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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Presenting ERASMUS +, EVS and BYF in Gymnasium Yane Sandanski, in Sandanski
It was a great pleasure of ours, as EVS long-term volunteers, and a part of our BYF organisation, to host a presentation about ERASMUS+, EVS and our organisation in Gymnasium Yane Sandanski, in the municipality of Sandanski, Bulgaria. We started the presentation with the coordinator, Emilia Marinova, explaining about Balkan Youth Festival and about the…
Language Coffee Bulgaria
With the first breath of spring, and the first blossoming tree, our Language Coffee event opened its doors to old and new faces. March 25th, Saturday, the current year, was a day where we, as EVS volunteers, living in Bulgaria, decided to present Bulgarian beauty and welcoming spirit, both to the Bulgarians, and foreigners, which…
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…
Presenting ERASMUS +, EVS and BYF in PGVAT ”A. S. Popov”, Sofia
As EVS volunteers, and as a part of the BYF organisation, the three of us have had a great deal of work, which meant giving a lot of time, effort and dedication. Everything we do, we do with a lot of love. Everything we do, we do to promote this fantastic program, called ERASMUS +,…
Language Coffee BINGO! Have you ever
As the New 2017 knocked on our BYF doors, we began brainstorming for the first Language Coffee in this year. This time we had the help coming from people from all the sides of Europe, which gave a special flavour to our event. We started our event with a New Year video we had made…
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…
Catalans in Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo
The biggest surprise for Aniol was the news that his family would come for a visit. Little did he know that the surprise would be doubled. Hearing the immense happiness in his voice once he called me from the airport, where he was waiting for them, telling me that one more member of his family…
Language Coffee in Sofia (Volume I)
After a successful Language Coffee event that we organised in Sandanski, the next step was to present the same idea to the people living in Sofia. Since Language Coffee is BYF tradition, and we all follow traditions, it went without saying that the location was a part of that tradition, too. Therefore, this first volume…
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…
A Dream Come True
Some long time ago, being only three years old, I was taken to the seaside at the coast of the Bulgarian Black Sea. Even though the stories have been told multiple times and the photos of two little girls (my sister and myself) smiling at the camera, with the sea shimmering in the background, skimmed…
EVS in Sofia 