somewhere over the rainbow...

hello everybody..

it's been a long time since I last wrote, but I really have a good excuse about that...

well first of all I need tosay that it is Good Friday and I'm in a small tiny village called Lefktra, 100 km. more or less out of Athens, celebrating greek orthodox Easter...

last week I came back from a Training Course on the Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life (check here)..it was in the Youth Center in Strasbourg with an excellent team of co-trainers and an excellent quality of participants...we hope that the impact the participants will create in their local reality will be really worth the try...

before that I was really active in the campaign "all different-all equal" of the Council of Europe, as the campaing man responsible for Greece...we had our 3 days event in Central Metro Station in Syntagma, with a lot of fun, many interactive events (juggling, construction of juggling ball, leave your fingerprint, leave your message, play drums, leave your message in the wall, living library)

I would like to leave some more infos about the latter..it is a concepot that was develop firstly in Denmark and since then it is spread in Europe and is adopted by Council of Europe as a very good practise...it is a library that you can lend books that interests you, but the books are consisted from real people...and u do have different categories..in Greece we managed to make one library that had the following categories : blond woman, activist for the environment, greek muslim, greek roma, disabled athletes, homosexual, political refugee, migrant, HIV positive and a feminist...well maybe the categories were not enough and maybe not very representive of the greek society but we managed to introduce the concept to a bigger population and hopefully next time there will have more interest..

one of the most interesting moment was when we had the improvisation theater...they focused aminly in diversity and discrimination..there were many people that wanted to share stories..Danish love for an italian girl following her in Athens, discrimination in school cause of appearance, discrimination in Belgium and Netherlands because of being greek, love of a huge red guy (that was one of my best!!!!!..)..the most fun thing was that people were just seeign what was happening crossing the metro station and many of tehm took the minute to stpo and many youngster came with their friends instead of going out at that Saturday night...it was surely an incredible moment, because people were also given the moment to express themselves and say what they do believe..in a really public space...

more about this i will write later...

enjoy easter time and i hope that all your dreams will become true and real...(better than the most beautiful lie of yours...)