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Beijing, city of contrasts
Typical areas surrounded by buildings, historical Beijing is the neighbour of commercial Beijing. How is it possible ? In the streets, good looking men met disabled people. New electric buses drive near old buses, recent cars met old cars, big restaurants...
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Body language in peru
When I arrived in Peru , I noticed that the population was doing really weird things with theirs hands. At first, when they waved me to come I was confused; when the kids counted I was wondering what they were doing... In short, I wanted to know more...
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Hong Kong trip
Deep breath, it’s time to go outside the Mainland Before our departure to Beijing, we get a multiple entries visa for 6 months in China but each stamp is valid for 90 days. Consequently we had to go out to the mainland and our destination was Hong Kong...
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Goodbye...
This weekend is the beginning of the holidays for all the kids in Peru. So, this was my last week with the kids from the school and from the aldea. Yesterday, I saw them for the last time. And even though I knew before I left from France that this day...
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The teacher's day ... / El dia del maestrop
I am going to tell you about the teacher's day of 6th of jul (but celebrated the 5th). Before starting with this celebration, I'd like to talk about how surprised I am of the frequency of celebrations in Peru. I have the feeling that every that every...
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Great Birthday Celebration
Last Saturday, we had a great birthday celebration for the ten-years anniversary of Pistes Solidaires.In total of 60 people attended to the meeting and gave their best wishes for our organisation. At the beginning of the meeting, we recalled the history...
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Chinese New Year Ⅳ
New Year activities in Beijing Temple fair is one of the most important celebration activities during the Spring Festival. This traditional cultural event integrates religious worship and entertainment, and features almost all kinds of Chinese folk art....
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El Cerro Blanco, the highest dune of the world!
Last week end, we found a new way to enjoy our free day : walking in the mountains and doing sandboard from early in the morning to early afternoon. Simona, Benoit (other volunteer), and friend of his (Amandine) and I climbed el Cerro Blanco that is close...
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Happy Mother Day
Time flies away very quickly here. It is good because we are never bored, there is always much to do but it also means iot is harder to write an article in time! Yes, I want to talk about the mother day in Peru, El dia de la madre. I still have difficulties...
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EVS Experience Part II
Today I will talk about my EVS experience during February, March, April and May. Some weeks ago I wrote an article about the first months. Now I will talk about the activities progresses. February: the Community Center was close and I missed a lot my...
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26-30 November ,2012, Sommières,Training activities in EVC
After a short journey, it was getting dark, Isabel、Rob and I finally arrived at the Sommières,It was a typical kinds of building in France. In total of 35 volunteers from different countries attended to the training, with the average age of 25 years old,...
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Survival Communication in China
I dont speak Chinese. I can speak just little words. Some times when I speak the Chinese people don’t understand me... I like the Chinese, is nice, but difficult, mainly during the first months. I made some Chinese Lessons and Costanza taught me some...
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Children's birthdays
Last week before Easters Holidays : As the children of the "aldea" were leaving on thursday to go in their family and it was the last oportunity of the month to celebrate the birthdays we dit it on wednesday. We (it was also mine) received a huge cake...
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24 hours of volunteering !
Here, the time seems to fly. The weeks are going by incredibly fast ! To have a better idea of our life and our work here, this is an example with my day of yesterday ! 6.30 am: waking up 6.30 until 7.10 am: preparation ( shower, breakfast...) 7.10 -...
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Eat smart part 2
Hi everybody ! As you can guess I don't have a lot of time to post about the eat smart project, so just to share some news with you, let say that yesterday was very informative. In the morning every national team present their own culinary culture with...
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Chinese New Year Ⅴ
Chinese New Year Food Chinese New Year Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. Chinese...
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Will you dance with me?
As were explaining Cecile, here, there are days for everything... Lately we just seem to have a new day, every day... And that's how, last time we celebrated farmers' day! To do so, three children of the aldea participated at a dance in the coliseum of...
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The inestimable value of water.
Volunteer’s life is full of surprise. Here, for example, we need to be very careful with the water. Indeed, Nasca is situated in the aridest part of Peru. Each house has a water tank in her roof. Our has a countenance of 1100 liters of water and need...
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Eat smart 3
Hi everybody ! So here is the last pst about the eat smart project here in Beijing. On wednesday we cooked french and chinese dishes. The french team worked on a piperade with french fries and magrets de canard, while the chinese team was focused on spicy...
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Senior Citizen Cooperation visit
On the 24 January 2013 we visited the Senior Citizen Cooperation, a Cango member organization which works with elder people in a Beijing district. In china, as in many countries around the world, the elder people part in the population is growing. More...
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Paris
Last week, it is my vacation. Tao (volunteer in Italy) and me (volunteer in France) went to Paris, Paris is very. . . very. . . very. . . very. . . very. . . Cold, but it is really a cool trip. We visited The Louvre Museum, ElyséePalace, Notre Dame De...
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Rural Workers Community Center: New Year Party!
cSpecial activities at the Community Center were made to celebrate the New Year! Second hand and donation clothes have been sold. At the night, the very nice New Year Party! The Rural Workers Cultural Group organized sing, dance and theatrical sketch...
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For the laugh of a kid
Last week, we finished the installation of the game created by one volunteer named Benoit. The kids of the Aldea were very helpfull and eager to try them . What striked me the most the followings days was to hear the kids’laughs every nights after school....
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EU-China Dialogue on Government Procurement of CSO Service
Hi everybody ! Last week the four of us spent three days attending a conference about the EU-China Dialogue on Government Procurement of CSO Service. Organized in two times, the first part dedicated to some presentations and the second one to workshops,...
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Chinese New Year Ⅱ
Chinese New Year Decorations Plants and Flowers Kumquat Tree In Chinese the kumquat is called Gam Gat Sue. The word "Gam" rhymes with the Chinese word for gold, and the word "Gat" sounds like the Chinese word for good luck. Therefore, having a kumquat...