Tuesday, June 12, 2012


Second Day in Struga.

                      Sunny morning. Strangers all around. The beginning - let's get to know each other! Starting with the names games. These activities helped to know all participants from eight countries: Lithuania, Russia, Estonia, Romania, Macedonia, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria. After that organizers introduced the main rules of the project. The hardest one was to be on time (in Macedonian time). Other rules were not to sit next to the person form your own country, forget the word "tired", to keep the smile with You and respect others.
                      The day started with "Struga" game. International teams got the list of 10 places in Struga city. Great thing about this game was that it introduced us to the city in Macedonia next to Ohrid lake. We discovered  two sides of Struga. First one was nice city center, lots of coffers, cheap ice cream, fabulous green river, helpful people and beautiful nature. Another side of the city was a bit of trash in smaller streets and lots of homeless dogs.
                      While we were playing this game one group met musician of the city who was speaking perfect in English and offered his help to show all the town, to find the places that we were looking for and told lots of interesting stories not about Struga, famous poets but also about all Macedonia and its incredible Ohrid lake. Others group had tasks that were far away from each other so they were walking along the Ohrid lake searching for the church or beach. Besides the fact that they had a long way to get there, everybody was satisfied with the results of the tasks and the destinations that they reached. At the end of the game we printed nice pictures from our visited places and posted them. It was so interesting to check photos from other groups, in this way we had a possibility to know Struga better.
                      It only remains to add that "Struga" game helped us to work in a team, to make decisions together that we all agreed on and we learnt to cooperate in order to achieve the goal of the game. Also during this game we knew about each other and the countries that we came from.
                      Evening caught our attention. The first intercultural night was for hosts Macedonia and crazy Lithuanian team. Conclusion for the evening: nobody was thirsty and hungry, Macedonia creatively presented their "library",  Lithuanians showed creative movie that they made. Everybody went to sleep with huge smiles and good mood!

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