My week as a volunteer in Georgia

Hi everyone I am back again and happy to share my experiences from last month. After I talked a lot about discovering Georgia and the ups and downs you can have as a volunteer I want to talk about my weekly routine here in Rustavi now.

Monday: ‘‘the early bird catches the worm‘‘

So my week starts with Monday as for everyone else too. My Monday in the first months was quite chill. Now we have a weekly meeting every Monday in our group as volunteers. So I start my working day at 10:00 in the office where we discuss upcoming events and update each other about the next days. It depends how long we have the meeting but at 13:30 I have to go to a pool in Old Rustavi where Lucie and I are helping out in a class from the School of Innovation. In the pool we are usually for one hour or a bit more, it always depends. After the pool we are going home and then my working day is already over. The last Mondays I just rested at home and made my dinner.

Tuesday: „Guten Morgen, Guten Morgen Sonnenschein!“

Yes, you guessed right, it's German because every Tuesday I go together with Anias to a public school in New Rustavi where we help a German teacher named Keti to teach the kids German. Usually, we are there for one and a half hours. So we are supporting the kids, helping them out if they need help or preparing some small games for them. After that I go to the mall and do my office work for approximately two hours. Then I go to the School of Innovation where we can participate in the Wu-shu club. Here we are learning new movements and something about the Chinese martial arts, which I really like.

And then my working day is again over quite fast. I just go home, enjoy my free time and cook my dinner again.

Wednesday: ‘‘Happy hump day!“

I reached Wednesday already and my weekly routine is almost over!! But on the hump day I just have my chill office day. I am starting at 11:00 in the morning and work in the Scout Center for four or five hours. The last Wednesdays I worked on my applications for my studies where I want to apply. So I wrote a lot on my CV and my motivation letters.

Thursday: „ Besser spät als nie“

And again German!! Also on Thursday Anias and I are going to the public school. We are supporting Keti and the children, same as on Tuesdays. After that I am going to the Scout Center where I have to prepare English classes for the Fridays. So Renée and I are discussing some games we want to play with the kids. And after some hours I go home in the evening again and enjoy my free time.

Friday: “Happy Friday guys!!“

I can‘t believe it‘s Friday already. So yeah my last work day of the week and where Renée and I are giving English classes in the School of Innovation. Our first class is a fourth grade where we have different topics and play some games and ask them some questions. Our second class is the 7th grade and with this grade we try to play some games. It is a bit more chaotic, but we are trying. After that I usually go home already and if I have some office work I am doing it from home. Recently, I worked outside near our apartment and finished my report and evaluation. When everything is finished, I have freetime and usually we are doing something on Fridays. We go out and eat at Cafune or order food and have a movie night. It always depends on what mood we are in.

Saturday & Sunday: “A whale of time“

OMG guyss and we reached the weekend already, that's how quickly a week can be over. But ok so it always depends on what we have on the weekend. Sometimes we have a kids camp on Saturday, so we start at 11:00 and finish at 16:00. We are always doing different activities. It depends which topic we have for our camps. The last one was a sports day so we had a lot of active activities like football or acrobatics. On another Saturday we didn‘t have a day camp so we went ice skating and on a Sunday we also visited an opera once. So it always depends on what we have on the weekend but usually we can enjoy our free time even after the day camps where we order food or eat outdoors.

So guys, this is a quick summary of my weekly routine. I hope you enjoyed reading it and if you want to read more about what I am doing in the next months stay tuned!!

I can give you maybe a small hint I will have a visitor soon…

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