EJB Weimar (Weimar/Thüringen)
Bildung ohne Grenzen (Dunaewa/Belarus)
Hellenic Youth Participation (Athen/Griechenland)
This three days was last and was full of preparing to presentations which took place in Nafplio! All presentations was interesting and offering interesting ideas and solutions for different problems.
BBQ day on island Daskaleia was little sad, because no one wants said “Good bye” to people, who he met and done friendship during camp. To people who he met two years ago and stayed with them till this this camp. This years was cool and interesting thanks to all participants!
This day was full of emotions because of two things: the elevator game and a little party! The Elevator game, was about us speaking in public, which was very difficult for most of us to do! In this exercise, members of EWOCA had to introduce to our “expert” their project during one minute.
But after this test our participants went to a little Greek party. It was very-very fun and interesting! All members of our family were dancing and having ‘Greek’ fun!
On this day we visited a little olive oil plant. It was interesting to learn how olive oil is produced and how to choose the best olive oil!
Then we went to a small city named Nafplio. It’s about 10 kilometres from Tolo. This city is not big, but has a lot of interesting places and local sights!
During this days our participants listened to lectures of experts from Fably start-up. It was amazing because our members found a lot of problems of their countries and a lot of solutions for this problems! And with the help of the experts they tried to write their own business plans for their own projects.
On the evening of the sixth day all members of EWOCA camp visited the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, performance called “Oedipus At Colonus”. Everyone was astonished by the action, the actor play and by the place where the performance took place!
Previous two days were full of theory: interesting information about social and economical conditions of countries where our participants live. And, of course, active team building games…
In fourth day participants also saw inner world of real business, which based on apiary, which located not far from Tolo! Owner, whose name is Janis, have showed us his apiary and narrate information about bees. Then, members moved to Janis’ “laboratory”. He showed and narrate the process of making of natural honey. Everyone was impressed by this excursion!
How was city formed? What is the recipe of Frappe? What are the names of three closest islands to Tolo? Answers to this questions members of EWOCA camp have found during city rally.
The first day! New summer for EWOCA camp in Greece has started! On that day new people and old friends met. Everything started in Athens International Airport and then members of the camp moved to a little hotel in Tolo, where they will stay till the end of the camp.
In the morning we visited the Belarusian Second World War museum, and after eating lunch at the museum’s cafeteria, we headed at a cultural site, where we had our final evaluation.
Then, after dinner and some free time, we headed at the train terminal to say goodbye to the German team. It was a difficult time for me because I got emotional and cried all the time. It was beautiful that all the participants were touched and hugged each other.
We even played a traditional Belarusian game at the train terminal, just in front of the train, as a goodbye to the guys.
At dawn’s first light, the last team to leave Belarus were the Greeks. We headed to the airport. The feelings were so strong, but the tears didn’t break out till we reached Athens.
In the morning we had our last workshop, called “Ecology in Belarus”, with a specialist on environment. He talked about the relations between Belarus and other countries on the field of environment, and about some locally produced stuff, especially cosmetics, which were found out to be potentially dangerous for people.
After lunch, we went at a place so called “creative hub” where we stayed till night and had our photo exhibition and final goodbye party.
There Nikita, Zheka and Mitya, participants from the belarussian group, played live music. We ordered many pizzas, played a pantomime game to remember together the time in the camp, we hugged and cried…
Every participant of EWOCA took a picture and presented it here to everyone. My photo pictured me, staring out of a window at the Nesvizh castle, and I chose it because it will always bring back memories of the camp and also of the girl that took the picture.
