David
“What’s up guys?! I came directly from Portugal to be close to you! I really want to help you in whatever I can! See you very soon!”
“The expectations about the city were more or less the same that thought before to come, a small city, undeveloped compared with the volunteers origin countries and some lower services and businesses.
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There were no cultural shocks, only a process of adaptation to some traditions and behaviors that local people do.
Organization members did everything they could to facilitate the process for the volunteers, which made everything easier in the first days.
There were a lot of differences related with what is possible to perceive with our senses, like architecture, urbanization, existence of public spaces to leisure time and so on.
That made the experience in the first week, a period of time of knowing the community with the other volunteers and the association members, and everything was just flowing perfectly.”
