Finally thanks to a estonian friend, I managed to translate the article a journalist wrote about me and Katerina the other wolunteers in Nooruse Maja. Now for all my fanbase, here is the article published in Pärnu Postimees by Karin Klaus on March 10th for the week-end edition. The original article in Estonian with a photo of the newspaper article is here.
Volunteer are
bringing fresh air to Rääma
In Nooruse Maja there
has been already volunteers from EVS already for 3 years. During the past, the
volunteers have been from France and this year they are from France and
Macedonia.
Pierre-Marie Brianceau
and Katarina Petreska arrived in Pärnu on a freezing cold february day and so
far they are quite pleased.
Katerina states that she
could’ve choosen between Greece, Romania and Estonia and comparing to other
Eastern European countries, it seemed exotic enough. Katerina
did volunteer work already back home while being a mentor in an ecology
project. In the future she likes to work with young people or create her own
organisation because she has always liked helping people.
Pierre-Marie who
studied international business management at home said that he joined EVS
because he was looking for a new challenge, wanted to find and meet new
interesting people. In the future he would like to work with European international
projects and EVS experience will definitely become useful. In summer he would
like to organise something with the current volunteers in Estonia because that
would help to increase the co-operating and it would help solve problems.
During the month the
volunteers have lived in Pärnu they have already participated in the Ice
Festival, helped to organise the Theatre festival and also have gotten to travel
around Estonia and participate in a volunteer seminar in Viljandi.
Pierre is helping to
the students who are learning french and he has plans to start organising theme
nights to introduce chinese language and culture. Both of the volunteers have
just started the Estonian classes.
On the free time
Katerina loves walking, reading and shopping. Pierre is looking for a place to
play volleyball and currently he’s also keeping the blog fromparnuwithlove.blogspot.com in where he writes stories about Pärnu, including
funny moments such as eating vastlakukkel (traditional estonian brioches made
on Shrove day), sledging, walking across the Pärnu river on first time and so
on. All that illustrating it with plenty of photos.
To get more acquainted
with Pierre, people can join the French day on 24th of March and the macedonian
day will be on the 14th of April.
„Hard working and
educated people“ stated the manager of Nooruse Maja Uudo Laane who said that
Pierre and Katerina are assisting Nooruse Maja with current European projects,
helping to organise events and do some advertising. The main purpose is to use
the young people’s ideas as much as possible to get some extra value to Nooruse
Maja.
During those couple
of weeks they have lived here, they have already both found lots of new
friends, learned how to walk on ice and etc. They also stated that though they
are coming from warmer climate, with open-minded society, even though people on
the street don’t kiss or hug and seems rather distant, they are very nice and
kind people once you get to know them.
Katerina was touched
by the movie about the Estonian Singing revolution and she said that it was so
touching that people just come together and sing. She also thinks that Estonia
is much calmer and nicer than Macedonia because there is less cars and people
are not rushing everywhere.
The volunteers are
gonna be in Pärnu until September and already Uudo Laane is looking for other
volunteers. He says that he gets multiple applications every day and so he has
plenty of people to choose from. He also states that it’s irrelevant which country
the person is from but rather the ideas, initiative, creativity that are what
are important for him.
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