On Wednesday, 25th of January we woke up in the morning, had delicious pancakes for breakfast and started our journey through the day. Everybody were fresh and eager to learn, although we do not spend too much time on sleeping here, but the night before we had sauna night and from sauna we ran into the snow of course, after which everybody felt really relaxed and we all had a really good sleep. Before starting with session, we had a really cool energizer - PILLOW RALLY!!! Our first learning session was about non-formal learning. We learned more about different Youth in Action projects, we presented to each-other what are the differences between project types etc. Then, we also put each other knowledge on test – we had a quiz about different Youth in Action project types. Luckily, people had paid attention during presentations and everybody did quite well during the quiz.
The second day of the project was the day when we got into more serious excercises and discussions in order to explore our group dynamics. During the excersise we learned that fast decisions that need to be taken because of the time limit very often exclude opinions of minorities. Strong leadership is key to reaching the objectives fast but it is also important for good leaders to know how to make minorities feel heard and accepted. During afternoon we explored and learned what are the different competences that we have or might learn and how they can be organised ss a basis for learning.
In the evening it was time for the fun part. After some delays, our cultural night programme started. At first participants, except Estonia, were briefly introducing their country’s originality and special features. Most of them solved this task with using help of internet - showed promotional videos of their homeland. Of course, the good sides were more emphisized cause everyone wanted to make their country the most attractive, so it was seen from those videos. But it was nice.
Michel talked very interestingly the story about Corsica, how the land was bought by French because Italians were lacked of money. He explained us why Corsicans have this particular flag and the symbol is used also in Sicily. The story was filled with laughter just like all the stories told by Michel.
Michel brought different types of French cheese for us to try, what is only little part of France’s wide cheese variety cause there are near 400 different types of them.
If you wanna go to Corsica one day and don't know where to stay then Michel will be happy to host you. And as we saw from picturese, the view is nice there.
EVELI, STELLA,VAIDA
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