After making our home-made banitsa, we gave it as a prize in the Language Coffee Bulgaria. It was very tasty, and everyone enjoyed a lot. It was a nice surprise and they ate it in a few minutes. Now, we have our video tutorial how to make banitsa, with the same recipe. So if you…
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Learning How to Make Banitsa
One of the most typical and outstanding food from the Bulgarian cuisine is Banitsa. Banitsa is a very tasty pie filled with white cheese (sirene). Ina, one of our mentors, taught us how to make a home-made Banitsa. We thank her a lot because it is definetly something that we will take back home, remembering the taste of Bulgarian food. We enclose the recipe…
Language Coffee – Art Exhibition
Like our previous languages coffee events, this one has been full of international and also local people enjoying the event. This language coffee has been different that the others. First of all, we had three artists with us who wanted to share there photographies and paintings: Ivelina, Lili and Giulia. We started presenting us, our mentors and…
Step to Bulgaria Certificates
In this adventure of us in Bulgaria, we have had someone who helped us a lot; Nadia, our Bulgarian teacher, but also our friend. She taught us Bulgarian language from her heart, and transmited to us her passion. She has been our source of inspiration all this time, giving us the strength to learn such…
New Year 2017
Christmas is a very special time of the year, where all the people are happy and grateful. And so does the New Year. It is a new chance to be what you always desired, or to let your dreams come true. On the last day of 2016 we had a lunch together, but at night…
Language Coffee – Everyone’s a Winner
This Language Coffee, with new activities and a lot of prizes from the National Agency, has been full of smiles and new faces of young local people and also people around Europe. This time, we had an introduction about the International Volunteer Day what is celebrated on 5th December, and about 20 years birthday EVS, before the games. The…
Quick Trip Around Serbia
After coming back from Sandanski, we were a little bit sad and empty, because we had such a good time in the festival because everything had gone and we were back to our routine in Sofia. Lucky us, the same week we came back there was a national holiday, so we had a “long” weekend,…
The Change is in YOU!
Промяната е в Tеб / The Change is in You is the association established to give support to young people, who are open to broadening their horizons, striving towards making a change in the place of their residence with the knowledge they have gained from around the globe. The three of us were lucky to have been…
Festival time!
‘After some performances, the closing act started, and it was so emotional. The coordinator of the Balkan Youth Festival, Emilia Marinova thanked all the participants in front of the audience for cooperation and hard work and the energy they invested in working on the festival for one more year. At last, we all shared a huge BYF cake, in this way putting an end to our sweet dream, which I am sure all the participants will keep in their minds forever.’
The Flash Mob
‘…a Flash mob is a large public gathering where people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse. In our case it was a dance.’
The First Language Coffee
The long-term volunteers have enjoyed their time being a part of the preparation stages for the Balkan Youth Festival. We have done a great job, finished many of the tasks, created events and been a part of the 1st Flash mob. Yet, there was one more event to prepare – the Language Coffee. The Language…
Welcoming the Short-term Volunteers
Since we arrived here in Sandanski, everything is happening really fast. Yesterday, August 22nd, the short term EVS volunteers arrived. We had our first meeting at night, but the weather was so bad and all we could have done was just introducing ourselves and exchanging a few words. Today we have spent the whole day…
EVS in Sofia 