November 2013

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EDITORIALI would like to use this edito-rial to remind/ inform you about this fanzine. LINK started back in 2009 by the EVS volunteers hosted in Kalamata by K.A.NE. organisation. It is not an edi-tion of the Youth Centre of Ka-lamata, but an attempt to offer to the EVS volunteers being in Kalamata the chance to express their experiences, ideas as well as to write about their projects, their countries, their organisa-tions etc etc.

This fanzine is being managed by the EVS volunteers them-selves, who are following a ro-tation system, changing dif-ferent positions (editor, writer, photographer, illustration etc) throughout the year. Link, is be-ing published every 15 days and behind it there is lot of work! If you have some time, please send us a feedback as well as your ideas for Link.

Until then, we have to congrat-ulate K.A.NE’s EVS volunteers for their great job and... enjoy reading!!!

Filaretos

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editor: Erika Funa

desigN: Lina Šuminaitė

staff members of KaNe:Filaretos VourkosFotini ArapiGeorgia Giannakea

LoNg term evs:Leonard PristlMelina SavvidisFiachra Mckeever Carmelo MárquezEda TandoğanAhmad AyyashAmaia Vilas Erika FunaDanae LehmannMehmet Ali ŞirinUğurcan PehlivanAbdurrahman ErmişLina Šuminaitė

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ΜΙΚΡΕΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΙΕΣWith the Youth Centre opening again its doors to the public, for the 5th year, there are still some things, where we could use your help!!!For the beginning of the work-shops, and throughout the year, the Youth Centre needs:

* CHAIRSStrange as it may sound, the Youth Center is in need of chairs! As the Youth Centre acquires more and more members, and the use of the chairs is extensive, our poor old chairs are breaking down. As it is, it is impossible to have all the chairs that the workshops need. If you have any chairs that you do not use, or you think that you can spare, you can bring them!

* MARKERS for the white boardAs all of the language workshops make use of the white board, we consume approximately 3 mark-ers per week!

* PENSYou can never have enough of those!

* COMPUTERSUnfortunately, the Youth Centre at the moment has only 1 work-ing (almost) computer to be used in the info-point. Temporar-ily, and only for the registrations, volunteers of the Youth Centre have brought their computers from home… however, eventually they will need them back… We need at least 1 more computer to be used in the dance workshops and 1 more for the outside activi-ties… :(

* GuitarsAs we are very musical this year, if you have any guitar that you do not need anymore and can give it to the Youth Centre, please do :)

* MirrorsThis may be a bit of a longshot but we also need full-length mir-rors for the dance room.

We know that it may be unlikely that people have spare full-length mirrors lying around in their ga-rages at home, but then again,

if you don’t ask, you’ll never re-ceive!

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Good morning حابص ريخلا (sabah anoor)Good evening ءاسم ريخلا (masaa alkheer)Good night ةليل ةديعس (laila saeeda)My name is ahmad يمسا دمحأ (esmee Ahmad) beautiful flower ةرهز ةليمج (zahra jameela)peace be with you مالسلا مكعم (assalamu aleekum)thanks to god دمحلا هلل (alhamdooleelaah)how are you? فيك ؟كلاح (keefa haluka)beautiful sun سمشلا ةليمجلا (ashamsul jameel)cold weather سقطلا درابلا (ataqsool baared)

Arabic expressionsBy: Ahmad

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In this time only a few of us were lucky to visit the factory and Athanasius and to know the history of the family busi-ness.

Pantelis Athanasiou, whom many people in Kalamata still remember, began making cakes at home since 1938. In the beginning he was selling cakes in the streets of Kal-

The Last Visit to the Wonderful world of smellsBy: Amaia

amata, schools and in all the places where many people goes to enjoy, such as football stadiums etc, and always us-ing his bicycle to go from one place to another.

Later, his descendants started using a small family bakery to continue the trade of cake sale, selling cakes to small shops, and with time creating their own chain of stores.

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They opened their first store in 1992 and today they have stores in all different parts of the world, such as USA (Boston), Panama... Always before opening a new shop, there is good business plan-ning to make sure that it could be maintained. So, they are very strict particularly with the quality and with the Greek origin of the products, and all is made with olive oil. They produce sweet and bit-ter flavours, and even some other products such as some delicious chocolates which we were lucky enough to taste.

These last two years, due to the economic situation that has been happening in most of Europe, they found great difficulties, but even so, they still keep betting and risking to undertake new business outside of the country. It is a way of maintaining business, something like a business insurance, just in the case the economic situation goes worse in Greece. In that plan more than 100 employees are also included. Right now, they are producing 350 different products to be sold daily and, always fresh and with a very high quality.

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Finally, and after the visit to the factory, and fascinated by the wonderful world of smells that I could appreciate there, we had the great fortune to taste some of the delicious things they offered to us, hav-ing at the same time a nice chat about the interesting sto-ry of the founder.

The next step for Athanasius is to go for growth at the local level by opening a shop with coffee and delicious snacks, breakfast sandwiches etc, near the harbour.

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Athens - 5 days with 38 volunteers, coming from 16 countries, working in 15 dif-ferent non-profit organiza-tions. Somewhere inbetween there was us, the 4 EVS volun-teers who arrived to Kalamata in October and now got to go

On-arrival Seminar in AthensBy: Danae

to the on-arrival seminar. The seminar took place in a hotel in Omonia, which first scared me a little bit, since I’ve heard the stories of the other volun-teers who went there in Sep-tember already. Surprisingly I didn’t see anything threat-ening just a lot of policeman, which also made sense, since we were living right next to a police station. The hotel was nice, especially since we had 5 days without cooking or clean-ing ahead of us ;). At 6:30 pm the seminar started off with a short welcoming and we got to see the other volunteers, as well as our 4 trainers for the first time. We also played some games to get to know all the names, which was im-possible in only one hour. Ev-eryone seemed very nice and you could feel everybody’s excitement for the upcoming days. After dinner we went out to Eksarxeia for one or two drinks.

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The next day’s motto was “My EVS”. We all took a closer look at our own project in creat-ing a poster about it. Later on everyone introduced the project to the other volun-teers. It was very interesting to see and to hear what the other volunteers are doing and also nice to exchange our experiences concerning our projects. The second night we climbed up on a little hill close to the acropolis, where we had an amazing view not only at the lit up acropolis but also at huge Athens. Greece

also won the important soc-cer game against Rumania that evening so there were fireworks, which made every-thing even more beautiful.

On Wednesday it was time to learn some Greek. Our chal-lenge was to create a TV commercial for a gadget that would be useful for the every-day life of an EVS volunteer… in GREEK! We came up with the idea pretty fast but spent a loooong time to translate everything into Greek. My

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group for example invent-ed the EVS volunteer GPS-“ΣυσκευηΕυρεσηΕθελοντων”, an application for your mo-bile phone, which helps you to find other EVS volunteers in Greece. The same day we also found out about the ori-gin and the background of the EVS program and we learned more about the rights and the responsibilities of an EVS vol-unteer. After dinner we had a

little pyjama party at the hotel and after watching two mov-ies most of us went straight to bed.

The next morning we got up with a lot of motivation, since we were going to explore Ath-ens. We were divided into 5 groups with different themes

(1. gastronomy and cuisine 2. crisis 3. tourism, sports and entertainment 4. social move-ments and NGOs 5. interper-sonal relations) in order to learn more about city, culture, language and people. Every group had to do tasks around the city interacting also many times with people from the street. In the end of the day we presented the results of our rallies to the others. It was a very fun and interesting day but also stressful, since we only had a certain amount of time to finish everything.

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The evening most of us went out - even though it was rain-ing cats and dogs - again to enjoy the colorful nightlife of Athens.

Soon it already was Friday and also the last day of the seminar. So for a last time we gathered together in the big seminar room to learn about the youth pass we will create ourselves in the end of the project to have a summary about our development and our achievements during the

program. Afterwards we did an evaluation of the whole seminar. Everyone was very happy with the days we spend together in Athens and also a little bit sad that it was al-ready over. During those days we made new friends and now know other volunteers all over Greece. The seminar did not only motivate us for our projects, inform us about im-portant things connected with our EVS but also helped us to create a big network. So in the following months we hope to

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visit each other and see other nice places of Greece. Since most of us only left the hotel the next day after breakfast we had another night together and we planned our farewell party in a club in Kerameikos. Even two of our trainers joined us. The party was the perfect

ending to 5 Supercalifragilis-ticexpialidocious days!

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Teddy in GermanyBy: Melina

Finally Teddy made it to vis-it Melina in one of the oldest and important cities of Ger-many. Augsburg was once a part of the Rome empire lead-ed by Emperor Augustus that also gave Augsburg its name. So Augsburg is full of histori-cal buildings and places that Teddy wants to visit during his stay. He starts with the most sig-nificant place: Die Fuggerei. Die Fuggerei is the oldest still

existing socialhouse complex in the world founded by Ja-kob Fugger during the medi-eval age. It’s a place where the needy citizens of Augs-burg could be housed for 0,88 € per day. Their only due was to pray for the Fugger family everyday.

To get a better sense for the medieval age, Teddy is visit-ing a big medieval festival sur-rounded by the historical walls

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of Augsburg. He is watching knight fights, belly dancers, theatre plays and is drinking a lot of wine. In the big mar-ket he is buying handmade braceltes and rings for his family and friends at home.After enjoying the mystic me-dieval world, Teddy visits the world of marionettes. And whereelse can you find a bet-ter place for such a trip than in Augsburg? Nowhere! Augs-burg is the only place where you can find a real marionette theatre, that even Japanese from the end of the world

make their way to see “Augs-burger Puppenkiste”.

Also Teddy can’t wait to see all those lovely fairytales played

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on a small stage filled by handmade marionettes and a magic setting.

After the show he meets all the actors of the theatre: Jim Knopf and Lukas, Urmel aus dem Eis (Urmel from the Ice Age), Frau Holle (Mother Hul-da) and more.

For the next day Teddy is looking for more action so Melina shows him the “Plär-rer”, a folk festival that opens in spring and autum. It is full

of rollarcoasters, ghost trains, funrides and sweets. Here you can also find the famous

“Bierzelte” (beertents) with a lot of beer, german folk mu-sic and drunk germans. To make it more typical german most of the people are wear-ing their traditional dresses.

To get to know something besides all those traditional and cultural things, Melina in-troduces Teddy to the sporty Augsburg. If greek people know about Augsburg it’s probably because of family or friends there or football. Since we have a good football team

(FC Augsburg) that is also playing internationally, Augs-burg is not that unknown any-more. Another important and good team we have is in Ice-hockey. It’s not that famous like FCA but probably even

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better in its league. As a ran-dom tip: if you would ever visit an icehockey game wear your thickest clothes and shoes!!

And because we love markets in Germany, especially in Ba-varia, there is also a christ-

mas market that starts almost one month before christmas. So Teddy takes his chance and visits also the beautiful “Christkindlesmarkt”. Thank

god he has this tick and warm coat otherwise he would freeze a lot. In this time it’s

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already in minus and snow-ing in Germany but for us Germans it’s almost a must to have snow during christ-mas. Anyway we have a prob-lem with the coldness so we are drinking “Glühwein” (hot spicy wine) and the children “Punsch” (almost like Glüh-wein just without alcohol). If you are hungry or if you are not, you eat a “Bratwurscht” (a bread roll with sausages) or “Schupfnudeln” (special noo-dles with sauerkraut). On the way through the market you can find handmade things like lights, clothes, accesoires and everything around christmas. For sweets there is also a big variety but the most common for christmas is “Lebkuchen” (gingerbread).

Unfortunatley Teddy has to leave Germany and go back home to his family and friends. He leaves with a full stomach of food and beer, a lot of me-dieval history, a thicker coat and a lot of good memories. Teddy enjoyed it a lot and he wants to see more of Germany!

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Fiachra, with light in his mind and everything in his handsBy: Carmelo

message, and I hear another ringtone not far from me, that demands the attention of its owner. Speed and more speed in the land famous for its “ σιγα σιγα”. Anxiety and rest-lessness are something un-usual here in this small town of Peloponnese. And then a man who, counter-balancing the look of his elegant acous-tic guitar with his carefree ca-sual style, appears and calms the air. It was Fiachra Mac Íomhair.

A waitress impatient for orders. Haste and unrest among my Arabic friends who were also on their way to Rodonthos for the announced evening of live music. Noise, smoke and rest-lessness on a cloudless night. Definitely something unusual for this time of the year in the mid of November. But it would not rain on that day, for even the weather paid its respect.Then more haste. My phone spits out a quite complicit

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Time seemed to stop and suddenly there was no trace of the previous anxiety and hurry that we have all become accustomed to, even here in Greece. The seemingly impos-sible happened. Everything went quiet and still. Even the clock stopped ticking as the room full of expectation was awaiting to hear the slender Irishman sing. To hear sing the person who was born to do this and nothing else.It was about eleven o’clock at night and everyone who was not there that night did not know what they were missing. While Fiachra began strum-ming the Fisherman’s Blues by The Waterboys, I closed my eyes and let my body move to the harmonious rhythm of the song.

The song finished, and loud cheers of approval followed immediately along with the first round of ovations from the audience. Yet again, Fia-chra has won us over. Many more songs followed as ev-erything flowed slowly, slow-ly, between one tsípuro ( τσιπουρο ) and another. The poetic verses were caressing our souls.Today, as I am writing this, I only have room in my heart to say thank you. Thanks for another brilliant night. Ευχαριστούμε Fiachra. The rest of my heart now belongs to your music, your style and some other girl that night was Rodanthos. Time will tell the rest.

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1. How old are you?

I’m 18 years old.

Interview with Melina By: Leo

2. Why are you doing an EVS?

This really sounds like an ap-plication to me but ok :D I want to gain all those experi-ences that you can just gain in something like this here and I really liked the project in which you are free to cre-ate your own projects!

3. Melina, you are half Greek, is that the reason why you chose Greece for you EVS?

Actually I wanted to go to South America, but I missed the deadline… so I decided to go to Greece (because of my origins) and finally I’m happy I missed the deadline to South America :D

4. Is it the first time you are here in Greece?

No, it’s not my first time. I have been in Thessaloniki

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a few times, because a big part of my family lives there and I went on Thassos when I was a child. I really love Thessa-loniki and I have to visit more Islands -> that’s my plan for next year!

5. How long is your EVS project and when will you finish it?

I’m here since August (and I enjoyed a lot the Greek sum-mer!) and I will stay till end of May/beginning of June… actually I don’t know, because maybe I will travel through Greece after my EVS.

6. What will you do after your EVS? Back to Germa-ny or stay in Greece?

For sure I will go back to Ger-many and study! I really love to be here in Greece, but to study and work I prefer Germany!

7. What do you like here in Greece and what not?

The food!! I love the food here! I’m eating all the time… and when I see skinny greeks, I’m always wondering: How is that possible??? How can they resist to all the divine food? I hate the tropical rain here! Actually the weather is much much better than in Germany but still … Greece has been al-ways sunny for me :D

8. Tell me something about your hobbies.

I love to dance! Especially ev-erything around Salsa that I could dance all night and day! I also played the guitar for 12 years, but I stopped just 2 years ago because I lost the fun in playing the guitar… but now with all the musicians around me (and really: almost everybody plays the guitar here!) I want to start again!

9. Favourite color and why?

It depends in which mood I am and where the color is :D

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… in my room I like pink, on me I like white and beige, in the landscape I like green and colorful … etc :D and I can’t explain why!

10. Your favourite book and movie and why do you like it?

Hmm.. this is actually also changing all the time but I have some favourite catego-ries: historical and criminal books :D, but I have favourite movies: Harry Potter, Fast and Furious and every Bollywood movie with Shah Rukh Khan

11. What languages do you speak?

I speak German, English, I used to speak Spanish bet-ter than English, but since I’m here (and here is just English) I lost it totally… I used to speak French, but the same thing.. If you don’t speak a language anymore you will forget and now I’m learning Greek! I’m very proud of this :D

12. A Country or a place you really want to visit?

Once in my life I have to visit Cuba and Santo Domingo… and Brasil :D actually there are a lot of places where I really have to go! I’ve once been in Norway, but I want to go there again and go to the North Kap! Very beautiful country!

13. What do you need for a good party?

My friends, good mood and especially good music!

14. Do you have any idols?

I have a lot, it just depends in what I want to become better. But these are not just idols in dancing or playing etc. Also sometimes I’m really im-pressed by someone’s behav-ior in a special situation and then I try to take this over and see it as my idol … I hope it’s somehow understandable :D

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15. What makes you sad or angry?

I don’t like to be alone, then I become sad… I also become sad and angry if someone wants to discuss with me all the time about Merkel and at-tacks me in saying always bad things about my home Ger-many and especially about the people… don’t be narrow minded!

16. What kind of music do you like and how impor-tant is music for you in your life?

I really like almost every genre except techno and that electro stuff. I love to hear Latin, Rock, Metal, Country, Hip Hop, Pop, Rap, Reggae, Greek music… it depends of the song! And I can’t imagine living without music. It’s like it is accompanying you through your whole life.

17. Ok, now I want you to tell me the first 3 things coming in your mind if you hear the word friend!

Laughing, faith, home.

18. Do you like to be inter-viewed? And why?

No, I really don’t like it! I have no idea why :D It’s strange to answer all those questions about me… Actually you are supposed to interview impor-tant and interesting people and that’s definitely not me :D and I also don’t like to be in-terviewed by Leo, that’s even worse!

Ok, thank you very much for your time.

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Hello again!Λοιπόν, on November the 8th we had our intercultural night at the Youth Centre of Kalama-

Να η ξενοφοβία μενεί μακριά μαςBy: Φίαχρα

ta, and, with 9 different coun-tries from the north, south, east and west of the ‘Old Continent’ represtented in the 50 square metre dancehall of the first floor, we were almost guaranteed a good night. We were not disappointed.

The night started off with maestro Γιώργος lulling the lo-cals in with his tunes. In short order, we commenced with the celebration of the diverse cultures present in the Youth

Centre. Μεταφρασeur extror-dinaire Filios led the proceed-ings and introduced Ahmad from Jordan. He introduced his country and his culture. He prepared an Arabic salad and a traditional Jordanian main dish with patatoes, yoghurt and vegetables baked in the oven, which tasted fantatsic.

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Next up was Erika present-ing Slovenia. She presented a chicken-shaped map and re-ally tasty dish called pražen krompir. She introduced her-self and her country and spoke good Greek, much to the de-light of the crowd of native Greeks that had gathered for the event.

Next up should have been, me, Fiachra, presenting Ire-land (Sorry Filios!), but tech-nical difficulties in the kitchen rendered him unfashionably late. The show must go on and on it went to Loukas present-

ing his maternal homeland of Italy. As a native Greek speak-er he presented himself and Italy and his gorgeous Italian pasta.

After Loukas came Lina from Lithuania. She introduced her-self, part of her culture and her food, a delicious fish dish with mushrooms that is normally eaten on Christmas. By this

time my food was ready and I presented my country with as much Greek as I could ner-vously muster in front of such a crowd, presented my food - Shepηεrd’s Pie (minced beef and vegetable layer topped

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with mashed potatoes) and even did a little Irish dance :P .

We flew from Ireland straight over to Germany, with no connecting flights, and ar-rived at Melina, Leo and Da-nae’s homeland. They each

presented the culture of their region and also some Ger-man food... Poor Melina! Af-ter all the hard work with her Kartoffelsalat (potato salad), there was a bit of a mishap on the way to the event and unfortunately, it didn’t make it to the party. I can assure you all however that it was beau-

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tiful! Ahmad, our gentlemanly Jordanian donated his salad and Danae made Nürnberger bratwürst, and Leo, God bless him, brought Jagermeister!

We went to Turkey next, rep-resented by Eda, Ugurcan, Ali and Abdi. They showed us a video showcasing some of Tur-key and it’s culture. The food they prepared was really tasty - a dish of leaves and rice with spices and lemon, zeytinyağı, and apple pie, Yaprale Sormasi.

Next up was Greece, with Γιώργος at the wheel. They showed us a great animation

of a Greek fisherman and a dancing donkey and present-ed half a table-full of Greek food, sweet and savoury.

Last but by no means least was Amaia from Galicia and Carmelo from Andalucía. They produced some very tasty food indeed - tortilla de patatas,

with and without onion, and …...sangria! Long life, they say, to anyone who brings sangria to a party (well, just me), and the bucketload they brought with them was gone before you could say “El que no apoya, no...”

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No better way to kick-start a party I say and fairly shortly thereafter the floorboards were hopping to the rhythms of Lithuania, Greece and Mon-tenegro. Also, the same night marked the end of Jelena’s EVS experience. Towards the end there were a lot of emo-tional farewells and see-you-laters.

Fotos by: Sofie Kostea

From the start to the very end the atmosphere was fantastic. Spirits were high and plenti-ful, everybody had a great night and hopefully they went home with a greater apprecia-tion for the diversity of culture here at the Youth Centre, but also the remarkable similari-ties between us that exist at the end of the day (or night as the case may be!).

Γεια μας, και να η ξενοφοβία μενεί μακριά μας

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The Saturday of the 16th of November was no regu-lar Saturday, for unlike other weekends, the Youth Center opened again in the evening. All the Youth Center EVS vol-unteers and some local volun-teers gathered there around 8 o’clock pm to prepare the venue for what was about to follow: the Karamazov Proj-ect concert. The small tables in the first floor were decorat-ed with tea lights and some flower bouquets were placed on the bar to greet the visitors with some fresh colourful life on a cold rainy evening and add a touch of natural beauty to the place.

After a short welcome and the opening words by Filaretos, the first one on the stage was Fiachra MacIomhair from Ire-land, our EVS colleague in the Youth Center, and a rock star in the making. He opened the

The Karamazov Project Concert at Kentro NeonBy: Erika

show with an Irish song called the Fisherman’s Blues, a fa-vourite of his fans and friends in Kalamata. It should be mentioned that in the Youth Center circles, Fiachra is a very popular veteran of public performances, and by now it has become hard to imagine an event or a gathering with-out his music. This time too, his blues and rock programme was very well accepted by the audience, who seemed to en-

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joy the variety of the songs selection and his charisma on stage. After a few songs, the Youth Center was already get-ting quite busy and as most of the seats and sofas were

already taken, some of the younger visitors found their spot on the floor next to the stage, where the view was the best.

The main act, Karamazov Project, followed right after a short break after Fiachra’s performance. The air was interspersed with expecta-tions and curiosity as Panos Padazo (Ian Milton) took the stage, tall, slender, dressed all in black and with black point-ed leather shoes. His artistic name was inspired by a series of essays by Herman Hesse,

with the title The Agony of a Civilization, in which Takis Pedazo descends from Las No-where in Greece. Despite the fact that the Karamazov Proj-ect only consists of one per-son, the presence of Panos on stage was really strong, much of which was due to his deep raw voice, and his intense performance. With his music the ambient became more in-timate and the audience con-nected with the singer as he talked about his music be-tween the songs.

Panos Pedazo is a singer-songwriter and all through the night he accompanied his singing with his guitar. At some stage during the show, he even invited Fiachra back

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on stage for a Folsom Prison Duet, which was a nice sur-prise and a great success. The music genre of the Karamazov Project encompasses blues, folk, rock’n’roll, country, goth-

ic Americana and alternative. The singer lists Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and 16 Horsepower under his musical influences. Mostly, his music has a dark existentialist undertone and is cloaked in the postmodern feelings of futility, loneliness, despair and the yearning for purpose, unveiled truth, au-thenticity and the peace of mind. And even though the Greek of the journalists of this magazine (in this case me) is not as impressive as we would want it to be, I believe it is safe to say that despite his some-

how heavy music the singer has a good sense of humour, which is based on the obser-vation that throughout the show he made people chuckle with his witty comments and remarks.

At the end of the show, the stage was taken over by us volunteers, who prepared a birthday surprise for a lo-cal volunteer and an Arabic teacher at the Youth Center. We sang him the happy birth-day song in Arabic and invited

him on stage for a surprise home-made cake with his name on it. All in all, it was another great night at Ken-tro Neon, and hopefully many more such events will follow in the next months.

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Ingredients

400 g of flour 1 packet of butter 20 g of cinnamon2 eggs 400 g sugar1 baking powder7 apples and oil

Method

The dough: Put the ingredients (flour, butter, oil, eggs and 100 g of sugar) in a plastic bowl and knead for 30 minutes. Then you have to add baking powder. Then put in a tray.

Filling: Take 7 apples then peel them. Then grate them. And

Apple Pie RecipeBy: Ugurcan

then put them in a tray and add 20 g of cinnamon. Then add 300 g of sugar to the ap-ples, put on a stove and mix on medium heat until the juice is gone. Put it aside for 10 min-utes.

Take a tray and then put some oil in it so that the dough doesn’t stick. Then take a small part of the dough and put it a side. Put the rest of the dough in the tray. Flatten it so that it cov-ers all surface. Then add the apples over it. Then take rest of the dough and roll it flat. Cut it in long strips. Then put over it the apples in a net pattern. And put in the oven. Bake on 200 degrees for 50 min.

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1. We see you all the time in the Youth Centre, run-ning around, giving in-structions, finding a so-lution for every problem and giving information. What’s actually your task there? Being the girl for everything? Well hello first of all, and thanks a lot for this interview. My task in the Youth Center is basically to coordinate all the workshops of the Youth Cen-ter, to help the EVS volunteers to collaborate and commu-nicate with the local volun-teers, to inform the members of the youth center about the activities and programs in the Youth Center. It’s not an easy task and it requires patience and good mood because you are working with people.

Interview with a local volunteer: Niki By: Melina

2. How long are you doing this? And why are you do-ing this? I am doing this for 6 -7 months, it’s not a long time. I started last year as volunteer at the youth center and now I am working there with a program from the EU. Youth Center of Kalamata is a very interesting project not only for the local community, but also for the people who participate there. It helps you not only to come closer with people from differ-ent countries, but also to de-velop your social and commu-nicational skills, to work with European projects such EVS, LEONARDO, GRUNDVIG and to develop skills in the section of non formal learning, that’s mainly the reasons I wanted to do this.

3. Do you want to take on more responsibility in the future? Maybe even to take over the Youth Cen-tre?Hmm…It’s something I can’t imagine yet. I want to try to involve in other things as well

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and working in the youth sec-tion yes, but I think I have a lot of things to learn.

3. Do you join some work-shops in the Youth Centre?I m trying… but my job is real-ly demanding so I don’t have a lot of time to attend any workshops, however there are many workshops I would like to join….

4. What is your current project? Maybe to learn something, to develop something… whatever?My current project is to coor-dinate the workshops and to inform the members at the Youth Center. I hope I will learn how to cooperate with people, to be tolerant and supportive, and generally to gain great experiences with great people…

5. It takes a lot of time, what are you doing beside working in the Youth Cen-tre? Are you studying?Well beside working in the youth center, I m a secondary

education teacher. I studied History and Archaeology and I mainly teach Greek, History, Literature and Latin.

6. Tell us your favourite place in Kalamata? Let it be whatever you like: a park, a coffee place, a fashion shop…. Well I like many places in Ka-lamata where I enjoy sitting and reading my books, my favourite is a small café it’s called “STOLIDI ENA” and it’s in the center of the city, it has a small garden and it was a former house and they made it café. I like this place be-cause It’s quiet, friendly and it has great decoration! It’s re-ally sweet!

7. So if you could go to any place in the world, where would you go and explain why?Well, I really want to travel to Australia. …Australia is a strange place with many dif-ferences like mountains, des-erts, seas, animals and of course different culture and

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that really seems very inter-esting for me and I want to explore it!

8. Is there something you really hate or love? Tell us both!I really love dogs and I already have one, and I want to have a second one. Hmmmm…. as for the things I hate I would say …I hate people lying and nowadays it is really often phenomenon.

9. Which type of pupil have you been during your grammar school? The clown, the princess, the nerd, the shy one, the teacher’s pet…. Did it change? And why? What do you prefer now?I was actually the shy one, I wasn’t talking very much in the class and of course I have changed a lot since then…! would say as you grow up your character and personality changes and that’s the good part because I think it’s a good thing to evolve ….now I‘m more immediate and bold….

Your last 4 words: De-scribe yourself with a col-or, an animal, a drink and a shoe!Ahahhha! Tricky question! Well If I had to describe my-self with a colour I would say purple, with an animal…hmm probably a furry grey cat…a drink probably rum because it’ s the best drink ever! And a shoe definitely an All Star Converse ‘cause I like simple shoes!:)))

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OFFICE:

WHO

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LONG TERM EVS:

Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal educa- tion as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 4 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate the youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor of change.

Hi my name is Fo-tini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organisation. I started working here in September 2011 and fell in love with the Youth Cen-tre, its dynamic and most of all its incred- ible team of foreign and local volunteers! See you around :-D

Hello to everyone! My name is Georgia. I am 25 years old and I live in Kalamata. I spent the last 5 years in Ath- ens doing my Bache- lor in Management and Business Administration and the last year in the Netherlands continuing my studies for a Mas-ter’s degree. I am glad to be back to Kalamata after all those years. I am happy to be part of K.A.NE.organization.

Leonard Pristl / 19 / I love go-ing for skiing in the winter, I love the white moun-tains and the nature, but I also fell in love with the sea and the beaches here / I work in ΚΕΦΙΑΠ Μεσσηνίας from January 2013 to January 2014 as a EVS volunteer.

Hello, my name is Fiachra (the English transla-tions are: hunt-er/tracker or raven), I’m 26 and I come from Ireland. Here at the youth centre I teach music, English, make good frappes in the café and bad jokes in Greek. Χαίρετε!

Erika FunaFrom Slovenia (half Greek), 26 years old, uni-versity gradu-ate (English, Philosophy)Likes: be-ing outdoors, languages, art, nature, yoga.

Danae Lehmann/ 20 / GermanyI like being around people, photography, greek lifestyle, good food, swimming in the sea.I’m volunteer-ing at the youth center from October 2013 to August 2014.

I’m Uğurcan Pehlivan. I’m from Turkey. I’m working in ecological farm. I’m playing bas guitar. I will be in Greece until 31 of July. My name become to my country and the meaning is Ugur - fortune and Can - soul.

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My name is Amaia and comes from Basque roots, since my mother is from San Sebastian, the meaning of my name is “the end” but in turn is an war-rior woman of Basque mytholo-gy. But I born in a beautiful land north of Spain, Galicia, Atlantic ocean.

Hi everybody! My name is Melina/18 years old/ half german/ half greek and I’m working in the Therapeutic Horseriding and in the K.E.F.I.A.P. I love chocolate and to dance, so I teach Salsa for children and Latin and of course German! And all of that I’m really enjoying!

Lina /28/ Lithu-ania/ volunteer in K.A.NE. Youth Centre from August 2013 to July 2014. Teaching lithu-anian and art. Hobies: design, history and mu-seums.

Hi,My name is Ahmad Ayyash and I am from Jordan iam 23 years old I love to play chess and football.I am fan of Real Madrid club and I am a construction engineer. My proj-ect is about autistic children.

Abdurrahman ErmişI am Abdurrah-man. I am from Turkey. I am working in eco-logical farm. I am playing drum. I will be in Greece until 31 of July.

I’m Mehmet Ali Şirin. I’m from Turkey. I’m work-ing in ecological farm. I’m playing elektro guitar. I wil be in Greece until 31 of June.

My name is Eda Tandoğan. I am from Turkey. I am 21 years old, still a university stu-dent. My project is about disabled people in kekyka-mea.

Γεια σε όλους! My name is Carmelo Márquez. I am from Cadiz, a city of Andalusia, in the south of Spain. I’m 25 years old and I have finished my career in journalism. So, like good Spanish, I love flamenco, football (my team is F. C. Barcelona), sea and his waves, philos-ophy, literature, music... My work here in Kalamata, besides teaching Spanish and Flamenco in KANE center is to help as pos-sible to workers KEFIAP (center children with dis-abilities) and equestrian therapy until June 2014.. Τα λέμε.

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The volunteers responsible for this publi-cation are hosted in Greece in the frame-work of the European Youth in Action pro-gramme, Action 2- European Voluntary Service.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, anvd the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.