2011 September 28

Previous week I was in Germany in city Bremerhaven. There took place international exchange for the topic “Discrimination and Integration”. Participants came from 6 countries: Serbia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Germany, Poland and Ukraine, so we were 30 members.

I was a leader of polish group and every two days we had leaders-meetings in which we were planning the program for next days.

Each country had its national evening. There we can present our national songs or dances, also dishes and drinks, tell some interesting facts about our countries, show videos… I really liked this. In such a way you can learn a lot about different places.

We also visited museum of immigration, very interesting place. It is about people who left Germany from the harbor of Bremerhaven from 1850 until now and how they or their descendants are living now.

We also were in some different places where people told us how is going the work with immigrants to help them in integration. For example our group was in café which is owned by Turkish immigrants and everybody can come there and ask for needed help. If they can not help themselves they will always find somebody who can. Their philosophy is that everybody is equal independently of color of skin, religion, language or home country…

In the last day we had international evening. We prepared exhibition of photos from our countries, our national dances that we showed to everybody haw to dance, sang folk-songs and also tongue-twisters from our countries to make a competition. Each country prepared meal. We had a lot of fun this evening and also our guests liked it a lot!

This is our team: