Dear
Reader!
(Is it the
right way to start a blog? I have no idea… I am really not a blog-writer type,
it’s important to know as the first info:)
If you
found this blog that could mean two things, you are interested in the European
Voluntary Service (EVS) and in the experiences of a Hungarian girl about it. Or
you found it accidently which means that you spend way too much time in front
of your computer, so in this case switch it off right now and go to have some
fun in the nature!
So the
following blog entries will let you know more about my adventures, during my
EVS in Tenerife , San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Few details
about my past as a starter: I was studying international relations in Budapest
Last Monday
my airplane landed in this Paradise called Tenerife .
This magical place, where you can collect the fruit of the cactus from the
street (with some injuries in my case), where you can find beaches with black
sand, where the people are extremely nice and helpful, and where you can get
the most delicious mango juice on Earth! Those are all the things I have
already tried and loved, and I am planning to share these kinds of experiences
with you in detail in the following 9 months.
Santa Cruz - an afternoon trip
The atmosphere in La Laguna
I have to
mention how lucky I am with my voluntary job. I work for AURI, which is a non
profit organization with lots of enthusiastic volunteers who are organizing
different colorful programs for the exchange students in La Laguna. First of
all I can work in a very dynamic team with some super kind people. Second of
all I can experience the “Erasmus atmosphere” again which I have missed a lot.
It means that we are not only organizing the programs but we also participate
in them, so we can become an “almost full member” of the group.
Our office
also functions as an info point, so it also belongs to my task to help the
students with anything they need. We’ve already read and worked a lot to
collect all of the necessary information for the new students of the
university.
There is
one more important thing. During my EVS I have to work on one project by
myself, so I need to figure out something which could be mentioned as my own
project in the organization. I have some ideas, but I let you know about these
later.
To be very
exact, we have already two programs with the exchange students (excluded the
welcome day). One of them was the guided tour in La Laguna, and the other one
was a nice day on the beach Las Teresitas. Especially on the first program we
had a very nice team, we started to get to know each other and I met some very
nice and interesting people. Such a great start! We tried café barraquito which
is a traditional type of coffee here with a drop of orange liqueur and it
tastes really good! Okay, this info doesn’t belong to this part of my post but
I have to mention the amazingly good zumo (fresh fruit juice) we had a few days
ago in a real Zumería. At the same place we also tried an original
South-American fast food called la arepa and I loved it very much. It is baked
in oil, I could resemble it to a hamburger, but the “burger” part is made of
corn flour. You can choose from several type, I wanted to try the one with
beef, cheese and avocado, but this is not the season of avocado, so they didn’t
have it. Still it was really nice, and I especially liked the sauce. I wouldn’t
say I was full after this meal, but with the juice it was good for a light
lunch. Actually I just realized that I would love to write a gastro blog, I had
this feeling since Julie & Julia, so if my posts are becoming boring I just
switch a little bit and start to do some food trips around the islands:)
Finally it will turn out that actually I am enjoying writing this?!
The "light" lunch
Café barraquito
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