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Day 8 15 February 2008 |
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Preparation to the Workshop presentation We met in the afternoon at 04:30 pm in the teachers` cottage, as planned. The participants gathered together to prepare the workshop presentations, which would have taken place in Achill Cliff House. All workshops prepared their final presentation in time. Each workshop used different equipment and tools to complete their task, and we think the audience can confirm that we were efficient and entertaining. The media workshop, for example, used plenty of specific programs besides Power point, like Panasonic Wave Editor, Nero Sound Traxx, whereas the school workshop made an exceptional presentation using only some pieces of paper. After clarifying the duties, the participants started arranging the room and prepare their presentations. We all were a bit excited and nervous before the final presentations. It finally commenced at 08.00 pm. Aneta Przewozna (German Group)
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Final workshop presentation
The day has come. After five days being in amazing Achill Island all of our project participants had to present their explorations about Achill Island and the whole Irish culture. Last day in each cottage you were able to see a group of people with a laptop, preparing their final presentations: movies, slideshows and also plays. All of us met a lot of different local people on the island which helped us in our workshops. But we haven�t expected that local people will be so kind and friendly! And when the final day has come we all presented our work in Achill Cliff House. We were surprised that so many of locals came to see us. They enjoyed our �Intercultural experts� workshop play �Intercultural dinner�. Also Scott and his �students� made a great job with that presenting a tragic story about immigrants. But I think that the funniest presentation was prepared by the cultural artifacts group. And after all the presentations, Laurence gave us all the certificates that we were participating in the �Borrowed Identities� project. That was kind of a sad because it was a sign that we will be leaving Achill Island the next day. And now, while staying in Dublin, we all miss that amazing view of sleeping giant near the sea, that big cliff in Achill, covered with soft clouds� Justina-Marija Barauskaitė (Lithuanian Group) |
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Lunchtime Lecture Friday�s lunchtime lecture with its coordinator Anne Fox from Denmark was based on getting information about different cultures by looking at pictures. Analysing photos showed that ones interpretation depends on their cultural origin! One important aspect was the expression �second life�. It stands for a virtual existence in the internet � a possibility to create one owns individual identity that is quite different from your �first life�. But �Second life� can also be use as a platform to exchange knowledge with people you don�t normally meet in reality. As an immigrant from England to Denmark, Anne Fox was able to show us what she felt was very special and new about Denmark through a series of pictures. Finally, we used that last 15 minutes to draw pictures of our own countries. With this we presented the main aspects of our cultures in one illustration. Each country group was joined by one other nationality and the result was clear: Your assumption about a picture and the impression of a culture is based on where you are coming from. Annika Fröhlich (German Group)
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Critical Incidents Real intercultural stories
Germany Turkey My critical incident happened on my last holiday in Turkey. When we walked through the �Bazaar� everybody talked to us, but I felt really uncomfortable talking to all these foreign people and so I didn�t what was very impolite. I just wanted to walk through and have a look on these nice things to buy. When a friend of mine wanted to buy a leather jacket, the whole procedure took us two hours (!). Of course, first we talked to the seller, then there was no chance to escape, we had to drink some hot apple tea (imagine the 35 degrees outside!) and a second cup�.and talks about his family and Germany, and, and, and�. It was such a strange situation, because it was very impatient not to drink the tea, but in Germany there is no situation like this. When you go into a shop, or even on a �Flohmarkt� nobody would ask you to have a drink! |
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