The week of the Seminar (14-18th of July)

THE week has come... EVS JACis summer seminar is here. Those were our thoughts on Monday morning, when we were walking to JACis. All the preparations were about to be put into test in just few hours. The bus came at 9 in the morning, now we just had to put all the materials and participants inside  and off we went. Raznas lake was to become our home for the next 3 days.

The seminar gathered 20 participants, 4 trainers (us, EVS volunteers) and Vija with Katja as our support. Now very briefly about the program:

Monday

• arrival to Raznas lake, unpacking and getting to know the area
• after the lunch, rules of the training as well as fears / expectations, getting to know each other, icebreaking activities, name games and a LOT of teambuilding
• after dinner, an ultimate cultural UNO game and others

Tuesday

•  throughtout the day, 4 blocks each consisting of 4 different national sessions on the same topic covering an area of culture in our home countries
• evening by participants to test the trainers team spirit

Wednesday

• morning free time
• sessions on writing CVs & motivation letters
• final evaluation and departure

It was intense and often tough, but it was also a great experience, thanks to all the participants!

Thursday & Friday were kind of quiet in JACis. The children were outside thanks to the Kalim-bam-ba project, and we had time to put everything back to its place, do our individual trainer evaluations and sort out all the video material and pictures made during the seminar. Finally some time was left for a bit of painting on Thursday and crafts on Friday.