Some thoughts from participants from the Youth exchange “This is the road of life”:
There were a lot of activities. For the first one we had do stand in a circle. We decided to play a couple of name games and some ice breakers in order to get to know each other a little better and share what we may have in common. Later in the project each country had to prepare a play to show their native country’s situation about reckless driving. After that we had to make a graph about the percentage of people affected by reckless road driving – deaths per year, injuries, the most dangerous cities, etc. After that we were separated in a few teams so we could think of methods to decrease the reckless driving.
On March 16 the coordinators arranged for us a trip as a part of our free day. It let us enjoy the beautiful Cypriot nature and experience the island like never before. We first got to spend some time at the beach. The water was a bit cold, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying it and entering the sea. A bit later, we went out on a hike along the coastline, with the sea waves below us crushing into the rocks. We got to see many beautiful beaches and even a cave under the rocks, where we rested. The culmination of our trip, however, came when we reached the end of the island, which also serves as the “end” of the European continent. We were brought from many corners of it, enjoying the breathtaking view of the blue abyss, which sat in front of us.
We we were learning about each other’s cultures every day just by having a simple interaction, but we also had intercultural nights which were specifically organized for this. All the participants had prepared presentations and had brought food from their countries. Each presentation was unique. They included videos, traditional dances and games with awards. Sadly, we couldn’t see the Polish one because their team had to leave on the second evening due to the Coronavirus situation. We chose ours to be a funny one without the usual boring historical facts. We also added a small quiz and finished with an interesting game for six people (one representative from each country without Bulgaria) in the manner of “Musical chairs” and actually everybody from the audience could play but they had to deduce it.
