{"id":10209,"date":"2019-02-01T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pina.si\/en\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:11:22","slug":"my-volunteer-experience-in-koper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/my-volunteer-experience-in-koper\/","title":{"rendered":"MY VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE IN KOPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is <strong>Alessia Nieddu<\/strong> and I have been an European Solidarity Corps Volunteer (ESC) for three weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I was full of fear, &#8211; considering that I&#8217;m also shy and anxious &#8211; like every 21 year old girl, who isn&#8217;t used to live alone and far from the &#8220;nest&#8221;, but that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve chosen to take part to an ESC project, to become more independent and know how to &#8220;survive&#8221; on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason was obviously the fact that I could have worked with Graphic Design, which is what I would love to do as my future job and that I&#8217;ve studied for a whole year.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to where I live, people are much nicer here and I&#8217;m surprised of how well Slovenian people can speak Italian and English.<br \/>\nI never thought that sharing the house with other people, that were complete &#8220;strangers&#8221; to me at the beginning, would have been so appealing. I&#8217;ve already made some friends and became really close with some of my housemates, a thing that couldn&#8217;t have happened back where I live, because from where I come from, people judge you for everything you do &#8211; or at least this has happened to me every single day &#8211; but here it feels different, it feels like a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Every day feels like an adventure and the place where I&#8217;m working at, PiNA, is actually pretty nice. The new office is wide and bright and every one in there greeted me warmly and made me feel like I actually am at home.<\/p>\n<p>The tasks that I&#8217;m receiving are interesting and they are &#8220;stimulating&#8221; my creativeness, and I&#8217;ve already learnt a lot even though I&#8217;ve not spent so much time here yet, especially about how to edit videos and photography, which I decided to choose as the main topic of my personal project for these six months.<\/p>\n<p>Escaping from my comfort zone was probably the best thing that happened in my life and everyone should do an experience like this at least once, because I know that it will help me grow and become more confident with myself and the others.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I left my native country, Italy, at the beginning of January with the perspective of refinding myself, the real me that was hidden for all this time when I was back home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[181,104,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10854,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions\/10854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}