Mentally exhausted - Day #6

Oh the sweet, sweet sound of Dr Dre's and Snoop Dogg's ''Still'' as Tom approaches your room and begins dancing once he's inside. It's the sound of having to wake up once you're good for nothing at 8 in the morning.

It's also the moment you realise that the next thing you'll do is eat campus food... Which is never good. Sometimes you become surprised, and realise that it's edible for a change! This was not one of the occasions.

After that, we had a workshop about what peace means to us, where we were discussing topics that were quite demanding for us, given we had just woken up at the time. We were split into groups, where we had discussed Europe's current peace threats. It ended up being quite successful, and everyone had a word on it.

When that was done with, after the lunch (which was as amazing and energetic as the breakfast!), We've had Stress management workshops, where we had talked about ways of dealing with stress, and the occasions it arrives in. In a relatively stress-free environment such is the reunion, it made us remember what life is like outside... Made us want to use this time as much as possible J

When that over, we had our VU (read with enthusiasm!) groups, dinner (same old story) and DYI groups, where we've had the daily evaluation, aswell as progress with all of the DYI groups, as everyone was getting the hang of it.

In the end, we had the time to spend for ourselves, creating more memories...

See you next time! Xoxo

13.8.2017.

Play day? Day #9

We all agreed, that today was one of the best days of the reunion so far. It all started with pizza for breakfast (some found it great, some found it...). A discussion of the Camp treaty followed. After that, we had to get ready for our trip to an island on Danube. We took the bus to Vukovar and went on to buy different stuff there, such as ice-cream or food. After half an hour that we had for shopping, we took the bus to the river side and from there we had to travel to the island by boat. 

While reaching the island we all felt like in paradise; sand everywhere, trees making a shade, a bar and most importantly - a beach volleyball field. Before we ate lunch, we had a presentation of national food which we all preferred over the lunch. In the evening, we all had to leave the island again with boats, happy and in a good mood. We reached the dormitory for dinner and after the dinner we had element groups, and in the end of the day a great movie most if us sadly slept through, but as a person who didn't I can say the movie was awesome. All in all a great day!

17.8.2017.                                        

A ''day off'' - Day #7

Waking up to Tom's music: what a start of such a beautiful day. After a surprisingly good breakfast we had a workshop in which we were divided into 6 groups. Three themes on the plate: "Privacy issues", "Relationships & social media" and "Facebook pressure". Two scenarios to each - good one, and of course the bad one.

Every group had to make a sketch in which they presented the given problem. And we all laughed at Luka sending nudes or Ania being drunk, aswell as Vasilije approaching his inner female and becoming Vaska... But the point was clear in the end, after discussion: these problems excist and we shouldn't ignore, but try to resolve them. We were helping each other raise awareness concerning these 3 topics and we enjoyed doing it.
The rest of the day could be easily described with just a single word: CHILL.

The whole group had an already-paid visit to the pool. Playing with the ball, tanning, jumping into the swimming pool or simply eating ice cream made us all feel refreshed. Three and a half hours there were relaxing but nowhere near enough...
We had a group of teamers who where responsible for evening activities and they did the best job - scavenger hunt was a good idea. Again divided, but this time with teamers by our side, we ran from station to station all around Borovo doing tasks (both for the body and mind). The winner (in this case - Nikola's team) 
15.8.2017.

The kisses of death: Day #5

As usual, we woke up around 8 to hit the kitchen and get some food. Our day started at 9 when we had a workshop about our emotions with Božo. We discussed about our approach to people and how to start a conversation. We were talking about everyday psychological problems that we all face. It is not simple to start a conversation and to include your and other people's emotions. Every single day we are becoming more aware of the importance of being a good listener. We finished around 11. We were enjoying our free time when Luka and Tom presented  a new game to us. It is called Kiss and Kill. You have to kill a person who is written on the sheet of paper by kissing her/him.  Nobody who is alive can see you. It goes in circle because you have to give the paper to your assasin . It kept us busy for quite some time.  Later on, we were split in our DIY groups -Facebook/blog , Dance, Handcraft and Newspaper. After lunch we had element groups where we expressed our feelings about that day and all that passed by. Finaly, we  had our DIY groups where we planned our schedule and programme. After dinner , our new teamers -our participants, prepared us Childhoodgames night. We enjoyed in Dodgeball and Matches because they kept us pumped and tense - and ready for bed, luckily for our teamers. Till tomorrow!! Stay tuned! 

13.8.2017.

VU Groups! Day #3

Hello everybody and welcome to our 3^rd day of Reunion 2017!

Our day started just as the first two days. We ate breakfast at 08:00 and noone was late for it (for a change!).

After breakfast everyone seemed to be lazy, so Božo and Iga took us outside where we had an energizer - we had to run at a person we picked. It was the time for the workshop called Identity. Iga and Božo asked us some questions about identity and we had to answer by where we found ourselves in the numbers from 1 to 10 and we had to explain some of them. It was really nice and everyone enjoyed it. After that, we went to the basement of our dormitory where we watched two movies about Identity. There were many arguments about the movies and everyone was so into the discussion. Then, it was time for lunch and not everyone liked it so most of us went to the supermarket. We had around two hours free time and everyone seemed lazy when we had to meet Tom at the dinning room. It was the time to get to know our new elementary groups. Some of us were dissapointed with them, but everyone got over it after the first elementary meeting. After the elementary groups (now VU Groups) we met Božo and he gave us some hashtags to prepare for the International Youth Day. We had more than an hour to prepare ourselves for it and to present our work. In the eveninng the Teamers told us that we were going to be teamers and lead workshops so everyone found their friends and created their workshop groups. That’s it from us today! 

11.8.2017.

You're under arrest! Day #2

Our second day started with the teamers waking us up (not something we had missed...) This time, it wasLjubiša with his special dog toy - don't ask. The night extremely hot, so we were surprised to find hot tea on our breakfast table. We started our programme with an orientation hike in which we visited the shop, the changing office and finally the swimming pool. We used the opportunity to jump into the water and get some refreshment. After that we returned to the dormitory and had our lunch. Afterwards, the police came. They arrested all of us and took us to the police station, where they had to registrate us. After we came back from prison, we were to discuss and agree on our camp rules, which, as usual, includes the fmaous ''Bora Bora'' rule (that nobody seems to be respecting as strictly - and nobody seems to care!) When that was done with, we had our next workshop, called ''Get into my shoes'', in which we had to tell a person we don't know that well what we honestly think about him or her (some were a bit too honest...) After that, we enjoyed our dinner. The day ended with two videos and a discussion about social media and our relationship with it. 10.8.2017.

Long time no see... Day #1

After a long time...

Hey, guys! Hope you've missed us, cause if you did - this is definitely your lucky day. After a whole year it was finally time for us to get reunited. Sadly some of us couldnt make it. Anyway we will make sure they are part of our everyday activities and of course our memories. So today was our first day! The first to arrive was the Bosnian team hosted by the Croatian participants. The Albanian and Montenegrin team met in Podgorica, and after 18 hours of traveling they met the German team, and together with the Serbian team arrived in the "Student Dormitory" in Vukovar. We waited for the Polish team so we could finally all be together. Božo, Tom and Marija introduced us to the new teamers, Iga from Poland, Ljubiša from BiH and Nikola from Montenegro. After the long trips and the high temperatures, we were very exhausted - but that was no reason for us to skip pool time! We went to our rooms and  changed into our swimming suits, and together with Tom, Ljubiša and Iga we went to the local pool near the dormitory. We had a lot of playing ball games and splashing water around. As we are known to always be hungry we got so excited for dinner time. We finished our spaghetti Bolognese and then all went out to play name games with Iga and Marija for the new teamers to get to know us. Even though we know each other very well now we still messed everything up and it was so funny and we had an amazing time. As much as we were enjoying our time, at some point we just fell asleep around the lounge. It was an unforgettable first day. We had fun, we played games, but most importantly - we were really happy that we were reunited after being apart for such a long time. We know that just like us you are looking forward into our journey so we promise that from now on you'll hear from us everyday. See you tomorrow

9.8.2017