Third day of our project

4th March

Even why we were knowing more and more participants names, it would be still necessary to play one more game. The facilitator asked us to make a circle and with the papers from the previous day he made two small balls. Than he gave the balls to two different participants and asked them to throw the ball at someone else, not from their own nationality, and to call their name while they were throwing the ball in the air. Very fast people started to throw the balls around the working room and repeating our names. We made this game for some minutes and again the smiles and funny part wasn't missing. Participants were throwing the ball around but sometimes calling one name and throwing to someone else. It was nice and funny.

Than the facilitator told us to make a circle again but now with our chairs, meanwhile he was standing in the middle of the circle. He started to divide us in different fruits and he explained us the game. The person who remains in the middle had to call a fruit and all the participants divided into their fruit had to stand up and change their place with someone else. The person who remained again had to call another fruit or to say Fruit salad and in this moment all the participants, regardless to their fruit, they had to change their place. This game was so energetic and creative, the best way to start the day and work in our main topic of the project.

 After the facilitator decided to finish the game they asked us to stand up and to go around the working room like atoms in unregulated way and "crashing" with each other just like atoms moving in space, when the music would stop we had to make groups by the number of participants that the facilitator would say us. We played this until we made five groups in total and the facilitator gave us one topic to work in our small group:

1       1- Ecology 5W?

2       2- Positive examples from all around world.

         3- Negative examples from all around the world.

4       4- Best ecology event in the world.

                 5- How YiA helps for better impact and raising awareness for ecology.

      

     After we finished our group work we had to make a presentation in front of the other participants and sharing the information we could find out with them. The next workshop that we had was, in two groups, to make a sad and a happy story with 10 photographs per each story. This workshop was so nice we enjoyed so much going around the hotel and taking pictures with each other. The next presentation made by the facilitator was about Millennium Development Goals. When he finished the presentation, he divided us in 8 groups and each group had to make a promotional video for one of the Millennium Development Goals. 

     Because some of the groups hadn't finished the video facilitator gave us some more time after the lunch to finish everything and before the last session we saw the videos which were made by us. They contained a lot of information that mostly of us didn't knew. The facilitators were satisfied with us. For the last workshop we had to work in our national teams and to make a flip-chart presentation about our ecology situation in our countries and present them in front of the others. 

     For tonight we had the Azerbaijan, Croatia and Moldova intercultural night. Participants presenting this countries after the dinner started with the preparations of their food and deciding what traditional dances they would show to us. For sure we were going to enjoy this night to.