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Unforgettable experiences, new friendships – we have been part of an amazing YE in Greece
Unforgettable experiences, new friendships, laughter from morning to night, beautiful landscapes and of course an insight into the artistic word. In a nutshell, that’s what our last week in lefkada was all about, we’ll try to describe the feeling that surrounded us in a little more detail, but we won’t promise anything, since we all know experiences can’t be passed on, they have to be lived. The adventure started late on saturday night, when we set off not completely unknown (actually but:) ) into the also unknown big world. Three „little boys”, a young adult and a middle-aged lady. Sounds like a good pairing at first, doesn’t it?? We proudly dare to say that it was the best pairing, age is just a number, the saying is true.
The participants of the program were made up of 6 different countries – Turkey, Spain, Poland, Estonia, Greece and Romania – we were a very colorful team. Not only because of the different nationalities, but also because the leaders of the program thought of sensitizing the young people, we could learn sign language and help our peers.
On monday we got to know each other with the help of some team-building games, we had to show our artistic talent here, because we had to draw each other on an envelope, which later included anonymous messages, making our stay there even more exciting.
On tuesday, the three main themes were presented, within the framework of which we had to create on the following days of the week. We could choose between acting, painting and light mapping, several members of our team – Robi, Misi, Ilonka, Anett – choose acting, because there were people who could try themselves in this field for the first time in their lives. But in addition to all this, Misike also gained an insight into the world of light mapping and digital editing. And in the evening we got to know the flavors of different cultures better and of course we also prepared a couple of domestic delicacies, Ilonka’s divinely delicious pityoka tokány and cucumber salad, we didn’t have enough, they even asked for the recipe, but I think turkish and polish delicacies after that we couldn’t even fit a little home.
On wednesday morning, we started putting together the play, everyone got their role and the rehearsals went full steam ahead, as we had to present a finished play to the big audience by friday evening. In order to increase motivation, we went to the most beautiful beach of the island in the afternoon, then we were able to go to the city and, to the greatest delight of the boys, we were also able to taste the real gyros.
On thursday, the drama was assembled by the lunch break, Misike also progressed very well with the task assigned to him in the light mapping group. and in the evening we were able to show the finished piece to our big team.
On friday, we presented our weekly work to school children and their parents in a small village. the background for the actors was provided by the light mapping team, and the props were provided by the painting team, so everyone’s work could be seen in front of the audience
In addition to work, of course, we had plenty of time to get to know each other and our culture better, every day we could learn the basic expressions of different countries, drink real turkish coffee, fortune-telling was done from our palms and coffee bags, we could learn and teach traditional dances, we talked late into the night and had big we could swim on the nearby beach during our lunch break. A week rich in emotions and impulses is behind us, we learned a lot of new things and perhaps the best thing about it all was that we were able to live it together, so we can stay in each other’s hearts forever.
