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Hello Internet People,
Hard to believe, but after roughly one month I’m already publishing the next post! Almost worth a record. I’ll just bring you up to date again, today gladly supported by the letter P.
P for Prague!
That means I won’t start chronologically. Here in Croatia we had Easter holidays from 28th March until 6th April, which was why I departed from Varazdin at the 1st April, taking busses via Zagreb to Munich. Four hours after my arrival there, a bus from Ravensburg came around the corner, releasing the three biggest scatterbrains that this world has to offer. Accidentally, those scatterbrains belong to my best friends. I continued my journey with them, and we arrived in the Czech capital that Thursday. We had made a reservation in a hostel which was not exactly cheap but pricelessly well situated; everything we needed could be found within a radius of 300 meters, and we could easily walk to the “central center” (to be exact, our hostel was already in the center, I’m talking about the most inner part of the city). We kept the sightseeing schedule to a very low minimum due to low temperatures on one hand and the fact that we knew most of it as a result of a school trip on the other; instead we rather explored the rich bar and pub culture and had three more than entertaining evenings and nights. Also, we met my fellow “kulturweit” volunteer Richard who does basically the same thing in Prague as I do in Varazdin; it was really nice to see him again after those 7 months that have already passed since our preparation seminar last summer.
On Easter Sunday around noon we took the bus back to Munich where our ways parted; the scatterbrains went back to Ravensburg, I arrived in Varazdin the next morning, completely tired, and slept for the rest of the day.
P for Presentations!
The German Language Diploma was already mentioned by me on here more than once. After the writing exams at Gospodarska skola had went pretty well, the time had come for me to prepare the students for the following oral exam. That meant that every student showed me his or her presentation which resembles one half of the exam in order to receive improvements, advice and help with pronunciation from me. It was worth it, every student has passed the exam; now we’re only waiting for the results of the written part. The same thing started at Elektrostrojarska skola this week given that there’s the exams next week. I surely won’t get bored, mostly because of
P for Project!
It works! As it looks like this moment, our daredevil plan will work out and we will actually be able to organize a students’ exchange plus a German short film within two and a half months. Our biggest concern, the lack of money, shrunk immensely in the last days due to various events and announcements, and our motivation is running towards its – organization-wise essential – climax. Unfortunately, the Hungarian group will not be able to visit Varazdin this school year, but the succeeding volunteers at our schools will try to make that happen when their time has come. Anyway I’m absolutely looking forward to the moment when we’ll be entering the bus to Hungary and thereby providing evidence that the statement “such an exchange cannot simply be organized just like that” (which was the answer to most of my requests when looking for a partner school in Germany) is incorrect when there are two motivated volunteers doing it. If everything works out. But I’m quite confident right now.
P for Prother!
Yeah, okay. Brother.
My “little” brother has received confirmation that there is a host family for him in the US, which means he will definitely spend an exchange year next year at a high school in Washington State. The thought of basically not seeing him for two years straight is really strange, but I’m more than happy for him, also because I’m experiencing right now how valuable such an experience abroad is; being an exchange student instead of a volunteer is even something entirely different for sure. I will spend a part of my summer at home though in order to see him for a while before he leaves.
I think that’s it for today. The next post will take a while I guess, since there’s not enough interesting events until that exchange is over – as equalization I’ll blast out a mega post after my project has worked out.
Oh yeah, the solution for the last riddle: The time. (Could’ve thought of that, right?)
See you folks
Florin.
Riddle
The one who makes it doesn’t need it/
The one who buys it doesn’t want it/
The one who needs it doesn’t know it.