Last weekend I was in Munich and surroundings, visiting a good friend of mine. He is Turkish and he was visiting some family there, and so I spent some time getting to know Turkish culture.
It's strange because is quite different from Spanish culture, to the social structure I'm use to deal with. For example, before being in this context I thought Spanish people were kind, but Turkish people can behave like your own family without even knowing you. I had this feeling of warm welcoming with all the people I met, tough the language barrier was to strong as I didn't speak Turkish or German (only 'ein bischen') and they didn't know English that sometimes it was a little bit tiring.
Anyway, besides some personal fleeting issues, I had a great time and enjoyed a lot. I'm really thankful to the people there, and specially to my friend for inviting me and his effort of showing me Turkish people reality -not the media discourse construction of them.
Then now, from Monday morning (when I arrived back to Bratislava at 7 am and enter working at 8 am) I've been working with INEX in the implementation of the Technical Meeting (TM) in Piestany, Slovakia. First days I must say it was easy because we only had to arrange things in our staff room, but yesterday was a long busy day when we had to deal with the registration of almost 100 people.
Nevertheless, I won't complain. I love being in an atmosphere with so many different people. Also, they look content with the work they make promoting volunteering and mobility programs and it's something I can really see myself doing in some nearer future. This was one of my main objectives at the beginning, to give the opportunity to people to know the world, to make them aware of how much diverse and challenging it is.
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