{"id":36588,"date":"2021-09-01T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:51:51","slug":"sara-rossi_august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/sara-rossi_august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SARA ROSSI_August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\nlittle over a month ago I arrived in Thessaloniki. The passage of time is\ndifferent here: it seems to me that the days are passing\nquickly, but at the same time I feel that I have been here\nfor a long time, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I liked the city\nright away. In some ways it reminds me a lot of my Bologna: not too big and not too small, lively and varied. I had\nnever lived in a city by the sea and I am happy to be able to enjoy it with long walks: the pier is one of my favorite\nparts of the city. And I also love\nthe large number and variety of bars, bakeries, restaurants, taverns, etc. that\nthere are; and it’s all so cheap! So\nfar, the typical taverna starters and the sweet and savory bougatse have impressed more than the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our new house\nhas everything we need to live well. But what makes it special are the people who live there: with some volunteers I\nhave bonded more than with others, but in general I have found real friends, not just flatmates and colleagues. With\nthem, in fact, I went on fantastic\nweekend trips and explored the beautiful Samothrace, one of the most unique\nislands I have ever seen. There it\nfeels like being in a world apart, it feels like not being touched by the problems of the world, the commitments\nand the hectic life that touches everyone every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I am\nreally happy with the project I was given, at House of Arsis; I could not\nexpect or ask for anything better. It\nis a shelter where unaccompanied minors, from 5 or 6 years old to 18 years old, live. Most of them are\nimmigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who, for some reason, have been separated from their families on their\ndifficult and often terrible journey to get here,\nbut Greek children\nand young people\nare also taken in. We spend free and relaxing moments with them, choosing\ntogether leisure activities or simply chatting, and we organise small courses for them (at the moment we are doing an\nItalian course and an English course);\nmoreover, we are always included in the activities organised by the educators\nof the centre and in what the\nchildren and young people decide to do on their own; some of the older ones, for example, spend a lot of\ntime cooking and are always enthusiastic to let us taste their typical dishes. I find it wonderful how they seek the\nmemory of their homeland through food\nand I am always very curious to discover their flavours. With Anita, the other\nItalian volunteer who is with me at the shelter,\nI get on very well,\nboth in everyday\nlife and at work: I think we complement each other perfectly. In short, I feel very\nincluded, both by the children and by\nthose who work there; I love being surrounded by all these different faces, sounds and cultures\nand I like to think that I am contributing to this project.\nIt’s becoming a bit\nlike a second home.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little over a month ago I arrived in Thessaloniki. The passage of time is different here: it seems to me that the days are passing quickly, but at the same time I feel that I have been here for a long time, forever.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34564,"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-36588","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\/36588","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=36588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}