Volunteer's Day and sick again

The International Volunteer Day is actually held on december 5th. It's a chance for individual volunteers, communities and organizations to promote their contributions to development at the local, national and international levels. We celebrated this day today and our lovely school and our fantastic and talented students wanted to show their appreciation towards their volunteers. And of course we did our own part, too.

There was singing and dancing in spanish with our columbian volunteer, and also a kenyan version of Joy to the world, that Penina had rehearsed with the children. The kids from the drama club had prepared us some theatre shows. They made they're own versions of the all over Poland well known stories of the Dragon Of Kraków and the Mermaid of Warszawa. They were so funny and clever. The students had even practiced all the lines in english!

It felt really nice to get this kind of recognition, even though I get my reward for volunteering at work everyday. And in other parts of my life, too. These kind of experiences can't go on without growing a person on the inside, even just a little bit. At least if the person is receptive for this kind of personal growth. I felt important today.

And I did well today, considering that I'm sick once  again! In all the pictures I really look very droopy, like I actually felt too. But I'm happy, and anyway it's getting better. We have a gingerbread cake in the oven with Birgit and I still have some glögi.
I've been sleeping through the days for like three days in a row. I'm starting to wonder if maybe my body is just telling me to go to my nest and get to my hibernation already. Even though we still don't have any snow after it melt away last weekend. I really, really wish there would be snow in Finland when I get there (next week saturday). It's not christmas without snow!
This kind of "diploma" I'm holding in my hand is also one of the most heartwarming things from today.  We all received this and it's something to indicate the school's gratitude and somewhat to concretize our importance in this place (this is especially nice, for not everyday is so easy from the motivational point of view, believe it or not).

And here's a christmas tree from Bystrzyca center. I hear they have a christmas market now, and we're gonna have one here next week. Our office is still located there, but all of my colleague volunteers who were living there have already moved to a new building, quite a lot more far away. The office will be moving to that same building too at some point, we'll see how much more difficult this makes my life (I'm already having trouble everytime I need to get there before three).

Anyway, I'll keep on resting and curing myself and maybe I'll do a photo challenge again if I'm still sick tomorrow.