Green Life - Chose your side!

GREEN LIFE CHOOSE YOUR SIDE 2016-2-RO01-KA105024868

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GREEN LIFE CHOOSE YOUR SIDE! 2016-2-RO01-KA105-024868

About Project The "Green Life Choose your side!" projects proposes to implement a voluntary service for a period of 12 months, in order to promote healthy life style among youth through movement, outdoor activities, sports and environmental education.

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The "Green Life Choose your side!" project is a followup of another volunteer project, implemented by FCASEC in the local community Dragasani, in the period October 1st, 2014-September 30, 2015.

The idea of this new project started from FCASEC volunteers who conducted in the period September December 2015 an iformation campaign for young people about the negative effect of drugs, hallucinogens, tobacco and alcohol.

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The specific objectives of the project are: - the information, education and awareness of a total of 1,000 young people from Dragasani, surrounding villages of Dragasani, Slatina and RamnicuValcea on the negative effect that the consum of alcohol, tobacco and drugs has on health and personality. - promoting healthy lifestyles through outdoor exercise and sports among 500 children and young people from Dragasani, surrounding villages, Slatina and RamnicuValcea. -to promote environmental education and environment protection among 1,000 young people from Dragasani, surrounding villages, Slatina and RamnicuValcea.- building a friendship relation: youth - environment and youth - healthy lifestyle. - promoting international mobilties by participating in the EVS stage of 6 volunteers from partner countries and by identifying opportunities to participate in international projects for young people from Dragasani local communities, surrounding villages, Slatina and RamnicuValcea.

The activities will be attended by 6 volunteers with fewer opportunities from Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Georgia, Jordan and Ukraine. All six volunteers are young people with fewer opportunities, are coming from socio-economically disadvantaged communities and in the past were facing problems of alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

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The main activities implemented within the EVS stage will be: media campaigns about the negative effects of drugs, tobacco and alcohol consum, workshops on a healthy lifestyle, environmental education workshops, public events. Throughout the EVS stage will be used different methods of non-formal education as debates, workshops, flashmob, living library, socio-educational animation, energis, role plays etc.

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The expected results are: website of the project, innovative EVS stage, methodology for implementing a media campaign. On long term, the project will inform the young people about the negative effects of drug, tobacco and alcohol and will help decrease the number of young people who have these voices.

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VOLUNTEER S: Sara Alarcón My name is Sara Alarcón from (Murcia) Spain. I was born in 1993.

I graduated in Audiovisual Communication by Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid and I have a Master in Psychoanalysis and Theory of Culture by Complutense University of Madrid.

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Since 2014 I created with another people a cultural magazine www.culturadenotas.com, we write about music, literature, environment, among others. I decided to make EVS volunteer service because I want to improve my communication with foreigners and I want to learn more about different cultures.

The environmentalism always was important to me and I think that this project “Green life” is perfect for increase

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my background about the environment and to care for the planet.

Suhaib Al-Shroosh Al-Masedin

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Hi, my name Suhaib, but you can call me Wasfi. I’m 23 years and I’m from Jordan.

The special thing about Jordan that it’s surrounded by dangerous areas but it’s very safe. This is my first time in Europe, and it’s very beautiful, and a great opportunity to dream bigger, to achieve bigger.

For now, I’m a student at the faculty of pharmacy in the University of Jordan but I don’t like pharmacy very much, that’s why I’m still searching for my passion, and it’s never too late to start. In Jordan, I’m very active in students elections, learning about politics, learning how to run campaigns,

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and civil engagement activities. I have also volunteered and organised a lot of events.

SemihFiliz Salut! My names Semih. I am from Turkey. I studied business managment Istanbul University.Before I came to Romania I was working for an organisation agency.

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I like to meet new people to travel and read. and i love nature too. Cheers!

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NataliiaKnia zeva

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I'm Natalia from Ukraine. I live and work in city Kiev, it is the capital. I'm 29. I graduated the university for a long time as a history teacher. I love children and I love history, but the formal education system is not for me. I like to learn new things through practice, games, travel, communication with other people.

I'm interested in urbanism, ecology, non-formal education methods, other cultures, and I also like active kinds of recreation - hiking, rafting, cycling. I also work with children in a public organization, the direction of which is intercultural dialogue, active citizenship and ecological life.

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Green life is my path, I understand how important it is for us, for other people and our planet, because we only have one life and only one planet.

GiorgiTchelidze I’m George from Georgia, i was born in Kutaisi, but i now living in the capital Tbilisi with my brother and i’m 21 year old.

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I study journalism in Tbilisi state university.

I have stopped my study for one year for this project.

I decided to go volunteer because I want to get some new experience, travel a lot with other volunteers, to tests myself in different county in different situations, to improve my personal skills and learn more about other cultures and religion and also to change my lifestyle.

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After EVS I will graduate university and work as a journalist.

TamunaAgniashvili Hello, I’m Tamuna from Georgia, I live in Tbilisi, I’m 21 years old. Studing Ilia State University, archeology.

I like extreme sport, reading and adventure. This is my first EVS and also this is my first time of being abroad.

I wanted to try something new and different in my life, that’s why I decided to take part in this project. I like Romania very much. Especially I like how the society loves and cares for the nature, whats more they are Page9

very friendly and kind to us.

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ReyhanMeuz I am Reyhan from Turkey. I was born in 1988.Now I live in Çanakkale. I graduated in Anadolu University in EskiĹ&#x;ehir two years ago in finance. In the near future I want to visit countries around the world an is because I want to know new cultures.

Maybe i can be a blogger in the future. I decided to come for this project to improve my english and romanian languages and because I like too meet new persons new cultures and make new friends for around the world. I want my new friends to visit me and the country. We will always be contributing to the development.

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''Green Life'' choose your side!

I hope I can help because I love nature and people. I have a preoccupation about our environment and isbecouse of that i'm here to do my best.

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GREEN LIFE – CHOOSE YOUR SIDE

ACTIVITIES

MARCH 2017

1. First days in Romania and meeting in the group

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In the beginning of our project we had one week to meet each person for our project (mentors, coordinators, volunteers) and for know more about our roll in the EVS project.

In our first week also we created the logo in paper after this we created in Photoshop. We realized our profile and we putted in our Facebook page. We already had Facebook page and we had to make webside our mentor helped us for make webside and dessign. After we collected all our photos and information about our presentations for put on our webside.

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2. Visiting the Museum of Wine in Dragasani

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In the second week in Romania and after we know a bit more about Dragasani, the place where we will be for the next one year, we went all together with our mentors and local people to the museum of Dragasani, and like this we can know more about all the customs from this region, and we also tasted some traditional food and also the wine that is genuinely popular in this county.

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3. Starting Romanian lessons In our second week we started Romanian lessons and for us was really useful because we take a nice level of Romanian language in just a couple of weeks, and for us was great because like this we start to communicated alone in a beginner level.

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We also did activities to get know each other more.

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4. Writing and recording our presentation We were recording our video presentation about our project and about ourselves and we used this video in all our presentations for that month (RamnicuValcea, Dragasani).

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Besides we went to RamnicuValcea to made our presentation with more volunteers, we met another interesting projects and after this we went to visit the city (museo, zoo, parks,churchs) and we had a wonderful day.

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APRIL 2017

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At the beginning of each activity we talked about the theme of our project.

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Besides we prepared different activities related to sport and healthy life. And the end of the exercises we felt very good because the students integratedvery well in our activities.

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2. Making sport activities in ScoalaGimnanziala Tudor Vladimirescu

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The next week we went to another school, Tudor Vladimirescu, and the response of the students was also very grateful.

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That week we changed some of our exercises because we had more experience and also because the students were younger than those of the previous week.

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3. Launching conference and intercultural night We made our presentation in Dragasani (April 12) and another volunteers visit us and when we finished we started to cook for the intercultural night (Turkey, Jordan, Ukranian, Georgia and Spain).We had meeting with students from Bratianu High School. We cooked our traditional food.

Turkey: Menemen, Bรถrek, Kisir and Sekerpare, Georgia:Achma, Ukraine: Sirniki and halva, Spain: Tarta de la abuela, Jordan: Mofarraka and labanwekhyar.

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We spent a tıme really good. People were very frıendly and satisfied. We introduce our cultures closer and deeper. We were lucky to finish our act with traditional Turkish music live, our partner played some songs with baglama.

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4. Arrival training Our arrival training it was in Sinaia, we were 51 volunteers for different countries and we spent one week all together and was amazing, we made a lot of activities

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and we learned a lot of Romanian culture, and was really useful. We also learned how is to be a volunteer and how is to live in Romania.

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Now we have volunteers friends everywhere. In those days we had a meeting with to make some activities and some games to learn more about each, and was really interesting for everyone because like this we take a lot of skills for our near future in this project.

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MAY 2017

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1. European youth week In first week of may it was the European youth week. we prepared workshops in LiceulTehnologic “Bratianu”, those workshops were about empowering young people and involve them in different aspects of life. we make them focus on the strength points that they have and

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showed them in an activity how those characteristics can be a life-jacket when the conditions are not good,we also remind them that even though every individual have different skill that he can share with others, there is also a lot to learn.

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2. Traditional Turkish music concert OnurYavuzis was part of our family in Dragasani, he is a volunteer from Turkey, but he is also turkish music teacher.

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Onur perform in front of Dragasani people with his gorgeous voice and his Baglama (turkish folklore music instrument).

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3. Starting with sports activities ScoalaGimnazialaNicolaeBalcescu

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To have a healthy body we have to exercise and do sports, but for a lot of children it is boring because it was practiced in a very strict way, that is why we tried to connect exercising and sports with fun, by creating telematch, to develop their teamwork, and competitivity. we did this for more than one week with several classes

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and the kids were very happy, we received a lot of friend requests on facebook

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4. Youth exchange in Caciulata – Art for environment

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Our organization was hosting a youth exchange project, and six organizations from different countries were part of this project, we had the opportunity to present our Dragasani family and our project, and to see the work that those organizations are working on.

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5. Photo exhibition and music (Romania, Turkey and Italy) in RamnicuValcea county library

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This event was the final event for the youth exchange that our organization was hosting, and we attended to this photo exhibition, and of course music had its own time in this event, Onur perform for all of us, and sang some traditional turkish songs, and the volunteers from the youth exchange also did a very nice performance.

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6. Happy 98th anniversary (25 may 2017) La multi aniLiceuluitehnologicBratianu!

In Dragasani

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We were very honoured to be part of the 98th anniversary for our beloved school liceultehnologicBratianu, we presented our countries in front of the mayor if Dragasani and other important people, they were very friendly and we think they enjoyed, after that we were invited to a lunch and party in the school restaurant, we ate romanian food, with a fine wine from Dragasani which famous with wine, and we finished with a traditional romanian dance.

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JUNE 2017

1. Workshop about bad effects of drugs, Tobaco and alcohol in LiceulBratianu (Dragasani) In June we started workshop about negative effects of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. Workshop took place in Dragasani, at LiceulBratianu, inside festivity room. We had approximately 25 participent.

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The goal of workshop was to make more clear for young people all the negative side of addiction. We showed students some examples how tobacco, alcohol and drugs changed life of people in a negative way.

After this we separate them in 3 different teams: drugs, alcohol and tobacco and asked them to write all positive and negative effects of them and also think about reasons why people start to smoke or drink. aftet each group had small presentation, they compered both side of addiction and they tried to find out way how not to smoke, drink

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and use drugs and exept this do another things like run, go to gym etc.

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2. Light Festival in Dragasani Festival of light was the inauguration of Summer 2017 in all cities of Romania, this festival was created for Scouts but members of Green Life went for participate. Lamps, which called Gulguţă (Hulhutsa) - symbolizing good warmth and love of life.

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The festival Scouts was organized for local children and youth of different activities such as sports, workshops, body painting, racing game Kendama, which is now very popular in Romania.

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3. Workshop about bad effects of drugs, tobacco and alcohol

We did same activity about negative effects of drugs, alcohol and tobacco after 2 days in classroom with different students they found out other solutions and effects of addictions.

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JULY 2017

1. Be green!Fii Verde!

The future is what we do with our present and we are not aware of it from there arose “Be green” it was ours Workshop about how change our present to have a better future.

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We went to the library and 30 students participated in the activity. The main theme was about 3 R: Reduce, Reuse and Recycling. One of the exercises that most liked the students was to build our waste the future in which our descents would live.

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The schools are in vacation, but Green life should always continue, and we noticed that a lot of kids have bicycles, so we thought we can make them have fun, improve their competitive spirit, that's why we created our cycling club, and we named it Dragaciclism club.

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We created the poster, and posted on our Facebook page that we will be every day in the central park to register kids to our club, and luckily we had more than 20 members.

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2. Ride Right - Dragaciclism First Activity The first event of Dragaciclism club was at 17 July, the quest "Ride right". 13 people took part in it. The task of

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the participants was to find a checkpoint with the help of a map and answer correctly questions about the rules of cycling and rules of the road!

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In Romania is still no development infrastructure for cyclists, so each cyclist is a participant in the road traffic and must follow the rules and be very careful.

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4. Fast and Furious - Dragaciclism Second Activity Fast and furious was a great experience in Dragaciclism Club! We had 21 participants from 8 years old to 15 years old. We put some obstacles in the race area.

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thecontestants had to pass these obstacles and finish half a fast.

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We have a time schedule for this. And this chart shows how far ahead of the starting point of the gore competitors the finish point. and we have identified the first one looking at this chart.

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5. Joc de orientare - Dragaciclism Third Activity Orientation game was another “Dragaiclism” activity.

We separate our participants in two different age category, each group had different maps.

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The point of activity was to find checkpoints with letters on the map and collect all letters in order to find word.

We set time and revealed 2 winners from each group.

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AUGUST 2017 1. Vacation

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We had our summer vacation from 28/July until 16/Aug, Natali was in Baku (Azerbaijan) in World Scouts Conference, Semih visited Moldova and Turkey, Sarah and Giorgi visited Serbia and Bulgaria, and ”poor” Suhaib only visited Mamaia and Brasov, but he love Romania and he enjoyed more than the other guys.

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2. “Add color” After our vacation, the schools were still in summer holiday, so we started to decorate the school on our way, we started to draw and paint some drawings to motivate

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the students, the drawings gave to the schools a positive energy and spirit, it took us one week to finish.

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3. Dragaciclism club

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We prepared another activity for our cycling club, we made a track, and unfortunately only six kids came, but we continue our activity with them and it was nice, we gave them three attempts each and counted the best timing for them.

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4. Forum theatre training Our organization held a training for us and other volunteers in other projects, the training was about a non-formal education method, that depends on creating a play with a negative ending, and giving the target audience an opportunity to interfere and give a solution, it depends on brainstorming and apply the solution in the play.

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SEPTEMBER 2017

1. Champions We made an activity for children. They have to find clues marked on their map and complete all the clues.

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We gave them Diploma of Participation in Dragaciclism Club since July to September and t-shirt for everyone. It was a nice to share this experience and activity was fun.

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2. Forum Theatre: Garbage in, Garbage out

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Forum Theatre is a type of theatre created by Augusto Boal. This method is based on the interaction between his actors and his spectators, they called (spect-actors).

After showing a problematic social situation, the spectactor can provide a solution to the problem presented at the scene.

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''Garbage in, Garbage out'' is about the trash that we find in the streets and also in natural spaces like near rivers or lakes and in the mountains.

The Oppressor is a nice guy but she doesn't care about environment because she doesn't know what can happen with this trash.

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Thanks for the interventions that two students have done because after that we have found other better ways to take care of the environment.

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3. Save our planet We started to make presentations in schools in order to raise awareness about environment, nature, world problems. We made it interactive so students will interest more.

We gave them some informations about world statistics, told them about prevention methods of future and present problems.

Green Life team has begun the workshop of "Save our planet" in LiceulTehnologicBratianu and Colegiul National GibMihaescu in Dragasani.

We went to three differents classes and we gave to them some information about how the planet is changing because our behavior with the environment is not the best one than we can do.

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Students have been very involved with the exercises and games that we've prepared about pollution in the air, bad consumer habits and about extinction of some exotic animals that they didn't see yet and they want to see in a future.

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OCTOBER 2017 1. Education Day We made our activities at Colegiul National GibMihaescu in Dragasani. We've had approximately 80 students and they've been very enthusiastic about the exercises.

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''Sustainable Education'' have been the main theme today we've talked about the importance of an educational improvement to make a planet healthier and prosperous and we've talked about the importance of teamwork, collaboration among all to improve our education and so our society.

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2. Save our planet Green Life team has continued the workshop of "Save our planet" at LiceulTehnologicBratianu in Dragasani.

We went to one class and we gave to them some information about how the planet is changing because our behavior with the environment is not the best one than we can do.

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We believe that this activity is helping to involve young people more in the care of the environment!

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3. English Speaking Club registration

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We started registration in our "English Speaking Club".

We created online form and posted in our Facebook page and established days when students can come and register it was 31th of October and 1 of November.

21 of students came to register or apply online for our "English Speaking Club".

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4. New equipment in Batca Park, Dragasani

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We went to Batca Park to promote healthy lifestyle.

Where was new equipments for different workouts.

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We took some pictures and recorded video how to use those equipments. We believe that this will push people to start go there and live healthier.

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5. Why and How we should learn English?

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We were in Colegiul National GibMihaescu for promoting another ways to learn English. The goal of our activity was to show students why is important to learn english in funny and easy ways.

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5. Mid Term Evaluation, Brasov After more than seven months in our project, we had our evaluation in Brasov, we were almost 30 volunteers from different European countries and who lived in different parts of Romania.

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The course focused on our past, present and future in our project. We were talking about our activities and how we developed them.

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NOVEMBER 2017

1.English Club We started the register our English Speaking Club in the main city hall, and then we started the english sessions every monday and friday.

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We are doing a lot of activities with participants like singing songs, translate texts, songs from English language to Romanian language, Speed Theme...

The main goal of this Club is help to participants to improve their English speaking skills.

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2. TV Show

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We were invited to a TV show named “Interesul general” which was streamed on Valcea 1 Channel.

The presenter was the veteran Dan Boban and he asked us about our life as volunteers in Dragasani and also we

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were talking about our daily work in specific with children, environment, Romanian language immersion and about the project in general.

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3. Intercultural night with new volunteers In our host organisation FCASEC arrived new voluunteers from Spain, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Germany

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and France. They are all have a project “Leaving Green� in RamnicuValcea.

We had the opportunity to get to know them, see presentations about their countries, try national food and learn national dances during an Intercultural evening.

4. Oath ceremony in Jandarmery School Being a volunteer in another country is also an opportunity to explore the characteristics, traditions and state structure of this country.

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At 10 November we visited the oath ceremony of recruits at the Jandarmery School in Dragasani. A lot of people came to see the ceremony on that day.

The recruits sang a hymn, marched and uttered the words of the oath. Also we saw demonstration speeches of a special detachment on combating terrorism.

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5. Non-Formal Learning Day We also had some workshop about for Non-Formal Learning Day in Colegiul National GibMihaescu. We tried to show students what is differents between Formal, Informal and Non-formal education.

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We separated students on tree groups and gave them task for to create a hat for different way: one group had a teacher who showed how make a hat, second group - has a mentor who just explain what need to do, third group should create a hat without any explanation.

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6. Festival of Tolerance We did a presentation about our project at the library in RamnicuValcea and we were talking about our eight months of experience doing EVS, also we went there to know the news projects "Living the Green", "More" and other veteran volunteers talked about the activities they have done and what they want to do in the future.

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On that same day but in the afternoon we went to the "FestivalulZiuaToleranteisidiversitatii". It was a very entertaining show and we enjoyed music, poetry and traditional dance.

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7. Workshop at ”CentrulMultifuncționalVerguleasa” We visited Social Center for kids in Verguleasa village to make a entertaining and funny day for them. There were around 25 kids between 10-11 years old.

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We prepared games, energizers, English language activities, songs and one origami workshop. Kids were so happy and gave us a lot of hugs and good vibrations.

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DECEMBER 2017

1. English Speaking Club In 4th and 8th December we had very interesting day in our club the main topic was "Animals", we learned somes words like captive, extinct, fur, horns, venom, amphibious, cage, feather, endangered, species, cub, roar, bark, croak... and after we used these words in the next activity: "Animals Taboo", we had one card with one animal, we said where they live, what they eat, how they look and another person had to guess the animal.

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We also watched a video about animals in danger of extinction and for ending we were talking about our favourite animals we sung "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran.

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2. Advent Calendar Green Life prepared an Advent Calendar with Christmas tasks for the children of the Multifunctional Center in Verguleasa. We used several materials to create that Calendar as markers, colored glitter, pencils, plastic paints, scissors, glue, envelopes and some others.

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Children were doing fifteen tasks, one each day until Christmas day, such as singing Christmas carols, make a garland, learn more about the origin of Christmas, prepare a Christmas theatre, cook something easy and tasty for someone, dance with friends among other activities.

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3. Storytelling

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We went to RamnicuValcea to received a workshop about “Storytelling�, we learned how to tell stories in our own language with an international audience that does not understand our language.

Nonverbal communication, look and even interact with viewers, intonation and silences are very important to tell stories and impress the audience.

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We were spectators of Turkish, Belarus, Spanish, Georgian tale, we didn’t understand everything but we could feel what was happening with those characters in each story.

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4. English Speaking Club In 15 th December we had our last meeting in our Club, we went to the library talking about how you celebrate Christmas in Romania, we talked about Christmas decoration inside and outside of the house.

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We sung carols in English Language like “We wish you a Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bell”, “Silent Night”, “All I want for Christmas is you” by Mariah Carey and in Romanian Language like “TreiPastori” by Stefan Hrusca, “MosCraciun cu pletedalbe” by Andra and “Colindan, Colindan” by MadalinaManole.

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5. Christmas Fair

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Christmas Fair was a rewarding experience for Green Life, we were two days we were preparing for this event - we created decorations for Christmas tree and knitted bracelets.

We were very pleased to be a part of the Christmas school fair in Scoala Tudor Vladimirescu, Dragasani and to contribute to helping orphans. We were also impressed with what crafts the students did with their

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own hands, and also tried some Romanian homemade food.

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6. Christmas Holidays

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In last week of the year, some of us we went to our country, Spain and Ukraine to celebrate Christmas Holidays, the rest of the volunteers went to another part of Romania, Bucharest and Craiova except one volunteer, he decided to go to Ukraine for tourism.

Each country has their own tradition, different food and rituals but the common part is everywhere in Christmas time, everyone try to be the best person, helping others and being grateful, the spirit of Christmas is breathed in all the members of the family and friends.

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JANUARY 2018

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1. English Speaking Club

Our English Speaking Club started after Christmas Holiday and we didn’t see our students for a long time.

Of course first topic of our discussions was “How did you spent your Holiday?”.

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In this month we also were trying to debate, the main topic were zoo and tobacco, we also did a storytelling exercises with differents characters, actions and situations, next we've done an exercise that consisted of telling a story with origami.

Last week of month our main topic was “Why is important to have a healthy lifestyle?”:we were talking about health, nutrition, sports and environment. We tested how our health was with a test of twenty questions and to finish we saw a video with different tips to improve our quality of life.

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Besides we made a presentation about how to improve our healthy lifestyle. We also did new energizers like “I have a pan”, “Jump”, “Horses” and we sang songs ''Hallelujah'' by Leonard Cohen and ''Zombie'' by The Cranberries.

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2. Sport activities Vladimirescu

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Between 23 and 31 of January we had sport activities in Scoala Tudor Vladimirescu with approximately 300 students between 6 and 12 years old.

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We played more that 8 types of team games like ''Get the cloth'', ''Name's game'', "Orange and surprise game", “The dragon, princess and samurai�, "Catch the scarf", different sports with balls, and we've danced a lot with them because kids like it so much.

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3. 24 January Unification Day of Romania

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At 24 January we was invited to take part in flash mob dedicate for Unification Day of Romania. ZiuaUnirii is a public holiday to celebrate the union of modern Romania.

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Approximately 100 persons were dancing the typical Romanian dance around the Central park . After the dance while we were drinking boiled wine with fruits.

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FEBRUARY 2018

1. Tea party

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We had Girls Tea Party in Tudor Vladimirescu School.

It was interesting and funny meeting, we were dancing national and international Pop music and drinking black and fruits tea. The conversation was entertaining and enjoyable, we talked about how was the weekend and how were the exams.

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2. English Speaking Club

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That day we had a important lesson in our English Speaking Club, we were talking about health, nutrition, sports and environment.

Besides we made a presentation about how to improve our healthy lifestyle. We made a test to control our health habits.

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3. English Speaking Club

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It was our last day in the club and while we were talking about the future of our students, we were telling our experience in the University, all of us were drinking water and juice and eating chips and a Romanian pie. It was a very emotional evening.

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4. Green Life Last Conference: A year in a life Our last conference was in BibliotecaMunicipala at Dragasani on 28 February. We divided the presentation in three parts, Semih and Giorgi started with “What is EVS?”, Natali and Suhaib were talking about the activities that we did in the year, they prepared a video with our activities and a game to guess some facts about our countries, the number of activities, students, clubs that we had in whole year.

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We played with our guests game about our languages they needed guess how say “Salut”, “Mulţumesc” and “Teiubesc” on Arabic, Georgian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Turkish.Sara and Tamuna prepared a game with questions about places in Romania that we visited.

People from RamnicuValcea came to participate and students from LiceulTehnologic were talking about their internship in Spain and in Portugal. We were more than two hours and it was a nostalgic and last one conference for Green Life team.

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MARCH 2018

1. Doing the Youthpass

In the beginning of March we did our Youthpass, Youthpass is a tool to document and recognise learning outcomes from youth work activities.

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It was a long process and we were working hard on it because is important for us,youthpass supports the reflection upon the personal non-formal learning process and outcomes.

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2. Preparing our luggage and say goodbye Some of us started to make bag in the beginning of February to be sure that everything can enter in the same bags as one year ago.

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The time to make all the bags was very emotional, we put all our belongings and a lot of memories: souvenirs, gifts from friends, Romanian sweets, wines, magnets for the fridge, in the end everything was in the suitcase. And always the most important we will remain in our heart.

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“Green life - choose your side” - one year project since 12 March 2017 to 12 March 2018 in small city Dragasani, Romania. We were here 6 EVS volunteers Sara from Spain, Suhain from Jordan, Natali from Ukraine, George and Tamuna from Georgia, Semih from Turkey. Our project was about “green” lifestyle, ecology, we were promoting bad effects of alcohol, tobacco and drugs and good effect of sport, cyclism, taking care about health.

“Green life” project was implemented by FCASEC organisation where we was working with our coordinator CatalinSoare and our mentors Claudia Trandafir and OctavianVasile.

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During the project we had workshops, sport activities, English and Turkish Speaking clubs, cycling club “Dragaciclism”, made presentations about EVS and Erasmus+. It was also time for traveling in Romania and countries around, discover a lot of new things about local cultural and about culture of other people. And of course time to discover yourself.

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Our impression about project 1. Which project activity was your favorite and why? ‘’The most memorable activity in our project was "Dragaciclism". When we started registration for the club i didn't thought that 21 children will join and attend all our activities. Between all activities we did in bicycle club, last one is my favorite.

We had competition and after we gave t-shirts and certificates to club members, they were so happy and joyful. I think we did great job and promote cycling in Dragasani.’’ - Giorgi

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2. How it was live with people from different countries? The best and the worst thing. ‘’Amazing, I will always remember this experience and of course I will tell to my grandchildren. It was a unforgettable experience for many reasons, one of the most striking reasons was our eating habits (in Spain we had tiny breakfast and our dinner is at 10 pm) and for rest of my mates was totally contrary but was nice to adapt to them.

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The best thing was learning some words from their native languages and the worst thing was when you try to say one thing but they understand the sentence in another way, anyway with humour sense is easier to carry the situation.’’ - Sara 3. What are your impressions of life in Dragasani throughout the year?

“I'm glad that my project was exactly in Dragasani. It is so silence city. There is no public transport, there is everything you need for life. Sometimes we were part of some local activities.

I liked to walk among the vineyards and a local rose wine. I remember how people first photographed me on the street because of my dreadlocks. There are a lot of good and sympathetic people here”. –Natali

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4. What did you like the most and what was the biggest challenge for you in this project?

“I started to participate in project later than other guys. I was so nervous about it on the beginning. It was my first time when I was living with people from another countries. It helped me to improve my English and I received a lot of new information about everything.

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This 8 month was a big experience. I had chance to work with children and I got a lot of positive from them”. – Tamuna

5. How did the year in the evs influence you?

“EVS was a life-changing experience, I learned a lot from it on the personal level, and in the professional level, I met people from different countries and cultures, I also made a life-lasting friendships, traveled inside and outside Romania and had a lot of fun, and of course I hope that we left a positive impact on the students that we've worked with. I discovered the Romanian culture which is very different from mine. It helped me to discover myself more”. –Suhaib

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6. What do you remember most about life in Romania and Romanian culture? ‘’One of the reason because I like this country is because their nature, you can find a lot of different kind of landscape: mountains, lakes, black sea, rivers and forest.

Also, the adaptation to Romanian culture it was easier because they have open mentality if you compare with Turkey and also Romanian people is very helpful with foreigners’’. - Semih

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“Green life - choose your side” - one year project since 12 March 2017 to 12 March 2018 in small city Dragasani, Romania. We were here 6 EVS volunteers Sara from Spain, Suhaib from Jordan, Natali from Ukraine, George and Tamuna from Georgia, Semih from Turkey. Our project was about “green” lifestyle, ecology, we were promoting bad effects of alcohol, tobacco and drugs and good effect of sport, cyclism, taking care about health.

“Green life” project was implemented by FCASEC organisation where we was working with our coordinator Catalin Soare and our mentors Claudia Trandafir and Octavian Vasile.

During the project we had workshops, sport activities, English and Turkish Speaking clubs, cycling club “Dragaciclism”, made presentations about EVS and Erasmus+. It was also time for traveling in Romania and countries around, discover a lot of new things about local cultural and about culture of other people. And of course time to discover yourself.

www.greenlife.atrv.eu

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