My name is Margot Berg and I just finished a European Voluntary Service at Foundation Iwith.org, Barcelona. 

During this year of volunteering, I was shuffled in multiple cultures: the Catalan culture compare to the Spanish one but also Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Estonian, German, Algerian, Turkish and Bulgarian cultures.

I lived in a perpetual interculturality that led me to wonder myself about my own values and my vision of European identity.

Doing a volunteering gives us an identity: the only thing we have in common is the desire not only to discover a new culture but to share our culture with local culture and to feel useful. Ultimately, the exchange of values distinguishes us.

Throughout the meetings, I decided to start my own project on youth mobility in Europe. The first step is Latvia and results through a video documentary and a website.

My parents educated me with travels and the wealth they give to us.  Just with exchanges and gestures, we have traveled around the world twice. These "travels around the World" formed my character and taught me to travel on my own. I am a serious and open-minded person and I get involved in the projects I lead.

My motivation in this adventure comes down to my thirst for knowledge and to my abiding quest to learn about other cultures and learn from them. This is an opportunity for me to continue my informal education and report a useful and concrete idea.

A trip is no real sense if we do not give it a chance to live once we return home. A trip is not only ephemeral. There are many means to recall it, to teach others about it and to make our discoveries a perennial adventure.