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11/01/2024

My name is Martina, I’m 18 years old, and I’m a volunteer at the primary school in Wasilków. My role at the school is to help take care of the children, support them, and teach them some of my language.

Now, Kornelia (the other volunteer) and I have started our first week at the primary school. Even though I was very nervous during the first few days, I’ve noticed significant improvement with each day’s classes.

On the first day, we went to the forest with the youngest children. This was the hardest day for me because of the communication barrier caused by the language difference. However, the next day, the children tried to communicate with me as much as they could. From then until Thursday, we mainly helped at the “game place.” On Thursday, we attended a play with Emilia’s class. Finally, my favorite class was on the last day because I was able to open up to people, and at the end of the day, we went on a short tour with Emilia’s class around the small town.

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This has been my second week volunteering at Wasilkow's school. Each day I spend here, my relationship with the kids is improving, and it makes me so happy that the children are getting on with me even though we don't speak the same language.

On the first day, we just worked in Swietlica with the smaller ones. Our pursuit has been doing handmade stuff, drawings and even playing games with them as "futbolin, billar...".

With the teenager's classes, we have been trying to improve their communication through expositions. They had a random theme and 15 minutes to prepare a conversation between them. I think it was successful, anyway is much time to make this chance better; by of course more exercises like this or similar.

To finish with the activities proposed for this week, the Spanish classes on Thursday have started correctly. The three girls in class seem to be so interested in the material. We learned just the basic stuff, but I can see that the make an effort even if it's not a mandatory subject.

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This week has been a good improvement from the last one. Now I kind of know better what I have to do in classes and which is my duty.

For the Swietlica, I have been doing the decorations for Valentine's Day, most of the kids tried to help me with it, and I feel like we have done a lot of cool decorations for both of the Swietlica's classes. The cutest is that some of the kids want to keep them. We have also watched movies and danced following youtube's videos.

With the teenagers, I have tried to improve their English communication by debating as: "Should we use the phone in class?". And I feel that they are more motivated by this activity. And that they have improved their English level as well.

To finish, this week's Spanish class has been successful. They have learned the numbers, and I think they enjoy classes the learning by the online's activities that I have find for them.

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This week it has been a really improving chance with the little kids from "Swietlica" due to the arrival of materials as: plastiline, color painting, kartons... I feel like each week they are feeling more comfortable with me and that way I can have more ideas, as a better inspiration, to do for the classes.

On monday we did decorations for the open day with the kids and also planned with the manager how to organice the week from now on.

Later on Tuesday I got sick so I coun't go to the classes just in casa the kids could get any sickness.

Wednesday was not a huge day, I just stayed at Swietlica doing planes with wood stiks for the kids; which seemed to be something that they really liked because almost all of them did one.

By other hand, Thursday was the longer day due to the open doors event. In morning I went into Swietlica just to finish the decorations for the afternoon event. And for the rest of the morning I spended it in the speaking classes; here I decided to do groups from 5-7 people, depending on the size of the class and giving different activities to each of the groups while one of them talks with me practicing presentations and explaining. The activities were about describing places in town and doing phrases (1 false and 2 true). Later in the evening, the event was really lovely, all the kids enjoyed the activities proposed by us: chemistry and slime classes, robots, painting... Today I finished at 6.

Finally on Friday I went to the forest with Isabela's class to take care of the children at the end of the cue. This group really behaved super good and enjoyed the time together.

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This week wasn't in school. It was my training week in Warsaw.

It's part of my volunteer project's. It consist on meeting up with other volunteers from other cities in poland.

This event allows all the volunteers to meet and make new connections around poland, and everything (the transport, the food and the hotel) run by the organitation's account.

On this week we have done a lot of excercises with the organisation as: communication's activities, group activities, stress release activities and creativity's.

This doesn´t just shows the support of the organisation but also teached us to face hard situations, as stressed out, not getting along with others and creativity for our job here in poland.

It has been a really succesfuly week, due to realkising lot of things I hadn't before about my project and also because I've meet ot of really good people all around Poland.

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Team work activitie.

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This week it´s been two days during the week that I haven't been able to go to school due to insufficient stomach feeling, now that the rain is starting I think I'm getting a little weak to catch sickness.

On the other hand, on the days that I have been able to go, I have done decorations for Women's Day, which took me almost 3/3:30 to finish: a small poster with information about what happened for this day to exist when it was established and some more pictures and decorations on the poster.

For the speaking classes, I had proposed to speak about Women's Day, due to it was on the day after (Saturday). It has been about thinking about why this day exists and thinking about it. For other classes (younger kids or lower levels), more interactive activities such as describing, guessing and speaking with me or debating.

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This week again, for two days I wasn't able to attend school.

After that, in the Swietlica classes, I did decorations for the spring holidays with the little kids as: paper flowers. Also they tried to teach me a little bit of Polish, this was super cute of them because now I have made my vocabulary bigger. Also I hope they learned a bit of English with that.

Finally, for the end of the week, with the lower levels groups, I have done interpretation and described the topic of "jobs", and also described which is their ideal job.

For the older kids, I've been doing debate and open talking with me, as talking about the differences between Spain's system and Polish's. It was really good due to they were very interested in the topic.

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This week it's been about preparing decorations for the smaller ones, the theater for Swietlica, and speaking classes. Anyway, at the end of the week, there has been a going out of the school with teenagers.

In the Swietlica classes, we made decorations for springtime and also considered the theater decorations. As much as we have done, it's been a bees panel.

We have proposed this time for the speaking classes in groups to describe their perfect holidays and present them to the class.

On Thursday I did the Spanish class, but this time it was just Magda, due to the absence of the other 3 girls.

Nonetheless, on Friday we went with the teenagers (7B), to do these forest activities. It was a super fun day due to we participated in the activities and improved our connection with the students. The activities were in three different groups, such as paintball (but without paint), rope games, running, jumping, being fast, and thinking.

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This has been a hard week for me. I'd been dealing with an infection since last week's Thursday until this week's Wednesday

On Monday I went the first hours, and for the last one I had to go back home for bad body feelind. But anyways I could started doing spring decoration out in the corridor of świetlica. Also the children helped me doing the paper balls to do the tree.

Then on Tuesday I wasn't able to go to school because of worst feeling than the day before. Anyways on Wednesday I started recovering and being able to come to school: on this day I kept doing the ladybugs and the tree's decorations for the corridor.

On Thursday we had an important event with Erasmus people from Romania, around 14/15 years old. We had to do a presentation of our countries and help with the rest of activities at that hour. The attention and interest of the students were totally perfect.

Before of course we just followed the timetable and do the speaking classes: exercises of the past Simple with the irregular verbs too. And after Świetlica.

To finish the week, we did the green activity on the forest with the smaller kids as usual. Full with technical activities and really enjoyable. Afterwards we arrived on time for the speaking classes, so we did our countrie's presentations for these students as well.

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On this week we haven't done anything out of the common.

In the Świetlica classes I had the chance to finish some decorations for the Spanish theater that we are preparing. And as always the little kids are getting more comfortable with both of us. For me, this is a huge success due to the language barrier.

On the other site, in the speaking classes we have been practicing with the same exercise to practice the "Past Simple": create an history in the past. All the students will start with the same beggining.

It's duch a fun activity because the students get to develope their imagination and St the same time practice their English level.

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This week has been shorter than the rest of because of the Easter holidays.

We got back to classes from the 22th. And right now in the Świetlica classes we are planning over the European event.

In this event all the volunteers will come to the school to do a presentation about their country and the volunteering project. We will be talking with the Romanian students from Erasmus.

On the other hand, in the speaking classes we have talked with the students about their Easter holidays. The activity we proposed was about doing an history of where would they like to travel, with who and what funny activities.

It has been very successful due to the competitive of students.

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This week has been 3 days long due to the May's holidays from the 1th tk the 5th.

I just got to be in Świetlica and two speaking classes. In which one of them is "problem solving" activities.

With the smaller kids, day room (Świetlica), i have played games like the music and chairs one and bracelet selfmade. And for the speaking classes we made an activity with transports where they had to do a funny story located in a transport area.

Now for the rest of the week the holidays arrived. 🥳🥳

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On this week I have been preparing a music event. It consist on playing Spanish and French music on the break time. I made some poster at home and then put them all around the hallway. This I finishes doing it by Wednesday; due to agree with the coordinators, the vice principal and designing the poster. Then to stick everything in the walls it took me around two hours.

In the Świetlica classes, Kornelia and I have been doing bracelets. But due to the complexitie of it, it won't be ready to sell on the ONG event at 23th of May. In other hand we already have a plan for the ONG volunteering part which we still have to agree with the coordinators.

And for the speaking lessons, I had made an exercise based on anylysing dreams. They had to talk about what a dream is and make examples. Then write an history. For class 7C i had kept the stories to make a winner on next day's class.

The only class I didn't make this with was 7bc; instead we played a performing game for them to keep some vocabulary.

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For this week the timetable is changed due to Emilia is finally back to school. Anyways, this week we have had just 2 days. Monday and Friday. This is due to the exams days, where the school classes, si we don't have to attend.

On Monday we had Świetlica and speaking classes with class 7B. In Świetlica we had been drawing with them; for the speaking class we did again the transport activitie, die to this group we haven't been with before. The class really did the activitie successfully and I think they enjoyed it as we did.

Then, on the days off, we had meetings and European days. On Tuesday we had a meeting with Anna Sophia in Michałowo, which lasted during all the morning; it was great to know all the information needed for the following European days. On Wednesday we had an European day in the school ZSO16, with disable people. It was very good to work with them and doing activities as dancing or contact games.

Finally, on Thursday we had another activity in the ONG organisation in Michałowo for oldery people: it was very grateful people and funny activities like dancing or card games.

Then on Friday, we will do the music activity again and also the speaking classes. For the speaking classes we will talk about works and an easy activity due to they had just finished their exams. And for the last class we will play a vocabulary game with them.

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This week we have been in school just for the two days.

On Monday we started working with the new schedule. Having Świetlica and speaking classes. On the Świetlica we did music games during the hours. Then in the speaking classes we did a transport activitie that we had done already with other classes. They were very successful.

On the next day we went to an European day to a disabled school. It was very nice to work with these kids as we also learned a lot from their way to live and behave.

Next day on Wednesday, we went to the school, but did to we had just Świetlica classes, we just played games with them. On the other hand we also used a few minutes to prepara everything for the Friday. Bc the 23th wax Wasilków's European day.

Next two days we had European days: in Białystok with disabled kids and, as I said, in Wasilków, our school.

On Thursday the activities were face painting, presentation and music games as we usually did.

And finally, for Wasilków, it was a full event with Erasmus. After our presentation we went to a manifestation for the ESC (European solidarity corps). It was very interesting activities for all the Erasmus.

We finishes the day on the face painting and sportive games organized by the school.

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This week I had just been able to attend the school first two days.

On Monday we took care of the kids in the day room and then had speaking class. We talked about music and listening activities.

After on Tuesday, we also had to take care of the kids and later speaking classes again, where we did the same activitie as on Monday.

The next three days I had to go to Spain to do an exam for my degree next year.