all different all equal all human all authentic...

big day tomorrow..
first meeting of all the NGO's interested to participate in council's of europe campaign "all different-all equal"..

well i cannot write many things about what is being prepared but it looks we are going to have something great done, with great partication and great motivation..

we are already in the phace of organising a first anti-racist festival for 16-18 of March and then the same things for 30/3-1/4...

and then on sunday i'm flying to strasburg for the prep meeting of a smeinar organised in the Strasburg youth center about Youth Partcipation..(based on the revised Charter for Participation)..it's quite interesting and i'm already lookig forward to meet the team and work together and of course the training itself, which i'm positive it will be really interesting...

you know i was talking with my friend Zoe which she attended a seminar like that few months ago (being a young refugee in europe today), and this was her first experience and she found out a total new world..a world of people that care and fight every day to change the life around then..who know how nice is to fall in love and to enjoy a glass of nice red wine..who know to have fun in a boring city like strasburg (more info next week!)..this is the world of civil soicety, of demanding but also constructive youth and not the people who got fed up very soon and they attribute all the bad things to all the others..it's easy to do that and very pathetic..

like it is to be in a imaginary life and do things you never imagine...instead of doing them in real life...I was checking the internet site of Second Life (after learning that Sweden open its first visual embasyy to inform the gamers community (around 5 million) about Sweden and procedures how to go there...apart from critising the quality of life somebody can have being into this game, and the hours spending every day in virtual things, i'm really wondering why somebody would like to be there..?to meet new friends? and why not outside in the real world? i was always thinking that northern people tend to get into these games, getting into drinking habits, because of the wau life is there..damn, they anyway have a very big suicide percentage (Baltics and Netherlands also)..
but i see these things happening now in my neighborhood..in my country..people trying to get alternative lifes, trying to be somebody else...trying to get away desperately from themselves..i really do not get why..maybe it's the new way of life..but why you can do it for real..why you need to do something like that?

just chec the latest advertisement of johnnie walker..."if i had a wish, it would be to be like you..human"

sorry for the messy post but i'm trying to post my moments and files in the computer and mind in a line..

still trying...

to matina and roxannita..

well it's very easy to say big words to people that have to take big decisions in their life or have to overcome something bad that happened to them..

i just wanted to say to my friends Roxanna and Matina that everything that happens, happens for a reason..there is a hidden link between all the decisions we take in our life and in the end we see that it is like a puzzle, everything matches...but we cannot see it before it happens..until then we can only be suspicious about it(except if it is very obvious- but this is very special and i hope it's not happening once in a lifetime, because I'm lost!)

every time we follow our instinct and we take a decision and really go for it, always the universe will conspire to help us and we'll get the bst out of it..what is missing then? faith in ourselves and teh decisions we take..

but it's extremely funny and sarcastic how things are happening..roxanna would like to live more in europe and not in Latin America and I know so many people that would like to travel and live in south america...and then matina would probably like to live in Greece, but so many people want to live in great places like Spain (including me!!!)..nah,nah,nah,nah,life is wonderful/nah,nah,nah,nah is wonderful(Jason Mraz)..

(i just remembered some movies where people take a decision and exchange lifes and places...well we all know what is happening in the end, but do we admit having thinking it or not?would you do it or not???!!!!)

bechos to both girls and good luck to your plans!!

tkit translation (it's already past!!!)

today is a great day...we had our first meeting to define the glossary (english to greek) to finally translate the Tool kits created by the Partnership European Commission and CoE..

the tkit we are translating is number 3..(Project Management)..

well I have to admit that it was very beautiful since all the participants were girls, and apart of that all of them seemed very motivated to work and participate in the project..actually for most of them this was obvious when they send their CV's and their motivation to start the projects..ti was a very difficuly screeening where we finally choose 10 out of 23..not an easy job believed me..

apart from the translators was also correctors, youth trainers (thanks Maria and Dimitris) and Lia from the Hellenic National Agency for Youth (thanks Lia)..great team and looks that it is going to be a great job...!it's already fun seeing and working with nice faces that they like what they are doing...it looks that the task is going to roll fast!!

if the money will be enough we plan to make a big party and maybe even start the next Tkit...we'll see!!!just hoping to catch everything before the army catches me!!!

it's a great deal that the Youth Platform of this country is translating this booklet (which will be available for all greek speakers for free to download)..equally important is the effort of ARSIS (organisation workig for the support of youth) to translate COMPASS, the booklet for Human Rights Education created by CoE (and now they created COMPASSITO, which is for evene younger ages!). There is a small hope that something is growing in this country...

let's hope that the campaign All different-all equal will make a huge impact and will be discussed for a long time..

we'll see...
greetings

πώς αντιμετωπίζετε εσείς τα διλήμματα στην ζωή σας..;

από την συνέντευξη των Στέλιου Γιαννακόπουλου και Γιώργου Σαμαρά, αμφότερων ελλήνων ποδοσφαιριστών που αγωνίζονται στην μεγάλη κατηγορία της Αγγλίας...

και έχει μια αξία παραπάνω μιας και θεωρούμε τους ποδοσφαιριστές καλοπερασάκηδες και άτομα που βγάζουν εύκολα χρήματα κάνοντας τίποτα..ας μάθουμε κάτι από αυτούς

- Πως αντιμετωπίζετε τα επαγγελματικά διλήμματα;
Σ.: «Ακολουθώ το ένστικτο, ό,τι λέει η καρδιά μου».
Γ.: «Αυτό που λέει ο Γιώργος. Η καρδιά σου. Εγώ στην Ελλάδα είχα τότε κλείσει τον κύκλο μου. Είχα κατακτήσει τα πάντα και ήθελα το κάτι παραπάνω. Η καρδιά μου όμως δεν είχε αποφασίσει. Ήρθα εδώ, και τους πρώτους τρεις μήνες η καρδιά μου ήταν στον Ολυμπιακό. Συννέφιασα, σαν τη χώρα. Αν δεν είχα μαζί την οικογένειά μου ίσως να γύριζα. Πάλευα για τη θέση μου σε μια μικρομεσαία ομάδα, τότε δεν ήμασταν καν μεσαία. Και δεν έπαιζα. Αλλαγή, λίγο βασικός, Έκανα αλλαγή. Μέσα-έξω συνεχώς. Στο τρίμηνο αυτό, σκεφτόμουν, το πάλευα. 'Να γυρίσετε, αλλά το στοίχημα που έβαλες, το έχασες;' έλεγα. 'Πήγες κι έκανες μια τρύπα στο νερό'. Κι έλεγα από την άλλη: 'Όχι, θα μείνω, θα το παλέψω'. Και τελικά μου βγήκε».
Σ.: «Τελείως διαφορετικά ένιωσα εγώ. Πήγα στην ομάδα κάτω των 16 και στο τέλος του χρόνου βρέθηκα στην πρώτη. Δεν σκέφτηκα ποτέ αν έκανα λάθος. Είχα μια στενοχώρια για όσα μου έλειπαν από την Ελλάδα, αλλά δεν σκεφτόμουν αν έκανα καλά που ήρθα ή όχι. Το ένιωσα πολύ μόνο μέσα στον Αύγουστο, προτού φύγω για την Ολλανδία, που βγαίναμε έξω, κοίταγα, και έλεγα 'πού πάω, οι φίλοι μου είναι εδώ, τι κάνω, μήπως δεν πρέπει να φύγω».

- Τι συμβουλή θα δίνατε σε όσους αντιμετωπίζουν παρόμοια διλήμματα στη ζωή;
Σ.: «Να μην τα σκέφτονται ως διλήμματα. Να ακολουθούν τον δρόμο τους και την καρδία τους».
Γ.: «Αν δεν το έχεις πάρει απόφαση, μην το κάνεις, λέω εγώ. Κάνε το μονάχα αν το έχεις πάρει απόφαση. Και τότε κυνήγα το μέχρι τέλους. Μη λακίσεις στην πρώτη, δεύτερη στραβή».

όλη συνέντευξη:
http://www.in.gr/sports/article.asp?lngEntityID=767568&lngDtrID=1108

new years dreams and desires..are back

few hours before my names days, i managed to put myself down and make at last this blog for all my friends, since i'm almost tired to answer individual e-mails...well i promise to keep it up-to-date and post many interesting information about youth work and studying/travelling/living opportunities...

hope that everything will turn out good..!!waiting for your feedback!!
Happy 2007!!!!

ps. and a song that whenever we hear it it makes us feel that it's a new Year's Day and gives an alloby that we can always make a new start...

All is quiet on new years day/A world in white gets underway/And I want to be with you/Be with you night and day/Nothing changes on new years day/I will be with you again/I will be with you again/Under a blood-red sky/A crowd has gathered in black and white/Arms entwined, the chosen few,Newspapers say, it says its true/And we can break through,Though torn in two we can be one/I will begin again, I will begin again/Oh and maybe the time is right,Oh maybe tonight/I will be with you again/I will be with you again/And so we are told this is the golden age/And gold is the reason for the wars we wage/Though I want to be with you/To be with you night and day/Nothing changes on new years day