SATURDAY JULY 17TH – WEDNESDAY JULY 21ST

On Saturday we will go to morning prayer and then in our workshop until lunch. After lunch everyone will go down town to Bochum total festival. Where our drama and singing workshops will show what they have been doing.

On Sunday morning we will have to say goodbye to our host families and after that we will go to open air service and then the art from the art workshop will be shown. The media group will have a media conference and there will be a kirchafé. Then we go to Köln Deutz to the youth hostel.

On Monday there will be morning prayer and after that there will be some feedback of the exchange . After lunch we will go down town Colonge. This will be our last night to geather. :(

On Tuesday there will be a farwell prayer and a lunch. Afther that we can go to Köningsallee shopping. After that the Finns and the Icelanders will have a departure and Estonians stay over the night and leave on Wednesday.

FRIDAY JULY 16TH

We woke up and went to morning prayer and then everybody went to their workshop. After the workshop there was a little snack before everybody took a big bus to Oberhausen to do some shopping. We had a few hours there and then some people went home or to the football game others stayed at the mall to do some more shopping. We had to take a public bus to Lutherhaus. Some ones went home, other ones went straight to the pub in the evening, there was great company and a lots of fun.

Wednesday July 14th

On Wednesday we woke up and went to breakfast and than to morning prayer as usually. Then Finland and Estonia introduced their country. Then lunch came and right after that everybody had to go to their rooms and tidy their rooms and pack their stuff down. Then we had to move to Lutherhaus, there we went to our workshops until our host families picked us up. We ate dinner at them and then we went to Lutherhaus to meet other people in the group and were there for a while and then everybody got home to sleep.

Tuesday July 13th

On Tuesday we woke up and went to breakfast. After breakfast there was morning prayer then everybody went to their workshops to work on their stuff. Later that day we went shopping in the mall, some of us went to look at old castle and some church. When we came to Haus Friede lots of people went outside to play football while others watched it. Then was evening prayer by the Icelanders. When the evening prayer was done most of the people went to their rooms to chill.

Art workshop

The instructor of the art workshop, Jerry Miko, says that the kids are working well and showing intrest in what he says. They desided not to devide the trees between countries so everyone could put their ideas on the best space for them, every kid can make about two or three projects. Jerry likes working with so young people because they point out things he cant see.

I asked him who was working harder, the boys or the girls, he said it was really hot outside to day but the girls where working harder. He told me who his top students where, his top students where two girls, Sólveig from Estonia born in 1996 and Laura from Finland born in 1990. Sólveig really has interest in art she has been working on a swan that she placed in the middle tree, I asked her if she had tried the drum but it turned out that she has only been working the whole time. Laura finds this really fun and she looks at this a great opportunity because she has never worked with trees before but she is also exited because she is going to a art school in Norway.

Hinrik, Einar & Jón

Drama workshop

We interweived the 17 year old Tim Fischer from Germany and the 17 year old Reane from Estonia who are both in the drama workshop.

Tim chose the drama workshop siply because he likes to act, Reane chose it because she is in a theatre class in Estonia. They both find their workshop very nice, both because of the games that they play there and being with kids from other countries. In the class they have mainly been playing games to get to know each other better, also they have been practising impro (acting without lines) and learning about plain drama.

Tom says the best thing about drama workshop is that you have a chance to do lots of decicions, but Reane says it is the impro that is the best part and it is fun that they practise it.

We asked if they had any last words, they both answered: no last words :)

Made by: Jón Októ & Aron Bjarni

Music Workshop

Elmar Gams

Elmar is 17 years old and came 2006 to Estonia. He lived for two years in his home town in Russia, Volsk, it´s near the big river Volga. Then he moved to Moscow, 2006 he came to Tallinn. It was his fathers wish because he is an Estonian. So Elmar is originally an Estonian man.

Elmar is in Music Workshop because he likes to sing. In his community in Estonia he is a member in the church choir. Also he wants to be a part at Bochum Total. He said to me at the end of the interview he would like to be on a big stage. Elmar said, that he finds the Art & Drama Workshop very boring. Media Group is nothing for him because he is very lazy. ;)

Elmar likes very much the free time he has at Music Workshop. Of course he raves about the very good teacher Saila.

Made by: Jonas Findus

Anna & Rike

Anna is 15 years old from Estonia. She likes to sing and so do many others in Estonia. She joined the group so that she doesn't have to do anything else but sing. She has been singing different songs in different voices.

Rike is 16 years old and she comes from Germany. She loves singing and that's why she chose singing workshop. They have been singing different songs with different voices in the workshop.

Made by: Kristin & Haffi