First week

It's been one whole week living in Kuldīga, getting to know the streets, the people, the language... a week full of new things.

Everything started on Monday 5^th of August, with my first day at work. The advantages of working in the Youth Center is that I can meet many young people, the disadvantage of arriving on August is that there isn't many people. Nevertheless, I think I've found great people here with whom I did really enjoyable activities last week. Now I'll just talk about some of them.

These past days have been extremely hot in Latvia, even reaching 34ºC in Kuldīga, which is not normal at all. But in this city we are very lucky because we have one fantastic river: Venta. Last Thursday was one of the hottest days in the past three years so we went with some friends to swim in the river. The water temperature was perfect and we had so much fun jumping from the waterfalls.

But this awesome weather couldn't last for long and the following day the rain started and the temperatures decreased. Even though we couldn't go swimming, there were many other things to do. Some of the youngsters who come to the Youth Center also dance theater jazz in the Culture Center and on Friday they had a performance in city called Ventspils, which means Castle on the Venta. I was invited to go with them and see the show and I have to say that I had a really good time with them and I enjoyed their dances very much!

Finally, last Saturday there was a marathon in Kuldīga. I went to see it because some of my friends were working there but I ended up working too! We had to fill glasses of water and hold them next to the path were the athletes were running, so that if they were thirsty they could take them without stopping. Suddenly, from the loud-speakers it started to sound some swing and we spent all the morning dancing while giving the water to the runners, it was hilarious!

Today started the week 'Youth and Active' in Kuldīga. Let's hope we'll be able to tell great things about it!