Song analysis, part 1: "People are people"

On the second day of our youth exchange we analysed and discussed the lyrics of three more or less well-known pop songs. The first of these songs was "People are people" by the British band Depeche Mode from 1984.

Movie night: "Dust" (M. Manchevski, 2001)

Macedonia has a long history written in blood. The blood of its people, who either willingly or unwillingly became its soldiers, its defenders. After the year 1462 when the world witnessed the fall of Constantinople, the Muslim Turks began their march towards Europe and Macedonia was no exception. During the centuries of the Turkish reign, there were many who rebelled, many who devoted and in the end gave their lives for their beloved motherland. They were freedom fighters to their fellow citizens the Macedonians, but outlaws and enemies to the Turks.


Source: www.IMDb.com

During that time, the people in the distant West lived very different lives. But they had one thing in common with the so called outlaws in Macedonia, and that is, they all liked gold. And that is how the story of the movie "Dust" begins.  Movie Info

From Germany to France in just a few seconds

France-Germany border

Today after lunch our blog team separated and went for 2 little trips. First group went to Freiburg, and our team decided to visit Neuf Brisach, small town near Breisach. The interesting thing is that Neuf- Brisach is about 10 minutes away with a car, but it is in the completely other country- France. This is strange to me because the border is actually a bridge. There is no police or anything that could make you experience that border. So, now I can tell that I was in a France too.

Nje dite ndryshe ne Freiburg

Komuniteti rome gjendet pothuajse ne cdo shtete te Europes! Ata jane si "nomadet" qe levizin sa ne 1 qytete ne 1 tjeter me shpresen e 1 jete me te mire. Gjate udhetimit tone ne Freiburg nuk ishte aspak e veshtire te takoje rome te ardhur nga Maqedonia, Serbia, Mali i Zi dhe Kosova prej me shume se 10 vitesh. Gjate bisedes me ta arritem te kuptonim arsyet e emigrimit te tyre, veshtirsit qe kane hasur dhe sfidat qe i presin ne te ardhmen. Ne vazhdim po paraqes permbledhtazi informacionin qe morem nga ky takim.



Lagjia me rome te ardhur nga ballkani

The intercultural evening

Intercultural evening is an event in which everybody presents its country. This is a special event that has become a tradition in the activities of the Youth in Action programme. Among this programme every participant has the opportunity to learn more about the culture of other participants. Below I will give a short description about intercultural evening organized in the youth exchange “Celebrate the Difference“. It was wonderful to learn more about Germany, France, Ukraine, Croatia, Macedonia.

At first Anastasia presented her city, Dresden. It is really a very nice city. Then we listened to a song of Die Prinzen, “Deutschland“.

Simulation exercise: 'Welcome to my village'

Panic, panic, panic!!!

One word repeated three times explains the way we felt when we were playing the game called “My village”. Confused and worried faces were the most common thing you could see during the entire workshop. Before I continue writing, I think I should briefly explain what the entire thing was about. Couple of villagers were supposed to build their own village, based on instructions given before. And as the time was passing by all the villagers started building their villages. The extremely funny and interesting thing was the fact that they were not allowed to talk to each other. And then began the stress! Wrinkly faces, helpless people trying to exchange a few words, panic all over the place, hoping that everything will be just fine!

Ivana, Josefine and Iba trying to communicate without words..

A documentary of our workshops

Based on program of youth exchange named "Celebrate the difference" on 19.11.2012 was made the separate of workshop groups. The workshop groups are:

• Workshop of radio 
• Workshop of theater 
• Workshop of blog

The participants had the chance to choose in which workshop they want to work and the groups were like this:

• RADIO WORKSHOP Anastasia, Sen, Martin, Nikolche, Vedrana, Ervis
• THEATER WORKSHOP Mark, Lara, Kevin, Ivana, Misha, Laura, Yaroslava, Caroline
• BLOG WORKSHOP Ana, Pranvera, Mihajlo, Gabriel, Ibadete, Anjesa, Dijana, Adelina, Albina

Below we took some information about each workshop group.