{"id":36569,"date":"2021-09-01T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=34551"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:38:19","slug":"alba-goenaga-dieguez_august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/alba-goenaga-dieguez_august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBA GOENAGA DIEGUEZ_August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first month in Thessaloniki was full of new\nexperiences and a lot of good feelings. I arrived in the city and one of the\nlast volunteers of the project (who was in the house yet) show me the most\nbeautiful parts of the city and introduced me to a lot of people, most of them\nvolunteers of the ESC also. It was an incredible start for me because I discovered\nso quick places that probably I won\u2019t find in months for my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first impression of the city is so\ncontradictory. In one hand is a crazy and noisy place, full of shops and people\nrunning to everywhere, but suddenly in the night, it became a place completely\ndifferent. Everything is so chill, the bars are full of people and the ambience\nis so calm and beautiful (I really love the lights in the night of this city).\nI think that Thessaloniki is a city to know slowly, because you can discover\nnew and amazing places every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also start to go to Pyleia, the shelter with\nunaccompanied minors. They are from 12 to 18 years old and most of them are\nfrom Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also from Syria, Somalia, Egypt or India. It\ntakes me a few time learn all the names because there are more than 25 and I\u2019m\nnot familiar with this kind of names. But finally I got it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first place I introduced myself and I\nstarted to talk with them, to know where they are from, their history, their\nplans for future, how they feel\u2026 and it was easier than I expected because all\nof them were really open and honest with me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first  week we started some English lessons but now\nin summer it\u2019s difficult to stay in a room with this hot so most of the days we\nspend the afternoon talking, drawing and painting, playing volleyball in the\ngarden or watching films. We spend a lot of time sharing things about our country or life stories, I feel that\nstep by step we are building a beautiful relationship and I feel useful for\nthem because they really need someone to express their feelings and talk about\ntheir concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s amazing how generous they are, sharing\neverything that they have with us (food, games\u2026). It is one of the great\nlessons that I\u2019m learning here: even when you don\u00b4t have almost nothing, it\u2019s\nbeautiful to share it with others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month we could visit some places near the\ncity. We went to Halkidiki a couple of times and we loved it, there are so many\nbeautiful beaches and land scapes. We also went to Samothraki, an amazing\nisland full of incredible people and hidden places. If I could I would like to\nstay there for week! But I\u2019m really comfortable in Thessaloniki so I was happy\nfor coming back to Leontos Sofou and continuing to work in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I have to do some resume of this month I\nwould say that it was full of feelings (most of them really nice but also some\nsad and heavy feeling to deal with, especially with the guys in the shelter,\nbut it\u2019s part of the full experience). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m also learning a lot of Greece, about mythology,\nhistory, people\u2026 and I like it so much, I think the Spanish and Greek people\nhave a lot of things in common, and it is a good feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for sure, I\u2019m learning a lot of things\nabout myself, how I can use my skills and also where my limits are. So it\u2019s\nbeing a beautiful and complete experience that it\u2019s helping me to understand\nthings about others mind but also about mine. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first month in Thessaloniki was full of new experiences and a lot of good feelings. I arrived in the city and one of the last volunteers of the project (who was in the house yet) show me the most beautiful parts of the city and introduced me to a lot of people, most of … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erasmus","category-european-solidarity-corps-solideers-iii-solidarity-actions-empowered-volunteers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36569","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=36569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}