Nonformal and environmental education in Otava region

Hey, I am Gosia :-)

I am from small town in Poland called Łańcut. I’m 23 years old. I participated in an English curse and my teacher told me about volunteering project in Czech Republic. Didn’t hear of something like that before and I was very interested in how it works. I read the description of this project. It told me there will be work with animals and gardening so I was sold. Still had some doubts but decided that I don’t have anything to lose so why not try something new?

I am happy that I decided to come here. In a very short time experienced so many new things. Meeting people, trying and learning new things. For example archery I don’t think I would try it in Poland and I would miss so much fun. Preparing some staff for children let me remind myself what it’s like to be a kid. It is good sometimes to look at the world from child’s perspec­tive. Also it allowed me to get dirty with paints so it was great. For now I mostly deal with animals and cleaning work outside. I can tell that for me it’s not work but enjoyment because I love animals. It also allows me to learn what I should do to take good care of each animal. As for the people here what can I say? They are great. If I have any problem it don’t matter to who I go to, they will do everything in their power to help. They are friendly and understanding which is wonderful for someone who is not a people person like me. Also the town is amazing. So peaceful and serene.

Summarizing nice people, beautiful place, doing what I like. Question comes to mind what more do you need in life? :-)

I’m looking forward to spending the next few months here, can’t wait for new challenges and what will happen next.

18/1/2019 Polish evening

Together with Dawid we planned and made Polish evening – a public event for Horazdovice community. We prepared polish food, presentation about nice places to see in Poland and the audience could watch polish film ‘’Kiler’’. I think that the best part for everyone was tasting the traditional polis food :-) During the tasting we were listening tor polish music.

We cooked krokiety and racuchy. If you want to try cook them yourself on the end of this article you will find the recipes. Presentation was also a hit, some people were asking for copy so I hope that they will want to visit some of this places. At the end we showed old polish movie. “Kiler” it is comedy of mistakes. Everybody was laughing so we choosed a good film :-) In the end it was a a great evening. We shared some parts of polish culture and everyone could learn a bit about Poland. So if you still have some question or you would like to see the presentation or film again don’t hesitate to contact us :-)

Racuchy

• 2 apples
• 1 egg
• 200 ml milk
• 150 g flouf (fine)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon powder sugar
• 1 spoon vanilla sugar

Peeled and cored apples grate on the grater. Mix everything together adding apples at the end. Fry in a hot oil on a pan from both sides – the colour should be golden at the end. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Krokiety

1. Stuffing

• 200 g minced meat
• 1 medium size onion
• 1 kg sour cabbage
• 2 big champignons
• salt, black pepper, marjoram, dried garlic, red sweet pepper

Add water to the cabbage and cook until it is soft and not so sour (we cooked it for about 4 hours). Change the water several times (to reduce the sour taste). Fry minced meat on the pan until it is well cooked. Cut onions and champignons in small pieces and fry on oil in the pan. Strain the cooked sour cabbage, add fried meat, onions and champignons, mix together and season the taste with salt, pepper and other spices.

2. Pancakes (you can prepare them according to your own recepy)

• 500 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 300 g fine flour Mix everything together. Fry on a very small amount of oil on pan from both sides to golden color.

3. Folding

• 2 eggs
• bread crumbs

When everything (stuffing, pancakes) is ready, you can start foldidng krokiety. Spread a bit of stuffing (1 spoon) to the centre of a the pancakge, fold two opposed sides to the middle and start rolling from the end. Dip krokiety in eggs and cover them with bread crumbs. Fry on a pan from both sides to golden color.