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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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RANK THEM FROM 1 TO 3 (1 the biggest challenged faced, 3 the less challenging)
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RANK THEM FROM 1 TO 5 (1 the top, 5 the less positive)
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What do you take back with you home so far from your project?

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(what did my organization learned with me)
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.... that you would like to share with others (this could a picture, a situation, a story, a song....)

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1. Not having what I am used to in terms of a home environment; tranquility, standards of living that I am accustomed to and living with new personalities.  AND then for the beginning at least - living with the people you work with. I like to compartmentalise - work at work and home at home :).
2.The instability of the pandemic, time had to be taken for adjustment; professional and personal.
3. Not being intellectually challenged at times.

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1. turbulence
2. trying to enter new projects during covid restrictions
3. struggle to meet new people
4. cold house !!!

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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-1. Covid
- 2. language barrier at my working place
- 3. dealing with medical issues, cigna

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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1- Open myself to others after the months of lockdown and some other events that I lived.
2 -  Get back to myself
3 - Learning how to deal with situations that put me out of my confort zone every day
4 - Covid

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

1. The pandemic and being in lockdown
2. Being away from friends
3. Feeling of no purpose

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1. find the right handling with the children
2. learn portugues
3. stay motivated

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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1. Having space for myself, to have a calm and still environment where I can get back to myself.
2. Not taking responsibility for other people and what they are doing.
3. Continuing listening to my needs and taking the care to fulfill these.

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1) covid situation
2)adapt to the work environment
3)make friends

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Covid, Lockdown

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1. Meeting new people
2. Exploring a new country
3. Learning to deal with new problems
4. Contributing to a smaller community
5. Having 20+ degrees in February

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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1. Language barriers, difficulties of being understood
2. Tension in the work place and the living space
3. Living my own experience and not being influenced that much by other people's previous experience of the volunteering

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1. A lot of care for and from the people around me;
2. An environment where all struggle can be discussed and is welcomed as an opportunity for growth;
3. An incredible natural environment that allows for deep connection with nature;
4. Spiritual guidance where and when needed;
5. Beautiful shared meals!
6. I get a lot of agency and ownership, and trust in what I want to do and develop, and a lot of opportunity to develop myself and my projects;
7. Deep connection through different activities we do together in an intercultural environment.

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1. Language/Comunicating
2. Balance between Respect/Trustfull/Friend with kids

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The main thing I take back now is passion; I feel like I've truly discovered how caring for nature is deeply interlinked with taking care of myself, and how I enjoy to learn and work on the field, tending to the soil, the plants and the trees. I know that this is something I'll continue doing for the rest of my life, and here I have the opportunity to learn a great deal about it.

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- Quarantine;
- Fear of making mistakes;
-Sharing room with somebody     totally different from you;

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1. More skills unrelated to my previous field
2. Belief in myself
3.  Starting to practice drawing

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Met a lot of new people, have fun with these people, travelling.

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1) EVERYTHING. So very grateful for the opportunity to be here, this opportunity -especially during a pandmic- and the lessons learnt and still to learn.
2) THE WORK - having a positive dynamic working environment (the staff is SO LOVELY) so ideas can be brought into life. So far 3 independent projects completed :) And one more will be done this week :D
3) BRAGA. Such a cool city to live in.....era uma vez. A very cool city to learn Portuguese in.
4) <3 - blessed to have met such incredible people
5) Exercising my independence
6) The joy of two wisdom teeth out hahah
7) Getting my first tattoo!

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- meeting new people
- exploring Portugal
- bonds with the kids
- different cultures

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Main challenges

1- covid
2- online activities

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1. More focus
2. A better idea on where I want to be in the coming years
3.

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1)starting capoeira
2)learning portuguese/talking "portuguese" with no shame
3)creativity: drawing - screenprinting on my own
4)fun good situations in the foster house i work
5)beautiful places

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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1. COVID
2. Working with many people and with different backgrounds
3. Feeling useless and that I am not doing anything important here

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1. small and close communtiy
2. caring contact with the students
3. to learn a lot from the teachers

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1. amazing housemates
2. living abroad experience / exploring
3. doing meaningful work i am very passionate about
4. learning a new language
5. gaining more cultural understanding/ exchanges
6. connections wi

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1. The most positive aspect of this exerpience is the experience itself, the fact of it happening and being able to be here
2. Learning a new language
3. Discovering and enhancing myself in many different roles (advisor, caretaker, diplomat, mediator)
4. Connecting to my inner child more through working with kids all day
5. Understanding more about my own childhood through that

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- getting to know interesting people
- learning new things
- discovering new places

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1. Portuguese
2. Working with disabled people extremely dependent
3. Find a way to communicate with each people in my center.

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- Independance
- Portugeses

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Bon Iver - Holyfields, - Official Lyric Video

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Positive aspects

1- friends that I made
2- activities with Rio Neiva, elderly day center and warehouse and Banco Alimentar from Braga
2- the support from my coordinator
3- travailing and discovering Portugal
4- the cultural exchange and the food workshops
5- rediscovering myself and my gools

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1. developed resilience
2. gained a new perspective i will take into future education/ work

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Know more English, had the opportunities to live with other people

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1)from the workplace: to deal with teens, with many colleagues
2)feeling less pressure
3)brazilian/brazilian culture

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- My work place;
- People that I could found at my work place;
- Amazing people;

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1. experience in the field i want to work in
2. gained a new understanding of refugee work
3. developed perspective
4. more adaptable and able to think on my feet

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- portuguese
- being more considerate
- how to work better with people with disabilities
- trying out new hobbies

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What do I take back home with me after the project?
More nuanced soft skills in communication and mediating, many many lessons I have learnt about myself, to sum it up: a new version of me to be included into the collection of my identity/personality evolving

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1. Only warm people.
2. Practicing a new language
3. Learning how to help disabled people in the daily life
4. Discovering new traditions
5. Meet local people.

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Attack - Dangal (Official Video) ft. Mass 187

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1)more confidence

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1 - It was and it is a pleasure to grow personally.
2 - In covid times, we are soooo lucky for having this chance while almost the whole Europe is stuck.
3 - We are not wasting our lifetimes
4 - We learn a lot of things every day

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1. To become clearer on who I am, and how I can express myself authentically, coming up for my own needs, taking responsibility only for me, whilst also giving back to the project.
2. Learning about how I envision my future to be, understanding that certain ways to live and work are not compatible with who I am and how I want to live, and also getting examples of how I do like to work and live with others.

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1) i would really like to work in the field of education, would be perfect including art and creativity

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to be more selfconfident and authoritarian!

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This project and specially the lockdown gave me time to think about what to do in the future and where to go

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1. Support from the organization
2. Having an amazing mentor
3. Meeting nice portuguese youngsters and adults
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1. learnt to express myself in portugues
2. where I want to go in my life/where not

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- more selfsufficient

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1. Developing, studying, and practicing my understanding of agriculture, gardening, farming, and nature in general, which will help me in developing myself professionally.
2. Incredible lessons on how to communicate and interact with others, being super clear and discussing things that are on my mind or are bothering me right away.

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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Main Challenges you have faced on your project?

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- Being far from my family.
- Not being able to speak Portuguese fluently.
- Living with a lot of people.

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- The lack of my Portuguese knowledge in the beginning.
- Staying at home during the lockdown.

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Personal development
1- rediscover my self and my goals
2- Overcome my fears and star biking lessons

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1. Bring French culture to my workplace
2. Improve my level in Portuguese
3. Be more comfortable with helping disabled people

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Lockdown Blues - Erlend Øye & La Comitiva

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1. relation with colegs and children

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Eric Clapton - Let It Grow (2011 Remaster)

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....forever occurring, life it's journey

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Trust myself. Always. That's it.

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- Adaptation;
- Be more patient;

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1. Learning about Project management from creation to production.
2. Learning about team dynamics.

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The team is fantastic at managing volunteers - I learn from them.

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1. Bárbara Tinoco - Antes Dela Dizer Que Sim (Vídeo Oficial)
2. Viagem - Tiago Bettencourt - YouTube

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Bárbara Tinoco - Antes Dela Dizer Que Sim (Vídeo Oficial)

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Follow your heart and make as many experiments as possible in life. IT IS FOR LIVING.  <3