Packing for the life on the road

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

05.08.2007., nedjelja

Today I had to pack for the next city. Did I finish my packing?? Of course, not. Whole day I was relaxing and I started to work on my host-family book and I’m really happy that Diane and Brian are going to be the first one to write me something in my host-family book as they were always here for me when I needed them during staging in Denver.

How do I feel today?? Well, I could say excited and I wouldn’t lie but also it’s not the whole truth. I’m feeling excited and at the same time really sad. I cannot believe that 4 weeks of staging in Denver are over. Time passed so quickly that I’m still not really aware of the situation that from tomorrow on we will be on the road for the next few months. Does that make me happy? Of course. But at the same time I feel empty as I’m leaving great host-family here in Denver.

I can still remember the very first day when I just came to Denver and they took me and Faith home and the welcomed me as their own daughter. I can remember the very first embarrassing moment that happened the very first night just few minutes after everyone went to sleep. (Remember that we came to their house around 23:00) I needed to use bathroom really badly and I managed to block the toilet. What an embarrassing moment. I didn’t know what to do so I knocked on the Faith’s door, even more embarrassed as I just met her, and ask her to help me. We were standing in the bathroom for few minutes trying to figure out how to fix the toilet and we didn’t find any solution so we had to go downstairs and wake up Diane and Brian to help us. That’s how started my life here in US…blocking the toilet for the first night in my first host-family. Can you imagine more embarrassing situation than that?

Well, that’s how it started and now, after 4 weeks I can only say that I’m going to miss them very much as they opened their home to me and they made really big impact in my life. Thank you Brian and Diane!!

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