I found the project itself and the topic so interesting, beneficial and profitable

I'm Carmen Vinuesa, one of the participants of the youth exchange that occurred from November 24th to December 4th. I'm actually writing to you guys with the pretext of the dissemination assignment.

First of all, I'm so sorry about the delay; I've been thinking about it for so long now, and it's not that I have forgiven about it but that I hadn't found the way to properly do it.

To begin with, since the very first moment I came back from Romania, I've been telling everybody close to me about it. Not only my friends in my hometown during NYE, as I promised, but everybody else I've had the opportunity to meet with since December 4th. I've been talking about it with my 3 flatmates in Segovia, where I study, with my group of friends from university and also with a bunch of people I know from here and there. 

I found the project itself and the topic so interesting, beneficial and profitable that I honestly couldn't stop mentioning it. Every time I was conversing about it with my relatives (not only friends but also with my young cousins, parents and even my grandparents!) I showed how fruitful and enjoyable the whole experience was for me.

I got to learn SO much... not only from those who surrounded me, from their personal vivences and experiences, but also from the actual topic. Please don't misinterpret me... I was totally sure that I would learn a lot about the other participants of the project, but about entrepreneurship... I wasn't expecting to learn that much as I knew almost nothing about it, but I definitely earned MUCH more knowledge than I expected. This was, for sure, a total surprise, as I haven't really ever pictured myself as a real entrepreneur; however, that totally changed after getting involved in all your activities, actions and initiatives. 

After all that, I perceived a whole different vision about the topic and started considering it as a real option for my future. 

Furthermore, what I also found incredible was the fact that the whole trip was totally free to us!! Isn't that crazy? The fact that there are groups of people willing to help the youngsters by improving our educational and social skills... 

It's just amazing, especially because adults sometimes seem to forget they were also young some time ago, and they would have probably been thankful for having been given a hand in some aspects.

On the other hand, I wrote a pretty similar description/caption for a post in my second instagram account (one that my closest friends have access to, which is more useful than the normal one as I know they're probably paying more attention to it). In that post I added some pictures from the project, including many of all of us wearing the ODES red tee and hanging the ODES flag. Of course, they have all witnessed that it is financed by the UE funds. And about the attached photos: these were also some of the moments during the last few weeks while I was talking about this youth exchange:

- the 1st one: my sister and I convincing my cousins to do an exchange like this.

- the 2nd one: my hometown friends being amazed by the experience when listening to me talking about the program.

- the 3rd one: two more hometown friends, same activity.

- the 4th one: my flatmates and I at home the day I came back and I finally got the chance to explain everything to them.

- the 5th one: bunch of friends from uni, right before dinner I had shown them pictures on tv.

All that said, I must add that I feel BEYOND grateful to you guys, truly, for the opportunity you gave me when participating in this Young Entrepreneurs! program.

Best wishes and kind regards (oh, happy new year),

Carmen [ES]