October 18 – Stand for peace project
Today was the first time working on “Stand for Peace” project. “Stand for Peace” (SFP) is educational project where Up with People students are going to schools and through games try to explain how it is important to learn about diversity and by learning about diversity is way to peace.
I was in team with Justen and Abby and we worked in one classroom of 45 students of age 11-12. It was first time for me working with so young kids and it was a little bit challenging to keep them quite but once you manage to do that, they were really interested and they participated in all activities. It was really fun.
After SFP we had a little BTS show (Back track show) for middle school kids and it was really interesting. They were so interested in show and they were cheering all time and it was overwhelming to see this.
After the school we went back to work in Boys & girls club and again we helped with homework or played with them.
October 17 – Regional learning day
Today was our regional learning day and partly CI day.
In the morning we went to visit Martin Luther King’s National Park in Atlanta and we heard some great stories about that great man. One of rangers also told us nice story about him as he was marching with him and he was fighting with him for human rights. He was a living history book and I’m sorry that we didn’t have more time to spend with him and hear everything.
I also saw Martin Luther King’s birth house but I couldn’t go inside as it wasn’t open for visits.
After lunch we went to “Boys & girls Club” which is basically club where parents can live their kids in case they cannot pick them up after school (if they work or similar) and kids can do their homework and play with other kids. We spend whole afternoon with them helping them with homework and playing with them. It was fun but in the way.
Funny thing happened today before going to Boys & girls club. We had some time for promoting the show and we were just walking around and at one moment I saw at one shop window written: “Pivo – vino” which translated from Croatian means Beer – Vine and I kept reading and it had written all other Croatian names for groceries so I went inside and it was actually Bosnian shop but many Croatian people are shopping there and they have mostly Croatian products. I got so excited and I talked with Croatian costumers there and I decided to buy a lot of Croatian candy so I can share candy with cast so that they can try some Croatian stuff. I can only say that I bought candy with which I basically grow up and when I presented it to cast, everyone loved it.
At dinner, our host mum prepared us nice Indian food. She said that it’s not spicy, but for me it was a little bit spicy, but not as how it was in Thailand. I loved the food.
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