LINK #153 by NGO K.A.NE.

LINK #153

Ju ly 15th 2020

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Content K.A.NE p. 4 - 6

Volunteers & Collaborators

KNOW US p. 8 “What is family for you?” p. 9 “How has your life changed now that you’re far from your family?” p. 10 “Do you see a difference between how the generations perceive family?”

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HOW TO SAY? p. 11 “You can choose your family” MAIN ARTICLE p. 12 - 13 Nowadays, what is the real definition of family? COMPARING p. 14 - 15 Differences between Greece and Poland p. 19

MY PROJECT p. 16 K.A.NE.’s office MY SENDING ORGANISATION p. 17 The Entrepreneurial Society Development Foundation (FRSP) INTERVIEW p. 18 - 19 Interview with Sabine and Krystyna p. 20

ART REVIEW p. 20 - 21 “Sergio” New film RECIPES OF THE WEEK p. 22 - 23 Italian dishes

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Volunteers Alix

Hi ! I’m Alix and I come from France, I‘m eighteen and I’m taking a break from my studies because I didn’t like what I was doing so i decided to go on ESC. I’ll stay here for 6 months and I’m so grateful and happy to do this experience in Greece with foreign volunteers. I work in the Therapeutic Equestrian Centre. I love horses, to share moments with people and to discover new places.

I am Annalisa, I come from the wonderful city of BologAnnalisa Hello! na (Northern Italy). I have an academic background in Inter-

national Relations (European Affairs) and look forward to become a project developer in international cooperation, tackling social issues through the participation of civil society. I am spending a year in Kalamata, volunteering at the K.A.NE’s office, helping out with the design and management of youth mobility and social projects.

Catarina

Hello! My name is Catarina and I’m a 21 year old girl from Portugal. After finishing my studies, I decided to stop for a year to clarify my ideas and decide what I will do next. Right now, I will be a volunteer here in Kalamata for the next six months, I’m working at the Therapeutic Horse Center Ιππόσχεση in Analipsi (Messsini). It’s the perfect combination between learning and being in contact with nature. There’s not much to say about me, I’m a calm person and probably my hobby is to listen to some rock music while reading a book or walking around the city.

Volunteers My name is Hania and I come from Poland. I am a volunteHania Kalimera! er at K.A.NE.’s office and I will stay here in Kalamata until the end of

August. I really like to travel, because I think life gets boring if you stay in one place for too long! One of my biggest dreams is to live for at least couple of months in several different countries, so I can truly experience other cultures – not just as a tourist.

Tania

Yuhu! My name is Tania. I come from a town in the northeast of Spain. I studied psychology, although now I don’t have in mind to dedicate myself to it. Honestly, now what I want is to know new places and live new adventures. My life plan is to live in as many different countries where I can. I will stay in Kalamata for a year and I’m volunteer in The Dog Shelter. I love the nature, sea, music, photography and enjoying the life.

Collaborators I am Filaretos Vourkos. For the last 15 years I am working Filaretos Hello, in the field of Non-formal education as a volunteer, youth worker

and youth trainer. 10 years ago,I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor for change.

Jelena

Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Jelena Scepanovic,an EVS coordinator in K.A.NE. and a volunteer of the Youth center. I came from Montenegro in 2012 as an EVS volunteer. I really liked the idea of the youth center and the work that K.A.NE. does, so I decided to stay and be part of it.

everyone! I am Nadiana, ESC & VET coordinator in K.A. Nantiana Hello NE over the last few years as well as Greek teacher. I am passio-

nate in travelling around, meeting new people and organising festivals.

Spiros

Hello, my name is Spiros Koutsogiannis and since the beginning of 2020 I am a project manager and responsible for the Research and Development department of KANE. I hold a degree in Civil Engineering and I have been working in the EU funded projects field since 2010, having implemented almost 65 projects.

Anna

Hi, I'm Anna Charalampous. I'm here to help with K.A.NE. social media, website and administration. I'm happy to be part of the team promoting youth work, education and volunteerism, both locally and globally.

Nancy

Hello World! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Nancy and I have been working in K.A.NE. since 2017 as a Project Manager and EVS/ESC coordinator. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m passionate about meeting new people and exchanging knowledge, experiences and ideas. I love the fact that many young people visit every year my hometown Kalamata and contribute to our society.

Quote of the week

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.â&#x20AC;? Marge Kennedy

Author: Catarina

Catarina

st Q U E S T I O N

Family for me is not related to blood-ties, for me family is such a big concept because it has nothing to do with “rules”, for me as long as I share love and friendship with someone else I considered them as my family. Why should I consider someone I never met family, just because she/he is the cousin of my grandmother’s father, but not my best friend how always helped me? For me family is all about caring, love, brotherhood, and support and has nothing related to what society imposes.

What is family for you?

Alix

In my opinion, a family is not about to have a father and a mother, it’s more than the « traditional way ». Nowadays, it’s really common to have just one mother or father, or two parents of the same gender. The most important is that they are happy together, they build something and children have a good education, way of life, and well-being. For me, I like a big family and I’m lucky to have a lot of sisters. Moreover, I want to have a huge family in my future because I love to share and spend time with my family.

Hania I believe that my generation has modified a traditional concept of family. Therefore, I disagree with the saying that “you don’t choose your family”: my family is rather small, because blood ties are not enough for me to include a person to my family members. I don’t trust most of them and we are not so important to each other. To build a real family, you have to show and maintain love, care, support and respect: that said, I sometimes feel like some of my friends are more like family members to me and more important in my life than my cousins that I never talk to. Tania

Annalisa

Although I come from a family commonly called traditional, the concept of “traditional family” that society has instilled in us since childhood has always made me rather lazy. From childhood, we were taught (especially women) that our greatest mission in life was to create a family. That is, find a partner, have children (if they are one boy and one girl, better), be united and happy forever. The frustration and discomfort that can be caused by social pressure for not fitting into the established canons are sad. For my family, it means the emotional and comfort union that is established between a group that shares a vital project at a certain stage of their lives regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or blood relationship.

To me, family is all about taking care of each other no matter what, even if someone has a personality that’s a mystery to you and you have a really hard time trying to understand their thinking or their behaviour: there’s no judgement and no hate. That’s because you don’t really choose your family, but you do feel a strong sense of belonging to it, big or small as it may be, it’s a safe place. Personally, I have been so lucky to find several families during my life, people with whom I have formed a really strong bond that doesn’t fade with distance in space nor time, and that has nothing to do with blood, given hierarchies and gender-based roles nor heterosexuality. 8

Catarina

How has your

nd Q U E S T I O N

My life changed a lot since I moved to Greece. It is actually the first time I spend so much time alone, especially in a different country and even though it is really tough sometimes as I miss them like crazy. I also like to have this distance between us, mainly because it allowed me to build my independence somehow. It makes me feel sad that I miss important dates like birthdays or important holidays, but we try to make the best out of this situation and we talk regularly on the phone.

life changed now that you’re far from your family? Alix

My parents learned me to be independent early. It was my choice to go abroad and I’m glad that they accept it and they are supporting me in my choice. Obviously, I miss them! Especially, my sisters because I’m very close to them. It’s not easy all the time to be far when it’s their birthdays, Mother’s, or Father’s Day. But also, I learn to live alone and I will be so happy to see them again when I will go back!

Hania I’m used to being away from my family, as I’d been studying in a different city and I’ve been living abroad for a while now. We worked out some ways to cope with the distance: I try to visit quite often and we communicate on a regular basis. I have to say that social media are ever so helpful with that! We created a WhatsApp group to share pictures and videos from everyday life and from time to time we have video calls. It makes us feel like we are still a part of each other’s lives, we are updated on important news and we can support each other like we’d been together. I feel extremely lucky to be supported and encouraged by my family to follow my dreams. I know they miss me a lot, but they never pressured me to do things that I don’t want to do or come back to Poland just to be close to them. They respect my independent decisions and vice versa.

Annalisa

Tania

I have always been a little too independent for my parents’ (especially my mother’s) taste: the first time I arranged to go abroad on my own I was 12 and spent some weeks in Ireland and 4 years later I was crossing the ocean all the way to Chile. As time goes by, I am more and more aware of what kind of a nightmare that must have been for them, and the reality of the matter is that when I was a teenager I had no clue of what being worried for your loved ones feels like, while now I can definitively perceive the “parallel lives” we are living, and the responsibility of having chosen to put some distance between us, even if I am terrible at calling regularly. Yes, I moved out at 18, but somehow that distance has made me more aware of how much I care for them and they for me. That applies today, still.

Although I love my family madly, I was always quite independent. At the beginning of my adolescence, I stopped doing activities with my family and began to invest all my free time with my friends. Almost a decade ago I went to study abroad but I was going to my town on weekends, holidays, summer... Honestly, most of the time that I spent with my family was when I was at my house. But about four years ago I started going to my town less and less for various reasons (many km, I started working...) Until that, I was six months without seeing them! Since then I began to appreciate the importance of being together and investing my free time in them. Now, although I live far away, I love to go out to eat with them, visit places, or whatever. 9

Catarina

Do you see

rd Q U E S T I O N

Yes, I can see some differences between my generation and the generations before me, especially my grandparents’ generation. First of all, the size of my family shrinks with the generation. For example, my grandparents have 5 or 6 siblings each and nowadays that’s not that common, for example, I have only one sister. Also, I think it changed a bit the time we spend all together, before (at least in Portugal) your relationships/ friendships were based on your family, so you would spend a lot of time just with them. Now as the mobility is bigger, of course, you spend time with your family, but your circle is bigger.

a difference between how the generations perceive family? Alix

Hania

My parents have 3 siblings like me, so I don’t really see a difference with them because our childhood was kind of the same. The difference is about « how is the family », for instance, I have a stepfamily and at the generation of my grandparents, it wasn’t common to divorce !! Also, they lived very near each other and now I have family everywhere in France so it’s different! But we keep this tradition to keep in touch with my all family, to have family dinner every Sunday and spend time together.

I believe that my family is significantly smaller than my parents’ or grandparents’. As I said before, I believe that we can choose my family, so I try to work hard to maintain my relationships, I don’t take them for granted. I think in the era of internet and social media blood ties have lost their function, we don’t need them so much in our modern world. For example, if my grandma wanted to travel or get some business done, she needed an expanded social network, which was mostly based upon blood relation and connections. Nowadays we don’t have to rely on them, as we build those networks online. That is why for me my family is just the closest, most important people around me whom I trust, while for my grandma it was a huge amount of uncles, aunts, cousins, second cousins etc...

Annalisa Definitively. Both of my parents come from bigger families and grew up living very close to their grandparents, oncles, aunts and cousins (sharing the same building or a couple of blocks away from each other at most), they were considered “black sheep” of their respective families because they wouldn’t marry for 10 years (eventually, they did, to stop the older female family members from accusing them of bringing shame and dishonour). They also lived their childhood in a “community” environment, where it was very usual for neighbours to take care of each other’s children and more in general to help each other out. I have only known one grandfather of mine, who died very early on, and although I have a lot of distant family members living all over the place (Italy, USA, Canada, Australia and what not, typical Italian migrants), there’s only a few of them I see regularly.

Tania In my case, there are significant differences. For example, my father grew up with his other 5 brothers in a country house where they lived with their parents, and right next to it were two other houses where his grandmother, uncles, and cousins lived. And some relatives spent long periods at his home. Then my mother, although she only has one brother, also lived in a country house with her parents, her grandparents, and her aunt. Apart from all kinds of animals. It’s very strange for me to imagine living in the same house or so close to my extended family because with most of them I currently have no relationship. 10

How to say? “You can choose your family”

Pots escollir la teva família

Vous pouvez choisir votre famille

Puoi scegliere la tua famiglia

Możesz wybrać swoją rodzinę

Puedes elegir tu familia

Μπορείτε να επιλέξετε την οικογένειά σας

Tu podes escolher a tua família

Lahko izberete svojo družino

Author: Catarina

Nowadays, what is the real definition of family ?

n 2020, the traditional family model has evolved. Especially for my country, in France, the family is not at all the same as 20 years ago. Between, reconstituted family, single-parent, homoparental or large family, the way of thinking is completely different.

-siblings, step-father, or just one parent. The mind of people is changing and they accept the fact that a family can be different in the traditional way. Firstly, to have a single-parent is more common. Some children lost one of them parents when they were young or they had a personal problem. Each story and each family is different. The fact to know and be educate only by one parent it’s not a problem in our society. Also, we can see a difference in the number of children that each family has. Previously, our grandparents had a lot of children, especially the catholic family. Now, generally, they have fewer children in the family because women began to have more responsibilities at work, to detach from the patriarchy and they are pregnant older.

How society change is habits and beliefs? Does this change the child’s education? When it was 20 years ago, there were announcements in schools when the parents of a child divorced, today it is no longer surprising or ashamed to be a child whose parents are separated. In France, 4 million children live mainly with a single parent. Nowadays, a lot of people have half-

Then, divorce is no longer taboo, and having

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(...) divorce is no longer taboo, and having separated parents has become the daily life of many children.

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separated parents has become the daily life of many children. The fact to have two families and two different environments are something common. The kid lives with his father one week and with his mother the other one. It’s a question of organization and education. The most important is to find a balance for the well-being of children. Also, having two families is about created new relationships and connections when you have half-siblings. Most of the time, when you spent your all childhood in a reconstituted family, you didn’t see the difference between your own siblings and your half-siblings.

a good thing. It’s better for a child to have two mothers or two fathers than to be orphans. It couldn’t be a problem for them to adopt a child. The « traditional model of the family » is exceeded. The most important thing in a family is to find his place, to have a good education and to be well surrounded. The purpose of a family is to spend a good time together, to grow and build things. All these new models of the family can’t be judge, because a family is about sharing, love, and confidence. There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to what is the best type of family structure. As long as a family is filled with love and support for one another, it tends to be successful and thrive. Families need to do what is best for each other and themselves, and that can be achieved in almost any unit.

Finally, the most recent model of the family is with homosexual parents. They are always people fighting for their rights. In my opinion, the way of thinking is changing and it’s

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The purpose of a family is to spend a good time together, to grow and build things.

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Author: Alix

What’s different? The differences between Greece and my home country

Poland

in life. Not so long ago, a book about scandinavian hygge lifestyle has reached huge popularity in Western countries, but I was wondering – is it so different from the old, good siga-siga? After spending some months in Greece I noticed that the pace of my life has decreased a lot. I didn’t gain any more time, but I learned to live slowly and be more observant to small details around me: how tasty is the pita at Panayiotis place, how sparkling is the sea, how authentically happy is the lady in the cafe when I try to order my coffee in Greek. I honestly can’t remember when was the last time that I was in a rush, and it makes me feel so relaxed and happy!

I think I could write a book on differences that I’ve noticed between Greece and Poland. The climate and nature in here are absolutely exotic to me: I become unwillingly excited and there is a huge smile on my face every time I see a cactus or an orange tree in someone’s garden. Tanned, dark-haired Greeks that I pass by every day on the streets look so different than pale, blonde Poles. Houses painted in bright, lively colours, balconies full of green plants, colorful shutters protecting windows from the sun – this all looks like an alien planet compared to what I know from my greyish, gloomy hometown. I also realised that how I’ve lived my life up until now is not the only possible lifestyle. I calmed down and slowed down. Observing closely how Greeks approach entertainment, work, deadlines, food, relationships – I’ve started learning a life lesson how to appreciate small moments

Living among Greeks for 6 months, I noticed that family seems to have an extremely strong value for them. They really take care of their family members and they stay close even with their cousins and distant relatives. We all know

but I think it’s not so common. The difference is, for Polish people it’s an embarassing situation in which we feel incompetent or unsuccessful with our independent lives. Greeks, on the other hand, consider this a normal, logical, economical choice.

“ (...) a huge smile on my

face every time I see a cactus or an orange tree in someone’s garden.

Seeing so many cultural differences, I was glad to notice that we share one celebration/ritual that is not so common in other European countries: nameday. Both in Greece and in Poland namedays are equally important to birthdays and are widely celebrated. We always call to wish someone a happy nameday (especially our relatives from older generations) or visit them with flowers and cake. It’s a great excuse to meet your relatives if you haven’t got in touch with them for a long time!

” this stereotype, for example from a classic movie „My big fat Greek wedding”. I still remember all of my friends telling me before I came to Greece to „be cautious with those Greek boys, they are too close with their mothers and they will expect you to do everything for them!” (I could say the same about Polish boys, being so used to their moms doing most of the tasks for them, creating lazy, incompetent men – but of course it’s easier to judge people from other cultures, right?). I was quite surprise though to meet many young Greeks, around my age, still living with their parents. Of course in my country some young adults share houses with their parents,

Since my arrival to Greece in January I have been constantly amazed by discovering new aspects of rich Greek culture, which seems to be – compared to my own – so different and exciting. At the same time I have learned to appreciate and understand my own cultural roots. Exploring the differences and searching for similarities between Greece and Poland is an on-going, fascinating experience! Author: Hania

Name Socially Engaged: Learn – Teach, Get – Give Place of the project Social Youth Development K.A.NE. – office Address Salaminos 8, Kalamata 241 00 Country & City Kalamata | Greece Website www.ngokane.org Facebook www.facebook.com/kane.kalamata/ E-mail info@ngokane.org

My Project Hello! I’m Hania and at the moment I am volunteering in K.A.NE.’s office in Kalamata. K.A.NE. is a non-governmental organisation that promotes national and international youth work.

What are my tasks? My main task is to support the daily running of the office: I help with administrative tasks such as preparing some documents. Apart from that I support the ESC projects’ coordination and promotion: I participate in Skype interviews with potential volunteers, communicate with them before their arrival and help to coordinate their project when they come to Kalamata. Sometimes I create social media content, search for volunteers on online platforms or create infographics for the website. I also have a chance to support K.A.NE. in developing international projects. Additionally, I share some common tasks with other volunteers: we create a bi-monthly online magazine and participate in the Youth Centre activities.

teresting to me. Some people might think that office work is boring, but I am very enthusiastic about it! I think that being in this project helps me to get specific knowledge and develop soft skills that will be useful in my future professional life, but also – because I’m very motivated – I can also contribute a lot to K.A.NE.’s activities.

People I work with: Every day I work closely with another ESC volunteer in the office, Annalisa from Italy, and our two ESC Coordinators: Nadiana and Jelena. I also cooperate with the rest of the office team: Anna from secretary, Spiros from R&D department and Filaretos – director of K.A.NE.

Author: Hania

What am I learning from it: Not only am I learning how is it to work in an NGO that develops and manages international projects regarding youth and youth work, but at the same time I gain a lot of important transversal skills related to teamwork, communication, problem solving, planning, project management, time management…

What I love about the project: I love the fact that I do something that is really in16

My Sending Organisation The Entrepreneurial Society Development Foundation (FRSP) was established to work for employment, creating new jobs and developing entrepreneurship. It was created by experienced professionals operating on different fields (public administration, the private sector and NGOs). Their activities focus on providing advice on how to change jobs, get an internship, receive funds for setting up, developing a company or an NGO to all those who are interested in any way in the labor market: students, the unemployed, working and entrepreneurs, as well as non-governmental organisations. Apart from those, the Foundation also provides services such as legal advice, image consulting and public relations. FRSP is a professional organisation cooperating with local volunteers and supporting their involvement in all areas of the organisation’s life. Their goal is to give young people the opportunity to acquire new qualifications thanks to international trips, which in the future will help them to enter the Polish labor market. Main projects: FRSP has been coordinating Erasmus+ projects with several on-going ESC projects. They act both as a sending and hosting organisation. Their main projects are related to strategy consulting and grants & financing.

My experience with FRSP: FRSP is a Coordinating Organisation of my project. Since the very beginning I am very pleased with the professional approach of the organisation. They support me a lot throughout the entire experience: I received detailed information and a pre-arrival Skype training before coming to Kalamata and my Coordinator is communicating with me regularly to check on me. I feel supported and I know I can count on her in any difficult situation, which is extremely helpful during the time of coronavirus pandemic. It’s very important to me that my Sending Organisation is actively involved in monitoring and evaluating my project. Knowing that both organisations are making an effort to ensure the quality of my mobility, I think it makes me enjoy my ESC even more! Author: Hania

Name Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Przedsiębiorczego (FRSP) City & Country Katowice | POLAND Date of creation 2014 Website www.frsp.eu/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fundacjarsp/ Instagram www.instagram.com/evs_frsp/ YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCKDMXf0L0PBGFWb9H7erH2A

Interview Sabine and Krystina are two volunteers I met during my online on arrival training. They are working on environmental protection - related issues on Lipsi, an island.

Interviewer: Why did you decide to become a ESC volunteer, and why Greece? Sabine: I was working in the Netherlands in a very responsible job for almost three years and I really loved my job, but a part of me wanted to see more of the world and work in Marine Conservation, since diving is my hobby and I’m still young. I’ve always had a great interest in the sea, so I found myself a project in the Maldives for one month, and decided I wanted to go abroad for a longer period of time. In this search, I found ESC and they got me in touch with a very helpful contact person. There were only a few projects in Marine Conservation and that is how I ended up in Greece. Krystyna: I was thinking about doing some volunteering for a while, but I was looking for an organization that will suit my interest the most. I wanted to do some work that will relate to marine environment protection and I will be able to use my knowledge that I gained during my studies in practice. I didn’t particularly choose Greece it was more about the project than 18

Erasmus+ Volunteer

Name Sabine Arnold / Krystyna Muszel Nationality Dutch / Polish Hosting NGO Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation Volunteering Marine Mammal Team / “Healthy environment, healthy human” Place Lipsi Island | GREECE

the country itself but I’m really glad that I ended up here as Greece is a very beautiful country. I think ESC volunteering program is an amazing opportunity for young people to gain some experience and work abroad in multicultural environment. I traveled a lot around the world and worked in many different countries before. I always enjoy meeting new people from all over the world, learning about their customs and culture. ECS gives that opportunity and I think that it is perfect opportunity for a first long stay abroad. Interviewer: What’s your project about? Sabine: I don’t really have one project, but my work is about Marine Life in the Aegean Sea. I enjoy the beautiful scenery and waters in Greece. Furthermore, I’ve met so many nice internationals and local people. They really made my stay worthwhile. Krystyna: In Archipelagos there are different projects going on, my project is about Posidonia oceanica distribution, which is a very important seagrass that needs to be protected. Interviewer: What’s family to you? Sabine: Family are the ones who you can always go back to. They love you in the good and bad times. You can really be yourself around them. Krystyna: For me family are the people that you care about and they care about you. Interviewer: After the quarantine experience, do you feel like you have a Greek home and family? Sabine: Yes I definitely found some people inside and outside of the organisation who feel like family. We spent so much time together, exploring Greece. They explained all the Greek traditions and we participated for example in Easter and the first of May. Even though it was a time of Covid-19 pandemic, it didn’t affect my experience of being here. Krystyna: I met a lot of great people in Greece and I think I was lucky to be on a small Greek island during the quarantine. I think I have a good relationship with the local community. Could it be home? I don’t know but it’s a really lovely place that I might visit again one day after my internship is over just for holidays. Interviewer: What’s a fun fact about your Greek experience? Sabine: I know most of the fishermen in the little island of Lipsi. Whenever my colleagues look for me, they tell each other that I might be on the boat of the 19

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I know most of the fishermen in the little island of Lipsi.

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fisherman 1, fisherman 2 or 3...! Krystyna: During Easter because of covid-19 it was not possible to go to church and celebrate it in the usual way. Some Greeks were very sad about it, as it is one of the most important holidays in Greece. One of the Lispi’s citizens decided to do something about it. He connected his phone to very loud speakers and started to play the prayers from very early hours in the morning till late night with a little bit of break in between, so the whole town could hear them. You might ask how we know that it was his phone that was connected to the speakers, well... sometimes the prayer stopped and you could hear the very loud noise, the same that means you just got a new message on one of the internet messengers apps. This cacophony of sound lasted the till the last day of Easter and I think we all got used to it after a while. It was a bit strange when one day we didn’t have power on the island (it does happen from time to time) and again it was very quiet.

Interviewer: Annalisa

W’Art?! “Sergio” New film

For this LINK’s edition, I present you with a film – Sergio. It is a recent film, came out in April 2020 and it is a Netflix original. This film is that is based on a true story – the story of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a UN Diplomat who died in Iraq in 2003. It is specifically based on Samantha Powell’s novel Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World. For me, what I like the most about this film is the perfect combination between the story, a really interesting story that shows humanity and sense of care towards the others, and the cast, you probably know Wagner Moura from Narcos where we interpreted Pablo Escobar, in this film he is the main character and once again he amazes everyone with his talent. The film is about the true story of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a UN Diplomat, he worked for UN for 34 years and during these 2 hours, it’s showed his years as a diplomat but also is a personal life, all based in true facts. It is basically a film that moves between the present and the past in order to tell us his story, I definitely do not want to be accused of spoiling but this film does not have a happy ending and you might even shed a

tear. But even with a sad ending I highly recommend you to watch this film, you will not regret it as it portraits important moments in the recent history of the world, such as Iraq war or East Timor Independence. It also shows the importance of power (in this specific case between UN and USA) but also the importance of actually caring for someone’s life, when you have Sergio’s job you cannot face people’s problems as business or interests, you really need to care and feel empathy for these people how is suffering and fleeing and were left with nothing.

“In a world of conflict, he risked everything for peace.” Author: Catarina

Recipes of the week

Easy 30 min 3 servings

Spaghetti in crema di ricotta e pistacchi con pomodorini (Spaghetti in ricotta and pistachios cream with cherry tomatoes)

Ingredients: - 150 gr ricotta - 15 basil leaves - 40 gr pistachios - 40 gr parmigiano cheese - 40 ml extra virgin olive oil - 350 gr spaghetti - 1 garlic - q.s. salt - q.s. pepper - 150 gr cherry tomatoes

Preparation: 1. In a bowl, mix the ricotta, the basil leaves, the pistachios, the parmesan cheese, the olive oil, salt and pepper and whisk them. 2. On the side, brown in a pan a garlic clove and the cherry tomatoes cut in halves in the olive oil for around 3 minutes. 3. Add some salt and pepper. Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti in salted boiling water 4. Remove the garlic, add the spaghetti and the creme to the pan and mix with 4/5 basil leaves, pistachios grains and some cooking water. 5. Serve while hot! Tip: you can also use pasta alla chitarra, linguine or tagliatelle or even other kinds of pasta instead of spaghetti.

Sbriciolata cocco e ricotta al cacao fredda (Ricotta and coconut crumbled cake)

Easy 1 h 30 min 8 servings

Ingredients: - 200 gr chocolate biscuits - 4-5 spoons of ricotta - For the filling: - 200 gr ricotta - 200 ml cream - 50 gr dehydrated coconut - around 30 ml milk - 3 sugar spoons (optional)

Preparation: Warning: the cake is not very sweet, I used sugared cream and no sugar, if you use fresh cream put 100 gr sugar 1. Grind the biscuits, add the ricotta gradually until the mixture starts getting a crumble and damp look. If you prefer, you can use some butter, but I used oil-based biscuits. 2. Pour half of the mixture on the bottom of a cake pan with an opening ring (diameter ca. 20 cm), press it well using a spoon and put into the freezer. 3. Cook the coconut with some milk in a saucepan (put the coconut and pour the milk on it until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s covered). Keep mixing it until it almost reaches boiling temperature. Turn the flame off and leave it to cool down. 4. Whip the cream, the ricotta and the milk with coconut and sugar until you get a soft and creamy mixture. 5. Pour the mixture into the cake pan and cover with biscuits crumbles and coconut grains. 6. Put into the freezer and leave it for around 1 hour. Enjoy! Author: Annalisa

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