From the 12th to the 16th February, we followed a special training to prepare us for our volunteering, in Villandraut, near Bordeaux. This seminar, was aimed that answering our questions about the volunteering period as well as allowing us to meet previous volunteers. We had the opportunity to meet the regional director of the Youth and Sports state departement, who presented the new programm in which European Volunteering Service will now be part of (since January 2007).
Out of 23 volonteers present, most people headed towards the south-east part of Europe (picture above). The training took place in a relaxed atmosphere, with games, debates, songs, etc… All of which were accompanied by delicious meals prepared by Gilles, the cook.
After these 5 days of meeting all the other volunteers in France, Amelie and I, had the impression of having already started our volunteering service. Not easy to put ourselves into the wait-until-the-end-of-March mode !
Hopefully this was for us the occasion of promoting our blog as well as to make contacts with very nice and interesting people with whome we are keeping in close contact (by email) which helps us patient until we leave.
