{"id":36589,"date":"2021-09-01T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=34568"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:57:42","slug":"vincenzo-esposito_august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/vincenzo-esposito_august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"VINCENZO ESPOSITO_August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

August was the first month of this fantastic volunteer project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first impact with thessaloniki was fantastic, the city showed itself\nto me as a little jewel nestled by the sea; I love the way the narrow alleys of\nthe upper city winding down to meet the tallest and most modern buildings near\nthe sea. One thing that struck me a lot is the constant presence of cats along\nthe streets as if to act as guardians to the numerous small churches that dot\nthe city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first day at the refuge shelter I was insecure I did not know how to\nface these young boys but their kindness and availability immediately reassured\nme and the days passed quickly and serene. Some guys were immediately available\nand curious about the activities we tried to propose, for others it took more\ntime as normal given their difficult situation. Already in the first month we\nwere able to take numerous English lessons, painting courses, computer science\nbasics and games in the garden. Over time the relationship with them has become\nmore conversational and now it is not unusual even to cook and eat all\ntogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One strange feeling remains fixed in my brain, talking to them always\ngives me the feeling of talking to people more mature than their real age,\npeople who have had to grow up faster than they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure they can learn a lot from me and that I have a lot to learn\nfrom them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincenzo Esposito<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August was the first month of this fantastic volunteer project. The first impact with thessaloniki was fantastic, the city showed itself to me as a little jewel nestled by the sea; I love the way the narrow alleys of the upper city winding down to meet the tallest and most modern buildings near the sea. … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34569,"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-36589","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\/36589","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=36589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}