VOLUNTEER SUMMER SCHOOL IN BURYATIA 2009
Make change - educate yourself and others
Make change - educate yourself and others
VOLUNTEER SUMMER SCHOOL
BURYATIA 2009
BURYATIA 2009
CURRENT TEAM
PROGRAMME
1) Ayuna Shoyzhitova, 22, Russia. Subject: Media.
2) Kate Willison, 26, Canada. Subject: English.
3) Eva Pfarrwaller, 31, Switzerland.
4) Miguel Anjo, 30, Switzerland.
5) Jürgen Meister, 30, Austria. Subject: German, Judo.
6) YOU ?
We would like to bring in Buryatia 10 volunteers which will arrive to 22nd-23rd of June Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia republic of Russia (read here how to get there), spend couple of days in Ulan-Ude visiting Ethnographical open-air Museum, Ivolginsky Datsan (the main Buddhist temple of Russia) and the city itself.
24th-30th of June Then well move by bus to Mikhaylovka village and start there the 1st teaching week mixed with activities and local stuff.
Volunteers will stay at the local familys place. Food and accommodation will be provided by the Volunteer Summer School.
Mikhaylovka is half Slavic and half Buryat village with the population of about 1000 inhabitants. They have 1 school there, 4 shops, the post office and museum of villages history. And the river, and the hills, and the forest just around all of this! :)
30th of June - 6th of July After a week in Mikhaylovka volunteers will move to Yengorboy which is even closer to the border with Mongolia and even more exotic than Mikhaylovka. Yengorboy is a totally Buryat village. Even if a Slavic Russian from the nearest town (who was born and grew up and spent all his or her life in Buryatia) comes there everybody stares: Who is it?. The village is so small that everybody knows each other. There live only Buryats. They all can speak Russian but they dont use it in everyday communication.
4th-5th of July After the 2nd one teaching week in Yengorboy the volunteers will spend 2 days in the middle of nowhere - Hubsha. It means, we all will ride a horse, climb up and go down of 2 hills and will spend a night and a day in the simple wooden house in the backwoods. There is no electricity, no radio, no TV, no gas, no Internet, nothing is in there! Just simple wooden house. If you look to the right, theres no any human there! To the left and its the same! You definitely have to experience that to understand me when I say that for me this is the best place in the world! Totally natural, totally real.
Please, remember and be aware that the Volunteer Summer school to be held in Buryatia 2009 is not much about comfort. Find more about Living Conditions under Useful info.
The day-by-day schedule will be spread through e-mails.
