Finally it was the 19th july and my EVS is starting. I met Viki at Schiphol and the flight to Athens should go at 12.40 but we had a little delay so we left one hour later. Because we had one hour for the transfer at Athens to go to Thessaloniki we were in a big hurry to catch the plane and it was a relief when we are finally sitting in the plane to Thessaloniki. When arrived at the airport we searched for Nikos and found him after some time. We went to Thessaloniki for a drink and I had my first frappe (it's a cold coffee with nescafe, sugar and milk in it and it's really good) at a nice terrace with view of the sea. After that i've eaten gyros for the first time. I decided that I will start to eat meat when i'm in Greece so i'm no longer a vegetarian!!

After a two hour drive we've arrived in Florina because it was dark I couldn't see much of it but we made a first visit to the youth center and it looked really good. They have a nice office with very new computers. After that Nikos brings us to the appartement. I was really suprised by the size of the appartement. It is much better than my room in Holland. Their are two bedrooms with each a balcony and a nice view at the city and the mountains. From my room you can see the mountains when I looked at the view last night I saw a big white cross in the sky it was ofcours on the mountain but in the dark it looked liked it was high in the sky it was really beautiful. I will make a picture of it tonight to show it.

Today we first go to the Youth Center to met Ellisavet the other youth worker se is also very nice. I think i'm really lucky to work at the project with such a nice and helpful people. After that I walked with Viki through Florina drink some frappe and ofcours get lost but finally we find our appartement again.

Tommorow i'm going to the youth center at Agios Germanos at the Prespa Lakes for two days to met some other volunteers. So maybe tommorow morning I will put some photo's on my weblog and I will tell very quick about my visit at the Prespa Lakes.