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EuriArtes 38
rent countries and cultures. Talking to others,
I realized how all of us have similar interests,
dreams, issues; no matter where we live, in
what we believe or which language we speak.
At first, I was a bit shy and nervous to speak
English, worried if I will be able express my
thoughts and feelings in language that is not
my native language. Just after a few days I had
a feeling I spoke English all my life. We found a
common language that eliminated all possible
barriers.
It was really hard for me to say goodbye to my
new friends knowing that we might never meet
again. It amazes me that we were able to build
some great relationships in such a short period of
time. Many of them will hopefully last long after
this project and turn out to be wonderful friendships.
Now, more than a month has passed, and I
still miss that place and those people with same intensity
as when we just left. Every day I chat online
with some of my new friends and I can’t imagine
a week pass by not hearing from them, how they
are and what new and exciting happened in their
lives. I would be so thrilled to meet this group or
at least some of them, somewhere again.
Teodora Stoisavljević,
Zrenjanin Grammar School (Serbia)
46 EURIADE 2013
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During this special week, the easiest thing for me
to do was to connect with young people I had
never seen before. On the first day I didn’t know
anyone but then I just sat down at one table and
talked to the others who had arrived earlier. By
and by I got to meet more and more students.
The fact that you share a room with a total stranger
who usually also comes from a different country
makes it easier to get to know the others. Because
then the students from your roommate’s
school might come into your room – and there
it is: your new contact. The greatest thing during
this week is that you can just step up to someone
and talk to this person and that isn’t even weird,
because everyone is there for this only reason: to
meet new people and talk to them.
At the beginning I thought: ‘Oh my God, this just
can’t work. We are so many people, how do they
want us to become one group?!?’. At the end I
thought: ‘I want to stay here. No sooner have I got
into my parents’ car to go back to Heinsberg than
I start missing my new friends already.’
I still don’t have a clue how this happened and
when it happened that we all became a group.