Youth
in Action – R.Valcea 10/10/13-19/10/13
During
the summer I received a phone call from Mrs. Kyttea about a project
organized
by the European programme Youth
in Action that
would take place in Romania.
I was invited to participate. I accepted without giving it a second
thoughts and started preparing for the trip .
The
project was called ‘’
Youth Public Participation and Involvement in Protecting Europe’s
Environment’’.
As you can see from the title, the project was about protecting the
environment and we also took some courses about project management.
Along
with Vicki and Mary, the other two representatives from Greece, we
left Greece on 10th
October and at about 11 o’clock we arrived in Romania where we met
our guide for the day, Elisa. Elisa picked us up and along with the
participants from Croatia, Turkey and Italy we headed to our hotel in
Ramnicu Valcea,
which is about 2 and a half hours away from Bucharest. We arrived at
the hotel and ten of the best days of our lives were about to begin.
During
these 10 days a lot of beautiful things happened. Not all of them can
be written here so I am going to point out the most important ones
and the ones that became the reasons why we are never going to forget
this trip.
Apart
from the educational part of the trip, which of course was an awesome
experience that taught us a lot of new things, we all became a
family.
After the first couple of days, when we were still strangers, we
began to get to know each other and we became a team. We worked daily
on our courses but we had fun
at the same time because we were together. From the time we had
breakfast till we slept at nighttime we were all together and we had
a really good time.
We
took many trips to monasteries and the countryside of R.Valcea. We
were impressed by the forests and the landscapes of Romania as well
as by the similarities that Romania has with our country. We learned
many things about each other’s cultures too. That was mainly
achieved by learning interesting new words and phrases in each
other's language such as ‘’ prieka,
Şerefe,’’ and others that
can’t be written here.
Another
thing that helped us understand each other’s cultures were the
international
evenings that were
planned. The ones that did go according to plan were really
educational and fun at the same time!
The
main goal of this whole training course was to to present the
projects we had
prepared during these 10 days at the city Mall
Center,. We were
divided into groups according to our zodiac signs and four groups
were formed: Earth,
Water, Fire and Wind.
We pointed out some of the biggest environmental problems of our
times and we tried to find solutions using what we learned about
solving a problem and project management.
We
also worked on crafts
with recycled materials
and presented them too. The presentation at the Mall went well and we
had the opportunity to inform all of the people who were at the Mall
that day about our projects and how they can help to protect Europe’s
environment. Apart from the environmental education we received, we
also improved our language
skills and we
learned how to cooperate
with people from
other countries.
I
had a great time
as I am sure that everyone else did too. I certainly couldn’t hope
for better company! Here
you can see the result after ten days in Romania and a perfect
example of the word ‘’TEAM’’
Thanks to : Ali the 1st
, Ali the 2nd,
Cansu, Kutlu, Matej, Ruzica, Maja, Matteo, Serena, Mary, Vicki,
Raivis, Laine, Elisa, Karina and Jack D.
I
would also like to thank FLS
KYTTEA because they
gave me the opportunity to be a part of this.
Guys,
till we meet again, cheers ;)
Kostas
Loukopoulos.
MARY KAVADIA
VICKY PAPANTONIOU
On 10th October we went to
Romania for an environmental project. We were there for 10 days. They
went by really quickly. The training sessions we had were really
good. We had to create a presentation as a team and present it. The
presentation was about an environmental problem. We had to talk about
the problem of deforestation and find solutions to this problem. We
met people from Croatia, Turkey, Italy and Latvia and got together as
one big team. We went to some monasteries and other places of Ramnicu
Valcea. I hope to have many experiences like this. We thank you for
everything.
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