Time go so fast, It’s been just one month that arrived here in Circusplaneet and I already have so much things in my head, and so much things to do. Where to start?
I am French, and this year I decided to leave the suburbs of Paris to live in Flemish Belgium, in Ghent. How did land here? That’s quite a long story.
I’ve been practicing circus art, especially trapeze, since few years now, and after finishing my studies I decided to get fully involved in circus. I wanted to practice a lot circus arts, but also to learn about the organisation of a circus school and about circus pedagogy.
Thus for I subscribe to the EVS program. The European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides young Europeans with a chance to voluntehttper in a non-profit organisation for few months till one year, in a foreign country within or outside the EU. The main goal of this program is to develop solidarity, mutual understanding and tolerance among young people, thus contributing to reinforcing social cohesion in the European Union and to promoting young people's active citizenship. At least by participating in voluntary activities, young volunteers can develop new skills, and, therefore, improve their personal, educational and professional development.
So it took me days to glance through the EVS database, to make a compilation of the circus host organizations in Europe. That’s how I came to discover several circus schools in Belgium. Circus Centrum also helped me a lot, sending my references to different organization in Flanders. Circusplaneet answered to me fast, in a very warm and friendly way. That’s how everything started.
Here, I am assisting teachers during the lessons, and during workshop in the hospital, I am taking pictures and shooting movies for the school website, working on costumes for performances… But my main task is to prepare a youth exchange between four different European schools (from Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Belgium), and to organize with them a youth circus festival in July, here in Ghent. And of course training, training, training.
In this blog I’ll try to describe each activity I get involved in, by putting picture and movies. Maybe you’ll find your face in one of them. If you don’t like it, just tell me and I will erase it…
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