first road kirchhain- fulda

thuesday i had free and went to fulda. there a big big family was waiting for me.

the story began i think already from 2006 when i found them on the internet site of au pair world. the summer 2007 i lived with them in fulda and visited them also two times in 2007-2008. we meanwhile kept contact on the internet.

it's a long time since i didnt see them, not much changed though, katha ( the girl of 9 years now ), "prima balerina" makes her homeworks with the new au pair heike from letland. of course there are better things than maths, like some pirouettes or some funny faces


mo is still in second grade, he made his homework fast fast at school so he can spend all day on the computer showing me his new findings


and strolchy, sad because noone seem to be interested in his food wishes sit very bored on the floor when me and katha came back from ballet

i arrived back in kirchhain late, after experimenting closed trainstations and no trains after midnight, i took a taxi from marburg to be home before i started work again next day.

martins bazar

i am writing again with some days delay, the weekend was full.
saturday we all ( children and those who worked ) went to the school in marburg.

here is a photo with an important figure in the school, whom i also work with, danny is one of the children that has this year 18 years old and next year will leave the clinic. he spent all his life till now here and going away to live on his own is the most difficult step he has to do.


at the school in marburg a market was opened, with nice hollydays things made, among others, by the children themselves. one could find there candles, santas, jewellery made from different materials, etc.
the atmosphere was great, a nice smell of zimt and pancakes, friendly people. i wish i could have bought some stuff too, but prices were unfortunately quite high.

on our way back, stephie took my camera and made herself some cool photos ( favorite hobby it seems ) with marius :

today, milena left to her seminar in witzenhausen. i post here some photos from the last wednesday when we were together in marburg and made some shopping, milena had three big bags and wanted more:D

from pluto

me, stephie and alisa laugh sometimes at work saying that we all live on pluto, living here and dealing with so many new stuff everyday i really have this impression sometimes.

i am starting to be very stressed of my program, instead of 35 hours a week i have 40 this week and next one 48 not including group conference, german class or praktikantenstag, all together i could better sleep at work, it's not like i dont have this impression.

i am happy that danny, the biggest from the children is very interested in learning romanian, tonight we practiced with some simple words, his memory is, i have to admit, impressing.

and here is a photo from pluto, the main character there: alisa on martinstag:

back from berlin

like i woke up from a very nice dream; i am looking on the few photos i took and can't believe it was real- this was milena's and my weekend at berlin.

first i will post the picture i promised, in celebration of the day, my laptop already shows the time 00:30
( btw. i found out later that the photo doesnt show Saint Martin but Saint Michael, although a lot of people at work didnt know either)

saturday morning milena and i were going both to berlin, here are our happy tired faces at 8 am:

my someone very special already waited for us one hour in the Hauptbahnhof from where we went together to the seminar, there liva waited, in the Regebogenfabrik, the place where they manufacture the rainbows :D


it wasn't very hard to make friends with everyone there, and soon a new project was born, the handbook for the new evs 2009



a full very nice day ended after a long walk on the international oranienstrase, everything was like fitting so well..the crowed restaurants, the colorful lights, berlin, me and him.

sunday morning, after the round of results and feedbacks at regenbogenfabrik i had the chance to talk more with some very nice german girls who made their evs abroad. beyond this great experience we are happy to have internet and keep contact.


i also left him with his intense studying in berlin sunday evening, his desk was full with articles he was citing from.

this is the only photo i managed to take with him and by a very nice coincidence i really like it

prepairing the weekend

i was very busy the last days although i had a free day yesterday and despite the fact that i live in kirchhain where everything is closed at 18 hour.

yesterday evening we had a workers dinner in marburg, where i had the chance to see all my collegues from work in a celebration mood. after drinking some juice that looked like wine and danced some body moving hubabuba dances we started eating with pauses for a theatre play that even i found very funny although i think i only understood half of it.
it was even so a very good occasion to get to know people a bit better.here is a very bad photo with me and my superior Katinka at the party:

and me and milena, also a bad photo:


today i managed to also paint the saint martins photo for my group. i only have the original photo to post now but in the future days i will also post mine.

tomorrow i am going to berlin to a big evs meeting, after some constant complains milena managed to obtain free days at work to come too, so will be an interesting weekend for us. i am very enthusiastic especially because of all the people i will meet there, among others a good friend of mine liva and of course my someone very special.

the 5th november

today i went to work at 10 am and came back at almost 21. my superior told me i work too much and maybe from next month i will do the number of hours that are for me.

at 10 am we had the group conference, something i will have every wednesday at 1o from now on. (i have no photos from today unfortunately and i will make it short ) the main themes discussed: meeting with the parents on friday, theatre play noone seemed very interested to take part of and i was offered as volunteer and a big homework for me: big painting :D

what i found really interesting was the dinner: we agreed on making a quiet dinner and noone was aloud to talk,we were communicating through signs. it was something special to see the laughs on children faces when we were pointing to some plate of cheese and noone understood what we want.

day at work

i am starting to get used with coming back to the flat after a full day, sit down on the sofa, drink a cup of tea, talk with family and friends and write on the evs blog...another day...

today i thought of posting some photos with the children at my work.

first i was in the town with stephie, she is almost like a normal 14 years old girl, we often make homeworks together and talk about boyfriends

than my favorite and lovely alisa,who had some logotherapie where i go very interested of the german techniques


i can't forget marius, also almost like a normal 11 years old child, always asking for chocolate and pajamas with hearts and stars


lisa is a very beautiful girl, i just find it sad that she can't always hear music as she wants


and jan who is also 14 years old, starts almost all phrases with "meine mama hat gesagt..." and unfortunately he has almost all the time a cold.


and i promise i will soon post a photo with the 18 years old danny, whom i very much like to talk with at work

the hgk here looks very friendly especially for the children,who easily feel like they are at home, too bad their parents are missing, like in my case. even though, the entire working place makes a big family somehow, where i am still trying very hard to find a place for me also.

polish dinner, german food

sunday, after my long homework at german, me, milena and her boyfriend cooked and had a very nice dinner together.

milena surprised me with her special table decorations ( hand made )

yeah well..they should be under the candles looking very nice but the photo is made to show the wine i think:-S
with that, some delicious spaghetti.

and we also made some photos together:

and finally a first photo with me and milena

first impressions

it's already almost two weeks since my arrival in kirchhain germany. unfortunatelly i didnt have a good access to the internet on my first weeks and thats why i am writing so late.

as i wished, i had the chance to see frankfurt from the plane again, i even stood next to a man who was filming it and who was reminding me of konstanz, the place he was heading to.

my flatmate, Milena, is actually brunette and only speaks polish and some words in german ( i will be very good at signs language soon) . i will post photos with her when we will have the chance to take some.

we have a very nice flat together, with a nice kitchen and living room..and after long complainings.. also a working tv


my room is small but nice


and here an important advice for the coming evs : be very friendly with everyone but especially the kitchen ladies. first person i met and had a very big impact of my life here was sabine, one of the ladies from the kitchen who also gave me everything else i needed for my room and explain how things are in here.

my and milena's mentor, nedye looks a bit like in the photo i posted before on my blog, only that now she has short hair. she visited us the first week every evening and tried to calm us down saying that everything will be great till the end. i don't think i ever met someone with such energy and sincere great laugh.

and at the end of the first week someone came to visit me :D


here are some random photos we took together in kirchhain


and of course we went out for the martinsfest in kirchhain, the small town looked so crowded and joyful that saturday

second week i started real working in the group vega. the six children here are adorable and they like to have fun. the other people that work here are nice, still not very curious of what planet do i come from. i will detail work and maybe also post photos as soon as possible.

friday, since i had a day off at work, i decided to go with him to marburg. despite the rainy day, we were quite impressed and had a lot of fun. here are random photos:

and some from the castle:



we stood till late in marburg, walking back to the train station in the night lights of the old houses , he said we are like in a fairy tale