These two weeks went by so quickly… I think I still can’t believe that I am here and I will be for the whole year!
Even
though I had a lot of time to prepare mentally for this challenge, I
still can’t process it because of the amount of things that are
going on.
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| View from our terrace :) |
I
came to Lisbon on the 4th of October. The next day I already started
a Portuguese course and getting to know my new environment and people
that I will work with. I was privileged enough to visit Lisbon twice
before moving here, but still this time was different, way better.
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| elevador da lavra |
First
days were full of bureaucracy,
but it went better than I imagined. As I know how hard it is to solve
any kind of problem at the offices in Poland, I am very positively
surprised with the nice attitude and kind smile of the Portuguese
officials. I managed to get the tram card, the fiscal and
registration number in the first week. I opened my Portuguese bank
account as well :)
More
fascinating and less sweaty than fighting with bureaucracy
was the Portuguese course. Every day for two weeks I had 4-hour
lessons with 3 other students (another evs volunteer, a big fan of
chocolate – Nico, our big Spanish helper Paula who is an intern and
Marianna- lovely Czech girl that decided to move in Lisbon). I knew
way before coming here that the language is gonna be a big challenge
for me but our lovely teacher Rute make all hard things a lot easier
:)
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| Learning by doing - Portuguese shopping :) |
These
two weeks were also a good time to get to know the place I am going
to work at, my team and start planning future tasks. I am more than
excited for this year and can´t wait for all the future challenges
in Check-In!
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| Dream team: me, Paula, Nico and Toninho :) |
Oh
and of course finally I can enjoy the proper coffee :)
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| Café A Brasileira |
Written by Olga
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