Last day with workshops

Today was last day of workshops. We went to the National Park together in morning, it is near to our venue. In backyard we played human chess, splitting last time in teams in our group. Also today was time for evaluation of the project, our work and involvement. As last thing we gave feedback to each other on paper on back of each of us. Departures starts today late evening, saying bye soon.

Krasnystaw, Zamość, back...

We visited school in Krasnystaw today, told more about the projects, Erasmus plus and particularly our project to 16-18 years old students. After that was organised excursion in Zamość. Participants from our group got certificates for shooting with cannon there. We met youngsters in centre and gave them leaflets designed to popularise the project 'Let me tell you a story – Grandparents'.

Working on material

Today was day of hard work on materials we have from the interviews,
making articles. Also we are preparing for lessons at school
in Krasnystaw and meeting with local community in Zamość. Work with
computers and creative work during making leaflets.

We are taking interviews

We were working today in groups to make interviews. We needed
to split responsibilities for productive work. It was needed to
make recordings, videos, pictures, notes, translate into
english. There is still a lot of workafter  interviews, we already started. 

Day with pattern interview

Today was pattern interview. Barbara Szleszyńska-Malec

came to us in Zwierzyniec, for two hours interview about her life. That was made to understand how interviews should look like, how to translate, make notes and ask additional questions.

 

Theater play day

Today we were working in pairs, in big and small groups. We
presented key competences, made theater workshop, made
theater play. That was day full of cooperation. Now we know how
to fill out the second part of Youthpass, we know how to work
together. Also we improoved our public speaking skills, went out
from the comfort zone. This will be useful not only for work here,
but also in future for each of us. 

Learning from previous experience

  
Today participants and leaders who were on previous parts
of „Let me tell you...” introduced to all participants
how whole process of making publications looked like. We spoke
about preparations, making interviews, importance of
topics and work with material after. Now we are ready to start
to work hard all together. 

We want to know each other

We have started the youth exchange successfully. Days for integration and building the team almost past. Soon we are starting to work. Here are some photos from first and second day:



P.S. check our Instagram stories for more 😊

It was APV...

Project is in progress. We are already after the APV (Advanced Planning Visit) where we discussed with partners plan of the youth exchange, contracts, rules, preparations for each group. APV is important part for building trust and connection between leaders. We also prepared video to show you how it was:

► Let me tell you a story – Grandparents (APV)

What is the youth exchange about?

‘Let me tell you a story’ is a series of the projects where young people, youth workers and seniors of our local societies can cooperate together learning from each other. It bases on very interesting method called ‘Living history lesson’. Group on international youth exchange meet representative of previous generation and have chance to make interview about life of this person (being focused on interesting European historical period of time).

Idea of project series is very successful and was already awarded few times. So far we have made 6 parts of it. 3 youth exchanges and 1 seminar in Poland, 1 youth exchange in Romania and 1 youth exchange in Czech Republic.

We are still searching for new possibilities and partners. We decided to make mixed partnership here consisted of our most experienced partners and also organizations which we know but were not involved so far in ‘Let me tell you a story’ youth exchange.

Our idea in this part is to make interviews with older generations of our families. Participants will have chance to interview their grandparents before coming to Poland. During youth exchange in Poland we will interview grandparents of polish group members. Topic of the interview will be: historical period of XX century and daily life. We believe that through this we can deepen family bounds and show to our grandparents how big source of knowledge and experience they are. We will produce publication with interviews and movie about our project.

Elementary info

Title: “Let me tell you a story - Grandparents”

Type of event: Youth exchange

Hosting organization: HEureka Generator, Poland

Dates and Location: APV october (04.10-06.10.2019), YE november (11.11-20.11.2019) Zwierzyniec n. Zamość, Poland.

Venue: www.zacisze.zwierzyniec.com

Number of participants, age: 5+1, 16-30yo

Countries: Greece, Estonia, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland

Working language: English (participants need to know this language on communicative level).