Greetings from Sweden!

Greetings All!

Well, it’s been 5 days since we arrived in Sweden for the Swedish Youth Work Conference and it’s been a fantastic experience so far. Due to a packed schedule and limited internet access this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and write about it so I won’t bore you with the finer details but instead let you know what my best buts and ‘not-so-best’ bits are so far:

Best Bits

M -Meeting the other 20 members of our international group (made up of English, Swedish, Dutch and Irish) and realising that although we work on different youth projects in different countries that are miles apart from each other, it’s nice to know that we all still have the same values and passion when it comes to youth work.

· - Sharing of ideas/games/knowledge

· - Site seeing in Stockholm, Orebro and Umea

· - Learning about Disc-Golf which is a Frisbee based sport they play in Sweden, and wanting to start up a team when I go back to England!

Not-so-best Bits

· - Travelling from the airport to our accommodation on the first day and getting on the right bus, then half an hour later realising we were going in the wrong direction!

· - Feeling guilty that I don’t speak any other languages when the Swedes and the Dutch in our group are making such an effort to speak English, and most of the time speaking it better than me!

We’re spending the next couple of days in Umea then catching the night train back to Stockholm on Saturday night (and hopefully getting a little more sleep than we managed on the night train up here!).

Watch this space: further updates coming soon.............

Marie J