"on-arrival" in Terchová

As You can see I havent done much writing. This was due to the fact that last week I was on my "on-arrival" training in a beautiful place called Terchová :)
Its pretty much North from where I live and nature there was amazing!!! Such beauty and majesty...
So, lets start with the beginning of my journey... Slovaks have a really nice website where its possible to plan all the trip from point A to point B, and that helps a lot, because it shows all the times and stops and so on... which for non-Slovak is very helpful!
I planned my trip through Banska Bystrica, because there lives another volunteer, so we decided that it would be much more fun to travel together, and in case of getting lost.. that would be much more fun together, as well :D The whole journey from Krupina to Terchová took me about 4,5 hours (~168 km) and three bus changes. Anyhow, I got a chance to see so many beautiful places here, mostly mountains and often only sounds I could make were "wow", "ahh", "wow, wow, wow"...
However, few times I as well screamed inside ("aaa...") since bus drivers here are very, very wild, especially on turns! So far there are two things, which I dislike in Slovakia- the way people drive here (they dont stop on pedestrian crossing, wild driving up or down the mountaines..or just regular streets), and their public busses, which sometimes seem to be a bit dangerous to be driven..
However, views behind bus windows were amazing :) The more we were going up the mountain, the more my ears were shutting (I dont know the right word in English, but its like when one is flying and afterwords it takes some time when ears work properly again :P, do You know what I mean?), but it seemed that Slovaks are born without this problem... Interesting! So, after changing busses me and French volunteer finally got to Terchová and the view was perfect! It looked like from some kind of Christmas movie- mountains covered in snow, small city in the valley, stone church...
Very easily we found pension we stayed in and since we were first to arrive, we decided to go for a beer and I wanted to eat.. When we found place called "restauracia" which means "cafe" or something like that, they told us that they dont serve any food, only alcohol :D So, I decided that beer in some way is food, but drinking it on an empty stomach..
When we came back, I found out that my room-mate is a girl from Lithuania :D we laughed that two of us choose the same room since we are from neighbouring countries (for those who dont know :P ) and actually our EVS projects are very close to each other as well. She lives in an eco-community not far from me, and I admire their way of life, since I know that I wouldnt be able to live this way...
By the end of the evening we slowly started to remember each other's names and we even got some assignments to do.. I wasnt that happy about it, because my "pre-departure" was a week before and I was afraid that I will get one more info overload.. However, by the end of the week I was happy to realise that it didnt happen, and the whole thing was a lot of fun :)
I wont go in too many details about the whole week, since Im sure You all can imagine that day approximately looked like that- waking up, beautiful view behind the window, breakfast, gathering together, some assignments, launch, gathering together, dinner, gathering together, a bit drinking, sleeping..
However, I would like to mention our hiking trip to Malá Fatra National Park.

The place is breath taking!!! Again I will mention mountains :D beautiful! River that was half frozen, and a very dangerous roads up since some parts of roads were covered in ice...

And as You can imagine some people fell down. However, it was so great to see that they are not bothered by the fact that they either fell down on an ice or got wet feet in a river.. They kept having a nice time ;)

During this trip my love for hiking grow even bigger and as well I realised how much I would like to learn climbing! So, this would be one of those outside the project activities which EVS offers :)

Overall, last week was amazing with loads of laugh and fun and excitment... Im looking forward to meet all these lovely people again either by visiting them in Slovakia or next time during the "mid-term" training ;)