Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Presentation of the team : the first volunteers !!!!

Ciao a tutti!!! Hello everyone!!!


Here we are : Filipa, Marie and Regina !! :D
We arrived at Anversa first week of January. It was cold at the beginning, as you can see on the picture !! We had that chance to be the first volunteer for this project "Volunteering in the magic" and to discover by ourselves this wonderful reserve and the little village of Anversa.


Let's start by a quick presentation of ourselves :
-Filipa : I'm from Portugal - Tomar, I'm 29 and I am passionated by Nature! :D
-Marie : I'm from France - Trebeurden, I'm 24 and wanted to work in ecology. ;-)
-Regina : I'm from Portugal - Seia, I'm 24 and I love Geography, GIS and sport ! yeah !!


Let's follow by a little presentation of Anversa :
It's a very very little village, at 600 meters of altitude, it's cold during the winter (we had rain, snow, wind...) and for now we are expecting warmer temperatures. But when the sun comes out, it's a very very beautiful place. In fact, it belongs to the "Most beautiful italian villages".
The first impression we had that it was a small place but with very friendly and welcoming people who made us feel confortable.
Anversa counts 2 coffees, 1 chemistry, 1 bakery, 1 post office, 1 restaurant, 1 pizzeria, 2 mini-markets, 1 tobacco shop, 1 info point and lots of panorama !!

At anversa, we are living in small houses of 2 people totally new! There 4 houses in total, and they are just nearby a square with an incredible view of the reserve. As we were the first, we noticed things that were missing and step by step the problems are being solved.

We wanted to start this blog to share our feelings and experiences about this EVS project, so feel free to ask whatever you want !