Zuzana's perspective: Celebrating Team Success: From Actor to Director in Local Primary School Performances

Zuzana Zarecka, ESAI EN ROI Volunteer; Candidate Youth Worker   || German

SC volunteering in teams  be SUSTAINABLE SPORTIVE & CULTURAL project  2/12 to 21/12 2025

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Thessaloniki is a wonderful city during Christmas time. Nice decorations are everywhere and the street markets are full of amazing food and drinks. I've got to try a traditional Greek beverage Salepi made from wild orchids, it was really unique and delicious treat.

My accommodation at Chateau Leconte was beautiful, I felt like a princess and Dimitra is really sweet and made me feel at home. The group dynamic was great, lots of wonderful people and memories to take home.

Together as a team we cooperated smoothly and achieved everything we were supposed to. My personal favorite achievement was successfully performing at local primary schools, one as an actor myself and second as a director.

This positive experience allowed me to be more myself and changed my perspective on the world. I've got to be around so many cats, they are truly everywhere and are friendly and affectionate. The competences we learned the most would be cultural awareness and expression, individual, social and learning to learn, multilingualism and active citizenship.

As an outcome I hope that people will be more kind to stray animals and know how to properly take care of them, that they won't be afraid to adopt and that they will be an active citizens and perhaps volunteer at local shelters. I'm sure this campaign will help and connect. Although we already left, others will come and continue spreading our word and that is beautiful.