Saturday full of excitement

About Željka

Name: Željka Baniček
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Hometown: Varaždin, Croatia
Faculty: Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Year of study: graduate

Up with Peple web page

Why UWP? traveling, helping people, making friends

Contact me: upwithzeljka@gmail.com

Some Links:
Video: VTV interview in show "Koktel"
Article: Studentsli Lider Klub
Article: FOI web page

Visit my tour friends blog:
Marianna Alfa Fernando-Pacua (Philippines)
Rafael Cardoso (Brazil)
Callie Amweg (USA)

About UpWithPeople

Program I'll attend: July 7 - December 10 2007

Five Aspects of UpWithPeople program:
1) International Participants
2) World Travel & Host Family Living
3) Community Partnerships
4) Global Education
5) The Show

Visit UpWithPeople web page

Cast C tour:
USA:
7 July - 6 August
Denver, Colorado
6 August - 13 August
Tucson, Arizona

AZIJA:
13 August - 3 September
Thailand

EUROPA:
3 - 10 September
Espoo, Finland
10 - 17 September
Sodertaije, Sweden
17 - 24 September
Vimmerby, Sweden
24 September - 1 October
Uelzen, Germany
1 - 8 October
Erfurt, Germany
8 - 15 October
Hasselt, Belgium

USA:
15 - 22 October
Gwinnett County, Georgia
22 - 29 October
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
29 October - 5 November
Easton, Maryland
5 - 12 November
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
12 - 19 November
Hartford, Connecticut
19 - 26 November
Suffern, New York - Mecy's thanksgiving parade
26 November - 3 December
Somerset Hills, New Jersey
3 - 10 December
Bangor, Maine

28.07.2007., subota

When we arrived today at our morning meeting, there were strange things happening. First, we were all sitting in the circle which was great as everyone could see everyone. Second, Andrew, staff member, played heart-beat sound and than he announced winners of admission cards – Justin and Jalee.

After morning meeting we had lectures about admissions as we are going to be part of admissions during our tour. We will be interviewing new candidates and we are already working hard in promoting our show and inviting young people to join in Up with People.

After that we had debriefing about Thailand so that at least we can see what it is going to be like in Thailand. So, it is really hard to get to Thailand from US. We will be traveling all together around 35 hours. But, that’s also new experience which will bring us even more closer as we will be spending sooo much time together.

Around 12, we had a bus which took us for our new Community service. This time we helped Leaders Challenge in their project. Leader’s Challenge is a non-profit youth program providing leadership training to high school students. They were planning community work and Up with People were happy to join them. So, we were all split up in different teams with Leaders Challenge students and every each group had their own project to work on.

I was in group who went to visit CHARG Resource Center. CHARG is an innovative community that serves adults who suffer from major mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness. We helped with gardening and cleaning the house. Community is situated in small house with nice garden. Margie, the lady who is program director, was also working with us and she was really nice in explaining us everything and sharing hers experience with us.

I liked working with CHARG and Leaders Challenge very much.

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