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Day 11 18 February 2008 |
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Workshop: “Global Responsibilities” Nowadays you hear a lot of global responsibilities. The governments in Europe are willing do more for nature and so they make a lot of laws to protect the environment. All over the world we are talking about this topic e.g. the pollution in several countries caused by industry and use of gasoline for cars. The participants of our workshop are interested in this topic and they like to know more about the attitude of Achill community members. We are not only concerned about the topic nature but we also discuss topics like community, society, family, values and living situation. So our first meeting started with collecting our different thoughts about this topic. It was an interesting discussion and we agreed that our topic has many subtopics. But we focussed on the four topics: Tourism, Education on Achill, Alternative Energy and Local Economy as well as Trade concerning in global responsibilities. For more input we asked locals and created questionnaires about the chosen parts of our topic. With the help of the residents we could gain more opinions of the topic and extend our perspective. We used the beautiful weather during these days for asking many Achill-Islanders about their views and thoughts. We also made many pictures and videos of the landscape to document the sustainable development of Achill Island. The aim of our workshop is to present the interdependency of ecological, economical, social, and political factors. Annika Zigan (German Group)
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Is this going to be published?!
This has been one of the most important questions of my PR manager job. And who is going to publish it and when? How do I find out if it is really published? Too many questions at once. The answer to one of these was quite easy: Mayo News, the local newspaper, is going to publish the articles I wrote about the Borrowed Identities Project. Apart from that, it started to get difficult. How do I find out when is the deadline for article? I took me a while, but in the end all my questions have been answered. Believe it or not, they published it and when I saw the deposit copy of one article I was very proud of myself. It was worth the tough work! Have I mentioned that the second part of my job was to collect every useful contact detail that each participant prepared before, during and after our journey to Achill Island? In the beginning this seemed to be the easiest part of my job. But it did not take me long to find out that this task was complicated. Asking all coordinators, managers, and managers of last year about the contacts they have made on Achill Island. And this was only the start. I wanted to do more than that and with some support of other students I could add some more names of Achill Islander to my contact list. Although we had to admit how difficult was getting telephone numbers or email addresses from the residents. I was happy that we collected quite a lot so that the different workshops could get in touch with the inhabitants. Having contacts to the residents made the workshops more interesting, interactive and intercultural. The best feedback I got about my work was when I turned into Emergency Manager. The emergency quiz was a very success at the Heuston Train Station. I prepared this quiz as a mixture of getting to know each other and dealing with the reaction in emergency situations in Ireland and the European Union. I am delighted that all students now know the emergency number of Ireland (112 works also ). But I am more that happy that the unlikely case of an emergency did not occur. Three tasks in one job! It has been challenging but not impossible. Hopefully I met the goals. Tatue-tataa!! … Call 999! Assja Tietz (German Group) |
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European Career Planning Workshop
Today we started our workshop with the topic „European careers” with Thomas and Katja. We stayed in the common room of the hostel. We had to look back to our written learning goals for the Achill experiences and that whether we had achieved them. We were surprised just like everybody was seeing our written aims and what had been fulfilled. Another topic of this lecture was that we wrote down our skills that we have gained in the past as well as during the trip to Achill Island. Because some of us from the group had plans to go abroad or to visit other countries in the near future, we looked for possibilities to finance these trips like Erasmus, DAAD, Socrates, Leonardo etc. This morning was a good opportunity to think again about our future career. Amelie Brachmann (German Group)
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Critical Incidents Real intercultural stories
Hungary United Kingdom 2 years ago I spent an academic year in the United Kingdom. I lived in a dorm with 1st year British students though I was in the 3rd year. I could not understand how it was possible that they just left home For instance one of the guys spent 1000 pounds during 3 weeks then he started to beg all around as he was afraid of asking any more money from his parents. I gave him a can of beer, he was very thankful for that:) Another thing is about parties over there. Parties generally start off at 9 in the evening and last until 2 am they are finished and you must leave the place. Once I just came back from lecture at 6 in the evening and the others were well beyond the first shots in the kitchen as warming up for the night. Weird situation, although not bad at all as it is more likely that you will be able to go school the next day if you fall asleep earlier. In Hungary parties never begin before midnight and last till 5 or 6 am.
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