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The first blood transfusion
As we all know, blood is the vital and essential component that keeps us alive. The role that it has in our organism is far but simple, it provides us with the indispensable nutrients and oxygen and has many other crucial functions that are key to our existence. I believe that all of you are…
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Voices June 2020
“The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it’s open.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama Have you ever experience time travel? The last months have marked quite a shift in our daily life. Now that the worldwide situation is progressively evolving, we propose you to harness a couple of essential elements: curiosity…
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About being young, talking with mom and dad, searching out there, and building your future
One of the defining traits of youth is that the amount of life we have yet to live is much greater than the one we have lived so far. Being young is being a subject in the kingdom of the -ing, experiencing, experimenting, maturing; not in the kingdom of the -ed, experienced, experimented, matured. Being…
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The beauty of useless pleasures
Today, April 11, 2020, the song of the South Korean boy group called Block B, “Toy”, completed the fourth anniversary since its release. It means it has been a little bit more than four years that I have been listening to Korean music. The song, that is part of the album “Blooming Period”, was one…
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Safeguarding heritage, or how to create bridges between people
After the Second World War, the number of projects attempting to recreate links between countries through international heritage restoration sites increased. From this ideal, REMPART network was created in France in 1966, with a strong will to welcome volunteers from abroad on its restoration sites. Consisting of 180 local associations, the network organizes voluntary workcamps…
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Traveling by train and other digressions
Traveling by train is, in my opinion, a way more interesting experience in comparison to selecting the aircraft solution. This is even more accurate for an outbound journey. Here are first a few ideas related to this topic, followed by several thoughts tackling a wider scope. First, I think traveling by train is pleasant as…
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Is volunteering a helping hand for your future?
Can you combine the law faculty with other activities? How? Just do it. Do not think that you don’t have time (I won’t have anyway), that you want to be focused only on your courses (you won’t be all the time), or that you don’t know how to do that and that (you will learn…
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Diary of an EVS Volunteer in Spain – UPDATE
If someone had told us our world would be confronted with a pandemic at the beginning of 2020, we would probably have replied with a shrug and disbelief. No one would have ever guessed that within a short period communities from everywhere would be forced to adjust to major changes caused by the coronavirus outbreak…
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Crossroads
Imagine your life as a hiking trip. Wandering through luscious fields and sunny forests, sometimes also through steep valleys and over high and dangerous mountains, on and on it goes, without a clear goal you stroll along without being able to go back. Wandering through luscious fields and sunny forests, sometimes through steep valleys and…
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Fuqia e Mirënjohjes
Mirënjohje: Cilësia e të qenit falënderues; gatishmëri për të treguar vlerësim për dhe për të kthyer mirësinë (sipas Google Dictionary). Të gjithë mund të lidhemi me ndjenjën e të qenit falënderues ose mirënjohës për diçka. Si kur merrni një dhuratë që ju pëlqen vërtet nga dikush, dhe zemra juaj hapet dhe ju merrni një buzëqeshje…
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The Power Of Gratitude
Gratitude: The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness (according to Google Dictionary) We can all relate to the feeling of being thankful or grateful for something. Like when you receive a gift that you really like from someone, and your heart opens up and you get a big…
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