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August 2013
IN THIS MONTH... Hi all, Last month of our projects! The times have run so quickly. I’m happy to have shared all this month’s with you all, feeling so glad to have had this chance and to had meet you. Now some of us are looking to stay here, some are going far, some are coming back to their home towns... I just hope all the best for all of us and hopefully we will meet again who knows where... and till then, work hard in your dream and enjoy live!!
SPECIAL EVENTS 2nd August: ‘Blancanieves’ at Hyde Park Cinema. 2nd - 4th August: ‘Ynot festival’ at Pikehall, Derbyshire. 2nd -26th August: Fringe Edinburg Festival. 8th- 11th August: Croissant Neuf. The solar powered family festival in Wales. 9th August: Bad Manners at Brudenell Social Club. 20:00 £16.50. 9th -1st September: Edinburgh Arts Festival. 11th August: SkyRide in Bradford. 13th- 28th August: Green Message Project.
31st August: Sporting Challenge Leeds city Museum 11am-4pm Free.
DISCOVERING OUR VOLUNTEERS LILLA LAKATOS
Date of birth? 17 May 1990.
Where do you come from? Eger, Hungary.
What did you do before coming in England? studying.
What’s your EVS project: I work in a Primary School in Leeds as teacher Assistant and as well I’m giving French lessons. 3 interesting things about you. I am an amateur photographer and I have had 6 photo exhibitions. I love travelling and I have lived in Cyprus, France and Sweden before. I love the Scottish accent. Place of residence: Leeds, UK.
- Having a walk: Roundhay Park.
Did you travel in England before? Yes, I had been to London 3 times before moving to Leeds. Which was the place you liked most in England? Leeds of course but I love London and Newcastle too.
Are you planning to travel during your EVS? I have travelled quite a lot. I’ve been to Scotland 3 times, I’ve travelled to Wales 3 times, I’ve been to the Republic of Ireland and I’ve visited 9 cities Arrival-Departure dates: 10 Sept 2012 - end of in England. The furthest I got is the Orkney Island July 2013. situated at the North of Scotland. Culinary speciality: enchiladas.
What was your most interesting cultural discovery in England? That English people always The thing you can’t forget to put in your suitcase: queue up at the bus stop and say “thank you” to my camera, my mp4 music player, a big bottle of the bus driver when they get off. hairspray. What were your expectations for this Which is your favourite: experience? I wanted to improve my English, - Movie: American Beauty and The Fall have experience in working in an English school - Dish: Spaghetti and discover the British culture. - Song: It always changes...currently I love “Cosmia” by Joanna Newsom, “Elvis” by These What is your biggest achievement you think New Puritans, “One Beat” by Sleater Kinney and you have had in EVS? The friends I made. “Girl Anachronism” by The Dresden Dolls. Which is your favourite place in Leeds? Burley where I live.
What will you do when you finish your project? I’m going back to Hungary for August and I’m planning to move back to Leeds in September but only if I can find a decent job.
And for: - Going out: Cockpit and the Brudenell Social Club. And in 10 years time? - Having dinner: Las Iguanas. Hopefully I’ll have a nice job and I’ll be travelling -Shooping: Dorothy Perkins. around the world.
SUNNY DAYS GREEN MESSAGE PROJECT: Festival & Recycle. Give your time for a worthwhile “prepare things in advance cause. and with enough time, bring warm clothes and tissues, you This month we have a great never know…” opportunity with this project to meet more than 30 volunteers A list of things is always of different parts of Europe, to helpful to don’t forget anything have fun, to camp together, that you could need to be to listen live music, to find as comfortable as possible, a pair of wellies that fix you; within lose the idea to be but we have a chance as well: practical. to survive two weeks of hard work at festivals!! I encourage you all to have a look at the blog that Raphael I think it’s going to be great has created with some but we have to be ready. practical info about the project and about the Festivals. And as granmas use to say:
Where? Skypton and Leeds When? 13th - 28th August Cost: Free
More info: thegreenmessagetofestivals. blogspot.co.uk
THE BEST COCKTAIL OF MUSIC The Hifi Club has every Sunday there will be some jazz blendded night free brilliant live music. with rock, blues and hip hop. If you enjoy that kind of music as So this month you will find bands I do, you have to go and see the as Mike Kearney Ka-tet who has Rich O’Brien Project then. one of the most dynamic live acts in Scotland. Their music After those there will be a great it’s based in different styles as trombonist but probably all of us Funk, Soul, Blues, Ska, Rock and will be at the Festival in Skypton, Jazz fusion. enjoying some good music as well in our ‘free time’. The second Sunday of the month
Where? Hifi Club When? Sunday night 10:00 pm - 04:00 am 4th August: Mike Kearney Ka-tet
11th August: Rich O’Brien Project Cost: Free More info: www.thehificlub.co.uk
RAINY DAYS
THE BEST SPANISH FILM at least for me...
I’m really proud to announce you that this month you can see in Leeds, ‘Blancanieves’, declared the best Spanish film of 2012, written and directed by my uncle, Pablo Berger Uranga. Family! And besides I think it’s perfect because you could see it in the best frame that this fantasy silent black and white story could have, Hyde Park cinema, the cutest cinema I have ever seen!
for Best Film, best director and best original screenplay. The film had been chosed by the Spanis Film Academy to represent Spain in the Oscars for the Best Foreign Language films category. The film is a quite good mix. It’s based in the fairy tale ‘Snow White’ by the Brothers Grimm, but it’s setted in the 1920s in Andalucia.
I encourage you all to The film has received go!! I hope you will enjoy more than 20 cinema it. awards this year including Goya Award
Where? Hyde Park Cinema When? 2nd August Cost: £4.80
More info: 0113 275 2045/ admin@ hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
THE SECRETS OF How to create a hamac
Hello family! This month I would like to share with you one of our biggest secrets to keep ourselves as young & dynamic as we were “fifty years” ago!: “We try to sleep in hamacs as much as we can”! I used to sleep ‘siesta’ with the hamac in the garden, it’s a really good habit in our age.
Nowadays, people just to trough everything and don’t value the cost of the things. And as I don’t like that, I’m going to give you an idea to transform a tenth into a water proof hamac!
It takes time but it’s great. I had made hammocks with fabric that are good for summer in Spain, but this kind Sleeping in hamac is really good for you, it’s a of hamac that I’m going to explain you it’s perfect for grandma’s advice. It helps you to get sleep quicker England. and to have a deeper sleep. If you lay down crossed (making an “X shape” between your body and the I know that your are going to the Festivals, maybe we hamac) it’s really good for your back and helps you to too. There will be some tents abandoned that you maintane flexibility on it and to keep yourselve agil to could use to make your own hamac! I encourage you go in and out of the hamac! to do it and I ask you to behave!! I used this hamacs/ hammock to sleep “fifty three” years ago in the rainforest of Mexico during one month and I can assure that they are perfect for any kind of All you need is: weather situation! I went there with a program called Ruta Quetzal BBVA and the director of the program Miguel de la Cuadra Salcedo, designed and produced - A tent (can be old, used, broke). those hamacs inspired in a design of the army in Vietnam (when he was working as war reporter). - Some good ropes (climb ropes will be perfect)
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- Scissors
- Velcro
- A strong needle , strong thread
- A sewing machine will be great and will help you to finish earlier and better.
- and time!
THE GRANDPAS...
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with your old tent?
Step by step:
1. You just need to sew up a rope* in each of the two most far opposite corners of the base of the tent.
the proper shape of it), Just cutting it and sewing it up to the base again.
* Each rope should have around three metres/ 9-10 ft length so you could put it almost anywhere.
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If the base is too big you can cut it with 4. Then you have to cut a big rhombus with rhombus shape (it has to be at least 2 the cover of the tenth and sew up ropes in metres length x 1,5m width; depending on each corner (it will be your “hammock’s umbrella”). your height). You will need to cut the base and put 5. You can make a bag with the fabric left to some Velcro (you will go in and out of the pack away and carry it easily. hammock) by this way. I hope you have liked my advices, enjoy and behave! 3. The part of the ‘mosquito net’ you should adjust it to the base (giving to the hammock See you all soon family,
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Agustina
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