I have been in Thessaloniki for almost 4 weeks now. In the mornings, I spend time in the garden, and in the evenings I work in the office. I’m finally starting to see progress in the garden! It’s becoming cleaner and more organised, and soon I’ll start focusing more on the planting area and other things. Other than that, not much has happened. Mostly I’ve been working, getting more familiar with the work and exploring the neighborhood even more this week.

I have been here for about two weeks now and after I came home from the Arrival training I got more familiar with the work and I started to get a better understanding of what I am supposed to do. I went to the garden, no one had been there for a long time so there were many things I had to do like clean, pull up the weeds, organize tools, see what materials we had and what projects I want to do in the future.

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This is exactly what have been done in Epicurus s garden during the MADMAX campaign.

We will focus, in a second time, on why is the garden a privileges place to teach, not only biodiversity, and study. We will walk through the arguments

Balance_Rng, ESAI EN ROI Volunteer; Candidate Youth Worker || FR ESC individual volunteering be SUSTAINABLE SPORTIVE & CULTURAL project 03/01/2026 to 03/07/2026 2024-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000200188 Hi, Wall painting Every time I have to write here I get cynical. I'd love to heal that. But the truth is that I think it is a healthy sign to be. Because to write about the day to day things I do here (public and not so freely then) is giving me the feel of imposture and hypocrisy. I

The I don't know witch week ESC recap. We talk about garden and transmission. Je remplis les caractères pour être un bon garçon. Il manque pas beaucoup.....

However, today, again surrounded by the sound of the devil's tool, I felt the will to give the payment back.

The feeling of doing something meaningful come when i see a new species I haven't yet encounter flourishing in the garden. That's why I don't cut the grass, why I don't cut off the dead plant. They are habitat for wildlife to grow.

After several weeks gathering tools, seeds, plants, and thinking the organization and the transmission I finally welcomed the first kids to enjoy the garden.

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