Mov’n’Europe 2

„Riiiiinnggg“ „Chi è? “ „Pauline e Elena“ „Ciao, welcome, come in!“ We will miss this. We will miss you offering us coffee three times a day and feeding us with

Are you ever too old to dress yourself up as a cute animal for carnival? Some people may quickly answer “yes” to this question, but we saw it as our

Guess who’s back?? 😎Yes, it’s us! Despite all the difficulties of travelling during a pandemic we managed to go back to our home countries for the Christmas holidays and also

Does it even get really cold in southern Italy? Oh yes, it does. With the second and third month of our voluntary service passing by, we left the last really

“It feels a bit weird to know that we’ll be living together soon, without really knowing each other” “That’s right, it sounds crazy! But I don’t doubt it’ll be okay” These are some of the first messages we exchanged only weeks before starting our ESC voluntary experience in southern Italy. For six whole months we left family, friends, school, university and all the other well-known parts of our lives behind at home in France and Germany and moved to a small town in Italy to discover everything this place far from home has to offer.

My name is Pauline, I‘m 21 years old. I just finished my diploma in law that I studied for three years. Not knowing what I want to do now, continue my studies or enter the working world, I told myself that this was the right time to follow my desire to volunteer. The European Solidarity Corps was a way for me to take a break from my studies for a year, while making myself useful in a rich experience. So, I started looking for a country in the South like Greece.