Dear reader!
Have you heard what
happened in Rustavi during the second week of June 7th till 15th
june 2012)? In the new Scout centre of
Rustavi was held the Youth Exchange “Free as a bird” supported by the Youth in
Action Programme and organized by Georgian youth for Europe & unesco
initiatives centre. 26 people from 6 different countries Czech Republic,
Estonia, Georgia, Poland, Russia and Slovakia came to Rustavi to talk about
very actual issues: immigration and freedom symbolized by birds. They spent
beautiful 8 days, did a lot of interesting activities, discovered new cultures
and learned a lot about Georgia and each other.
Just after the arrival
in Rustavi they tasted “khinkali” and “khachapuri” and immediately fell in love
with georgian cuisine. Georgian participants as great hosts prepared for their
new european friends Georgian national evening, where they tasted georgian red
& white wine, heard and watch georgian national songs and dances. It was
also a great opportunity to get to know more each other and talk about
immigration and birds in their countries. The second day they got deeper into
the problems of immigration of people and after that had a lot of fun during
“night of passion”, when everyone showed his/her own passion.
New sunny day started
with city game prepared by long-term EVS volunteers. The aim of this game was
to get to know better Rustavi in an adventurous way. They were divided into 5 teams and got
several tasks. They learned how to buy “alu bali” in bazaar, met the theatre
director, who told them more about the history of Rustavi, made funny pictures
with locals in park and compared the prices of “marshrutka” to Tbilisi. They
found Rustavi very interesting place full of hidden secrets.
Slightly tired from
hot weather, but fully motivated, we started to make proposals for the main
outcome of the project in three different groups: video, photo and postcard.
How to express our understanding of freedom and immigrations issues? Where
should be the limits of the freedom? Is a bird really free? By the end of the
looked everything more clear to us and we were ready to start working on it.
To see more
interesting places of Georgia, the organizers took participants to David Gareji
monastery, which included bird watching and the visit of Bodbe and Signaghi.
The weather was very warm, but everyone was very impressed by the rich Georgian
history and beautiful landscape.
After the excursion
they started to work hard in their groups. All were very enthusiast about the
topic. The main idea was to define where should be the limits of our freedom.
As a bird respecting weather conditions and nature. To make a break all
participants received a trash bag and went to the streets. They found it as a
good way to show local people that they should care more about the environment.
To show their final
work during the project and also officially open new Scout centre organizers
invited locals and TV from Rustavi. It was very pleasant evening as for
visitors so for participants, because they could defend their ideas and talk
more about the issue directly with people.
When it came to say
good bye everyone realized that everything was great and so wonderful and that
it will be hard to come back home. They go we stay, but somehow they stay as
well. How? Maybe we are living far from each other, but our friendship stay in
our minds.
Bonus video ;) Tomáš
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