Bremerhaven, August 2024
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Hi! I am Ahsen, I am from Turkiye and this year I am doing an FÖJ at Internationaler Bauorden where I manage the Instagram account and support the camps. In addition to my 3 Workcamps in 2023’s summer, I would like to share some insights from my 4th Workcamp with Bauorden ☺️
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There was surely a lot to do, but for the first few days the whole group was separated into two : 2 people (one of them being me) stayed at the Baustelle and did various work. All the others went to the hotel to paint the promised 4 rooms. The group was completely reunited after a few days, but until then we surely had breakfast and lunch all together.
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While we were at the Baustelle; I remember:
- filling the holes in the ceiling,
- scraping out the material on the outside wall of the building with the help of high heat (was very tiring)
- building a shelf
- covering the staircase area in the first floor
- building a door
- cleaning the wooden beams (there were 3-4 huge ones)
- building a table (the cube-like structure to cover the pipes on the floor)
- scraping out the material on the stairs’ surface until the first floor
- vacuuming the water in a room in the basement and dumping it outside with buckets
- scraping out the tiles in one line in the backyard
- digging a hole in the scraped area (80 cm deep)
- vacuuming the water out the hole
- carrying some tools and a big pile of stones from the Baustelle to the storage which is 5 minutes away
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Free time : We had enough free time (maybe the people who painted had less for some days). We mostly walked around Bremerhaven port and watched a couple mesmerizing sunsets 🙂
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Workload : Normal amount. Mostly more people were needed – especially on the hole digging and the stone carrying on the last day.
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Communication : Didn’t cause any problems or accidents.
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People Impressions : Everyone was nice and respectful 🙂
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Food : We were provided with various vegetarian meals. I personally liked some of them, and some not so much – but it all worked out at the end 🙂
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Accommodation : It was really comfortable. At Seaside Port Hotel, we stayed in the rooms for 2 people.
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Remarks : I can easily say that I totally benefited from this Workcamp: I practiced and learned more German, and I made some German friends 🙂 After all, alles halb so wild… It was also pretty nice to put my experience and all the learning I did last year with The 6-Week-Programme into practice.
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Thank you for reading up until here! Soon I will be sharing more about my experience with Bauorden and FÖJ, stay tuned! ☺️
