European Day of Languages

 

On the European Day of Languages, in Lecce, we participated in diverse activities organized by Europ Direct Salento in collaboration with other organizations,  such as Vulcanicamente or II Formiciao. We even had the participation of some Croatian youngsters.

On Saturday, 27^th of September at Piazza Sant’Oronso everyone had a possibility to borrow books in various languages. The only condition was to give them back afterwards.

On Sunday we took part in a city game “Caça ao Tesouro” (Chase the Treasure) where the main goal was to complete about 20 (im)possible missions in Lecce. 25 participants were divided in 4 groups – each of them with at least one foreign person (Portuguese or Croatian). The game was incredibly funny as the missions were based on tasks such as: talking to people, singing and dancing. It also implied a lot of interaction with strangers from different origins and languages. 

António's team

Isabel's team

Lurdes and Manuel's team

and guess who won!!

"Apolix.. we go fast and mix"

At the end of the day, at the Oficina Cantelmo, we Portuguese elders and a group of Croatian youngsters  - joined in a meeting with different languages groups (Spanish, French and English) from the University of Salento. It was an interesting event brought to life by some dance presentations of Salsa and Flamenco, prepared by the Spanish group. After the games, in this lively and laid-back atmosphere we were served an international aperitif.

Stefania, Lurdes, Sara, Nunzia and Fernando also danced with us!

Acivities in Ciclofficina

The project of CICLOFFICINA revolves around volunteering and sharing

                                                                                                     

In one of the posters in the office you can read: “Questo é uno spaziocomune che accoglie idee e nuoveproposte. Divertti e divertiamoci insieme”.

According to Giuglio – the driving force of Ciclofficina, This program of mutual help was born from the good will of some friends and of the idea to form solidarity. “Here we don’t buy or swap bicycles. We help to repair and maintain this popular means of transport and we do the work that is needed. 

 

Another  task of Ciclofficina is to promote the bicycle as a means of transport, and as a way to achieve it, they organise various activities, especially bike rides.

Giulio – one of the driving forces of the project

António and Manuel chose to collaborate with Ciclofficina and the activities started with coffee prepared by Manuel. 

The first task was to clean, tidy up and organise the office…

and it looked pristine…ready for work to begin!!

After that we started to arrange the tires, to tune brakes and wheels, to install various components, etc. If some people dropped in who didn’t know how to fix their bicycles, they could count on help of the volunteers and leave with a working bike.

The other possibility is to renew the old bikes.

António even built a bike with the elements taken from the “bikes’ cemetery” but finally he discovered that the frame was bent! :(

The team was nice, there was amazing comradeship and they even lent the bicycles to António, Manuel and Isabel so they could use them in Lecce!!