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Content Editorial Who we are New volunteer in Kalamata About a previous volunteer Punk Interview with volunteer Sport Lisboa e Benfica Catania Party in The Netherlands Recipe Let’s do it What’s new What’s coming soon
Editorial I am at the Youth Centre of Kalamata after really long time and I realise how much I miss this place. Lately I am rarely in Kalamata due to professional obligations and the first thing I miss after family is the Youth Centre. In the first floor people are dancing, in the second children are playing and in between an English school is taking an interview by an EVS volunteer. Few minutes in this place makes you feel great. Multilingualism, multiculturalism, happy people and beautiful faces! Being member of this experiment since the beginning I can see the impact it has in our community and I can recall hundreds of brilliant examples of youth whose life changed through the Youth Centre of Kalamata. Feeling refreshed I can only wish this initiative to grow more and survive the challenges it faces everyday. Especially now that youth living in Greece, are going through the worst social and economic crisis of the last 50 years. Feel free to join the Youth Centre of Kalamata and be part of this unique experience!!!
Filaretos
Who we are My name is lolita but you can call my lola also. I have twenty years old. I studie social work. I love animal and in particularity my favorite are horses. I like dancing, listen music. My personality adventuress, Philosophie of lolita : stay serious but when the time is for enjoy, laugh because life is simple ! =)
I am Burçin BEZİRKAN, from Turkey. I am 25 years old and coming from Antalya. I studied Public Administration at Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University and I am doing master at same university and on the same major. Here in Kalamata, I am working in Farma Fifa with Mirto Fifa for Natural Farming Project. I love reading book and watching movies and I love this Country!!!!
Aye, i’m Laura nineteen years old and i come from the south of France. I’m interest in learning other language and cultre and that’s why i came the Greece. I’m more of an indoor person with a calm personality and i really like snow that why i love winter but i pefer spring for the flower. XD
Hello everyone, as you already may know, I am Daan the Dutch EVS’er. Don’t confuse it with Deutsch, I am from The Netherlands. You know, Amsterdam, cheese and weed. Ok, I would love to meet a lot of people, so if you are in for a beer or a coffee, you will find me! Hello, I’m Agnieszka, I’m 23 years old and I come from Poland. I’m volunteering in Youth Centre of Kalamata. I’m a big fan of music festivals and live music. My favorite season is summer, and the most enjoyable sport is snowboarding ;).
Hello people, I’m Nuno Davide and I twenty-three years. I’m from Portugal and I live in (Lisbon). I studied Graphic Design, and I love drawing, painting, listening to music, playing football and many things .. I came to Greece to evolve in my artistic career and learn and experience new cultures English Greek principaly. ;) So..I am from Poland. My name is Kasia and I am 23 years old. I study Croatian language and literature. Balkan, most of all Serbia, is my place in this world, but I love to travel, to live in different places, to meet new people, because from this people I draw energy and joy. I love to dance and sing even I’m not the best in it. I love to listen to people and see some situations from different perspective. I learn by experience, project in Greece is next step in my “education”on”.
Aye my name is Lorenzo Brizi ad i come from Italy. I come from a small town located between lazio, umbria and tuscany. Named acquapendente. In the province of viterbo. I’m 20 years old and i will stay in Kalamata until september. I will work to the youth center as a teacher of italian and also in tourist information center. I want to try new working experience to improve myself and also enjoy the summer, the beach and the company
Hi! I’m Stina, 20 years old and from Hamburg in Germany. My project here where I volunteer, is in the Youth Center. What I like the most, is music. In Hamburg I sing in two bands, I’m learning the guitar and go to concerts and festivals as much as I can.
Hello, my Name is Jana an I am from Hamburg. I am working in the therapeutic horse riding project and also in the KEFIAP Center. In my free time I like to dance ballet and meet some friends.
Like we say: we keep the best for the end so now K.A.NE people Hello fellow EVSers! My name is Argyris, Αργύρης, Арјирис, 아라리스 (the last one is Korean, and the one before is my contribution to serbocroatian) and I am the most long-term Euphoric Violent Surrealist (EVS) in K.A.NE., I am an all around player, attacking with the power of unlimited love and laughter and defending with the shield of memory. I have been living in Kalamata and working for K.A.NE. since April 2014 and I know everything about the meaning of life and death. Feel free to ask me whatever you want. Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organization and responsible for all sending motilities (sending EVS volunteers, participants in training courses, interns, etc). Apart from my work in K.A.NE., I also volunteer in the Youth Centre of Kalamata, a volunteer initiative managed by a team of local volunteers. I am very proud of and I love the Youth Centre, its dynamic, and most of all its natural inclusiveness that allows everybody to feel “at home” there. See you around :-D Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal education as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 4 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate the youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor of change.
New volunteer in kalamata
Hi! I’m Tania, an Italian volunteer. I’m graduated in Foreign Languages and Communication Studies. Since I was 11 I discovered my passion for studying English and then I decided to study also other languages like Spanish, a little bit of French and I took up alsoto study a little bit of Polish and Russian. Greek language will be the next. I love rock music, travelling, stay together with my friends and my family and create accessories, especially with crochet technique.
Hey my name is Kostantinos (Kostas) and i come from Cyprus, Limasol. I was born in August of 1992. I love music especially rock and punk rock. I will be in Kalamata until February . See you!
About a previous volunteer Hello! I am writing about Ines today. She was volunteer here for Farma Foifa and we worked together during 7 months. (I hate using past tense for her.) She left last week and she is in Crete now. But she is going back to her real life in Austria. She was my best friend in Kalamata and we shared a lot of things. Although it has been just –not even- 1 week, I miss her a lot and I wanted to tell this to everybody through our lovely LINK magazine. I am sure I will not be the only person who will miss her but it is more difficult for me. It is missing the best friend, it is missing one of the most important people in my EVS life and it is missing a “secret friend.”
With the little details at farm, I remember her every day and I always want to say her that I miss her. But I know, it will make her upset and I just want her enjoy her time in Crete. I will tell very single emotional details when she goes back to Austria. And probably she will also read this article after she arrives to Austria.
So, my dear Ines, you are and amazing person and I am so lucky that I had a chance to meet you and to work with you during these 7 long, difficult months. Thank you for being always there to support me and to let me have a person to trust till the end. Although we have different life styles, I know that our mind is working the same. ;) And I know that you miss me. And we will see each other during our long miserable live. :P Until the first meeting, take care of yourself! See you!
Burรงin Bezirkan
Punk! Let’s talk about PUNK! Not everybody have already heard about Panx Romana so im obliged to say few words for this amazing greek based band who their songs and their ethics has influenced lots of people (including me). At the early 80s the band consisted by three persons, the vocals, the base and guitar. After a while the fourth member, a drummer, has joined the group. At the beginning they were giving performances in schools and several bars/clubs. They were also participating in Punk-festivals in Athens and Thessaloniki where they have had the opportunity to cooperate with other punk bands such as “Stress” and the “Ex-humans”.
Their songs talk mostly about love and respect for our fellowmans, their disagreement to mandatory conscription and against all of the kind of drugs including the alcohol. In 1987, their first album named “Παιδία στα Όπλα (Pedia sta Opla, Armed Children)” was released. After two years, they have recorded their second album called “Αντάρτες Πόλεων (Antartes Poleon/ City Rebels”. Subsequently their albums “Σπάσε την Γραμμή (Spase tin Grammi/Brake the Line)” ,the “Διαγωγή Κοσμία (Diagogi Kosmia)” and the “Κράτος Κλειστόν (Kratos Kliston/The Closed State)” were released in 1993,1996,1999 accordingly. After their last album the members of the band, took separated paths. Fortunately, five years later they have gave some new performances and soon we are waiting, the release of their new album, which is expected to be great!
Kostantinos Ioannou
Interview with volunteer Hi Tania, tell me something about you. I’m Tania and I come from Sicily, Italy. The town name where I come from is Palagonia, near Katane in the oriental part of Sicily. I’m almost 29 and I’m here to do a new experience in a foreign country. What are your hobbies? I like to travel and know new places. I like also DIY, to take photos and cook for friends and my family. How long are you here, in Kalamata? I’m here for just 10 days now, but so far I like it: I like having the beach so close and I’ve seen some nice places also. Where you should do the volunteer here in Kalamata? I should volunteering in the tourist office of Kalamata.
Before coming here, what did you do? Last summer I participated to Leonardo project that allowed me to do an internship in an hotel in Krakow. As soon as I came back home, I decided to study a new language: Russian. Right now I had to give up with that because of EVS, but I can replace Russian with Greek. What will you do once you come back to your country? I will get the certification in order to be able to teach Italian language to foreigners and maybe this way will lead me to a period in the USA. Finger crossed.
Lorenzo Brizi
Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a multi-sport club based in São Domingos de Benfica parish, in Lisbon, Portugal. His eclecticism, history and strong fan base make the Benfica one of the Great clubs in Portugal and one of the most prestigious worldwide. Estimates of the number of fans point to about 14 million spread across the world. According to Guinness, Benfica was the world’s most active club members, about 160 000 in 2006, reaching in 2014 the 235 000 members. This figure was confirmed by FIFA in The Weekly in February 2014, which made the SL Benfica the club with the most members in the world. Besides being the Portuguese club with the most fans, it is second UEFA European club with the highest percentage of fans in their own country, with a value of around 47 percent and the world’s biggest club in the number of partners with respect according to FIFA and the Guinness World Records.
It is the twenty-sixth richest football club in the world in terms of profit, with annual turnover of about € 126 million and is valued as the thirty-eighth most valuable football brand in the world. The motto of Benfica is “E pluribus unum” (Out of many, one) and its official anthem is “Ser Benfiquista”. The club colors are red and white, the team has the nickname of Eagles or Incarnate and his supporters are called Benfica.
Nuno Davide
Catania
Catania (in Greek Κατάνη) is the second-largest city in Sicily and one the fifteen metropolitan cities in Italy. So, why a tourist should choose to visit Catania? Catania one of the few cities of the world interesting under the point of view of culture and history, amazing naturalistic landscapes, unique in the world, folklore, seaside and nightlife. Catania history is strongly linked with the Mount Etna story as the city was destroyed several times by lava flow, the most important in 1669, but as phoenix it obtain a new life from its ashes. In fact, the city was completely rebuilt in 1669 and the historical centre has an early neoclassical asset, but with the influence of a late baroque style. The main material used were marble and lava stone, so the city centre has the contraposition of black and white of these two stones. The city centre has also two main gardens: Villa Pacini and Villa Bellini. Underneath the city run a river: the Amenano. It is possible to see it flowing in the Amenano fountain, in Dome square.
In this square it is possible to see also the Dome the elephant fountain. This two elements represent the religious and the profane power in order to block other lava flows in the city. The elephant is also the symbol of the city. From here it is possible to continue on Via Etnea, one of the main streets, where it is possible to see “a Muntagna” as Catania people call it in a respectful way inflecting the name in feminine, the Mount Etna. In Stesicoro square there are the traces of the several flows Catania suffered during his history, as underneath there is the Roman amphitheatre. Other remarkable places to visit are Vincenzo Bellini Theatre, really amazing inside, the Benedictine Monastery of “San Nicolò” where is possible to have a guided tour, the Greek theatre that has free entrance and Ursino castle where at the moment there is a Picasso exposition. These are just a few things you can visit.
For those who love nature Mount Etna is the perfect solution to make an excursion. many legends are connected with Etna. When Mount Etna erupts it’s a real show.
As regard the folkore, a very important moment is the Festival of Saint Agatha, that is the most important religious festival. It commemorates the life and martyrdom of what is the city’s patron saint. It takes place annually from 3 to 5 February, but weeks before it is possible to see along the street processions following “Candelore”. Candelore are made of wood and they are a devotion sign of the people to the Saint. In Catania they represent also the most common jobs and they are twelve. Some of them are ancient and made in the baroque style and contain a big candle inside.
In the end, we have the last to aspects of the city: the seaside and nightlife. There are both rocky and sandy beaches: the first in Ognina whilst the latter at the Playa. Whereas the nightlife develops above all around the Main Theatre Square where there are several clubs and pubs. So, what would you like to choose among all these aspects?
Tania Lagana
Party in The Netherlands I would like to tell you something about the party days in my country. Because also the Dutch people know how to party. Everything starts with the celebration of our beloved king and queen, Willem and Maxima. That Willem is a big party example for us Dutchies explains his nickname: Prince pils. (Prince beer). We celebrate his birthday on the 27th of April, Kingsday. Everyone is dressed in orange, our national colour. And of course most of the people don’t make it to the night because if it is for one day allowed to drink beer on the streets, everyone will abuse this speciality :) If you survive this day, the next party is already coming, the 5th of may. This day our country celebrates the liberation from the second world war. During this day, alover the country festivals arise and where the rain normally is falling everybody is happy and think about the fact that our freedom is not a simple thing. And of course, we are a happy nation so we like to party for no reason. Enough reasons to find good parties in The Netherlands!. Your Dutch, Daan Roorda
Recipe - Kartoffelsalat (Potato Salad) In Germany we eat a lot of potatoes. Here is the recipe of the potato salad of my grand mother. Ingredients: - - - - - - -
ca. 1 1/2 kilo potatoes 1 glass of pickled cucumbers 1 big onion 1 big apple 1 tea spoon mustard a bit of broth salt, pepper
First you cook the potatoes and peel it. You dice the cucumbers, the onion and the apple. The onion, apple, mustard, the broth and the liquid of the cucumber glass you boil up and flavor it with salt and pepper.
Cut the potatoes in slices and stack it together with the cucumber dices in a big bowl. Now you should pour the hot sauce over it, mix it and leave it until the next day. Before you serve it you should mix 3 table spoons inside. ENJOY YOUR MEAL! GUTEN APPETIT! (A good combination are wieners/vienna sausages!)
Stina Binder
Let’s do it Last sunday 26th of April at 12h00 the Youth Center had participate in the Let’s do it in Kalamata. After cleaning Othonos Square we share a big lunch together prepare by each of us and enjoy a autiful afternoon.
Laura Doddi
What’s new New volunteer arrive in Kalamata: Tania our Italian girl who work in tourism office and Kostantinos our Chyprus volunteer who work in the lovely Youth Center. New paiting! Our volunteer artiste Nuno is progressing on a new painting on the wall of the Yoth Center
What’s coming soon New volunteer coming in Kalamata from portugual. Roof Party: The roof of Youth Center is now clean and secure we will now be able the use an enjoy it!
The volunteers responsible for this publication are hosted in Greece in the framework of the European Erasmus+ programme, KA1/youth - European Voluntary Service. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.
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