I have taken part in two trainings as part of the EVS project, the On Arrival Training and the Mid-Term Evaluation.
These two training workshops aim to put in contact people and volunteers that are engaged in a volunteer project in the same area, to train them, let them know what to expect from their project, and help them to start their volunteering in the best way possible.
The training workshops offer a beautiful moment to share experiences, to feel closer with people and to talk about the experiences that everyone is living.
My On Arrival training was in Bath, a wonderful old city in the Somerset, in the South west of England. I did the training at the beginning of October and it was a great experience. The training lasted one week and I met a lot of young people who I was able to share and talk about my first period in England, including the good and the bad things. It was really helpful because I realised that everyone faced, more or less, the same issues: initial problems with the language, first impact with the new volunteer work, and the first impact with the new culture and traditions.
Each training day was divided in a lot of different activities, some of them linked with the EVS such as the rights and responsibilities of an EVS volunteer, information about the Youth Pass, and some of them linked with English culture. We did group work about the differences between the different English regions in term of culture and tradition, and we also did a session on food tasting in which we sampled typical dishes from all over the UK.
Outside these activities and exercises, run by two really well prepared and really funny trainers, we had a lot of time to explore the city and socialise between each other. Bath was a surprise: it’s a Roman city, full of history and culture that I would recommend everyone visits, it’s really beautiful.
I carried away with me only good memories and experiences from this first training: greater knowledge about EVS and volunteering in general, more knowledge about UK, a lot of good feelings about the city and a lot of good friends.
It’s definitely been one of the highlights of doing an EVS.
These two training workshops aim to put in contact people and volunteers that are engaged in a volunteer project in the same area, to train them, let them know what to expect from their project, and help them to start their volunteering in the best way possible.
The training workshops offer a beautiful moment to share experiences, to feel closer with people and to talk about the experiences that everyone is living.
My On Arrival training was in Bath, a wonderful old city in the Somerset, in the South west of England. I did the training at the beginning of October and it was a great experience. The training lasted one week and I met a lot of young people who I was able to share and talk about my first period in England, including the good and the bad things. It was really helpful because I realised that everyone faced, more or less, the same issues: initial problems with the language, first impact with the new volunteer work, and the first impact with the new culture and traditions.
Each training day was divided in a lot of different activities, some of them linked with the EVS such as the rights and responsibilities of an EVS volunteer, information about the Youth Pass, and some of them linked with English culture. We did group work about the differences between the different English regions in term of culture and tradition, and we also did a session on food tasting in which we sampled typical dishes from all over the UK.
Outside these activities and exercises, run by two really well prepared and really funny trainers, we had a lot of time to explore the city and socialise between each other. Bath was a surprise: it’s a Roman city, full of history and culture that I would recommend everyone visits, it’s really beautiful.
I carried away with me only good memories and experiences from this first training: greater knowledge about EVS and volunteering in general, more knowledge about UK, a lot of good feelings about the city and a lot of good friends.
It’s definitely been one of the highlights of doing an EVS.