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The Ambassadors of France Benevolat

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Hello, my name is Guillaume. I'm 22 years 
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and I'm going to tell you about my voluneer 
journey, and my life journey.

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How did you meet France Benevolat?

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With France Benevolat, it started when I 
was in high school

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where I had started my bac 'S' at the time.

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I went there because I was hesitating between

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becoming an architect or a cabinetmaker

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so I took the broadest route.

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In the end I considered myself a school failure

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because I didn't find much for myself in 
that sector

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But I was lucky enough to have a volunteer 
workshop in my high school

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with Nathalie Tisserand, so I participated.

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One of the principles was knowledge sharing,

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so you could exchange a guitar lesson for 
a drawing lesson

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or give a maths lesson for an English lesson

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and I started to become a project initiator.

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What did France Benevolat bring to you?

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For me, it served more as an opening

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in fact, I was very stuck in high school

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with work, with control and so on

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and I totally got out of that

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by meeting people, volunteers too

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I met Nathalie, other volunteers,

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those who looked after the range, for example

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were volunteers too.

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And after discussing, and doing small projects

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and meeting others, it opened up more horizons.

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I found myself talking to a lot of these 
people

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I used to hang out with at the time

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about what I could do,

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and there were quite a few who told me

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that if you want to try, you can.

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That motivated me to find a good school.

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Where are you today?

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Today, we are at la Bonne Graine, where we 
are filming

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it is the school where I am currently studying.

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It's a furniture school that offers courses 
concerning furniture and cabinet making.

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There is also courses on gliding, framing, 
upholstering

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everything to do with furniture making, but 
taken back to traditional methods

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there is a history to the art within the 
furniture's history, in general

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and even in Europe's history.

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There is downstairs, which is really interesting,

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it allows you to practice a little

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and to see where your imagination takes you.

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And there's the workshop course

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where we can put into practice

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that which we want to discuss with the teacher

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about what we have already done or not.

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There's a special atmosphere in the workshop

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where you can get along with your classmates

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where you can joke together with them and 
the teacher while you work,

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There's a certain amount of autonomy that's 
given to us.

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Volunteering in one word?

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Volnteering in one word for me is "sharing"