This will be a story of a girl making her dream come true... becoming a long-term volunteer in some place exotic :)
I became involved in "voluntarism" when I was 16. Ever since I've known that some good day I will do EVS (European Voluntary Service) somewhere. People ask me why should you go and work for free? The answer is simple - you get paid by the happiness you bring to other people and that is the best pay one can wish for. In addition you get the experience for a life-time - discover the world and yourself. And of course, it is FUN!
So now after graduating from university, I've returned to my dreams. I started looking for some project that would suit my ambitions - I needed something to do with medicine - and volia! There was a project in Costa Rica's children hospital. Not even a thought passed my mind before I had already applied. Everything went perfectly well, I got the project and started waiting for going already in December (the project would start in August, so you can imagine my impatience... especially in the Estonian winter!)
Till now I've had only one slight problem: my parents who don't believe all the airplanes don't actually crash and that earth-quakes are not necessarily deadly. Well, by now they already know that Costa Rica is actually the safest country in Latin-America and one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Patience always leeds to success, my friends!
What concerns my language-skills, I have learned how to ask for an ice-cream. But my level is even a little higher - I can ask for as many ice-creams as I want, not neccessarily only one. That sure is an accopmlishment, isn't it? ;)
I also know there will be 24 volunteers from Europe and USA, so probably some of them is able to ask for a milk-shake as well and we'll survive just fine, I'd say! Pura vida!
I became involved in "voluntarism" when I was 16. Ever since I've known that some good day I will do EVS (European Voluntary Service) somewhere. People ask me why should you go and work for free? The answer is simple - you get paid by the happiness you bring to other people and that is the best pay one can wish for. In addition you get the experience for a life-time - discover the world and yourself. And of course, it is FUN!
So now after graduating from university, I've returned to my dreams. I started looking for some project that would suit my ambitions - I needed something to do with medicine - and volia! There was a project in Costa Rica's children hospital. Not even a thought passed my mind before I had already applied. Everything went perfectly well, I got the project and started waiting for going already in December (the project would start in August, so you can imagine my impatience... especially in the Estonian winter!)
Till now I've had only one slight problem: my parents who don't believe all the airplanes don't actually crash and that earth-quakes are not necessarily deadly. Well, by now they already know that Costa Rica is actually the safest country in Latin-America and one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Patience always leeds to success, my friends!
What concerns my language-skills, I have learned how to ask for an ice-cream. But my level is even a little higher - I can ask for as many ice-creams as I want, not neccessarily only one. That sure is an accopmlishment, isn't it? ;)
I also know there will be 24 volunteers from Europe and USA, so probably some of them is able to ask for a milk-shake as well and we'll survive just fine, I'd say! Pura vida!
