{"id":10759,"date":"2018-10-30T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localdreamers.org\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T22:09:44","slug":"experiences-volunteer-selin-wendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localdreamers.org\/nl\/news-nl\/experiences-volunteer-selin-wendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ervaringen vrijwilligster Selin Wendt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drie weken geleden arriveerde Selin Wendt (19) in Quito om zich bij Local Dreamers aan te sluiten. De enige niet-Nederlander zijn is niet altijd gemakkelijk, maar Selin, half Duits en half Turks, vond meteen haar plaats in de groep en het is alsof ze hier al maanden werkt. We vroegen haar naar haar ervaringen tot nu toe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Door: Selin Wendt<\/em><\/p>\n

”Hi, I\u2018m Selin and I’m 19 years old. I\u2018ve been here, with Local Dreamers in Quito, for almost three weeks now. In total I\u2018ll stay for six month though. I really am looking forward exploring as much things as possible during my stay!<\/p>\n

When I first arrived everybody welcomed me very warmly. The office of the foundation is a place with a family atmosphere. If you have any question you can just go ahead and ask anybody \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A normal day at work starts at 9am and ends at 6pm. We usually grab lunch together and most days of the week we spend time together afterwards as well. Since I\u2018ve been here we had movie nights at Thursdays which is really fun. Moreover, we went out to go partying and dancing at the weekend.<\/p>\n

An also very popular event of the foundation is the Pub Quiz. <\/em>It\u2019s a quiz taking place every Tuesday at a pub called Finn McCool’s<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a>. The foundation organizes the quiz to raise some money in order to support their projects. It\u2019s really fun!<\/p>\n

My host family is also very lovely. I didn\u2018t expect to get that close to them that fast. They are caring and also curious about what I do during the day. We mostly have dinner together where we talk a lot about different kind of things. Luckily my hostmum knows English so I was able to communicate with her straight from the beginning. But it\u2019s also fine by me if they just talk Spanish because I do understand the most of what they say. It\u2019s just difficult to respond but that\u2019s gonna get better \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

At the weekend my family does trips with me around Quito. I already saw some beautiful parks and buildings. By the way it\u2019s amazing to see Quito at night because the lights of the city shine so bright. I also met my host family’s huge family and we celebrated my host brother’s cumplea\u00f1os<\/em> (birthday) together.<\/p>\n

This month all the volunteers and interns will go on a trip to Monta\u00f1ita, which is a small village at the coast. Every now and then we travel around Ecuador to explore new places. Last week, for example, we went to Otavalo, a village with a very impressive marketplace.<\/p>\n

All in all I\u2019m really glad to be here!”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Local Dreamers, experiences volunteer Selin Wendt<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drie weken geleden arriveerde Selin Wendt (19) in Quito om zich bij Local Dreamers aan te sluiten. De enige niet-Nederlander zijn is niet altijd gemakkelijk, maar Selin, half Duits en half Turks, vond meteen haar plaats in de groep en het is alsof ze hier al maanden werkt. We vroegen haar naar haar ervaringen tot… <\/p>\n

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