Report from Indra ( Latvia) :)

Dear friends,

Happy New Year to you all! It`s amazing how fast the time passes. We all met already two months ago, in wonderful winter wonderland, namely Bakuriani. I am sure that wherever we will be, whatever we will do and whomever we will meet in future, we will always remember each other with feeling of love, respect and joy (mostly because we all are sexy and we know it).

When I was going to Georgia to participate in project called „Volunteering for peaceful future”, I expected to get familiar with ideas of peace among young people from post-soviet countries. Before speaking about peace in global level, it is important to understand that peace starts in ourselves – in each part of society, in each personality. And we all did that – I`m sure that each of us built up higher tolerance skills, learned how to discuss about sensitive topics and took a different view of conflicts about which we had opinion before.

This project was total success. It not just fulfilled expectations, it was much more than I dared to expect. Project was most successful and productive project in my life. Truly qualitative discussions, workshops, volunteering in local school, living libraries, getting familiar with views of real people living in real situations – not just information via media, that all let us to achieve aims of project. When we arrived, there were no signs that in one day Bakuriani will change into busy „preparing-for-skiing-season” city:

But in two days there was already knee-level snow. Chicken knee:

 

It is important to admit that snow experience in Georgia was only snow experience this year. Untypical for Latvia, Christmas was not white, nor is here permanent snow now. I strongly beleve that we have to organize project about global warming issues. I`m sure that we can come up with good ideas and through that solve missing snow problem.

Love goes through the stomach – that`s for sure. All Georgian dishes were so tasty! We were not missing new gastronomic experiences. And of course cultural evenings with traditional dishes and drinks from all participating countries were amazing. Hard to forget and hard to remember at the same time.

Great benefit of project was opportunity to get familiar with Georgian people and culture. We experienced that Georgians are very warm-hearted and welcoming. Except traditional food, the wine, impressive traditional dances, traditional singing, perfect nature – all these make Georgia a true Causasus treasure. For becoming highly developed country peaceful future is necessary for Georgia. Hard working people with good attitude things will take care about other issues.

 

Through these two months since the project, the memories of it serves as my „secret place” where to find peace and get energy from. I hope that you all feel this way and we will see each other soon!

Wish you all the best,

Indra