Hello dear ones,
Since I embarked on this journey of this project, approximately six months have passed, and it was a time for my midterm evaluation of the project. It might sound scary at first, as we all have some freeze moment when the term “evaluation” is brought up (or at least I do), but I was shown that it can actually be cool and creative. My project coordinator, Mihaela, represented me with few methods in which this process can be done, and I chose the one that was the closest to my heart. It was a drawing of a tree in which the roots were my intentions for participating in this project and the fruits of the tree are my contributions. I decided to add also clouds in the sky as future goals, meaning what else would I like to do during the project in the future. In the other methods, my coordinator told me they also have a “future part” in them, so we implemented it in this way.
It was a fun and contemplative process, of where and who I was when the project began and where and who I am now. Going through the intentions, seeing if they are still relevant. I believe that those that are not anymore, I don’t even remember. Then seeing what I have contributed in the past few months. Sometimes we don’t give ourselves credit or stop to see what we have been through. I am thinking now that I am writing this blog that this process is helpful in real life too, maybe we should all be doing midterm evaluation in our life. At the end looking for what would be inspiring and meaningful to do in the future and in this way writing the steps that will give us the directions towards this version of the future. This is what we did. After we discussed all the parts of the evaluation, we wrote, with my coordinator, a “to-do list” or a goal list of what we want to do and finish in the upcoming months. Big part of the future goals are also already scheduled to be done, but some new ideas came up too.
As mentioned in my last blog, next week on 20th of April we have a workshop in the children’s center “Live with love”, with the initiative “Live Soul” from the Kyustendil area, so this week we were also preparing part of the materials we will need there. A lot of new ideas come up, so we still have few things more to prepare.
And the permaculture tip that I have for you this week is “Urban office mulch”. Usually in the office but also at home, we have papers that we don’t need anymore in that particular form, so what we can do is shred them and use them as a mulch in our gardens. It can be done with a professional shredder or we can just cut them by hand, but it is a great way to re-use our papers.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Marija
