Day of REFLECTION!

Today was defined by reflecting on all the positive and amazing work every young person put into the YMCA Europe Peace Seminar in Prague 2011! I reflected on many things e.g. All the Laughs, Jokes,The beautiful people,Wonderful Prague and how quick we became a family. I keep looking through all the hundreds of photos I took and they make me feel so many emotions, I feel at PEACE whilst I am looking through them. All the memories of this seminar will be with me forever. I and all of the other young people will still be working and communicating together on our facebook group that is called YMCA Europe Peace Work Seminar Prague 2011.(Click link) http://www.facebook.com/groups/136458056440441

I know I would be answering on everyone's behalf and say, if you ever have the opportunity to attend a seminar in Prague amongst 18 different nations and be so fortunate, then you would be a FOOL to say "NO".

All of us will still be working towards a PEACEFUL future and hoping many others will be too. Once again I am so grateful for everyone who made this happen for me and this has impacted on me so much. "THANK YOU" ("Dekuji" in Czech) I have came away with so much knowledge about all different cultures and how all YMCA's are all so beautifully different in many ways!

I would personally like to say thank you to Ken Montgomery for all the work you have done and into the organising and the blog. Very grateful.

As well to all my NEW family who attended this Seminar;

1. Adrian Davies
2. Misha Guskov
3. Andrada Deatcu
4. Vardan Hambardzumyan
5. Amanda Blasius
6. Solomon B. Samuel
7. Antti Saarelma
8. Selma Zaidi
9. Belen Otero
10. Michal Szymanczak
11. Camelia-Adela Padureanu
12. Martina Hudcovska
13. Dorina Lluka
14. Juan Simoes Iglesias
15. Edita Taida Djakoualnova
16. Gerard Tosserams
17. Frah Saeed
18. Gerhard Gruhler
19. Ian Boyd
20. Viktoria Pilinko
21. Jack Ahearn
22. Sarah McMunn
23. Josefina Smolkova
24. Santiago Negro
25. Luisine Vardanyan
26. Sandro Samadbegishvili
27. Maria Pronina
28. Qendrim Lluka
29. Maria Vardanyan
30. Matthew Cook
31. Maria Verwoerd

THANK YOU ALL!!!

We will all meet again...

I will leave you with a poem I received from work today and it ties in with all what we work for in PEACE.

Yours

Lewis Barkway North Staffordshire YMCA

1. The version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta:

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

-this version is credited to Mother Teresa