DAY 23: center for homeless in WROCLAW and on the road to PRAGUE…VIDEO

It was time to say goodbye to Wroclaw after amazing time here… When I first planned the route, Wroclaw wasn’t on the list but I am so happy that I decided to visit this vibrant and active city. On our last morning there we went to see a center for homeless people that is run by a big non profit association that has many centers around Poland. We spoke to Olek, who was very busy but he took some time to tell us about their work. He was running a computer lab where they have IT course for their residents. We didn’t have time to see much more of the center but we stayed in touch and I am hoping to see Olek again in near future. The association is

St Brother Albert Aid Society

and it has been helping people without home for more then 30 years. Here is the link to their website Later we picked our stuff in Adrian’s flat and we said goodbye to our bed 😀 We went to train as it was getting dark and I knew we won’t be able to get to Prague that day. But I was hoping to get as near as possible. We started with regional train, then we tried to hitchhike in a small place outside of Wroclaw, that didn’t work out so we took few other trains stopping in small places as I didn’t have enough money to pay for full tickets. Here are few photos from our stops on the way…  In one of them called Swardzow Wroclawski I recorded these two videos:

Asking for more money 😛

Review of the trip so far

At the end we manage to get as far as Bystrzyca Klodzka, a small town near the border with Czech republic. After wondering around looking for a spot to sleep as it was cold, we get back to train station as the waiting room was opened. It wasn’t heated but we still manage to sleep in a sleeping bag on a bench… Tomorrow we have continued to Prague…

DAY 22: WROCLAW-visit to Ostoja and their center for kids with special needs

Our host Adrian used to volunteer in Ostoja therapy center as a music therapist.

We went there in early afternoon and on the way we stopped in a park nearby where Evelyn chased the birds and ducks and again like in Berlin she had a short swim in a cold water of an almost fully frozen lake. She was quick to get out and continue running around happily…

Ostoja has different centers and I got a contact from a girl that works in a therapy center for kids with special needs.

Margarida was very kind to take some time to show us around. They have different types of therapy for kids and we had a chance to see the dog therapy room and talk to a lady that was working there with a 12yr old kid.

The dogs are specially trained, they have soft fur which is great for touch sensitivity of kids. With each kid they have an individual approach depending on their needs.

She took us to other rooms, one of them was a stimulation room with music and light features. Margarida was trained in Portugal and this is her second time in Ostoja where she first volunteered few years ago.

Evelyn was all this time playing with the dogs outside and she really enjoyed it… they were sad when she was leaving…

It was great to see this center and everything they do there. I didn’t have time to visit their center for adults, but maybe some other time.

Later that day we met with Adrian and few other guys. We had a beer in a cool studio apartment where our host made a nice bar 😀

DAY 21:WROCLAW- hangover and meeting with Majka from’ House of Peace’ :D

I spent all morning sleeping after a long night out.

We went for a walk in the afternoon. I went to get some food in Bar Mewa where they serve food with reduced prices, so I had full meal for 8 zloti or 2 euro.

Then we went to same space where I watched documentary night before and there I met Majka and she works for House of Peace that has been active locally for last 5 years. Their main projects are focused on improving relations between different ethnic groups in Wroclaw Nadozde area.

They have been working a lot with young people in the community and she gave me as a present a music cd of a teenager hiphop band 😀

Wroclaw is beautiful in the evening and I enjoyed walking around with Evelyn.

Day 20: WROCLAW..with Adrian around the city; WrocDoc at night

We arrived very early to Wroclaw.

It was 6am as we walked around town. Our host Adrian has worked the night shift so we met at 7.30am at his place. After few hours of sleep we went together to city center and I liked the architecture and colours…

Then he took us to a nice healthy food restaurant where we had great time together.

They make excellent soups and vegetarian dishes and really good smoothies..

Later that night I went to see a documentary and there I met some of Adrian’s friends and we had interesting discussion after the film. It was a documentary about religion and science by Richard Dawkins and it served as a good base for debate. I wasn’t to impressed with the film itself as it seemed a bit too subjectively presented, but it still made some interesting points that were discussed afterwards.

After we went out for a drink as the organizer of WROC DOC Paul had a leaving party. Of course, few of us stayed for more then one and this resulted with my first hangover of the trip 😛

It was  7am when I came back to Adrian’s place…

New video for campaign: recorded in Poland :D

We were traveling from Wroclaw to Czech republic and on a tiny train station I recorded this new video for our campaign. Here I saz few things about the trip so far and I ask for your help. It was verz cold while recording and it is my backup camera so I am sorry for bad sound quality.

Here is the link https://vimeo.com/58244590

Thanks for watching and greets from Brno,Czech republic.

We are leaving Wroclaw and moving to Prague…THANK YOU WROCLAW!

It has been incredible four days and three nights here as I met so many great people and I visited three great organizations with differerent social projects. I am very grateful for hospitality of my new friend Adrian and his flatmate Owen and also for all the people here that would very helpful and happy to share their stories and work.

I have talked to Majka from ‘Foundation House of Peace’

Margarida from Ostoja theraphy center for kids with disabilities 

and to Oleg from Towarzystwo Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta and they are working with homeless people.

I will write more about their work in other posts, but you can find them in the links above and on their facebook pages.

I am so glad that we stayed here much longer then planned as this city is full of very active people and there is so much going on. Also in 2016 it will be a cultural capital of Europe and I invite you to visit it when you get a chance.

THANK YOU PEOPLE OF WROCLAW!

Now we are going to hitchhike to Prague where we stay one or two nights and afterwards we would like to go to:

Bratislava,Wien,Graz,Maribor,Ljubljana,Zagreb,Bihac,Sarajevo,Mostar,Split,Sibenik,Zadar,Rijeka,Venezia,Verona,Milano and then we are back to Grenoble in France.

So still a long way to go but as this is day 23 we have crossed the half way of our journey in terms of days but not in terms of countries visited. We will have to speed it up 😀

Love from Evelyn and Muppet

We are in Wroclaw, thanks to our great couchsurfing host :D day 20

We are exploring this city with a help from our great host and later I will be able to update more about past days of our journey. We love POLAND so far 😀

 

For now few photos from a walk today… 😀

 

 

 

 

 

Love from Evelyn and Muppet

 

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