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Mozart in my life When I was in high school, we listened to Mozart in music class and the only thing I had on my mind was: “This is BORING”.

When I was in Austria as an EVS volunteer, I had the opportunity to go and visit the apartment where Mozart grew up. I saw his piano, his violin and the letters he wrote to his mother. In one of the letters he explained how he was travelling to a concert during the winter and how he would have to play the violin with frozen fingers. After, I went to a Mozart concert in Vienna and I could hear the music differently. I felt more connected to the music. It was time to go work and live in Austria.This was going to be my first time out of Macedonia, away from everything that I knew. It was also my first time on a plane and I was very nervous.

Before then, I had only seen pictures of Vienna and other parts of Europe.When I got to Vienna, the first thing we did was meet each other during orientation. I was sent on a Scavenger hunt with other volunteers whom I did not know and in a city I had never visited.

The organisation that I worked with was a humanitarian organisation called 'Caritas'. This organisation took care of teenagers seeking asylum from countries affected by war like Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia.My colleagues treated me as a valuable member of the Caritas team. I would stay longer at work because I felt useful there and I enjoyed learning about the lives of the teenagers who lived there.

We engaged these young people in different activities such as swimming, ice skating and running the “Vienna International Marathon”. These young people were really interested in trying different activities and learning about one another.During my EVS service the Earthquake in Haiti happened. The teenagers I was working with reacted in a way I never would have reacted 44