21.8.2013, Wednesday

Today, we decided to get up earlier and to surprise teamers.We played  a video in which participants are telling something to teamers. It was really emotional both for us and the teamers. After breakfast, we had a workshop „ When I hear Vukovar“, then we had a very interesting EKO workshop with Danci .  Later, we had to clean our rooms and to pack ourselves. Also, we did the evaluation workshop with Lauriene. At 8.30 pm each project group presented their work and then we had a farewell ritual, where we talked about 14 days we spent together in Vukovar, everything we did together and about our feelings. Everyone was so sad because we're leaving the camp. After farewell ritual we were writing letters to each other, which we could read when we get back home.

JULIA: Well, 21th was our last day in Vukovar so it was very hard to stay calm and not to freak out while counting hours which are left staying in Vukovar and packing all the stuff, also I was afraid of the evening program because I knew that I would cry a lot... thank you for the great memories!

SABRINA: I was very sad, I cried from the breakfast time as I knew that we would leave soon. I was glad that Johnny tried to teach us how to write a project. While I was packing my things I was sad, too, not to mention after the farewell ritual. I stayed awake all night, beside people I care for and who I miss very much now.

MILENA: It was a very touching day for me, as well as for everyone else, I suppose. I cried while watching the video the participants prepared for us, they did a great job and put a lot of effort and emotions into making it. The farewell ritual and feelings it provoked would stay within me for good. Miss u all!

20.8.2013, Tuesday

In the morning we had breakfast and after that we had the workshop “Role exchange”. In this workshop the teamers and participants switched the roles. We had two groups of ''new teamers'': one group did a workshop about antidiscrimination and the other group about EU awareness. The “old teamers” and the rest of the participants joined these two workshops. Then after the daily midday refreshment –lunch- Johnny gave a speech about the way he organized the Reunion and what we need to do for organizing our Re-Reunion next summer. Afterwards, we had our last Project group meetings and later on there were VU-groups meetings. In the evening, after dinner, we had Final party. A few participants organized this party which means decorating the basement, preparing the music and bringing drink and food. We all had a lot of fun! After few hours of dancing and singing, we all went to our rooms.

BELMA: Being a teamer is a very difficult role. You need to get participants to listen to you. But for me it was interesting. I would like to be a teamer one day. The final party was great. We had fun and for those few hours we forgot that we are leaving soon. I really enjoyed it.

JULIA: It was great to get into teamers role so you can see how much work it is and that it's not that easy as it seems to be but it was great experience for making a decision if you want to be a teamer later on or better not. The discussion about the re reunion and how to write a project showed us that it will be a lot of work if we want to organize a re reunion.

AJLA: It was a great experience to be in the teamers’ shoes, to see what kind of job they had to do every day and how do they cope with it. I found out that it isn't that easy to arrange and organize every single detail about workshops. You have to think about many things in advance. How you are going to make the activities interesting, what is your aim, what are u going to teach the participants about the topic, how you are going to control  the group etc. But after all, we really made a good job, so in the end we were really proud of ourselves.