Bulgaria / България 🇧🇬

TERVEL/ТЕРВЕЛ My biggest dream after university was to get a different experience before starting my working life. While doing Erasmus, a friend of mine was very impressed by the country we stayed in and decided to stay there. He managed to stay there through a volunteer project. They were doing so many different activities that I wanted it very much at that time. I researched his project and applied to many different projects.I see such projects as pure luck.

Because during the process of finding and accepting a project, which took me about 7 months, I saw that some people came without knowing a word of English and without doing any research. I’m not complaining, but know that if you just want, it will happen anyway. And at the end of this process, you add so much to yourself. So try it. Learn, see, meet new people.

https://youth.europa.eu/go-abroad/volunteering/opportunities_en

You can find many different projects like the project I did on the site I gave above. I was working in kindergarten and high school. I was teaching English to 2 grades in kindergarten. We were actively doing activities in high school. There were two different options: long term and short term. If you do the long term first like me, you cannot benefit from the short term. However, if you first do a short-term project of a few months at most, you can then do a long-term project.

I had a lot of fun but also struggled a lot. I know that it gave me lessons and experiences that I will never forget in my life. That’s why I’ve never regretted it.