7. You must do something of service while wearing the jacket.
CISV became an important part of my life, but I'm also a volunteer in local associations...even if sometimes it's hard, I always come back home happier than tired!
This is me with some friends at the Italian language school for foreigners called "Scuola di Pinocchio"! I've been a volunteer there since october 2011 and I'm a teacher in the most advanced class (they're kinda upper intermediate/intermediate level). Preparing the lessons takes a lot of time, sometimes it's difficult explaining - especially the grammar! - even if all of my students are good italian speakers!
Here we are after a class, that takes always place on thursday evening in a parish recreative centre, that hosts us, because our association doesn't have its own office.
From the left: Ester (she's a teacher in another class). Francesc from Albany, me, Matteo (called "Baglio"...he was the first president of our association, he's been teaching to strangers for ten years...he's helping me growing up as a teacher!), then we have Marja from Russia and Veronika from Romania!
Camilla (the last teacher of my class!), Nassi and Zack from Morocco, Ivan from Ukraine and Cheikh from Senegal were missing that day.
This photo needs to be explained! :)
Since november 2011 I'm a volunteer in an association called "Cielo e Terra" that works with the social services. Part of the work of Cielo e Terra is opening a dormitory for 9 men (but now they're only 7) every night from 8 pm to 8 am. It's always opened by volunteers that spend the night there.
This is the volunteer office, where we can find the dormitory's journal that every volunteer has to complete after the night, to tell to the coordinators and to the other volunteer what happened that they should know...and of course it's also our room! :)
I decided to show you the office (too much pink for me!) and not the other rooms or the guests because sometimes it's difficult dealing with them. They're not dangerous (of course!) but that night they had a quarrel, and I preferred not to disturb them when they were quiet again.
In few hours I'm going there again, tonight! :) I hope everything will be quiet!
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