03.07. It was another rainy day. In the afternoon I had my driving lesson and somehow I arrived one hour earlier to the spot than I supposed to be. So, I used that time to transport my bag to my university main house. Thank god that it has a perfect location in the city center. After driving lesson it was time for shopping because city was full of sales. Moreover, we had to buy stuff for cultural night and coffee breaks with Karolina. Then we headed together to my uni. There are only few months left until I can enjoy beauty of this building. When we arrived in front of the Russian Culture center only Mihaela with her baby and mother-in-law where there. We were afraid that others do not show-up on time but fortunately they arrived alltogether to the meeting place. Our next stop was in airport. We had some parking problems and in total we waited for missing participants more than we supposed to do. After picking up all Bulgarians as well, we were ready to start our journey to Kivi talu. In two hours we spoke practically about every topic you can imagine. We totally took an advantage of speaking Estonian all that time. After dinner we did a first meeting round to get to know each other more. To be honest during the first nights I wasn’t the most active on society point of view. I had totally different expectations about the project because I have had already too many projects during the year and I didn’t want to add one more on the list. My aim was more like to manage the project a bit more. To learn how to handle a project on my own. Because now I am in a stadium where I felt that I should contribute a bit more to the community and write a project on my own. Because I had that mentality that I am not one of the participants I was at first inactive during the free time activities as well. 04.07. We started our project with proper meeting games. For example we had to fill in our paper version Facebook page and find new friends according to it. We had to retell the facts what we picked up while having those meet & greet conversations. Everything went quite ordinary until Billy told us a secret that someone is pregnant. And in the end of the project we had to figure out who she should be. After intriguing secrets we got basic knowledge about Erasmus+ by watching the videos and having a discussion about youth pass 8 key competences. Do you see a connection between Hawaii islands and youthpass key competences? Both of them have 8 different üksust. So, with paper boats participants had to travel around those islands. Before dinner we had to solve mission impossible. It was the hardest one I have ever playes. There were so many extra rules and tasks were also unusual. There were plenty of ways how to fill in free time. By playing ping-pong, jenga, darts games, badminton etc. This evening we had our first reflection group. We shared our thought about the day. After that I showed surrounding to Elif and Velislav. And again, I went to bed super early. We discussed with Kristi that we are already too old for this project things XD 05.07. On the next day it was time for profound understanding of the topic as well. In general, what is evaluation and monitoring. And what methods to use to improve learning process. Weather in Vardi changes always quickly but fortunately we caught a right moment during lunch break to pick some wild strawberries. Right after our photoshoot by the lake it started raining. So, we were quite lucky. And Karolina was double lucky, because she almost fell into the water. Fortunately Kristi saved her on a last second. Best part of that sad accident is the fact that I captured the moment when it all happened. Even though it seems to be pointless situation it was a big thing for Karo, she mentioned that incident in her reflection group as well. Probably everyone knows that negotiation is not easy part of collaboration. To submit that participants had to make a play where they had different roles in orange trading situation. It was educating task but for me it didn’t involve all the group members. If only one person is going to represent your group following all the plot might become boring. I was late for my reflection group because I went for a running and discovered forest nearby. But when I returned I discovered a change on our group work. From now on we had to draw our position on the Blob tree to represent our learning progress etc. 06.07
We had more practical work to do and learn. Like what is the input and outcome of all the monitoring and evaluation progress. I liked the storytelling part when we imagined that we have to keep up a bonfire to survive in Estonian woods. Even though it was a training course we had active games and energizers all the time. Helena had recovered from her illness and Heleri was finally with us as well. Now we had two babies in the project. A total blessing. In the evening we had intercultural night. Bad thing about that was the fact that we had 13 different countries. We tried to put a time limit for a country presentation but in the end it all took way too much time and we finished with presentation about midnight. Estonian team is fault of long "time to shine" moment as well. Karolina and Kristi had a great idea how to integrate people to our culture by making tasks for them. And then we had culinary part as well. Was it caused by exotic snack and drinks but somehow we started playing weird Turkish game. We gathered together the younger generation of the project and had so much fun. Even Billy was surprised while seeing us. Zeinaida's application made the night last forever. It is really hard to explain that but nobody from us didn’t want to go to sleep. Okey, at some point we lost Turkish girls but in general we were duff. We even enjoyed first morning hours by the lake screaming out loud some weird Portuguese phrases. It was so cool night. I consider it to the best night I have ever had during the Erasmus+ project.
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