December 2017

1. English Speaking Club

In 4th and 8th December  we had very interesting day in our club the main topic was „Animals”, we learned somes words like captive, extinct, fur, horns, venom, amphibious, cage, feather, endangered, species, cub, roar, bark, croak… and after we used these words in the next activity: „Animals Taboo”, we had one card with one animal, we said where they live, what they eat, how they look and another person had to guess the animal.

We also watched a video about animals in danger of extinction and for ending we were talking about our favourite animals we sung „Perfect” by Ed Sheeran.

2. Advent Calendar

Green Life prepared an Advent Calendar with Christmas tasks for the children of the Multifunctional Center in Verguleasa. We used several materials to create that Calendar as markers, colored glitter, pencils, plastic paints, scissors, glue,  envelopes and some others.  Children were doing fifteen tasks, one each day until Christmas day, such as singing Christmas carols, make a garland, learn more about the origin of Christmas, prepare a Christmas theatre, cook something easy and tasty for someone, dance with friends among other activities.

3. Storytelling

We went to Ramnicu Valcea to received a workshop about “Storytelling”, we learned how to tell stories in our own language with an international audience that does not understand our language. Nonverbal communication, look and even interact with viewers, intonation and silences are very important to tell stories and impress the audience. We were spectators of Turkish, Belarus, Spanish, Georgian tale, we didn’t understand everything but we could feel what was happening with those characters in each story.

4. English Speaking Club

In 15 th December we had our last meeting in our Club,  we went to the library talking about how you celebrate Christmas in Romania, we talked about Christmas decoration inside and outside of the house, we sung carols in English Language like “We wish you a Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bell”, “Silent Night”, “All I want for Christmas is you” by Mariah Carey  and in Romanian Language like “Trei Pastori” by Stefan Hrusca,  “Mos Craciun cu plete dalbe” by Andra and “Colindan, Colindan” by Madalina Manole.

5. Christmas Fair

Christmas Fair was a rewarding experience for Green Life, we were two days we were preparing for this event – we created decorations for Christmas tree and knitted bracelets. We were very pleased to be a part of the Christmas school fair in Scoala Tudor Vladimirescu, Dragasani and to contribute to helping orphans. We were also impressed with what crafts the students did with their own hands, and also tried some Romanian homemade food.

6. Christmas Holidays

In last week of the year, some of us we went to our country, Spain and Ukraine to celebrate Christmas Holidays, the rest of the volunteers went to another part of Romania, Bucharest and Craiova except one volunteer, he decided to go to Ukraine for tourism. Each country has their own tradition, different food and rituals but the common part is everywhere in Christmas time, everyone try to be the best person, helping others and being grateful, the spirit of Christmas is breathed in all the members of the family and friends.