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October on the move

Blankenberge

greetings from town called Blankenberge...

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our training on local youth coordinator will start tomorrow so today we still got chance to enjoy some sun..
amazing weather: +18, sunny, no even 1 cloud in the sky... wow, summer is not finished yet and it makes me happy. it was so nice to take of shoes and to walk on the sand.. to feel grains of sand and listen to the sough of the sea.. to be honest, i felt bit lonely there.. everyone is either with their couple, family, kids or at least with the dog.. btw, here i saw hundreds of dogs.

i will post some pictures from the coastline later but the interesting thing is that sea is fenced by the line of multi-storey buildings.. pretty different from our Lithuanian coastline..

greetings from Tallinn

i spent this weekend in Tallinn, 2 days, 13 meetings, 17 different organizations came to meet with us. But what about Tallinn as such? i still like the city - its small and quite cozy, easy to navigate around, people seem to be friendly or at least not hostile.. recently Tallinn had to withstand two waves of foreigners- for last 10 years Finnish would come by ferries for cheap alcohol and now with a arrival of co-called "cheap-airlines" British come to celebrate their stager parties here.. so Saturday night in the Old Town you would see (and hear, oh yes, hear them:) more British than local people and Tallinn seems as yet another town somewhere in UK - with football broadcasting, with drunk people around the streets... globalization..

Odyssey

If I would write in details my diary of September and October I would look like chapter from Homers’ Odyssey :) these lines will be uploaded from nice island Sobieszewo (near Gdansk), where former military base was situated. I really felt like travelling in time these days… Vietnam looks like a mixture of pre-historical beauty of nature and soviet communism of 80s. Skyscrapers of Frankfurt puts you back into the future while transformation of Sobieszewo from military base to lovely resort full of youngsters, foreigners illustrates that over the period of time everything can change, even if no one would even have imagined it is possible just 20 years ago.

Back 2 business

After extended break from work this summer, slowly but surely I am returning to training work. This break could be best illustrated by wedding and the honeymoon, which has just finished. So now with new energy and motivation I will continue trainings, which are not so much about energizers and simulations, but about empowerment of young people, raising awareness and promotion of active citizenship and participation.

Since the last week I am member of CoE Trainer’s Pool and I hope this will bring new challenges and new excitement. Even though trainings from now on will have to compete with political consultancy for the place on my agenda, but it promises another interesting and challenging year.