the letter to my friend Hello, Helen. Greeting from Romania! Guess what I'm become a volunteer. I'm working at school in Krayova city. My project was named "Bi Fit". It will last during 3 months. My main goal is doing children physically fit and giving love to sport. It's amazing! In the morning I'm doing exercises with children. Than I have Romanian classes. In the evening I and other volonteers have play other games outdoors with children. However sometimes I have to write reports about my job. So far I'm really enjoing the job! You get work experience well. You have to be more patient, creative and caring because you deal with children every day. Why don't you apply for a project there too? That's would be great! Seeyou soon! Love, Marina.

My volunteer experience 1) I was always concerned with the problem of spreading bad habits in society (smoking, alcohol). Unfortunately, in my homeland, not everything is so well in this area. In 2015, I participated as a volunteer in the federal educational project "Common cause". The goal of this project is to spread a healthy lifestyle, a culture of sport and right habits. I visited several schools where I talked about the use of healthy habits, about social programming for bad habits, showed films from the studio. The general case, answered the questions of children and parents. 2) I also care about the pollution of the environment. Nature - the main source of health for a person, so it should be protected. In 2016 and 2017 my friends and I participated as volunteers in the action "Clean River Kerzhenets". In the Nizhny Novgorod region, where I live, there is a picturesque river Kerzhenets. A considerable part of the water area belongs to the Kerzhensky Nature Reserve. Because of the impact of tourists, rubbish accumulates on the banks of rivers every year. We were engaged in the garbage collection from the banks of this river and the installation of information posters. 3) Finally, during the training in university, I took part in the school of counselors and worked one season in the children's health camp "Salute" in the Nizhny Novgorod region. I took part in the organization of outdoor outdoor games, rope courses, children's games. I also conducted a master class on beading and drawing for children.

My motivation The main reason I want to get into your project is a passion for sports and a healthy lifestyle, as well as a desire to share my knowledge and skills with other people. Here are a few facts: 1) I do exercises in the morning, practice hardening with cold water. 2) I have also been practicing Chinese health practices and oriental martial arts for 8 years already. In particular, this is the Chinese gymnastics "Qigong". Plus this gymnastics is that it fits any person at any age and with any state of health. Qigong is something like yoga, but only from China. I think I could teach children and adults health gymnastics, help form good habits. 3) Besides this, I know quite a lot about the culture and cooking of China. In 2016, I took courses in Chinese with a visit to the summer school in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. I won a culinary contest by preparing Sichuan carp and Peking noodles. I will be happy to arrange a culinary master class) 3) I have other sports hobbies. It's skiing, running, kayaking, fishing and walking in the woods. Life in motion! - this is my motto.

A few words about my sport. My sport activity is unusual for woman. I love martial arts. In particular I do the Businkan. Businkan is Japanise martial art. It includes fist techniqu, kicking, captures and acrobatics. Classes are very exciting. Firstly there is warm-up, secondary there is combat technique, and the end is acrobatics on mats. Sometimes I get bruises, but I actually like it. Because it make me stronger, more confident and healthy.

My favourite day. My favourite day of the week is Saturday. Because I don’t work! I usually get up until 9:00. Then I do exercises and have a shower. My husband usually cook a good coffee. He uses a geyser coffee maker «Bialetti». I love coffee cooked in this coffee maker! I don’t like watch TV. Sometimes I watch scientific videos on YouTube. Usually I try to spend weekend’s time activity. In the summer I often go to my husband’s dacha near Nizhniy Novgorod. Dacha is the Russian word for a house in the country. It’s a place where you relax and forget about everything. Dacha is located near the Volga river. So I and my husband often go to fishing in the Volga river. My husband really love to fish. Is’s his hobby. In the Volga there are a lot of breams, daces and pikes. In the winter we often skiing in forest. Russian forest is very beautiful. Usually we are passing about 12 kilometers. Than we get home, have a bath and have a dinner. Arter we feel tired but we’re very fresh and happy! ))

My Greek Holiday. I went to Greece last June with my husband. We flew to Thessaloniki with Ellinair Airlines. We stayed for 12 days in a small hotel on the shore the Aegean Sea near the Castle of Platamonas and Olympic mountains. The hotel was nice and quite cheap. During the day we swam, walked around the village named Platamonas. This village is very beautifull and quiet. There is a yacht berth there. Also we visited a few tours: The Greek meteors, Mount Olympus and Waterfalls of Edessa. Mostlyl I liked The Greek meteors. It’s really the eighth miracle of the world! We took a lot of photos. At evening we walked along the romantic beach, than went to restaurants named «psarotaverns» and had fantastic Greek salad, moussaka or grilled fish. Our favorite restaurant was in the Takis Tavern. We bought an olive oil and Greek cosmetics. We had a great time. Platamonas is full of romantic and has a special atmosphere, and Greek food is wonderful. We only had one problems: a little of public transport.