Hello Everyone, it’s Ece from Turkey! I would like to tell you about my amazing year at Snoghøj!
I arrived to school on 23.08.2023, I was so excited and little bit worried of course. I had no idea what a wonderful adventure awaited me!
My Main Tasks were taking photos and videos of student’s performances and special events, managing social media accounts of the school, therefore creating contents for this. But of course it was more than this, since I was living in a community and always at the school, students would come up to me for any problems and I always tried to help them as much as I can do. And I never saw it as extra work because they were all friends that I cared about very much, so it made me very happy to be able to support them when they needed it 🙂
It was always a big pleasure to take pictures of the students I never saw it as a job, it would make me very happy to see their smile whenever I came to classes eventhough they were so tired of warm-ups in the dance class 🙂 While students were studying at Snoghøj , they were also wondering what to do next, at this point students would come to me and I would support them by taking their photos and recording their auditions during their application process.
Some of the pictures I took from preformances 🙂
One of the good sides living with international people is that there is so many things to share and learn, it’s a big cultural exchange. I organised Turkish days for both semesters and cooked for them, one of the students named Aile helped me with cooking it was so fun to prepare food with her, luckily they all love Turkish food now 🙂
My headmaster was huge coffe lover, my mom brought Turkish coffe and the cups and I made coffe for him and my mom read fortune from the cup, he was really interested good things waiting for him 🙂
Every friday we have something very cozy and nice called “Sugar Friday”, our cooks bake delicious cakes, we eat cake, drink hot chocolate and sing songs from Højskole Sangbogen. At the first time, I said to myself “oh it feels so much like primary school” but you should’ve seen me on the last sugar friday I was crying so much, each sugar friday was very special to me I could feel the community feeling in my veins 🙂
Since I was a photographer I have so many photos and videos I wish I could share all of them. There is no enough words to describe this experience, I can not tell how grateful I am for being here for a year, I wish I could be a volunteer forever. Snoghøj taught me what community means, it means that we can overcome difficulties if we are united and if each individual holds on to each other with love, care and respect, and how much being together contributes to the development of each individual.
I left home a year ago to work in Denmark and found out another home and a family there. Tak for nu Snoghøj!
Picture from final performance of the second semester 🙂
P.S: If you ever in doubt about doing volunteer work, don’t think just go for it!
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