After

There is always an after… that’s because all the things come to an end some day and what is sad is that nice things end up earlier. That is what happened to our exchange, United Symbols of Europe, too which end up approximately one month ago. I am sure we all miss those days that passed so fast from our points of view.
And like in most of the “after periods”, we start to analyze and to think about what we have done and what we have learned during the period itself.
For me, “United symbols of Europe” was not just another exchange that I took part in. I didn’t just participate, but I had the chance to learn some things about how this kind of project has to be organized. There is a lot of work to do, but after you manage to accomplish all the things that you wanted, you stop thinking about the work you did to get to the aim and you only see the results and the enthusiasm caused by them.
So, after some weeks of preparing and trying to make everything go properly, the project started on 6th of September. We met the other participants and by saying “we met”, I mean we barely could remember each other's names. That was only in the first day, of course, before starting to interact, to talk about ourselves, our cultures, our issues which were more or less similar for all of us. We found similarities and differences among us: similarities brought us closer to each other and differences… (Not what you probably think)… differences made us curious, made us want to know more interesting things about the others.
We talked about many issues and we shared information about Europe, this way being able to express our opinions, to identify the issues and finally to find the solutions.
What I liked the most about this exchange…hmmm…hard to decide. I will choose the workshop because it was really pleasant to work with my team, to discuss, to find together interesting ideas and to practice them. As a leader of the Romanian Workshop, I can say that I was very happy to see Polish, Latvian and Turkish people wearing traditional costumes, to see them happy of learning a Romanian song, enthusiastic of acting the character of Hagi, curious to learn Romanian dances and nervous before the “European Fair” because they wanted everything to go well. It was great to work with such people!
At the same time, of course, we had a lot of fun! The energizers, the ice-breaking games, the parties and the times spent together in our breaks gave us the opportunity to know each other better and to get to nice friendships among us!
In conclusion, I want another U.S.E!