{"id":5390,"date":"2017-12-17T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelslovakia.org?p=5390"},"modified":"2017-12-17T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:46:31","slug":"my-dearest-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovio.sk\/en\/my-dearest-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"My dearest diary…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dearest diary,<\/p>\n

I know, it\u2019s been a while… I haven\u2019t written you for couple days. But the fact is, that 2 weeks ago I came back home from La Vancelle and I\u00a0am still not able to fully concentrate and be back in reality. I left a piece of my heart there in that small village of Alsace region…<\/p>\n

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I remember the day when I was selected to be a part of a very interesting project \u201cImprove entrepreneurship skills\u201d with non-formal methods of education \u2013 improvisation and drama. I was so happy, yet I had many doubts. Fortunately, the doubts were not so strong, so I decided to go and spend 11 days of October with other 20 (strange) people in France. Dear diary, now I can tell you\u2026 I thought that I would miss so much in my school during those 11 days. Yes, buuuut if I had missed this, it would have been way bigger loss for me.\u00a0?<\/p>\n

The journey was not the best, what can I tell. I had to ask my dad to drive me to Vienna airport, then fly to Frankfurt, get lost at the airport, take bus to Strasbourg, ask for train tickets to S\u00e9l\u00e9stat in French, take another bus to La Vancelle and finally arrive to our Youth hostel. The first thing I saw there was a funny host, Eric, holding two tents with the words: \u201cThe hostel is full for today, you have to sleep in a tent.\u201d And I, being STRONG, INDEPENTENT and EMANCIPATED woman, had no problem with this. But of course, I knew he just played with us.<\/p>\n

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We started our journey in La Vancelle with a big dinner everybody together. That is how I started to know my new friends, well, my new family for the next 10 days and our 2 amazing (a bit crazy, but we loved them so much) trainers, Filip and Mateusz.<\/p>\n

My dear friend, every day was so awesome! We were having breakfast, lunch and dinner together like a big family. We had so many activities during the day (and now I don\u2019t even care we did not have much free time\u00a0?) with no chance to be bored. Energizers, Ice-breakers, workshops\u2026 and mostly drama and improvisation. You can\u2019t imagine how happy I was to try theatre for the first time and realize that this is exactly what can make me happy. I felt like a real actress with everything connected to it. Our task was to be creative all the time. Just the countdown and 1 word: 3, 2, 1, IMPRO! And we had to improvise\u00a0?.<\/p>\n

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I improved not only my leadership and entrepreneurship skills, but also my creativity and talking skills. I learnt how to be more open-minded, how not to be afraid of my opinion. I appreciated the teamwork the most. Since we were everybody so great people (and, oh my god, so awesome, yay), we did not lose time with being shy to each other. We were so open, did not have secrets and we were able to talk about anything. Just like a big FAMILY.<\/p>\n

Oh yes, my dear diary, I know. I\u2019ve said FAMILY so many times. But this is just how I felt back there. I felt LEGEN\u2026 wait for it\u2026 DARY. LEGENDARY!<\/p>\n

And the most important thing for You to know, what did I experience? Sooooooooooooooooo many things, my friends, so many. I am thankful for every one of them:
\n\u2022 New friends
\n\u2022 New cultures
\n\u2022 Italian lessons (and Italian gestures, ma che caz\u2026, I don\u2019t want to be rude?)
\n\u2022 Juggling
\n\u2022 Massages
\n\u2022 Games
\n\u2022 Spanish, let\u2019s say, \u201curban dictionary\u201d\u00a0?
\n\u2022 Tips and tricks how to survive winter (and the whole year) in Latvia and Lithuania
\n\u2022 National foods and drinks
\n\u2022 The fact that the egg doesn\u2019t have to be cooked well to be edible
\n\u2022 The fact that every item can have at least 10 more ways how to be used
\n\u2022 \u201cMushroom\u201d should be pronounced \u201cmusrom\u201d
\n\u2022 \u201cNever have I ever\u201d is the best ice-breaking game
\n\u2022 Travelling is not about the places, but about the people you meet
\n\u2022 Everything is possible, you just have to believe in it
\n\u2022 NFE methods are the best way to learn
\n\u2022 Life is much easier when having fun.<\/p>\n

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Mio caro amico, mio diario, I think that now you have a lot of information about my amazing trip to La Vancelle. You know I will never forget anything or anybody from the project and that I have only the best memories. We finished our project with contemplating about what we experienced so far. Everybody either sat in a comfortable position or just lied down on the ground and listened to Filip. After this we had the opportunity to write a short note to each of us. This way everybody had an envelope full of lovely notes\u00a0<3.<\/p>\n

The last day was very hard. Nobody wanted to leave. Aaaah, how I hate these emotional things. I was not the first to leave but I felt really weird taking the minibus to S\u00e9l\u00e9stat in 9.15 in the morning. I took train again to Strasbourg, then waited for the bus at the station, DID NOT get lost at the Frankfurt airport, flew to Vienna, took bus to Bratislava and finally, on my train back home from the capitol, I opened the envelope with notes, smiling with the tears in my eyes.<\/p>\n

For now, this is everything. But\u2026 you never know what will be my next stop. Maybe I will write you from Lisboa, Sofia, Vilnius, Olsztyn, Bucure\u0219ti, R\u012bga, Madrid, Bisceglie\u2026 But I will write, I promise.<\/p>\n

So, my dear diary, this is not a goodbye, it is see you soon.<\/p>\n

Yours truly, Eli\u0161ka<\/p>\n

Huge thanks to Erasmus+, ADEL Slovakia and Tambour Battant for this beautiful experience full of memories.<\/p>\n

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