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Hello everyone, Pierre here to make my mid term evaluation!
When I came to Mrachenik I wanted to escape from the classic 9hours workdays in the city and doing nothing at home. I also wanted to do something around my beliefs in cooperation and climate needs.
It’s already been more than a month since we’re here but it feels like not even a week passed !
Before coming I was questioning myself on my capacity to adapt to the rural lifestyle with basic commodities, but after one week it felt easy. And what’s more is that it helps you make more time to enjoy free time and people, no more doom scrolling on the bed.
As a mechanical engineer I didn’t learn about how to use new tools but still learned how to renovate a roof .I still practiced again and more importantly it made me learn how to work with people from other countries and with different skills of their own. The difference in the way of doing missions is really instructive. I’ve learned to be more chill about work attitude.
Furthermore even when still working with classic hours the mission given feels totally different from works without meaning.
I also found out how living with 9 people from different places is not as easy as with 3 friends of yours. It required good logistics and a lot of communication. In fact communication is something that I still need to work on to make myself understood with others.
Cooperation is more difficult than I thought. I knew we won’t have the same views but it’s not easy to get the interest of everyone.
Like I said I also came here to be next to nature and it really helped me a lot to be less stressed in general but also to think about what I want. We went on a 2 day hike with only food and a sleeping bag that made me have a change in doing things in the nature it felt so good that I will try it back at home in France.
The time passed in Mrachenik made me realise that I need purpose when doing something, and today I want it to be linked to climate so when I go back to France I will find an association to work with to feel more alive and happy. Now I need to find the kind of association I want to join and I hope to find it by the end of my volunteering mission.
I am also training in guitar which I had never played before and I must say that it’s really fun even if some hand positions are too hard for me now ! Let’s see how it is at the end of the volunteering !
It’s only been half the way but I’ve already a lot of mental packages to bring back with me. I feel like the choice to come here was really meaningful. I liked how it affected my mind and I also like the encounters that I made here and we will continue to work and take fun together !
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