Back from the on-arrival training

Daniele and I are just back from our on-arrival training and we are already missing it. Three days spent in a beautiful small village settled on the bank of the biggest river in Lithuania were enough to make new friends and create memories that will make us smile for a long time. Though all complains against the eternal snowfall we really enjoyed it by making a snowman while being snow-bombed by some of the other volunteers.

Of course the sun showed up a couple of times and we used these opportunities to walk around the village with our wonderful trainers who told us many fascinating facts about Lithuanian history and culture. Fantadrago even met his new fan – the Black Cat.

Even though all volunteers are very interested in nature and prefer being outdoors we had a lot of fun inside by playing different not so safe table games! (don’t worry – our AXA health insurance covers injuries of such type) and preparing our own traditional Lithuanian dinner. Well, it was not easy to get together 18 people in a small kitchen but we did our best and in the end everybody enjoyed the results from our common work. 

We both think that combining the useful with the pleasant is the best way to learn new things and so we did. The training helped us not only to find great friends but also we learnt quite much about other volunteers’ countries and cultures, about their projects in the different parks, about what to expect more or less during our own stay. 

We want to thank everybody who we met for the unforgettable time we spent together. Ačiū!