CI project 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

11.10.2007., četvrtak

Our first and only CI day happened today here in Belgium. It was challenging CI as we worked in school with mentally and physically disabled children. I was working with children from 12-20 years old and they were really nice and clever. We were talking with them about everything and they were really interested in US politics and Andrea from US had really challenging job to answer all different questions. It was really fun interacting with those children and I realized that they are so nice and clever people and that they really have huge knowledge of English and it is really nice to speak to them. They were really happy that we were there and that we were interacting with them.
For me it was first time working with disabled people and I loved it. I can admit that I was scared because I didn’t know how to interact with them but now I only have positive impressions about it.

After CI we come back to city and we went doing promotion. One music TV station has had music awards in city and also there were boots of student organizations inviting new students to join them and we also got chance to be there. We got moving bus and we played music there and promote Up with People. It was really successful promotion.

Few of us also received unique opportunity to perform song “One to one” in Governors house in front of governor and King and Queen’s representatives. It was really cool and fancy and I never imagined that I would have such opportunity.

Belgium is really nice country and Up with People is really popular here and we really have busy schedule and a lot of media following us all the time.

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