SSMD - Day 5 !

The fifth day was a special one. The participants changed the actual area from the city, to a wonderful rural side, Poiana Pinului. Poiana Pinului is a transitive zone between hills and mountains, where the forest embraces everything with its green, creating an admiring image to everyone.

The road to Poiana Pinului was fulfilled with games, jokes and laughs because the participants were already friends and knew how to make the time pass faster and in a good way. Once arrived at Poiana Pinului, there has been an area presentation, starting with the camp, the forest and finishing with Ciolanu Monastery, a very known and important touristic attraction of the area.

Next, we started to spread in different mixed teams and to do energizers to open the mood for the next activities. After the energizers, the participants had the task to go through the forest to complete it, and in order to finish they had to communicate and ask questions to the locals.

The activity had some tourist recognition tasks, that the youths managed to complete and developed because of them orientation abilities, communication and team spirit. This activity has finished when the participants had to find a “recreation” area, with water. They had found a hotel’s pool, and they were given as an “award” a chance to enjoy the swimming at the pool for several minutes.

This swimming at the pool cleared their minds a little bit, after long day of sports, especially the previous day when they had various sport activities.

The coming back to Ramnicu Sarat gave the participants a chance to express their feedback, by doing a mixed and after that, a national reflection group. Therefore, they expressed their feelings about the organization, the accommodation, the meals, the activities and the organizers.

After this activity, the youths had prepared a special activity regarding a costumes’ ball. They dressed in different costumes and after that every member of the team had his opportunity to show everyone attractive games, knowledge games and interactive ones. In this way, they got much closer to each other and created a friendly atmosphere between the participants.

Participants’ impressions : “ Today’s experience was one of the best which I ever had. We’ve started the day without knowing where we will go or what we will do, but immediately as we arrived there I knew that the time we will spend there will be a very good one.  I enjoyed being in a mixed group because they are my friends now and we had that natural connection which helped us a lot. The surprise that we had at the end of the activity was unexpected, but so great, because all of us enjoyed every minute of it ! The water was perfect for the weather and being surrounded by so many friends made the time spent more valuable. I didn’t think that in the middle of the mountain can be such beauty. I would really like to come back with all of them here !”

Maris Veveris – Participant, LATVIA