International Volunteering

It all began in Baia Mare, of course. Weeks of images and desires for the trip, but no plans. Only the last 3 days were productive in this field, and instead of resting before the big trip, we stayed up all night, trying to find websites of trains, bus, couch-surfing, hostels, camping parks and all

My name is Vessie and I’m from Bulgaria. I’ve been in Romania for 2 months already. When I decided to come in Romania I really didn’t know what to expect, but one thing I knew for sure – I wanted to change my life and I wanted to find my own way. The sending organization

Thinking of hitchhiking used to give me the images of smiley, hippie styled people standing off the road effortlessly trying to stop a hippsterish car to get them to their happy destination.  Not anymore.  Instead I see tired, shabby people with undefined face expression desperately trying to get anywhere near their destination point before it

I remember the first day in Romania still quite good. I was travelling from Budapest to Baia Mare with the Bus; it took me seven hours, which gave me some time to watch the landscape. What I noticed were huge hills of watermelons that were sold on the streets, the villages, different from the villages

I left home two months and 2 days ago, on 3 July 2013 and at the beginning I wanted to change some of how I was living and also to find many new friends. The fly on the clouds of Romania took me in a land of small villages looking not very recent; getting to