{"id":6908,"date":"2018-02-13T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/?p=6908\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:49:43","slug":"from-feeding-volunteers-to-making-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/en\/from-feeding-volunteers-to-making-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"From Feeding Volunteers to Making a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ingress\">Hungarian Ildik\u00f3 L\u00e1szl\u00f3ffy came to Finland to volunteer four years ago. Ildiko enjoys cooking and is nowadays almost a permanent sight in the kitchen team of Maailmanvaihto\u2019s camps. Volunteering also gave her inspiration for her future\u2019s profession. Read, what she tells about her experiences!<\/p>\n<p>I am <strong>Ildi,<\/strong> Maailmanvaihto\u2019s very own quirky Hungarian who also tends to cook in the camps and enjoys making inappropriate jokes. I came here four years ago as a volunteer. I worked in Luovilla, a textile workshop for people with learning disabilities or difficulties. After my volunteer year ended, I decided to stay in Finland and be active with Maailmanvaihto\u2019s activities since I enjoyed them greatly and found them a good opportunity to get to know new people from all around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lainaus\">\u2018\u2018This experience made me sure of what I want to do in life \u2013 learn, cook, widen my horizons and always help the \u201cunderdogs\u201d, everywhere.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I have been part of Maailmanvaihto\u2019s kitchen team in several camps and worked with different people from different countries. In these camps, I have learned that people are not that scary and socialising can actually be fun. But being more serious, these camps actually opened me up a lot. When I came here and went to my first camp I was thinking sarcasticly \u201dgreat, now I have to play games and talk, yay!\u201d but after some days I had a conversation with myself. Am I going to try to have a nice time here and enjoy the activities or what? I\u2019ve listened to my better self and thanks to that, I still consider my first camp as one of my dearest memories in my life. There was no question that I wanted to return and meet new friends, because every encounter would teach and develop me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6910 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ildiko_1-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ildiko_1-577x1024.jpg 577w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ildiko_1-169x300.jpg 169w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ildiko_1.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without my volunteering background I don\u2019t think I would nowadays be studying to become a cook. I have enjoyed cooking since my childhood but never seriously thought about bringing it to the next level. I have played with the idea of becoming a cook, but I thought it would be very hard physically and maybe it would kill out the passion of me if I had to do it professionally for long working days. I have a diploma in a very different field and it wasn\u2019t easy to find work in that field, so I was really thinking about studying something a bit more practical.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking in the camps is not equal to a job in a restaurant but it\u2019s also quite a hard work \u2013 with a lot of extra fun. And I loved it. One day I had my enlightment \u2013 hey, why wouldn\u2019t I actually try to apply for a cooking school? The camps had given me some ideas on what it is like to be a cook: it\u2019s tiring but I love it. So I decided to give it a try and don\u2019t regret it a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering abroad can affect one\u2019s life a lot. It\u2019s such a clich\u00e9 that the world opens up, but it\u2019s true. I moved to a foreign country for the first time in my life. I met very different cultures and people for the first time in my life. I could never go back and be the person who I used to be living in her small world in her home city. This experience made me sure of what I want to do in life \u2013 learn, cook, widen my horizons, work with disabled people, improve myself and always help the \u201dunderdogs\u201d, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>If I would give some tip to people who are planning to volunteer in Finland or abroad, it would be \u201dDo it!\u201d. It is going to be one of the biggest adventures in your life, for sure it was for me! It is not always easy but volunteering definitely changed my life and I consider it the best decision I have ever made. Be open and try out new things you never thought you would! For me, one of these things was going to a sauna naked &#8211; oh my &#8211; but I did it and survived it!<\/p>\n<p>Text:\u00a0Ildik\u00f3 L\u00e1szl\u00f3ffy, photos: Kaisa Rahko and Minna R\u00e4is\u00e4nen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The article has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/maailmanvaihtoa-22017-ruoka\/\">MaailmanVaihtoa \u2013 Volunteers&#8217; Voices 2\/2017 magazine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to join in the kitchen team of a training camp of Maailmanvaihto? <a href=\"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/en\/participate\/training-camp-teams\/\">Read more<\/a> and contact us!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Ildik\u00f3 L\u00e1szl\u00f3ffy came to Finland to volunteer four years ago. Ildiko enjoys cooking and is nowadays almost a permanent sight in the kitchen team of Maailmanvaihto\u2019s camps. Volunteering also gave her inspiration for her future\u2019s profession. 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