

And I have to thanks again to Eloy that I already start to feel like home in his flat of Metz's centre. I will say again- coach surfing is such an awesome thing!

Keep going!

Divas franču bučas visiem maniem latviešu draugiem ;)

zandz