From home to Polska

The Hugarian team has found 3 different ways to travel to Poland. We have had the

freedom to choose among many kinds of transportation which were the most convinient for

each. We come from different cities. Some of us from the capital and others from the country

side. The sending-organisation has helped us a lot with buying the tickets and managing our

journey. We could keep in touch through a facebook-group which was created for this

purpose therefore none of us felt left alone.

As you have the opportunity to manage your travel individually, you can choose your

own itinerary. You should keep that in mind while you are planning your route that you have

2 days to tarvel at your disposal before and after the program taking place. In this case, you

have the chance to visit other countrys for short period of time to make your journey more

adventoures. One of us has choosen to travel to Poland through Ukraine where she spent a day

and night to discover Lviv on her own. One of us arrived to Lublin.

Another participant who lives far away from the capital was invited to the team

leader’s apartment to make him more comfortable and safe before departure and they have

travelled together to Poland by a night train which was also exciting experience to share. They

arrived to Warsaw and met the rest of the team at Chopin Airport and then the whole team has

been taken to Motycz Lesny by micro bus that has been shared with the Czech and Cyrus

teams as well.

The other part of our team met at the airport of Budapest in the early morning hours. A fun

fact about the trip: one of the girls we didn’t meet in the orientation meeting neither she had a

FB profile picture, it was almost impossible to find her in the airport but fortunately she found

us. The traveling itself was not too long, it took only 5O minutes. We managed to sleep a little

bit and get ready for the youth exchange. After landing at the airport of Warsaw we reunited

with the Hungarian participants, we had some minutes for a small talk and then the organizers

called us to provide with the exact meeting point inside of the airport. Polish volunteers were

waiting for the participants from Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary in the airport, they also

reserved a minibus for taking us to Motycz Lesny.

We moved in our rooms and made us comfortable. We shared a lunch together and attended

the orientational meeting. During the session, we were engaged in planning the fun activities

that help us in establishing good atmosphere and teams for the future work. Meanwhile all the

teams arrived finally.

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Introduction

‘Let me tell you a story - Whisper of exile’ is a third part of historical project prepared by members of our organization. Before we have cooperated in frames of this topic with Zamojskie Voluntary Service Association. Due to development of participants who were involved in historical projects we have started our organization and from now on we will be responsible to keep spirit of this idea alive.

In previous parts of the project we have discussed deeply topic of temporary and concentration camps prisoners during WWII and life of Polish partisans during WWII. We have made interviews with witnesses of that time and published their stories.

With the Project ‘Let me tell you a story - Whisper of exile’ we want to discuss issue of Europeans who were exiled to Siberia during and after the WWII. Lubelskie region of Poland still have living witnesses of that times who are able to share their stories with next generations.

We will work with proven non formal education methods, advertise and disseminate results.

Methods: Integration games, team building, intercultural communication workshop, orienteering game, reflection groups, Live Action Role Play, brainstorming, intercultural simulation, World cafe, history witness interview, press conference, city game, presentation, discussion, trip, happening, exhibition.

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