Well, how should I start..
It is always so exciting to write something about yourself, and open your mind and soul for the readers.
I specially like this feeling, because I used to write novels, and poets.
I published a short novels book in February of this year, and after many people have read it, they wrote me such beautiful thoughts, and how I made them to have so many emotions within my book.
I would like to start with a thought I have for my life, so maybe it is easier for you to understand why am I sitting in this chair right now in Greece and writting this blogpost about myself.

I wanna feel I am alive!

A lot of people get up every morning, go to work with the feeling in their heart and mind, and ask themselves (What am I doing? Who am I anymore? I wanted to do something else in my life.).
I have a question why would you do such a thing that makes you feel sick every morning?
I can say really less people can understand why am I here, or what am I doing here.
All after I don't try anymore to make them understand. They only have to know I am happy here, and satisfied. I am in the place where I have to be right now, and for one hundred percent sure it is my way in my life. That' s what matters, not the judges from other people, and not even from family. You live for yourself, and not for others. Your goals in your life, they are just yours, not someone elses.
I came here to Greece to participate in European Voluntary Service. I've been here already for six weeks, and I've done many things. I feel I am full with energy, and I have so many ideas about my life, and about my work. I feel my mind has no limit here and there are no bounds by chains. I feel I live.
It is always hard to move out from your own country, for me that was the second time. Right before I had been living in Finland for one year, but even that I knew how about this feeling, it was not easy. It was not easy to say goodbye, and in a way leave lot of things again behind myself.
I had many expectations, bit other way around that it in the end it came out, but I have to say if something is different that you had the thought before, it doesn't mean it is bad. Different things can change your life, and lead you different ways.
To tell you what am I doing here exactly; for me it's about find myself. EVS is a non-formal education youth mobility program. It is not something like you used to have, to sit in front of a teacher and study theoretical stuff. It is more about learn something from yourself, to get know where is your place in the world, and find yourself.
Till now I have learned many things, for example how to live with people from different countries, and how to cooperate with them, how to be patient even if you are having hard moments, how to support each other, how to make others to learn from you within your experiences, and share your own stories and even your life.
We've given to each other many things already, and it's such an amazing feeling that you have so many common things with a person who you have just met.
Our life here is sometimes can go really chaotic and we need to fill our energy battery to full, but even if it makes us tired, in the other way we got other great things from it, like motivation and a lot of emotions.
One more thing that I would like to share. Every of us have our own ideas of the project, and our own aims. To see how does it go for every of us, really interesting, but all of us have to work for our own goals, we can only help each other to reach them.
In the end to finnish my writting, you have to know something! I am not here because I am afraid of life, and I escaped from the real world. I imagined something for myself and I believed in it that I can manage it, and look I am here!
I am here because I want to live it, I want to live with every opportunity that life gives me.

I am here to live and to feel more european!

Dóra Major

In the following, Antoine, who is a volunteer in Praxis for 2 month with start in the beginning of May, describes what his journey to Greece and his first evening in Serres was like.

4:00 am, we are May 2 and I'm already stuffed. I probably slept something like two hours. I take my bags, my suitcases and jump in the car to reach the airport of Marignane.
4h30, Small check up in the car then direction a vending machine to withdraw some cash before departure.
4:40, Problem, in my wallet, I have my blue card but no ID ... Turn around, I turn to my room quickly ... no where.
4h50, I decide to take my passport and go to the car. I go to store it, open my bag and surprise it was hiding in my agenda...
5h20, It's the race to make the starting procedure but everything goes well, after a rush off like a shot, I feel calm now.
6:10, Now I'm on the plane, the lady sitting next to me asks me: "Are you okay? Is it your first fly? ". I realize that I shake like a chip and explains to her that it's just excitement.
7:50, Stage in Munich, the airport is huge and they have incredible relaxation areas with sun loungers and books from any language to dispotition.
9:25, Take-off, LUFTHANSA is a nice company, they give us a light snack and a refreshment and I do not know if it is just a stroke of luck but the hostesses are nice and welcoming.
11:15, Arrived in Sofia, it's great !!! I was supposed to arrive at 12:15 and take the bus from 5:30 pm to Serres, as the previous one was at 12:30 pm...
12h15, After reflection, I realize that I have to take into account the jet lag and add an hour to my watch. Okay, it's dead ... Bah, let’s go to discover Sofia.
13:00, After being kindly directed to my destination by people in the metro, (At Sofia airport, the receptionist did not even have a map of the city to the info area ...).
13h15, So I'm looking for a place to lunch, preferably a Bulgarian specialty. I ask a few people.
13h30, I'm still looking ... 2 possibilities:

1. I speak a rough English and they understand even less English than I do.
2. They clearly have nothing to do with it.

13h45, In any case, I stop at a snack that offers pretend steaks and sausages. Hmm, she does not speak English, so I find myself with a sausage and steak of undetermined origin in a small plastic tray. Next customers have the same tray, accompanied by sauces and bread ... I start and taste is, how to say, just try and you will see. In short, I hate waste but it's just too much.
14:00, Ok, after a long hesitation in front of a Mcdonalds, I decide to eat an Italian ice cream and then continue my trip to the bus area.
14h30, Arrived at the central station.
15:00, After asking at least 10 receptionists, I finally found the stop corresponding to my bus ticket. Well, two and a half hours to wait now and believe me with a heavy heat, no Wifi and nobody who understands me, I know it will be very long.
17:30, Departure of the bus, I confess, I am not quiet. The other passengers look at me strangely but I focus on the film that passes on the bus. A film in Bulgarian, subtitle in Bulgarian, obviously. An awful movie with Dolph Lundgren, in short, we did not arrive.
20:20, Arrived at the border, I do not understand anything. I got my identity card and then got down and back on the bus 5 times, it started to exasperate me.
21:00, Good, we leave. Just arrived in Greece, my mood is really low and I wonder what I'm doing there.
21h30, in Serres, I meet Anna, my Greek guardian who takes me to the residence of the volunteers who are waiting for me for a welcome meal. There is Maris the Estonian; Dora the Hungarian; Amel, my partner and Kilian the Spanish but the most important were the amazing Greek little women, the awesome Evenia gamoto kerato mou. They are all welcoming and when I finally find myself in my bed, it's with a smile.
23:00, The adventure begins now.

After the university at Rodon 95 fm EVS volunteers did a broadcast about the same topic, and talked about their own experiences via Erasmus+.

Praxis Greece had a bicycle tour around Serres.

 On friday at Asteria theatre of Serres there was a Meet and Greet event for the youth of Serres, the refugees from the camp and the EVS volunteers from all over Europe.
The main point of the meeting to organise the teams for the outdoor activity, which was played on Saturday in the Central Park of Serres.