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<strong>LIFE</strong> <strong>FOR</strong> A <strong>LIFE</strong><br />
alternative magazine<br />
SMART<br />
PRINT<br />
SPECIAL EDITION<br />
EVS ERASMUS+<br />
FEVER<br />
TRAVEL<br />
STORIES<br />
&<br />
TIPS<br />
ADD COLOURS<br />
IN YOUR <strong>LIFE</strong><br />
WE HAVE<br />
THE REASON
CONTENTS<br />
POEMS<br />
Travel by Edna St, Vincent Millay..............p.3-4<br />
We and They by Rudyard Kipling..........p.9-10<br />
EVS erasmus+<br />
ARTICLES<br />
My EVS experience<br />
(By Gkotsika Eleni).....................p.13-15<br />
EVS info..............................................p.16<br />
Step by Step!<br />
Evs mood photoshooting.......p.17-25<br />
Travel stories......................................p.5-6<br />
Why we need to travel................p.7<br />
The point of travelling.................p.11-12<br />
• Smart print.................................p.8<br />
• Colour correspondences............p.2
For purification, unity and all kinds of Blessings, improve your spirtuality<br />
To conjure the forces of planet Saturn, to expel negativity, get rid of bad habits and unwanted situations,<br />
unblocking<br />
For love, romance, friendships,peace, peace and health of mind and emotions, family relations<br />
For general use as it is the symbol of magical power, to conjure the element of fire and the forces of planet Mars,<br />
for passion, good luck, sex magic and health spells,if you want something to happen really fast,dark as defence<br />
To conjure the element of air and the planet Mercury, for communicatrion and contact with other spirits and<br />
realms<br />
For attraction spels, road opening and good luck<br />
To conjure the element of water and the forces of planet Jupiter, for dream magic, job spells, weather spells<br />
For success spells, to conjure the forces of the Sun, wealth spells<br />
To conjure the forces of the Moon, ypu may use along with silver and golden colored cords for money spells<br />
To conjure the element of the Earth and the forces of the planet Venus, for money and abundance spells,<br />
for health spells, for tranquality<br />
To empower your magical self and your magical abilities, for astra projection<br />
Peace, inspiration,spirit<br />
connection,psychic awareness<br />
Protection,warming,repelling or<br />
warning of negative<br />
energy,mystical wisdom<br />
Spirituality,angels,faith,protection,pu<br />
rification,hope<br />
Unconditional<br />
love,romance,caring,compassion,har<br />
mony,faithfulness,honor,inspiration<br />
Good<br />
furtune,passion,emotions,courage<br />
,money,security<br />
Energy,change,optimism,success,n<br />
ew ideas,creativity,physucal love<br />
Mental alertness,vision,joy,<br />
cheerfulness,intelligense<br />
Universal consciousness,spirtual<br />
connection, heightened spiritual growth<br />
Health,healing,nature,money,prosperi<br />
ty,success nature/plant/animal spirits<br />
Stability,grounding,endurance,home,res<br />
pect,friendship
Travel Stories…<br />
Absolutely petrified. That’s one way of<br />
describing my anxiety before jumping out a<br />
plane at 15,000 feet. But I had never done<br />
anything like this before so that made it<br />
desirable. What makes traveling different is<br />
the unknown, the ability to experience new<br />
things without over thinking it. So that’s<br />
what I did; at 15,000 feet of course. And I<br />
can honestly say that it was the best<br />
experience of my life. Complete silence as I<br />
free fell into nothingness. It was exhilarating.<br />
We were in Kathmandu waiting for Kumari to<br />
come out of the palace. She is a goddess and a<br />
very young girl, chosen among a large number of<br />
Newari female candidates according to strict body<br />
figures and after frightful trials. She cannot lay her<br />
feet on the ground, so servants carry her on a<br />
sedan out of the palace. She’s not looking to<br />
anything in particular with her composed gaze,<br />
almost ignoring everyone. It’s a bittersweet<br />
condition: her destiny is already written, she soon<br />
will be a woman and will lose her goddess status,<br />
as another Kumari shall be appointed.<br />
Kumari Goddess on Kathmandu<br />
Joana Nielsen<br />
It’s true that it’s the people who make the difference!<br />
I’m lucky to be traveling with my best friend Hannah<br />
but don’t worry about doing it alone either because we<br />
have met the most incredible people….<br />
Like stopping for a bike break in Hoi An and ending up<br />
doing shots of rice wine at the insistence of Vietnamese<br />
War Veterans, some of which were missing limbs but<br />
still had the biggest smiles and funniest stories.<br />
Nela Nicolsenkya
This was it. What was I thinking? “Stephanie, you have<br />
never climbed a mountain in your life, never mind<br />
starting with Kilimanjaro.” At that stage there was no<br />
going back, it was time to take on the challenge. After<br />
spending two months living with a Massai Tribe, the<br />
decision came to tackle Kili with three friends.<br />
This was an experience I will never forget. These<br />
overwhelming feelings of happiness, fear, tiredness,<br />
excitement and anxiety all at once.<br />
Standing at the highest peak of Africa I told myself,<br />
this was my time. It was time to challenge myself and<br />
do it while seeing the world.<br />
One of my all-time favorite countries to travel in is India. If you have<br />
ever been you know that this is one of the craziest countries in the<br />
world to drive in. The streets are crowded, the cars share the road with<br />
cows, camels, horses, dogs, bicycles, huge trailers, tuk-tuks, buses and<br />
pretty much everything that moves.<br />
The rules: there are no rules. They use their horn for pretty much<br />
everything and if you want to drive past someone you just honk your<br />
horn and drive around. When we took taxis in the northern parts of the<br />
country I saw my life flash before my eyes every five minutes.<br />
In New Delhi we had an awesome taxi-driver that drove us around the<br />
city for a couple of days. In the world’s second most populous city you<br />
have to be pretty crazy to become a taxi driver. At least that is what we<br />
thought sitting in the backseat of his taxi listening to AR Rahman, the<br />
Mozart of Madras blasting threw the broken speakers whilst dodging<br />
cars and cows.<br />
I ask him: “so what makes a good taxi driver in Delhi?”<br />
He says: “a good taxi driver needs three things; good breaks, good horn<br />
and good luck!”<br />
Laughing and smiling after he gave us his words of wisdom he<br />
continued to drive us safely through the streets of New Delhi.<br />
Jacob Harlenkton<br />
I always use public transport; I believe it is the best<br />
way of getting to know a country. On route from Lake<br />
Wenchi to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia I had not only the<br />
bumpiest journey of my life but also the most bizarre.<br />
Chickens casually strolling around nibbling on my toes,<br />
two goats strapped on the roof, people sitting on my<br />
lap meanwhile the driver also acted as a DJ playing<br />
only ABBA tunes for 3 hours. Loved it.<br />
Samira Bredtse
Taste<br />
Travel<br />
Explore<br />
Feel<br />
Learn<br />
With these first independent steps away from the<br />
parental presence lies the atavistic or recurring<br />
wish to reach out beyond the current confines of<br />
space and relationship<br />
and see what is further away. And yet further again<br />
to see what is not visible, what is around the next<br />
corner, in the next room and eventually on the<br />
other side of our geographical or psychological<br />
world.<br />
Travel is more than going somewhere. It’s a<br />
psycological event!<br />
HUMANS LOVE to travel. Mentally or physically,<br />
they escape to other places. They crave adventure.<br />
They seek the unknown. They want to see new<br />
places, learn new things, enjoy new experiences<br />
and then return home to the familiar, the<br />
predictable, the secure, before taking off again on<br />
their travels.<br />
This departure-return behaviour has its origins,<br />
perhaps, in the early exploratory behaviour of the<br />
child. Research has shown that children who are<br />
"securely attached" to their parents, sure of their<br />
affection and protection, and who know that their<br />
parents will respond to their needs, are more<br />
independent, adventurous and exploratory in their<br />
play and behaviour.<br />
Observations of infants show that from the safe<br />
base of having a parent present and available, the<br />
infant dares to move away a short distance and<br />
then return to the parent, to move a little further<br />
and return, until in incremental and amazingly<br />
measurable distances it explores the environment<br />
that surrounds it and has the courage to move<br />
beyond it.<br />
This is a human need. It is why we have uncovered<br />
our world, travelled its length, hiked to the top of<br />
its mountains and the depth of its oceans. It is why<br />
we became discontent with exploring our own plant<br />
but had to move beyond it into the unknown. It is<br />
why, as poet TS Eliot reminds us, we will "not cease<br />
from exploration".<br />
It is our nature to travel. It is our joy to travel. It is<br />
our paradoxical psychological disposition to wish for<br />
the contradictory conditions of stability and change:<br />
to stay and to go, to be and to explore, to rest and<br />
to travel unceasingly.<br />
Travel is more than going somewhere. It is a<br />
psychological event. It requires motivation and<br />
imagination. It begins in childhood with faltering<br />
first steps and with imagination fired by the tales of<br />
"long, long ago in a faraway land".<br />
We emerge from these fantasies of childhood<br />
determined to cross the oceans, to find those<br />
faraway lands, the characters they containand the<br />
magic they hold. Determined to find the adventures<br />
they promise and the prospect of returning home<br />
triumphant with trophies having vanquished all<br />
fear, overcome all obstacles and live happily eve<br />
after.<br />
By Marie Murray, clinical psycologist and Irish times<br />
columnist<br />
This may be the first symbolic travel: the first<br />
departure, the first expedition and the possible<br />
beginning of the travel bug for those for whom<br />
their initial independent voyaging was successful.
pri nt<br />
Hand bag<br />
Passport/ID<br />
Cards(Business/credit)<br />
Notebook<br />
Pen/Pencil<br />
Hand lotion<br />
Water<br />
Wallet<br />
Sunglasses/Glasses<br />
Keys<br />
Clothes<br />
Tops<br />
Bottoms<br />
Dresses<br />
Cardigans<br />
Blazers/Jackets<br />
Undergarments<br />
Pajamas<br />
Socks<br />
Shoes<br />
Belts<br />
Hat<br />
Toiletries<br />
Toothpaste<br />
Toothbrush<br />
Hair brush<br />
Shampoo<br />
Conditioner<br />
Shower gel<br />
Face wash<br />
Deodorant<br />
Hair products<br />
Feminine products<br />
Ibufrofen<br />
Electronics<br />
Smartphone<br />
Charger<br />
I pad/Charger<br />
Laptop/Charger<br />
E-reader<br />
Camera<br />
Back-up battery<br />
Power bank<br />
Accessories<br />
Earrings<br />
Bracelets<br />
Necklaces<br />
Rings<br />
Handbags<br />
Extras<br />
Driving license<br />
Insurance<br />
Torch<br />
Cash<br />
Towel<br />
Wet wipes<br />
Games<br />
Sweet/Candy<br />
Snack<br />
Books
We and they (by Rudyard Kipling)<br />
FATHER, Mother, and Me<br />
Sister and Auntie say<br />
All the people like us are We,<br />
And every one else is They.<br />
And They live over the sea,<br />
While We live over the way,<br />
But - would you believe it? - They look upon We<br />
As only a sort of They !<br />
We eat pork and beef<br />
With cow-horn-handled knives.<br />
hey who gobble Their rice off a leaf,<br />
Are horrified out of Their lives;<br />
And They who live up a tree,<br />
And feast on grubs and clay,<br />
(Isn't it scandalous?) look upon We<br />
As a simply disgusting They!<br />
We shoot birds with a gun.<br />
They stick lions with spears.<br />
Their full-dress is un-.<br />
We dress up to Our ears.<br />
They like Their friends for tea.<br />
We like Our friends to stay;<br />
And, after all that, They look<br />
upon We<br />
As an utterly ignorant They!
We eat kitcheny food.<br />
We have doors that latch.<br />
They drink milk or blood,<br />
Under an open thatch.<br />
We have Doctors to fee.<br />
They have Wizards to pay.<br />
And (impudent heathen!) They look<br />
upon We<br />
As a quite impossible They!<br />
All good people agree,<br />
And all good people say,<br />
All nice people, like Us, are We<br />
And every one else is They:<br />
But if you cross over the sea,<br />
Instead of over the way,<br />
You may end by (think of it!) looking on<br />
We<br />
As only a sort of They !
The point of travelling<br />
‘’Travelling, if i was to put a label on it, it’s (like<br />
life) a schizophrenic chameleon. It’s a party, it’s<br />
an escapist, it’s lonely as helland it’s beautiful.’’ –<br />
Paul Harrington<br />
Sometimes, i find my´self sitting in a bar full of<br />
young minds and beautiful people - all speaking a<br />
language that i cannot understand. Yes, i can<br />
interact, if i pull myself together. However, if i<br />
don’t, then i better prepare myself for another<br />
lonely Tuesday night in a strange city.<br />
People often ask, ‘’why did you start travelling?’’,<br />
and i’m sorry to reply that i don’t have a definite<br />
answer. However, isn’t it just cool to find yourself<br />
walking towards the train stationin Budapest<br />
when all of sudden, some backpacker you met last<br />
week in Krakow calls out your name? Hm, i didn’t<br />
even plan on staying another night, but i’m glad i<br />
did. Running wild, up and down the streets of<br />
Budapest with Nathan and some of his travel<br />
mates totally changed my overall view of the city.<br />
We were on the biliards table when i asked the<br />
barman to call us a taxi to some boat party we’d<br />
heard about. The oppurtunity to give the barman my<br />
business card, while inviting him to view one of my<br />
photo galleries around Europe. Lucky me, his<br />
girlfriend had just finished a photography course.<br />
Thus, a new friend was made. He then pulled out 4<br />
VIP passes to the boat party and handed them to me,<br />
just in case we needed to get in and yes, we did.<br />
Isn’t it funny how interesting we look while<br />
travelling abroad? We were more open to meeting<br />
new people and exchanging stories and ideas. Back<br />
home, not many people would randomly stop me in<br />
a pub, just to ask me where i’m from. So, is<br />
travelling my escape mechanism?<br />
The next morning, i was gone, again. Struggling to<br />
find a bit of sleep on the train, while passport control<br />
keeps flipping past every page and stamp as if he’s<br />
looking for an excuse not to allow me to enter the<br />
country. But he does and after he leaves, the cute<br />
Slovakian girl across the aisle finally speaks to me in<br />
my own native language – ‘’i take it that you are from<br />
America?’’ I return a smile before i speak, realising<br />
that her words and whatever happens next is just<br />
another brilliant reason behind the point of travelling.
1. Y ou feel more rested and restored.<br />
Getting away from everyday stress helps<br />
restore both body and mind, and having new<br />
experiences takes your mind away from the<br />
day-to-day problems and allows it to<br />
concentrate on taking in new sights, smells,<br />
tastes and sounds. After a couple of days, you<br />
can actually feel your body start to relax.<br />
3. Y ou create quality time with loved ones.<br />
With the hustle and bustle of everyday life,<br />
we often forget to make time for quality<br />
interactions with friends and family.<br />
Traveling together allows you to share and<br />
enjoy experiences together, plus it creates<br />
precious memories that will be recalled<br />
over and over again throughout the years<br />
to come. Be sure to take pictures for visual<br />
touchstones of special times.<br />
5. Y ou learn new skills.<br />
Travel itself creates new challenges and<br />
enables you to expand your skill set. In<br />
addition, trying new things such as Italian<br />
cooking school, water skiing or ziplining<br />
stretches your physical or mental aptitude<br />
and gives you both enjoyment and<br />
confidence at the same time.<br />
7. Y ou see the world through fresh eyes.<br />
Getting out into the world lets you see ways<br />
of life that may be different from your own.<br />
When you immerse yourself in the local<br />
culture and see how others live, it puts your<br />
life into perspective. Somehow, your<br />
problems don’t seem so overwhelming any<br />
more.<br />
2. You get to play.<br />
We have far too little play in our lives, so<br />
travel lets us channel our inner child and<br />
see the world with fresh eyes. Do<br />
something you haven’t done since<br />
childhood, like ride a carousel or swim in<br />
the cool blue ocean. You’ll find yourself<br />
smiling as the stress melts away.<br />
4. You find yourself again.<br />
When you’re out in the world, you see<br />
things in a new light, and with the<br />
stimulation of new surroundings, you can<br />
often have flashes of inspiration or insights<br />
into your own soul. You might be inspired<br />
to renew your interest in painting after<br />
visiting a gallery or sitting by a mountain<br />
lake, or you might remember a longforgotten<br />
goal that suddenly becomes a<br />
new focus.<br />
6. You have more time to think.<br />
Plan time to “do nothing” when you travel.<br />
Sit on a mountaintop, go fishing, bask in<br />
the sunshine or take a long nap. Let your<br />
mind wander as you reflect, meditate or<br />
dream. You’ll find yourself generating new<br />
ideas from your random thoughts.<br />
That is why we need travel. If we don’t<br />
offer ourself to the unknown,our senses<br />
dull. Our world becomes small and we lose<br />
our sense of wonder. Our eyes don’t lift to<br />
the horizon, our ears don’t hear the sounds<br />
around us. The edge is off our experience,<br />
and we pass our days in a routine that is<br />
both comfortable and limiting. We wake up<br />
one day and find that we have lost our<br />
dreams in order to protect our days.<br />
Kent Nerburn
Once upon a time…
Was (not) a litlle girl,<br />
named Eleni!
erasmus +<br />
The moment before,<br />
sitting in my comfortable coach with friends, speaking,<br />
laughing like always. Suddenly, for the first time i say it loud<br />
‘something is missing’. That was the first step.After few days<br />
with a magic way the solution was there! In front of my eyes<br />
EVS Denmark .<br />
-Hmmm! What is this EVS? - Is that only for university<br />
students? -And what is erasmus+ , is that different?<br />
-Oh! Yeah! This is for me!<br />
No seconds thoughts!<br />
So sudden, so magic!<br />
Sometimes one moment is enough to change your life!<br />
Let’s begin<br />
I am in Denmark, specifically in a small village<br />
named Løgstør! First thought: ‘What i have?’ Second<br />
thought: ‘What i don’t have?’ No language! No<br />
friends! No family! No idea from Løgstør! Good!<br />
Lucky me, i live in a flat with three others volunteers.<br />
Anna, Martina and Maria! First challence, share a flat<br />
with a strangers! -Come on! Why we are still here,<br />
let’s discover Løgstør! And the friends appear very<br />
quick in my new life!<br />
My project is with people with mental dissabilities. If<br />
you ask me, no special skills, no experience. But YES<br />
let’s try it! I am here to learn. I am here to offer my<br />
help and i am ready to try everything! A few weeks<br />
later, i am already In! My colleagues are the best!<br />
My colleagues are not my colleagues any more, are<br />
like a family. A really big family actually! I can trust<br />
them, i can say anything i want! And they hear me!<br />
But what happen till now with the language? 8<br />
months later i understand and i can speak the<br />
basics! No, i don’t have special magic skills to learn<br />
new languages! Is the EVS program again that makes<br />
the magic! Yeap! They offer you language lessons for<br />
free!! It’s true! Believe it!<br />
I will ask again my self ‘ What i don’t have?’ or<br />
better ‘What i have?’. -I have new friends!<br />
-I have people can trust like family -I have new<br />
language skills -And i know Løgstør better than my<br />
area in Greece!! Not so bad, for decision of the<br />
moment!!<br />
Many thanks to my<br />
organizations
European Voluntary Service<br />
Choose a project<br />
Find an organization<br />
Apply for it<br />
Start your journey!!<br />
Take a look!<br />
http://europa.eu/<br />
https://europeanvoluntaryservice.org/<br />
https://www.icye.dk/evs-projects-denmark/<br />
https://youineurope.gr/<br />
Don’t forget
Depress
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TUSIND TAK<br />
LIMFJORDSSKOLEN<br />
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PERSONALE<br />
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Christian Damborg Petersen <br />
Erik Gustav Johan Rothausen Fernström<br />
Martin Brix Lyng<br />
Sitthisak Titkia (Døng)<br />
Thomas Kevin Christensen <br />
Astrid Guldbæk Møller Borup <br />
Cecilie Rask Rokkedahl<br />
Emilie Haslund<br />
Kasper Knudsen <br />
Maja Rørbæk Madsen <br />
Michelle Renberg Dalsager<br />
Mikkel Hejslet Knudsen <br />
Peter Hjermitslev<br />
Sasha Strandberg Kristensen <br />
Simon Lindstrøm<br />
Tilde Bonde Simonsen <br />
Tore Værum Kvist<br />
Bastian Laursen <br />
David Højberg Pedersen <br />
Emma Johanne Juul <br />
Jeppe Lisborg Christensen <br />
Katrine Yasmeen Tornved Olsen <br />
Maja Zacho Bach <br />
Maria Ali Thomsen <br />
Mathias Krath Christensen <br />
Olivia Bøgh Rosager<br />
Philip Graven Ammonsen<br />
Rikke Tollerup Junker <br />
Simon Rune Petersen <br />
Annika Tabro Jørgensen<br />
Caroline Korgaard Tranholm<br />
Hanna Karen Ericson Sigurdardóttir<br />
Josefine Krogh <br />
Mille Kieler Nielsen <br />
Anni Back<br />
Alex Bundgaard Jensen<br />
Anne Brun Kristensen<br />
Anne-Louise Wetche<br />
Annemette Nielsen<br />
Betina Vittrup<br />
Carina Nielsen Lausen<br />
Cecilie Mærsk<br />
Christian Melgaar Jørgensen<br />
Camilla Østergaard Eriksen<br />
Eva Bukh Rask<br />
Grethe Mosgaard<br />
Heidi Nielsen<br />
Jytte Goldschmidt<br />
Jacob Knudsen<br />
Jette Louise Jensen<br />
Jens Lyngby<br />
Jesper Toft Nielsen<br />
Jane Overgaard<br />
Kristina Moss Kristensen<br />
Karen Hald<br />
Karen Krebs<br />
Kasper Rein Lybæk Jensen<br />
Kirsten Ovenskou<br />
Karina Stilling Pedersen<br />
Kirsten Schultz<br />
Kent Lykke Jensen<br />
Lotte Bech Larsen<br />
Lisbeth Sejersbøl Jensen<br />
Lena Klit<br />
Mikkel Amager<br />
Mette Franch Hald<br />
Mette Grønborg Overgaard<br />
Majken Helmersen<br />
Mogens Tomra Laursen<br />
Maria Lyndrup<br />
Mette Randrup<br />
Marie-Louise Skovgaard Iversen<br />
Ole Madsen<br />
Pia Kristensen<br />
Søren Frydkjær<br />
Stina Hintze<br />
Susanne Nør<br />
Stine Skole Sørensen<br />
Sofie Taudal<br />
Tina Christensen<br />
Tinna Bjørn<br />
Thomas Krogh<br />
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