Can you imagine more than 400 participants from 44 European countries?
Can you imagine a series of well prepared lectures and workshops on European theme?
Can you imagine a week full of great emotions and lovely moments that make you smile every time you remember them?
Can you imagine 6 wild parties in various locations (including a foam party and the huge auditorium party that included thousands of participants + guests from all Eindhoven)?
Can you imagine the peaceful and yet very interesting city of Eindhoven toured in the Dutch way - on a bike (the place where there are twice as many bikes than cars)?
Can you imagine a one-day trip to Amsterdam exploring all it’s (il)legal pleasures?
Can you imagine sharing all this in an amazing group of 15 wonderful people who you lived with and can easily call friends?
Can you imagine how proud I was to be a part of the Bulgarian delegation and to present Bulgaria in the best possible way?
Can you imagine EWE – the best conference ever!
This was a week that filled me with so much nice emotions and I experienced all kinds of interesting things. It was nice to bike again (without a single crash!), to smoke shisha (nargile) and sing songs around a fire, to drink traditional Belarusian krambambula (I hope I spelled it right), to sleep with 10 people in a single room, to be interviewed for the daily conference TV shows (wow that was an embarrassment :P), to participate in amazing workshops – most of which were games :) (Loesje is sooo great), to give comments on a lecture discussion (I guess this lecturer was really embarrassed for not knowing that Bulgaria is a part of EU), to sing a song with my wonderful group at the karaoke, to wear these funny cooking gloves as a group symbol (which was much better than some of the other groups’ symbols), to have these interesting political discussions in the free time, to play the Bavaria Beer Crate Dance (Adam you are our hero – it is always better to win a kiss and stay in forth place than to be first and win a crate of beer :)), to teach a foreigner to dance horo, to discover that when you wear an easily recognizable flag some careless participants tend to follow you but not the groupgiude :D and many many more interesting things! When I look at the pictures and go back, all those memories flood my head and make me smile :) This was truly amazing!
I want to thank the Organizing Committee for making all this happen!
I want to thank Gijs, Han and Dyon for being our great group guides and wonderful hosts, always trying to help and to make our stay as pleasant as possible!
I want to thank the whole Bulgarian delegation for being a wonderful delegation, always partying hard and enjoying the fully the conference! I especially want to thank Poli, Jeni and Nanda for the wonderful horo dancing :)And of course I want to thank Olga, Adam, Nina, Daria, Ardian, Anda, Sergey, Alena, Clara, Burcu and Marek for being the greatest group and sharing all those wonderful moments with me! They have become my new European friends and I really want to see them again. This summer for sure I’ll go to Budapest and Vien so I guess I’ll see Adam and Marek, and as we promised Ardian for sure I’ll go and celebrate with him the independence of Kosovo when the time comes. I love you guys! You are the best!
1 comment:
seems you've had an enjoyable, memorable time there. the netherlands is just a place that you should visit again. maybe see you in Eindhoven in two years' ime. :)
GO AHEAD!
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