13. January : Speed dating with volunteers 🍵

This is me, Tanja and I must admit we didn't do any speed dating.

But it was sort of like it 😁

Karo, another EVS volunteer from Poland, invited several volunteers, including me, to join her event. She works in a huge youth center in Rezekne with Camilla (Italien volunteer)  and Melyne (French volunteer). 

This Friday, we, a total of nine volunteers from Poland, Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Turkey, Czech Republic and Germany gave locals the opportunity to get direct information about EVS.  The event was called CreativiTea and took part in the youth center. Each of the locals was allowed to talk to one volunteer for three minutes, before switching to the next. Therefore we secretly referred to event as "speed dating". They asked us questions about our motivation, our work,  free days, travels, money, applications etc.

Funnily, the most common question was: "Why Latvia?" 😁

Of course, we had tea and biscuits during the event😉

In my opinion, CreativiTea was a success, because many of the attendees were thankful and very interested. They gave us positive feedback and are thinking about doing an EVS, too. 😊