My EVS experience
I ask me who I am and what I have become after a few months in the Czech Republic. The answer is simple but complex at the same time: I'm an Italian who speaks English, who listening German music, ordering a beer in Czech language, I'm romantic like French guys, full of life like a Spanish and smiling like an African. All thanks to my experiences in the past that are now part of me, the experiences that I continue to live each day and the people I met through this project.
I like thinking that Europe is all closed in me and that every day when I go to sleep I am always a different person than the one who woke up in the morning. It's a continuous change that fails to have explanations, simply are little moments that mark your day. I'm everything and nothing: all because I am a volcano of sensations and emotions, an explosion of life that you can enjoy a wonderful experience; anything because they are just a drop in the ocean surrounded.
Sometimes I have the impression of being a spectator in a theater watching the daily lives of people on the street, maybe when I'm at the bus stop, I enjoy watching the world go by before me, young mothers that lead to excursions with their children, the people running to go to work, others who go to the grocery store.
Other times I feel part of that script, because even I have my little space in this society, other times I feel even the protagonist, ready to put into practice my Czech, to do a thousand questions, to know new places, new styles very different from my life that I slowly change.
I'm learning so much from this experience, especially from the kids I work with, who every day want to learn new things from me and likewise teach me new things about them.
More days pass and the more I realize that these esperieze should be experienced by every guys to realize how beautiful it is to get involved, learn about the world and delate the prejudices and stereotypes that we do in our mind, in our small town, or sometimes just by listening to the "useless" information flooding us from the media.
The world is beautiful because it is different, and I'm glad because I have the chance to know another part.
Selene Cimò
