Actually it is really hard to
write how the week of volunteer looks like. The main fact is that
volunteering is somewhere out of routine and you can never
know what is going to happen. However, I will try to make at least some guide
lines how it would look.
Down here you can see my
week, and now I will try to explain in more details what is what. It's just my week and other volunteers have different schedules, so don't think that everyone does the same things!
Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Morning
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Office
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School/office
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School/ JCV in Action
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School/Blog
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Ponto Vermelho
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Afternoon
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Office
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Ponto Vermelho
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JCV in Action
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Ponto Vermelho
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Evening
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Portuguese classes
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Atelear Creativo
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Portuguese classes
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So let’s start from the
beginning. Monday is a really good day to start work. It can go
slowly for you to get in the mood of work, so here is no pressure (normally).
Usually I come to the office around 9:30-10:00. This is the time to find out
what things are more important to work on and what things I can leave to be
done for later during the week.
As I am a part of a project JCV
in action, the work there is never like a routine. You never know
what might come up and working with international projects is really
fun. Like few months ago I would have spent my Mondays while reading CVs of
people who want to be the next EVS and I have read more than 100
of CV and Motivation Letters. Believe me it takes a lot of time. So
normally my Monday goes while working on the things of JCV in Action. After
work on Mondays I have classes of Portuguese.
Tuesday stars with some kids’
action. I go to school for the long break of half an hour to play with
them. After school, back to the office to think of, what we might want to do
this evening in the Atelear Creativo. After lunch it’s Ponto Vermelho. There
normally on Tuesdays we have to do the checking of the clothes that arrive
with our lovely Carrinha and to pick witch ones will go to the shop and which
ones will go to the famous Lixo (trash)– it’s basically the
only word you need to understand in Ponto. After Ponto we have some time for
quick food and after there is Ateliar Creativo. There we normally
do some crafts with kids.
Wednesday morning is also
either going to school (a different one) or staying in the office and helping
with JCV
in action things. Afternoon is all for the JCV in Action work where
we work on international projects, EVS and everything that is connected with Erasmus+
or other possible programs. After Office there is another Portuguese class and half
of the week is done.
Thursday morning is for school
or writing this lovely blog, or working on Facebook
page of Ponto Vermelho. In the afternoon is again Ponto. There on Thursdays
we normally get the Carrinha again and we are till our necks with bags of things
to check.
Friday morning is again in Ponto,
but on Fridays we arrange the shop and make it look nicely, as well we
think of some ideas to improve the appearance of the shop and ways
how to make it more appealing.
Friday afternoons I have
free, but it was not all the time like this.
The schedule of the
Portuguese classes changed, and there was a period between the courses (we are lucky
and we got 2 semesters of Portuguese classes in the university of Minho),
when we had more work in the office. As well in the summer there will be no
school and there will be more projects to occupy kids, so the
schedule will change again.
For now, my schedule is
like this, with some tiny changes that appear during some unplanned
events.
Gi
