‘Curves and lines’

These curves and lines visualize the emotional process a volunteer might be passing through during and after the service period:

According to the model, in the beginning person is likely to feel some kind of initial excitement. EVS Volunteer n is fascinated with everything in the new culture, new country.

'The Framework of koTV’'

I should bear in mind that the reality of living a smaller town is completely different from living a big city. Before I came here, I didn’t think it too much. I didn’t foresee it. 

'Challenges 2'

First of all, this blog should be guide for potential volunteers who are thinking about participate in EVS. So this blog might write by me honestly.

I adapted myself to a different life, culture and also attitudes. EVS gave me a better understanding of a different life. At first, my adaptation process was very hard for me. Because of I was inexperienced about living abroad. You know that the fish is missing the water only when it’s out of the fishbowl. I felt like a fish out of water. But now it’s easy for me. EVS provide a significant chance to learning new things.

‘Ideas I’d never thought of before’

One day, as I was walking through Slovenian cemetery; I realized that time and also life is worthy. It only happens a few times. I don’t know why but it occurred to me there. It was interesting. I thought that we don’t have enough time for procrastinating. We have only one life.

And I realized that I spent the last four months away from most of my habits. TV, newspapers, sings and also culture were in a different language, I didn’t understand it. There was nothing to say, there was nothing to buy, no international advertisements in anywhere. It could have seemed like boredom at first time. My thoughts didn’t like it was at rest free from the consuming frenzy.

"Small Island in The Bosphorus: The Maiden’s Tower "

If you want to know Istanbul well you have to listen, for it has things to tell you. Evolving in the languages of the region over the centuries, stories, fairy tales and legends have come to anchor off our shores, as if to wait for other times.

What sort of image does the name Istanbul conjure up in your mind? You might say that everyone sees different images - different snapshots - depending on the time in which they live. This city, which has produced several languages, religions and civilizations in its 2700 years, naturally expects many different pictures to be drawn of it. 

"Two hands make a sound "

‘Thinking is easy, action is difficult and to put one’s thought into action is the most difficult thing in the world.’ Goethe

Long time, I haven’t written an article. Nowadays, Jan -tv director- and our team is working on new documentary about Kamnik. We have been in work since last week. We’ve laid a good foundation for this documentary. Now, our calendar is full. We don’t have time to breathe. 

'Maribor Lent Festival and Street Theaters'

It’s been 4 months since I arrived from Istanbul. It had felt as if I started leading a new life. When I boarded the airplane from Istanbul on my way to EVS, It was my first time away from the land I was born. I headed away from hearth and home. When I arrived in Slovenia, my past life had been left behind. One step at a time, manner of life is changing in here. Here’s the bottom line: nowadays, it’s got a good rhythm.

Last monday, I visited Maribor for Festival Lent with my EVS mentor who is a theater owner in Kamnik Dom Kultura.  I saw his work of art. His performance in street, this is open-air theater.  It’s a masterpiece, It couldn’t be better. By the way, KamFest on Mali Grad is next month. Variously themed performances, concerts and other events will be in there. (Maribor Festival Photos)

"Challenges"

I think that we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by crises. We thought we knew, about our lives, about our future, about life comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality. This time is crisis. It's perhaps easier now, than ever before, to make a good living in the world. We have modern technology, satellites in space, and our internet. But we are at war. We war against ourselves that our future.

“There are no problems in life, only challenges.”

"Thanks to EVS..."

My project focuses on a new local web television with a young creative team. This web television is koTV.

Thanks to EVS create non-formal learning opportunities for me in there. For example, use the camera in local projects in various fields and montage movies in different fields. (Like: exhibitions, youth action shows, traditional activities, festivals, concerts, conferences etc...)

"My Video on Youthreporter.eu"

On “Youthreporter.eu”, This is the moment which I’ve been waiting for.

My video will be online here on youthreporter.eu and my friends and other users can vote for it. Voting is open until 30th of June 2010!

For Video, please look at this: LINK

Thank you in advance

"it’s time to learn to swim.”

“When the water’s up to your mouth, it’s time to learn to swim.”

Latvian Proverb

I got a little obsessed with all system, capitalism. But I’m supposed to be not only one. Everybody always think this.

"Gönülçelen" / "Heart Stealer"

"When were you happiest? "

"A few times when I looked forward to a happy moment or remembered it Never when it was happening..."

Slavoj Žižek
^{Slovenian Philosopher}

The Slovenian capital Ljubljana is a small, romantic city where nature and architecture are intertwined and both are surrounded by music, rivers and bridges.

"Desiderata" / "Desired Things"

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their story.

"Footprint from Past" / "The Mammoth"

In year 1938, while they were digging a new channel in Nevljica, only a kilometer away from Kamnik, they found the skeleton of a mammoth. The skeleton was probably a hunting prey for the Stone Age man.

"Mali Grad"

Kamnik is a town of countless faces. It is a pleasant town for living, working, creating and relaxing.

Today, the town was awakened by rain song. Even when I was writing, it was still going on. The Sun was hiding from all of Kamnik. But we had an aim, "reaching the sun". Now I'm totally sure that you're thinking why I wrote "we” Another EVS Volunteer in Slovenia visited me from Slovenske Konjice which is why i said we were trying to reach the sun.