I am Tânia, and the day I met Else was the day I met Croatia for the first time!

Else is from Spain.

In Portugal – from where I come from – we like to call to spanish people “nuestros hermanos”, that means “our brothers”.

We are both volunteers under the program EVS – Erasmus +, in Amazonas Association.

We share the same flat, almost the same projects in the association, our knowledges, we share this blog… and most of all we share the same will to know Croatia, the croatians and their complex and melodic language.

That took us here, in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb.

Zagreb is not a very colourfull city but it has, although, what it needs to be a pretty place. And more importante that anything else, I found here what I was looking for: to feel Croatia, to hear everywhere its language.

Duga was one of the first words I learned in croatian… Duga means rainbow, by the way.

Funny isn’t it? Zagreb is not a duga at all.

But maybe that is why Else and I we are here… No, not to save the city from it’s shades of grey – even if the motto of one of the volunteering campaing was “Croatian volunteers - anyone can be a superhero!”, we don’t feel like saving Zagreb’s color palette. We believe that we are here to learn and to teach that a duga can be everywhere and it is for everyone.
In a croatian way of saying things – very directly and with no metaphors (and we like it!): everyone has something to give, it doesn’t matter to who, and that everyone has something to receive, it doesn’t matter from who.Else and I choosed to share what we have to give with Amazonas Association, with Zagreb, with Croatia.
We choosed to be volunteers, and this choice made us cross paths with new things, with a new micro-world, with new possibilities, that will transform us and transform – we hope! – the others around us…

Da (yes), in the end we are, maybe, superdugas!