{"id":7656,"date":"2014-08-07T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2014-08-07T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:11:15","slug":"mid-term-volunteering-in-italy-the-testimony-of-pooja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/mid-term-volunteering-in-italy-the-testimony-of-pooja\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-term volunteering in Italy: the testimony of Pooja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volunteer&#8217;s Experience- World in the Classroom- It&#8217;s wonderfull !!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7657 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"IMG-20140505-WA0050\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG-20140505-WA0050-212x300.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hi ! I am Pooja from Delhi. Bored with monotonous working life, <strong>I was looking for doing something meaningful<\/strong> and\u00a0just by chance got through the website of FSL India. Being a cultural lover, the outbound volunteering concept highly fascinated me, and I contacted them and had a luck to have words with Julien Soyer, Directer of Outbound\u00a0Department there. I was well guided through all the way until I got \u00a0finally to the destination. And i moved on with all positives and negatives possibilities and really it proved to be one of best decision of my life<strong>. I had wonderful experience that i can never forget in my life. I regretted later why i didn\u2019t do earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among a\u00a0variety of projects i went for working with kids and its called <strong>&#8220;World in the Classroom&#8221;<\/strong> in a small townof\u00a0Italy close to Napoli, in Campania region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7660 alignright\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"20140428_120156\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140428_120156-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learned\u00a0Italian, wonderful culture, friendly people. I\u00a0was hosted by the\u00a0family of the head of the NGO there who invites\u00a0international volunteers\u00a0every year to represent the culture of respective country to\u00a0Italian kids so that they get motivation to see out of the Italy where rest of the world exist. At the same time being in a group of international volunteers<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot and felt a great change in me as a person.<strong> It opens up your mind and it\u2019s a window to see an actual new world.<\/strong> You can\u2019t compare it to any routine trip just visit click photos of famous places, even it gives you a chance to experience a life of others and get a opportunity to know different people and different culture and you exchange\u00a0yours too and at the end you comes to conclusion that you can only feel and really makes you better person that<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7661 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"bandera\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bandera-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>help\u00a0you throughout your life in some ways. As you do some hobby courses like swimming, music, dance or personality grooming, just to improve yourself, make you more skillful, to have fun you go for travelling, to get change or escape from routine life, culture exchange is also one of best thing to gives you more satisfaction than all above mention. <strong>This short time experience fills you with confidence, tells you where you stand, and where you can go, help you to be a good team player and above all you have a lots of fun too. \u00a0<\/strong>group of volunteers from different countries, you feel like to be in T20 team or team of world. \ud83d\ude09<strong> You feel like to be above all the nationalities or frontiers created by men, and feel yourself a human of the world.<\/strong> \u00a0Working in team, doing all task together, exchange your cultures all among them, use all your creativity for one motive to entertain kids\u00a0and teach all best from your countries and answer to all their eagerness to know. I travelled in real places not only\u00a0Touristic\u00a0ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7658 alignright\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"upload italy 27\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upload-italy-27-300x113.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you really want to give you a better treatment to your life,\u00a0it\u2019s a best one. I would suggest every person should experience this and just go and experience and then judge yourself and feel this loving difference as I did. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more about the project I was part of ? some videos were realised.\u00a0You will find them here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Video by Pooja\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_1hYLUqIaA-eEZGU3M0V19GV00\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Video 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Video by Martin\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-c6Ku47XFdnTWhBUXA0Vy1hck0\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Video 2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Cheers !!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pooja Sharma \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Volunteer&#8217;s Experience- World in the Classroom- It&#8217;s wonderfull !! &nbsp; Hi ! I am Pooja from Delhi. Bored with monotonous working life, I was looking for doing something meaningful and\u00a0just by chance got through the website of FSL India. Being a cultural lover, the outbound volunteering concept highly fascinated me, and I contacted them and had a luck to have words with Julien Soyer, Directer of Outbound\u00a0Department there. 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