It seemed surreal for me at first when I was advised by the portuguese officer in Jakarta that my visa had been approved. I could not believe that I would finally be able to set foot on western European soil. Before this trip, I had a chance to visit Romania last year thanks to Act-Global [...]
EVS volunteers who works for a youth center in Velenje organized an International Food Event on last Saturday. The idea was inviting all EVS volunteers around Slovenia to cook traditional food from their countries. So, there were EVS from Hungary, Germany, Spain, France, Russia, Italy and from Indonesia. So we were driven to Velenje on Friday afternoon that [...]
After the training courses held in Bali, finally it's time to take part for an EVS program in Europe. From 4 Countries (Italy, Portugal, Malta and Slovenia), Slovenia is my choice. Why? The host organization that I am volunteering for (Kud Plac) focus their projects and work on art and culture, which is the field that [...]
The EuroAsi – From Europe to Asia: Capitalizing Experience in Youth Work is a 3 week programme designed for a job shadower to experience Terra di Mezzo (TDM) 2000 Malta’s day to day activities and to learn how the organizations in Europe collaborate with each other. This project is sponsored by the Erasmus plus programme [...]
Running some companies in a group is the best idea to make them survive for long term although it is only in regional scale. L’Unione Editoriale is regional media group of Sardinia owns 4 companies under it : L’Unione Sarda, is an italian regional daily newspaper founded on 13 October 1889 which was about 126 [...]
My first visit to the SYnergia office took 2 minutes on foot from my apartment. I met Mariana and Joana there. Given some of Indonesian snacks, Indonesian flag and the symbol to Mariana after that I was given the activities schedule for me then she explained to me about SYnergia and what they did and [...]
Knowing European NGOs such as TDM 2000 International, gives a lot of positive inputs to me. I was selected as one of the participants from Indonesia to follow the program EuroAsi : From Europe to Asia , Job Shadowing in 2016 , in Cagliari , Italy . Just to refresh my sweet memory, the first [...]
I have realized Cagliari is to a large extent more beautiful this second week that I am around. I went to all districts, one of the castles, a lot of the historic and grand churches, saw interesting archeological finds and museums, visited numerous parks, dined at the varied restaurants, had espresso and cappuccino in quaint [...]
The journey started after my passport gets stamped to leave Indonesia. The flight started from Bali, transit in Singapore for more less 2 hours and continue to next stop in Amsterdam for more less 2 hours, I went out of the airport to see the city by bus to the Amsterdam city. It was so [...]
The EuroAsi - From Europe to Asia: Capitalizing Experience in Youth Work is now on its most exciting section of the project. How so? Job Shadowing and the European Voluntary Services are fairly new to the Philippine setting and these activities should be a first of a kind that provides opportunities to Filipinos on how [...]