{"id":34546,"date":"2021-09-01T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=34546"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:26:45","slug":"maria-lujan-fuster_august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/maria-lujan-fuster_august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MARIA LUJAN FUSTER_August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

            The\n\u201cadventure\u201d began for me the past 20th<\/sup> of July. Thessaloniki\nreceived me with its warmest temperatures in the past 50 years. Lucky me!\nHistorical event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            The\nfirst impression was exciting: I say that I find this place as a charming chaos<\/em>, and I couldn\u2019t define it\nbetter. The city is always alive, noisy and randomly organized, but you never\nstop discovering. Every day is something new. You may find a narrow and\npicturesque street with the nicest cafeteria, or you may lose yourself around\nthe upper town, favorite place. At night, everything is romantically\nilluminated, and it turns to be a different city. Greeks are very kind and\ngenerous (except when they drive, fun fact), and I feel welcomed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I came here for more\nreasons than discovering Greece and its culture. ARSIS has given me the\nopportunity of getting involved in two of the projects they are carrying out:\nDIAPLOUS and SIL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIAPLOUS is giving support to\nrefugee adult women that are here alone, some are even single mothers. What to\nsay about it! I know the women for few weeks and I already feel so comfortable\nand enriched by spending my time surrounded by them. They are wonderful. The\nmain activity I am participating in is the support for language learning,\nespecially English. They are really motivated about learning and always try to\nbe participative, I can see their progress. But English is not the only\nactivity. We organized a very nice cooking workshop where every of them, and\nalso the ARSIS team and myself cooked together dishes from different countries\nand cultures that made us travel and share. In the next months we are preparing\ndifferent info seminars, cultural activities and others, like walking around\nthe city and I can\u2019t wait to go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, SIL is\nsupporting minor refugees coming from different countries. I started a little\nlater with this project but it is starting to bloom. I still don\u2019t know all of\nthe guys, but I already started preparing some English classes for them. Some\nof them are not able to communicate without an interpreter so this is something\nbasic and important to start with. The guys coming to the classes are very\nmotivated and kind and I am strongly willing to start preparing other\nactivities with them such us sport tournaments or other activities outside\nwhere they can learn languages but also share quality time together and build\nbetter relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see what September\nbrings\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mar\u00eda.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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