{"id":32257,"date":"2021-05-26T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=32257"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:46:14","slug":"rossana-conti_april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/rossana-conti_april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossana Conti_April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April has been a very beautiful month for me.\nAs always, Spring gets me in a very good and energetic mood and I have tried to\nabsorb all the vitamin D that Thessaloniki could grant me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more I am here, the more I feel attached\nto this city and to some particular spots that have quickly become \u201cmy\ncorners\u201d. I have enjoyed spending time with my flatmates and friends. Most\npeople I met are international and it is always so interesting to share our\ndifferent experiences and our different backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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My flatmates\nDavid and Ginevra harassing a cat in Ano Poli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have the impression that during this month I\ncould reflect a bit more deeply on some of the aspects related to my work at\nthe House of Arsis. In particular, I created deeper bonds with the children and\nwith the teenagers and I have shared some really precious moments. I will never\nforget the poems that one of the older girls wrote and shared with me, or when\nthe other two girls I give English classes to opened up with me and shared\nparts of their history. I feel very grateful that they trusted me and I found\nmyself trying to do anything in my capacity to be a good ear and a good\nshoulder. Of course it is very challenging emotionally, but I think it is very\nimportant to always show empathy to the fullest. It is mandatory in order to\nrealize the world we live in and to challenge all the structural injustice from\nbelow, with little acts of humanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gardening\noutside at the House of Arsis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, we started a little comic book\nclub with some of the teenage girls who are very talented at drawing. We are\ntrying to write and draw a little graphic novel that puts together each girl\u2019s\nshort story. I was absolutely mind blown when I asked each of them to talk\nabout some social issues they would like to address in their stories. From\ngender inequality to mental health, they showed such a deep sensitivity and\nunderstanding of the world around them and of their inner world as well. I felt\nlike giving them the space to explore some thematics that are close to their\nhearts and also to channel them into art has the potential to be therapeutic\nand creative at the same time. I am looking forward to seeing some of their\nstories develop and take form into drawings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our \u201ccomic book\nclub\u201d editorial meeting<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, in April I started going to the\nshelter for unaccompanied minors in Pylaia once a week. The environment is\nquite different from the House of Arsis, the first project I joined since I\narrived in Thessaloniki. In Pylaia, there are only teenage boys, who are more\nindependent and obviously interact in a different way than children. I have had\nsuch fun with them honestly, it feels like going to one big family and they are\nall very funny. I have started giving one on one English to three of them and\nit is very rewarding for me as all of them are so motivated to learn. I am so\nlooking forward to getting to know them better and helping them with their\nlanguage skills! <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APRIL April has been a very beautiful month for me. As always, Spring gets me in a very good and energetic mood and I have tried to absorb all the vitamin D that Thessaloniki could grant me. The more I am here, the more I feel attached to this city and to some particular spots … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erasmus","category-european-solidarity-corps-solideers-ii-solidarity-actions-empowered-volunteers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32257","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=32257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}