19.8.2013, Monday

We started the day as usual-with breakfast, and then we had a workshop about Reproductive Health. Two ladies from the Medical faculty Osijek presented us this topic in our dormitory and showed us the  importance of being careful  with STD ( Sexually Transmitted Diseases). After  this workshop we had a preparation for role exchange which will take place the following day. The role exchange is about switching roles between teamers and participants who are interested in becoming teamers one day. Therefore, the ''new teamers'' had to prepare the workshop about antidiscrimination and EU awarness for the next day. Afterwards we had lunch, and then went immediately to Osijek. In Osijek we had a workshop in association with an organisation called „Breza“, where a lady talked about het work with young people and children, and another man presented us the Youth Council in Osijek and his projects. After this workshop we had a two hours of free time in Osijek, then we went home for dinner. In the evening we had Olympics.

Lauriene: First of all,I appreciate that we had external teamers for the STD workshop. I believe that it was very helpful to see other leaders in action since there is always something that you can learn from others.Our free time in Osijek was wonderful. I had a chance to meet a few croatians who I didn't know before and see a city that I haven't visited before.
Marija: The day was great. It was nice to see one more city in Croatia. I can't wait for tommorow to see how the participants prepared their own workshop and how they will deal with the roles of teamers.

18.8.2013, Sunday

This day started as usual. In the morning we went to ''Dom Tehnike'', to finish our social project. After we did the first part of our great job, we went back to the dormitory to have lunch. Since the last two stairs weren't finished yet, we had to go back to ''Dom Tehnike'' and finish our job. In late evening hours we had the so-called „small talks“. We spent some good hours with the teamers talking about different things concerning our lives. In the end, this exhausting day got us all tired and we went to sleep.

SYMON:  I was in the group f

or social project preparation and the painting of the stairs was our last step to finish the project. For me, it was a quite easy job and I really like these stairs, they are beautiful as we put a lot of effort into painting them. Now Vukovar has new and clean stairs. The stairs with solar system are the best, in my opinion.

ANNIKA: These ''small talks'' were wonderful! I had the chance to spend the evening with few great participants and to talk about a lot of different topics. I really enjoyed it!

SLAĐA: Our social project went great! We have painted all eight stairs and left something behind us in this beatiful town where the reunion was held.

17.8.2013, Saturday

After project groups meeting that we had in the morning, we went to our creative workshops. We were finishing our graffiti, painting the flags, taking the photos, learning last steps in the dance workshop and preparing our social day. Today 35 of us were very creative. We got up, stand up, and acted for joint and peaceful Europe again ! At the end ot the day, we were so exhausted but proud of what we did !

CARO said: I was in the preperation group for the social day and I really liked it. It was really hot and it was hard work, but I'm proud what we managed!

 JULIA said: I was in a photo creative workshop. It was easy to do, because I love photography.

CASPER said: I was in FLAG group. We created a great flag with the slogan '' Imagination creates reality ''. I had good time.

BOŽO said: I was in dance group. It was really exciting and funny. I learned some new and useful things.

FILIP Ž said: For me, yesterday was one of the most interesting days here. I made my first grafitti ever and I like it very much. In the end of the day we had the presentation of our creative workshoips results. I really enjoyed it. One word for yesterday- PERFECT !

FRANEK said: The second day of the creative workshops was very exhausting, since I was dancing for 4,5 hour. Nevertheless, in the evening I could be proud of my progress in this. When I was dancing in public show, I felt satisfaction. Also I had a lot of fun during the workshops.

16.8.2013, Friday

After our ritual beginning of the day -breakfast- we had our first workshop '' My right- your right ( or left ?) with Milena and Iga. To wake us up, we had an energizer named '' Honey, do you love me ?''. Then we summarized some human rights which seemed to be very important to us. The next task was to make a little theatre/ roleplay about fundamental human rights and the others were supposed to guess what rights are presented. Then, another part of the workshop started- we were given different social roles and they asked us different types of questions. If our answer was ''YES'' we should make a step forward and if ''NO'' we should stay where we were. After finishing, we were discussing who is at the top of the scale, who is in the middle and who is very low and the reasons for these positions. At 11:45 we had our project groups. In the afternoon our first creative workshop meeting started and lasted for three hours. After that we had VU groups and evaluated the previous day and what we had done in our creative workshops. In the evening we had Olympics again, where we played diffrent games e.g. Alaska rugby and Bees and Butterfly.

OLA: It was interesting to see that people who were standing at the top of the pyramid can also be on the first floor and everything depends on the local community. I think the dancing workshop was very nice. Our group learnt a lot of new steps and I'm sure that we're gonna use it in the disco..

BOŽO: Yesterday was interesting for me. New workshops are interersting and I enjoyed mine very much. Also „My right – your right“ workshop was very educational. Lunch and dinner were great! 

15.8.2013, Thursday

As usually we had our breakfast at 8:30. First we had our project groups and VU groups. During VU groups we shared our opinions about the previous day and the barbecue. After  lunch we had a workshop  on ''Being Unique''. We were talking about our identity, who we think we are, what we think others think about us and what the others really think about us. After this workshop- the best part of the day came-the creative workshops introduction: Konrad from Poland showed us the basic stuff about graffiti. He also helped us to prepare a gift for Johnny. Nikola showed us the basic steps of sport dances.  Rita presented the workshop which deals with designing a flag on textile. We also celebrated three birthdays that night. In the end of this day we had Olympics where we had a lot of fun. We got tired and went to sleep at 11 o'clock.

JULIA: The workshop with Lauriene was very interesting to get an impression on  how  others see us and how we see ourselves.
CARLOTTA: The day was great because I liked the workshop with the graffiti man Konrad and the dancing workshop with Nikola. The Olymipcs were also very funny.

14.8.2013, Wednesday

After breakfast, we went directly to the Croatian/Serbian Ada on the Danube river to have our  „water olympics“. We went swimming, played voleyball and cards or just enjoyed the sun. We stayed there from 10 to 5 o' clock and went to the forest Adica to spend another hour there to visit the church, the river Vuka and to have a coffee. At 7 o' clock we were back at the dormitory to have dinner. In the evening we had to choose our creative workshops in a ranking of three. We could choose between the following workshops : dancing, grafitti, flag painting, photography or socialproject preperation. The day ended at 10 o' clock when we went to sleep.  

ELA said: It was a really nice day. I needed that to take '' deep breath ''. I enjoyed it a lot !

CARO said: There were a lot of clouds, which is why I thought that the sun isn't so intense. However, I'm sun burned. And I was sad, because I saw Emir killing a fish. Because of that I had to „kill“ him as well. But in general, it was a nice day and the water wasn't as cold as I expected. And I really liked this island.

JELENA said: It was really great. I'm glad we had a day like this. We had a lot of fun. It was a bit cold but still it was nice. I think the teamers also had a lot of fun. The day was really amazing and awesome!

 AJLA said: I really enjoyed it and I had a great time. Only the weather was bad but it didn't have impact on my mood. We had a real good rest and it was great to play volleyball with the other participants without being stressed, because we had to attend any workshops.

13.8.2013, Tuesday

As usual we had breakfast at 8:30. After that we had our project
group and VU group meetings. During the VU group meeting we were
discussing the incident which happened in Vukovar the previous day. At
one o'clock  we had lunch and when we finished eating we went to the
city hall. The mayor of Vukovar was welcoming us and he was telling us
about the history of Vukovar and what the city authorities are doing
to improve the life of young people. Then Kristina from the Youth
Council of Vukovar presented their activities as well as Zoran from
the Youth Information Centre presented his. In the city hall we had a
workshop where we were discussing about community problems from
different countries and how to solve them. In the evening we visited
the "Aeroklub Borovo" where we repainted some groundmarks, had a
barbecue and spent a lot of good time with our friends.

MILA: The barbecue was great and the fire, too.
MILAN: I think today was pretty cool, since we spent almost half of
the day on such an unusual place such as the Aeroklub. I liked the
barbecue and the refreshing wind the most.
ELA: Today it was a really hard day for me. I was really tired and
sleepy, so I  even fell asleep during one of the workshops. I have to
say, that I am really proud of the paining team, as we did a great
job.

12.8.2013, Monday

Today breakfast started earlier than usually, because we had a presentation for the International Youth Day in Vukovar. Every country presented itself. Later we had a lunch in the park by the Danube. After that, we visited the city museum „Eltz Castle“. Then, we had a little break in a restaurant. The next point of our schedule was a city game (treasure hunt)where we walked through Vukovar and answered the questions about the city. Later, the city train, we came by, was waiting for us. After dinner we had a free evening and the Olympics were canceled, because everyone was too tired. Before sleeping most of us were watching the rain of falling stars. 

BENEDIKT: It was really nice to present our countries at the market and also to see what the other countries are like. In the afternoon I really liked the spots which Johnny took us to visit.

SABRINA: Yesterday was fun and it was great to see the other people's cultures. The situation with the flag  when some boys stole the Serbian flag made me worried and upset because of my friends.

JULIA: This day was quite shocking for me because when we came to Vukovar to present our nationalities everything seems to be fine but when we came back from the interview at European house of Vukovar there was a chaos. Later we got to know that some boys took the Serbian flag.  After that I felt a bit anxious but there was no need to worry because the police was sorting everything out immdiately and we felt safe again. The walk through Vukovar was great, especially the big destroyed Water Tower was very impressive and it represents the war that still seems to be very present. That gave me a very special feeling.

11.8.2013, Sunday

After the breakfast, the teamers prepared us for three awesome workshops. Each of them were connected to discrimination. We saw the life on the ''Albatros island'', we watched through ''cultural glasses'' and in the end we played with „words“. Also, we made the last preparations for the ''International youth day“. Best part of the day, for all the participants, was TALENT SHOW in the night. By laughing and having great fun, we ended our unforgetable day.

AZRA: For me, it was really great day full of valuable messages, from which I really learnt something new, but the most interesting part of the day was talent show.

ENA and MILA: This was a nice, relaxing day, full of surprises and interesting workshops.

10.8.2013, Saturday

After breakfast we had the whole morning a workshop about the EU. Therefore we had to order facts about the EU, Europe and the Council of Europe, then to explain what  citizen do we feel of (on the level of world, country, town, Europe ) and we should collect positive and negative things about the EU . Later after lunch we had another workshop ''Active citizenship'' where we had to find solutions for problems in our local communities (in mixed groups), then there were VU- Groups and Project groups. We had dinner and after that the Olympics organized by some of the participants until late in the evening.

FRANEK said : Today's activities were hard to lead because of their characters. Politican discussions are tough to do with young people like us. But it was approachable for everybody.

SLAĐANA said : The first workshop was good, because we learned new things about the EU. The second workshop was great, because I learned also how NGO organisations are important in youth life. I realise how important it is to be an active citizen for my life and for the future of my country.

NIKOLETA said: I really liked the workshop where we asked ourselves are we citizens of town, country, Europe or  world, because we know how people think and how different opinions are. The workshop ''active citizenship'' was nice, because we had to think about the problems in our local communities and to try to solve them.

SABRINA said : I was a part of the group who organized the '' Olympic games ''. Because of this responsibilitiy I was very nervous and stressed. But when it was over I was glad that the participants had fun and the evening went well.

MONIKA said : This was the best sport event in which I had the possibilitiy to take part and I will remember it for sure. I wish that the other '' Olympic games '' will be as good as this evening.