Yesterday we met for the first day of activities. There are 18 different nations from across the
World represented here by 23 different young people all under the age of 30. There are a also a couple of old fogies here helping to facilitate!
Yesterday we were divided into our ‘home groups’, groups that we would be splitting off into for deeper discussion. I am in group B, we were asked to link our name to something to do with peace, our name is Believers in peace.
Our days are packed, busy from 9am till 7pm. We start off with devotions, then presentations around a peace topic. Yesterday we learnt about the issues that have taken place in the Balkans and Caucasus regions. There are people here who have actually seen war. We in the UK have issues, but nothing on the scale of what other people have lived through. It really puts things into perspective!
Each day we have a space for a film and yesterday we watched House of Fools about the war between Russia and Chechnya, the film even features a guest appearance from Bryan Adams!!!!
In the evening after dinner the whole group caught a train into Prague city centre to explore. We walked across the beautiful bridge (and took turns in touching the dog statue for good luck) we saw the castle and were able to understand most people, as every other person we walked past seemed to be English?!
The common language among us 23 different people is English, so us UK guys have really noticed and felt privileged/guilty that the seminar is being conducted in English. Very handy for us, but we are having to speak slower and feel very guilty that we don’t speak any other languages.
Last night we got in just before the heavens opening and we were treated to thunder & lightening and torrential rain Czech style.
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