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Football World Cup: Spain vs. Germany

1 Comment 15 Julio 2010

There are a lot of differences between Germany and Spain, but one thing for sure unifies the two nations: their enthusiasm about football!

Being in Spain as a foreigner doesn’t only make me learn about the Spanish culture, it also makes me become more aware of my own, the German origin. I woke up to the fact that I am one of a few Germans (if any) the people I know in Albacete have met and that consequently, I am the one shaping their picture of my country and the Germans. What a responsibility! Occasionally, people I meet, will ask me about our traditions and ideas on something and a lot more frequently I will just start talking about the differences when something is really striking. For sure some have also asked me about what we think about Hitler nowadays and if we like what he did (which of course everyone who is not a completely dead loss doesn’t like)… Anyway, there were not many occasions, when I felt as German as I did the night Germany played against Spain in the football world cup.

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Interview in the Novaonda radio station in Albacete

0 Comments 14 Julio 2010

They’ve invited my mentor Virginia and me to an interview in order to talk about the European Voluntary Service. Here you can read and listen to the results.

“They’ve invited us to an interview in the Novaonda radio station to talk about the EVS!”, my mentor Virginia told me. Her facial expression showed me that she felt ambiguously happy and nervous about this invitation.

Radio Novaonda is a radio station that was founded by the youth department of the Albacete town hall.

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Evaluación intermedia – Chatting about life while sunbathing at the beach

0 Comments 21 Junio 2010

Two months after my arrival, I took part in the Evaluación intermedia. We ended up talking not only about our voluntary service, but also about the meaning of life in general…

Just when I was getting used to my new Spanish life, AFEMJO sent me an e-mail saying that I had to take part in the “Evaluación intermedia” in May. I got a shock of a lifetime: was I already half-way through with my voluntary service?! Well, no, but it’s necessary to get prepared for everything that will happen and this is the intention of the evaluación intermedia.

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About me…

0 Comments 21 Abril 2010

My name is Vanessa Wintermantel, I am 20 years old and I come from Dusseldorf. I’m the new EVS volunteer hosted in AFEMJO-CLM Albacete

Dusseldorf is a town with about 600 000 inhabitants in the North-western part of Germany. In Dusseldorf I live with my mom and my brother Jonas, who is 15 years old and I am a student at university. When I heard about the European Volunteer Service (EVS) I was totally enthusiastic, because I was looking for a chance to meet people who grew up under totally different conditions in a different culture, with different ideas and believes.

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