Martinimarkt

Because of St Martin´s day, there is a huge party in Dornbirn (as the main church is St. Martin) It´s a very traditional market where you can eat goose and drink mauld wine and cider (glüwein and glümoscht)



Some people were the traditional outfit for this day, that it looks like XIX th century.







Here some of the images from Marktplatz.

European Youth Week

Last week was European Youth Week and we had a lot of activities in aha Vorarlberg: special decoration, scholars visit, food from different countries, a Photo Exhibition, etc.

I will show you some of the pictures I made.

Decoration and food:



Some of the students reading the Photo Exhibition panels:


Some of the panels I did showing the volunteers that aha worked with since it first began:



In the afternoon all the visitors having fun:



After everything was finished we made a fire outside and cook chestnuts!!!

Bodensee Jugendgipfel

Finally last week there was an international event for young people that live around the Bodensee (from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein) It was in Vaduz (the capital of Liechtenstein) and a lot of people assisted.





For this I prepared some games about Europe, general knowledge: flags, national anthems, capitals, famous European people, brands and their origins...


It had a great success, I think it was very funny.

Bludenz Markt der Kultur

We participate as well in this great idea. To have a little bit of the culture of every foreigner group in Vorarlberg. We went there as EVS so we could show an example of our culture but mostly inform the people about what is an European volunteer and what we do there (and also to let them know that we are here!)






So I prepared everything in the stand and Kinga (the volunteer working in Bregenz) helped me to prepare the panel about our countries and also came with me in the aha car (my first time driving in Austria, was cool!!!)












There were a lot of people in the market. There were food and dances from Serbia, Turkey, Chechenia, Camboya,... so it was very interesting, funny, and tasty!!!

MidTerm Meeting

Ok, I know there has been a lot of time without updating but that is because I was doing a lot of things!!! So now I will show some of the pictures I made during the past month and a half.











The first thing I´m talking about is the Mid Term Meeting, that every EVS should do. Our was in Innsbruck, not so far as last time (Vienna is like 7 hours by train!!!)


The weather was perfect, even for the end of September, so we could have a few outdoor activities.






We mostly talked a lot: about our projects, future plans and possible resolutions to conflicts.




It was very instructive and we had a great time. We also went for a walk to the town, that is beautiful (I had already been there before) And it was s shame there were some clouds and we couldn´t see the mountains clearly, they are spectacular!

Dorbiner Messe

Ok, I know I haven´t been faithful to you, I forgot about Blogging for a long time, but now I´m back. I don´t know if I should explain a little bit what I have been up to the last month but I will start with what I did last weekend.

There´s being a huge event here in Dornbirn and I was there, helping the people from Europe Direct and representing aha (and EVS of course) Dornbirn HerbstMesse

We spent 5 days explaining to young Austrian people about EVS and going abroad in general.



There was a little bit of everything from Vorarlberg and Austria in general (cheese, milk, pumpkin seeds, cars, beer, decoration, pools, restaurants, political parties, radio stations, TV, entertainment, social issues, etc)

We had a fishing game for little kids.

Luino -Lago Maggiore-

Ok, last wednesday we spent the day in the North of Italy, the weather was perfect, the journey quite pleasant, and the food unbelievable.

Let´s start with the journey, we went throw the mountains of Switzerland, with great landscapes and still melting water from the snow.

When we arrived to Luino there was market day, so a great market was all about the town, and we had a walk around.

We had lunch in an incredible restaurant with a sunny terrace (it has a medieval column from the XIIth century) and I could finally had some funghi porcini (I missed them so much!) Then we went near the lake, we bought some postcards and had a real italian icecream before coming back to Austria (I had an ananas "granita"!!!)

Here I am with the French volunteer in Ravensburg, Helene.