{"id":25240,"date":"2020-02-28T17:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=25240"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:26:20","slug":"lars-holzer_february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/lars-holzer_february\/","title":{"rendered":"Lars H\u00f6lzer_February"},"content":{"rendered":"

My First Steps as a Volunteer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, I am very grateful to have this opportunity and I am glad that everything worked well in order to get this place as a volunteer in Greece. I didn’t really planned to come here but when I got these offer I felt like that this is the right time and thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first I need to say that I had a very nice flight. I started in Berlin with rain and 5\u00b0 C temperature and arrived in Thessaloniki with very good weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took that as a good sign. Another volunteer, Martin, waited for me at the airport\u00a0and we took the bus to our flat in the city center. This was the first time I really noticed\u00a0that I will live the next months in a very big city. And I loved it. I made so many<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Experiences even already in the first days. I got to know my nice flat mates, my lovely project coordinator Maggi, who always want the best for us volunteers, and a lot of other People. I randomly met a Greek man in the first 3 days and we became friends very fast. I never got so many experiences in such a small amount of time in my life before. I discovered this beautiful city Thessaloniki, learned my first words in two languages, and I met many new people. It was incredible. After one week I finally worked my first time. It\u2019s really nice that I had the decision where I want to work, because the NGO Arsis is pretty big and offers different places to work for there Volunteers. I decided to do it in a shelter, because I like to work with kids and I wanted to try teaching. Also, I had the opportunity to help in a lot of sports activities provided for refugees and this was one of the best parts. At the weekends I was going often for trips somewhere, for example to hike in the Mountains and take a bath in hot tubs. Sadly, after not even two weeks in Greece I injured my knee. It was very bad luck. I was glad that I got a lot of help from my organization, especially from Eva, who drove me several times to the hospital and waited there with me to help me. The following two weeks I couldn\u2019t walk and I needed crutches. There were a lot of problems in this time, with insurance, communication, work and a many other things. At the End it was a big experience which I may didn\u2019t needed but I grew from it. Also, I need to thank my organization and the responsible people and my flat mates for the help in this time. After two weeks I could walk better without crutches. Then, my one week on-arrival training in Volos, which is a wonderful city in Greece, started. There is not much to say beside it was one of the best weeks in my life. I found many new Friends and we had an amazing, intense and wonderful time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the same day we came back to Thessaloniki we decided to go to Sofia, but that\u2019s another story happened in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end I could probably write a book about my first Month as Volunteer. I didn\u2019t really worked thatmuch in my first month because of all the circumstances but I made unbelievably many Experiences <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and I really learned a lot. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My First Steps as a Volunteer To be honest, I am very grateful to have this opportunity and I am glad that everything worked well in order to get this place as a volunteer in Greece. I didn’t really planned to come here but when I got these offer I felt like that this is … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-solidarity-corps-solideers-i-solidarity-actions-empowered-volunteers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}