Romanian football

        I used to watch football a lot with my brother, supporting our favorite teams, shouting like crazy, disturbing our parents and the neighbors. J

To be sincere, it was mostly because of the football players, not that I was that interested in football, and I had a list of the most handsome ones... Oh and I still have a few posters of Beckham in my room.

So, my brother had a hard job to convince me to be reasonable while I am choosing my team, not just particular players that were good looking.J

The last few years I couldn’t find time to watch football, but I am still a huge fan of Juventus and I have to mention Inter too (just as a moral support to my brother).

        Few days ago, I was asked to work at the Stadium (Stadionul Motorul) during the football match - UTA Arad vs Pandurii Targu Jiu. I was concerned that I will be really bored there, but anyway I decided to go. I worked with the volunteers from Future Capital, we were split in 4 teams.

I was surprised that people here really care about the local football clubs, and how many people came to watch the match. It was a bit tiring because I didn’t have the chance to sit but again I had the opportunity to speak Romanian with local people.

Oh, and I also saw the football players, but unfortunately I forgot to take pictures. J  

        The staff lady that worked with me thanked me many times for my help. So, after all I really like Romanian culture and Romanian people. Also, I really wanted UTA team to win.

And at the end, it wasn’t boring at all.

Hi everyone! Welcome back!

Hi everyone! Welcome back!  

   We know that summer always feels like it is over before it even starts (if you are a kid) but if you are a volunteer full of energy and with many ideas and goings-on on your mind that you cannot wait to put into practice for you summer feels more like hundreds of slow-mow grannies standing in line in front of you while you are desperately waiting for your favorite Nutella stuffed chocolate chip muffin with berries on top. And, that can be frustrating.

    Now, that we got rid of the summer we can happily announce that the school year has started and our dreams finally came true. The last week we went at “Mihail Eminescu” middle school, here in Arad, and enjoyed the presence of the pupils who, on our big surprise, were more than happy to follow our instructions and do whatever we suggested. Because we have started to work with preschoolers and with first, second and third grade classes we were able to combine warm-ups, play some games and do sports. The warm-ups, of course, are necessity but it is a well-known fact that the children are not very crazy about them and that is why we have decided to spice them up a bit. We used the basic exercises for improving the motor skills and wrapped them up in fun and dynamic games. We also played some of the games that our trainers showed us on the on-arrival training. Considering the fact that we, the grown-ups, enjoyed these games a lot it was obvious that the pupils were going to love them.

    Of course, we couldn’t do anything of this without our facilitator Ana who spoke with the personnel in the school to accept us as volunteers and without the gym teacher who was very supportive and gave us a chance to be her “assistants”. The good news is that we won’t stop here. We have more schools to attend and more pupils to educate and have fun with.

It was a good start of the year. We are full of positive energy and still have eight more months to achieve our goals.