When you live as a volunteer every day is unpredictable and new, anything can happen so you learn how to react fast and improvise. But don’t think it’s a boring life – actually it’s a lot of fun and always full of adventure and stories to tell. Especially if you are lucky enough to have such awesome roommates like I do. We are like a family and we found a way to make it work in our flat, basically the key word for our daily life is compromising so that in the end everyone is happy.
During these months we already had to overcome several challenges and problems that I think in the end united us more and more. Also we have a lot of new stories to tell from ex-boyfriends that appear in car after days of travelling to learning how to shower with cold water for weeks. So when you are a volunteer you have to be flexible and uncomplicated otherwise you would get angry and stressed all the time. For instance: when you open the fridge and you can only find half of a tomato, a slice of ham and milk, you don’t complain that you don’t have nothing to eat – you just smile and make an awesome “everything-you-have-in-the-fridge-pasta”!
In conclusion I just have three amazing words to describe life as volunteer.. “Improvisation, compromising and compensating “
Colindres Youth Way 2014/16 