Thursday 20 October 2016

Summary of thu 13.10. & fri 14.10.

Thursday

Notification!
You can find pictures of our project in social media by using hashtag #themanual2016

Bulgarians arrived to Helsinki. We went to walk in Helsinki city center, where we went to see Senaatintori and Tuomiokirkko. After that we had a tour at the National Theatre of Finland. It was a great success. Everyone seemed to enjoy to see the theatre. When we came back to Loimaa, everybody was very tired (Bulgarians had started their traveling at 2 a.m. on Thursday night so they had been awake almost 24 hours without good sleep) so we just sorted out mattresses, duvets and pillows and went to sleep.

Friday

Day started relaxedly. People woke up at 9 and had breakfast. After that we went to see Loimaa High School. There the international group of the school had prepared an informative slideshow of Finnish education system for us. They also guided us a tour at the school. Bulgarians seemed to be very excited about the school and people there. After visiting at the school, we took a little Loimaa sight-seeing by cars. We went to see two summer theatres in Loimaa: Krekilän myllyn kesäteatteri and Kertunmäen kesäteatteri. Our guests were excited about those places too. Then we got back to theatre. Finns arrived and we could officially start the camp. We had ice-breaker games and got to know each other, at least everyone’s name. In the evening we leaders were so glad to see that Finns and Bulgarians started communicating and spending time together immediately, on the first day of the camp.

Thursday 13 October 2016

Today is the day!

Hello, it’s Lari and Mekku here again.

Wow. We came to theatre at 8 a.m. this morning. Just exactly 12 hours later than we leave the building yesterday. We were at the theatre the whole day preparing Bulgarians arrival, which is today! Oh dear, it sounds so surreal! But at the same time we have talked about that we’re not nervous about the coming week. We just have a good, peaceful feeling about this project now, still. We are ready to welcome our friends from Bulgaria to Loimaa! :)

The project has gone ahead quite smoothly so far. Participants have prepared their workshops actively and they have also been lovely conscientious writing blog posts about topics they’ve chosen. The communication between both participating countries have worked well too. We had an idea to have a Skype-meeting at some point, but it didn’t happen. And actually we think it’s not a bad thing. Maybe now the reunion will be more powerful when we haven’t seen each other live since last year.

What have we learned so far as facilitators/ leaders? We have noticed that it’s not a big deal if absolutely every little thing we planned haven’t been put in practice. On the other hand we have seen that there are really a lot of practical things that have to be solved before the camp. And that we have to solve them. But we have done well.

Now we’re just preparing to that that we can’t be prepared for everything that’s going to happen during the week. We’re learning to face every situation with approval whatever kind of the situation will be. We will enjoy every moment and we hope that all participants can do so too.

Sunday 9 October 2016

Possible problems & how to solve them

Hello! We are Annika and Michelle from Finland.

In the beginning of the camp some people might struggle with shyness. We think that the ice breaking games will help a lot and of course when we get to know each other better it’s easier to communicate.
There could be some situations where we have language barrier problems. For example when we explain rules etc. We will use google translation to understand each other.

Thoughts about the project

Hello!

We are Milena and Ilia (from Bulgaria) and we are so excited for the project.
We can exchange experience and we are so glad about that. Also we are so happy that we can communicate through Facebook cause it's easier than e-mails and in that way we are improving our English. From the whole project we expect to get useful skills for both our work and life. Our common work - Bulgarian and Finns gives us only great experience.

Sunday 2 October 2016

Improving our skills in E+ projects

Hello everyone!

It's Marin and Bobby from Bulgaria.

At the previous camp we learned better how to work in a group and with other people, we improve our language skills and also we learned some new things about different cultures.

At this camp for us it will be easier to communicate and work because we already have some good experience and most of us once again will improve our English. And again we will have so much fun! :)