My volunteer experience - CLEMENT

Five years ago, I had a healthy life in the first sense of the word. I used to practice 7 to 8 hours of martial art every weeks, I was living in my parent’s house so I ate every day, good, fresh and healthy food. I had a good schedule because I went to school. But then I left my home to live first in internship and after by myself in a flat. I had to stop martial art because the license was too expensive and my schedule in prep school and engineer school were too heavy to allow me to run or exercise during the week. The motivation was also very hard to find so I stop exercising. The money that I had was too short to afford healthy food, and I was very tired and stress by my study.

After a period of this, I decided to apply for a five month EVS experience. This whole project allowed me to step back from the “reality” and find myself into a intercultural environment. I learned a lot about how to have healthy habit and I am now ready to take what appear to be important decisions to live a healthy and happy life. I will manage to put money aside and have a job that allow me to exercise again. This is, in my point of view, the most important part in healthy life. Exercise bring you happiness, serenity and give to you the opportunity to let go of every stress that you can gain in the day.