SSMD - Day 7!

The Ceremony day, that’s how the final day was called by our participants, started with a team involvement to establish the methods that were going to be used within the program. The activity raised the interest and the participation of each participant, who, most of all, showed their wish to realize a march along the city center, to show their national symbols, flags, as a last method to promote the project, the involved states and the Youth in Action Programme.

ESD. European Sport Day. This name represented the march of the participants and the amount of resources and materials that they used.

In this final day, the responsible team with Press Office raised all the articles to edit the “SSMD” Magazine.

The European March of SSMD participants, as a principal activity of the second session of the day, represented a real success because the youths had their chance to promote themselves and to show to positive part of being involved in an European Project. The participants wanted to have their activity during sunset to observe the city perspective by night. The youths’ march was really admired and applauded by the citizens and they were really impressed and curious by the fact that in a small town so many intercultural and different element could be united in a beautiful group. The participants showed respect to everyone and they tried to reveal in a good way their attachment to their national values and the respect to their countries.

This activity, along with the project’s Magazine represented the final activities of a beautiful youth exchange, the final activities of a wonderful week that created friendships, bonds, and knowledge.

During this week, the participants were involved in each activity, kept continuously the connection with the local media, promoted the street sports and created group connections, stronger than everything. They adapted to each sport area, and most important of everything, they responded in a good and positive way  with interests and involvement to the dares that we had given .

The conclusions of the first seven days can be defied at a group level, but also at the team spirit that they had shown, to the fair play and at the individual grade of involvement .  The gained sport abilities and competences, staring from those themes : Sport and Media and continuing with the competences of communication and collaboration between each participant, each group and each state. All of this created the perspectives of a new collaboration between NGOs in future “Youth in Action” projects.

Participants’ Impressions :

“I know that this was the last day spent beside my new friends. I have so many memories from this project and I will return to my country very happy because of that. I think that together we did a great job, we created bonds and friendships like a real family. I really hope that someday I will meet all of them again..I would really like to relive this experience again !About the project’s theme, I know that because our involvement, we gave life to the activities, we were dynamic and active, and the group strength was every time the element that got us to win. I will continue to practice sport more than I did before because now I developed many new abilities and I can use them in my future activities. But, I could not forget the effort that the organizer team because they tried very hard to have all the needed materials and resources for us, and tried their best to not hear any complain from us.”

Inese Tilla – Participant, LATVIA