Project Diary

Who do you think you are?

Ireland… Homeland of Saint Patrick. Country of emerald meadows, Celtic music, stepdance and famous beer “Guinness”. Country of wars and revolutions. Country of very religious and very polite people.

From the 9th till the 16th of October, 2012, the team of Youth Open Centre „JACis” from Rezekne, Latvia, participated in the international youth exchange project called „Who do you think you are?” within the EU programme „Youth in Action”. The project took place in the capital of Ireland – Dublin. Except Latvian team, also teams from Ireland, Belarus and Ukraine had been involved, in general – 8 team leaders and 16 young people. The main objective of this project – to learn about other countries, their cultures as well as human identity.

Flash mob in Trinity college

Photo-orientation activity 'IDENTITY OF DUBLIN'

On 14th of October participants of the international youth exchange project 'Who do you think you are?' participated in the photo-orientation activity 'IDENTITY OF DUBLIN'. Photo-orientation activity was organized by Youth Open Centre 'JACis', Rezekne, Latvia.

 

Here you can find all materials of photo-orientation activity:
1. Tasks and description of the orientation activity (team 1);
2. Tasks and description of the orientation activity (team 2);
3. Declaration;
4. Health and security rules.

The second day

In the morning  we had breakfast in the church hall with all the leaders and young people. After having our breakfast we went into the meeting room to start different activities involved in this programme. We started with a movement to keep everyone awake and ready to start our day . 
We played a game which was about creating our language without speaking in any of the languages we already known. The leaders separated us into 4 groups and we had to come up with new words without talking and then present them to the whole group.

 We also talked about gender roles and stereotypes and did a short role play. In the afternoon we created "Lifelines" about important events in our lives and shared it with each other.

Happy Birthday, Sam! :)

THE FIRST DAY

Our youth exchange is a programme about identity. It        
involves young people from different countries , Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine and Ireland. This programme helps us to learn things about other countries and their cultures.

The first day , we started at 9.30 am in our meeting room. We started presenting ourselves because no one knew our different names. We posted them on the wall by writing down our name on pieces of papers and said where all of us were from.

Also, we played another game to learn more about our names and different activities. After that we went for lunch and when we came back to our room we were separated us into four groups. We played a game which was on building a foundation with pieces of papers to save our eggs. We threw  them through the window on the second floor and only 2 eggs survived.

We went for dinner and then the Irish team did their presentation in that evening about Irish history and dance.

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