One more fantastic summer is coming to the end but I am not sad (!), because it has brought me a lot of positive unforgettable moments, exciting friends, crazy adventures and priceless experience which I will never forget.
I am particularly fascinated about a wonderful week in Estonia July 21-28 where I participated as a team leader in Youth Exchange “Discover countryside via being active”. This event gathered 32 extremely motivated, creative and active participants from Estonia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Germany and Italy who became my close friends and my inspiration. The YE helped us to develop our inter-cultural, social and dancing skills as well as built up competences in rural entrepreneurship and organizing outdoor activities. To tell the truth, I have never thought that I can be good at pottery or blacksmithing, upcycling or bread baking, hiking in Estonian woods or preparing teambuilding activity. The project gave an opportunity to step out of my comfort zone, experience challenge and happiness of discovering something new in diverse international community, with different points of view, ideas, cultural and social backgrounds. I have learnt how to put up a military tent, how to speak primitive Estonian, how to play new board games and get lost in Tallinn. The project also gave me an awesome chance to meet old friends and see how my ideas about healthy lifestyle project were implemented.
I am so delighted that I represented Ukraine and our NGO “Rodyna” on such a stunning project and I hope that more and more positive, curious and super active youngsters will take part in such events, broaden the horizon and make new friends!
Review by Irina Peprik
