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Study, work and travel as “Voluntourist” is a Erasmus IP summer school (23.7.-3.8.2012). Participating students from Austria, Netherlands, Croatia, Romania, Portugal and Poland are posting their daily experiences and their view of volunteer work!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Maribor

August 1, 2012.


New day. New story... Destination – Maribor! J









Today we woke up in the early morning and at 5.45 a.m. we started our trip to European Capital of Culture and Slovenian second largest city-Maribor. When we arrived at 9.30, the hosts of cultural institute presented us project which is divided into 7 sessions, and importance of volunteering. An important aspects of this project are cultural and art events; festivals, exhibitions, cooking lessons where participate a lot of painters, musicians, writers, dancers, photographers... Volunteers are one of the most importaint aspects of this project because they are in charge to host V.I.P. guests. The project counts 86 volunteers who have obligatory training before starting with their work. Volunteerism is very importaint from social aspect of life because there can particaipate everyone who has passion for culture and working in intercultural environment without age limits: students, employeed, unemployeed and retired people. We also had an opportunity to hear feedbacks of 3 volunteers and their positive experiences.





After morning sessions, we had walking sightseeing tour to the main Maribor's attractions and we also visited the bell of  St. John Cathedral which provide us beautiful city view and a lot of nice photographies. J




















Lunch in the local restaurant with traditional food and free afternoon. During the afternoon we had a lot of work with questionnaires about tourism and feedback of Maribor.

Nice day, great experience and a lot of fun!

Thank you...
Croatian team J

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