Thursday 31st October

Today it is not a normal day, it is an especial one. Today at 19:00 pm we are going to celebrate the Catalan party. So the Catalan team is very excited. We are going to show to our mates how our culture and traditions are. We have planned games, a presentation about Catalonia and some delicious food.

At 9 am Carita, a Finnish teacher, has done a really interesting workshop where we had to think evil and write down all the bad things that could happen here (in the places nearby where we are working o developing the projects). After walking around in groups, we came up with many horrible ideas like:

• ·         Meteor shower
• ·         Third world war
• ·         Alien invasion
• ·         Russian bomb
• ·         Earthquake
• ·         Electric storm
• ·         Violent seagulls
• ·         Glacier
• ·         Trees get angry
• ·         Poisons
• ·         We are eaten by cats
• ·         A cray old lady flashing her nacked body blinds everyone
• ·         Tree falling on someone
• ·         All women give birth to dinosaurs and dinosaurs eat the men
• ·         Cai’s camera runs out of battery, he gets angry and kills us
• ·         Crazy mothers take over the park

Later all, the groups had to present in front of everyone what they have written down, it was  quite a funny presentation because we all came up with crazy and evil ideas.

Afterwards, Cai made us sit in a circle to discuss why WE ARE ALWAYS LATE! After a little democratic discussion, we have decided that we will start everyday at 9:30 am, so we don’t waste other people’s time (and we can sleep a little bit more). The English girls weren’t happy with the decision; they wanted to sleep until 10 or 11, but that’s not going to be possible according to Cai! Sorry British girls!

At 12:00 am every group explained out loud how the concept is developing so the teachers could give some feedback in order to improve the concepts

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Anna Trapenciere, a Latvian teacher and the main coordinator, introduced next week activities during the International Week at Liepaja’s University: Iweek. Iweek will start on Sunday, 4th of November. There will be workshops, performances and exhibitions that we can join every day after dinner.

At 5:00 pm we (the Catalans) started to prepare the cultural night. We made a quiz about Catalonia to see how much they know about our country, we also made them play some games and we brought from home some typical food such as: Ham, bread, wine… They loved it! Overall we had a really fun night and we are looking forward what the Holland team has prepared for us tomorrow night.