Thursday, 12 September 2013

Changes and news

The last two weeks have been full, very full and with many new things. 

If I have to think about last week it seems really far away; at that time I still was the only volunteer in Kuldīga although it wouldn’t be for long. I spent most of my time at work preparing the welcome for Zura, the Georgian volunteer who will be my colleague during this whole year, and making a presentation about Catalunya for the first cultural evening of the Youth Center.

On Friday I left to Riga with some friends, Guna and Edgars, who showed me this beautiful city and on Saturday we all went to the airport to pick up Zura. Then, we drove with their car to Kuldīga and went to Zabadaks, the place where Zura was supposed to live. But he didn’t like it at all so we decided that I would share the flat with him. And I am glad of this decision! Sometimes it is difficult to communicate with each other because he speaks very little English and I don’t speak Russian at all, but doing mimics to understand each other is very funny!

On Monday we had the first ballet lesson in Focus, the dancing group I go to. The teacher is a professional ballet dancer who comes specially from Riga to teach us! We also had rehearsal on Tuesday and Wednesday but it wasn’t ballet, it was theater, which is extremely necessary because the expression is very important in the dances.

But before I go to eat something, I want to talk about yesterday. Yesterday it was 11th of September, the Catalan National Day and I am very say I couldn’t be there in this important date. All the Catalans did a human chain, “Via Catalana”, to demonstrate for the independence. Here, in the Youth Center, we did the first cultural evening about Catalunya and I talked about our history, traditions and why the Catalans want to be independent.


VISCA CATALUNYA!

2 comments:

  1. sí senyora! que ho sàpiga tothom!
    No t'han dit que som uns copions de la cadena?

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    1. Haha!! Nono, al contrari! Orgullosos de que fem una cadena com ells :)

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