We are in Belgium

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

09.10.2007., utorak

So, finally we are in Belgium. It is our last city in Europe and after that we are coming back to US.
Yesterday was traveling day and we were traveling with bus for around 8 hours. When we come to Hasselt, first we had major reception in city hall so we went immediately to city hall and after short speech we had little reception with national Belgium drinks. City hall is really nice and old.
After major reception we went back to facility and we had allocation meeting and host family pick up. This time we had to sing certain songs and if our host family recognizes song, they wave and we are matched. My host roommate is Johan from the Netherlands but he had to go to do some promotion work to the Netherlands and he is coming back in Wednesday.
When we got matched, my host family took me home and gave me dinner. They have 2 daughters, but only one living at home and they are already hosting one more girl from Dominican Republic and that is really cool.

Today we had regional learning day. In the morning we had short presentation from ladies who are working in CarGlass about their project in South Africa. After that we had alumni who is HIV positive talking about how it is to live with disease. That presentation and discussion after that was really interesting as it was the fist time for me to speak with someone who is HIV+.
After that we went to “Juvenhalmuseum” where we learned how national Belgium liquorish drink made is and we had a chance to taste it. If you ask me, I don’t like it. I tried normal one and fruit flavored one and I don’t like any of them.
We finished one hour earlier so we still had some free time in city and we went to walk a little bit around and I got a chance to try Belgium waffles which are really good and also I tried Belgium chocolate which is awesome.
After that we come back to facility and we had wrap up and my host family picks me up and my host mum prepared really nice dinner. This was the first time I ate pumpkin soup. After dinner I had chocolate pudding and host mum prepared chocolate cake which was yummy.

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We are in Belgium