If you saw a messy group of loud arabic speaking girls and guys with huge backpacks and lots of "Willies" paper bags running after the train, this was Tamam junior volunteers going to a 4 day skitrip to Gnosjö. 22 people with the leaders from Lund and Uppsala city arrived to a small, quiet, but lovely place in the south of Sweden on Wednesday afternoon.
We decided to stay at one of the local and quite centrall churches. There wouldn't be any other perfect place to stay for this trip, because it has large, well furnished rooms, with huge kitchen and gym hall for our indoor activities. I couldn't help catching strange surprised looks of residents in of a small city, because they saw such a "multicultural" group at once for the first time I suppose.
The aim of the trip was first of all to give our lovely teenager participants opportunity to try out skiing. Second objective was to bring along volunteers and participants from both Tamam Lund and Uppsala for teambuilding and strengthening communication.
After a couple of get-to-know-each other games participants seemed to find a common language. Finally we arrived to Isaberg, a skiing place, on the mini van which could barely move. Oh yes, if you saw 5 guys pushing the mini van up the road...this was us again. Everyone seemed so excited. We saw a big hill and happy families that were equipped with skies. But as more people stood in a queue for getting shoes and helmets as less our kids seemed enthusiastic. After last efforts to get the equipments on, some participants refused skiing. Others barely could stand on the skies...they slowly and carefully moved after the leaders.
First morning team came back to the church disappointed at some point, because most of them could ride. In the evening we fried hamburgers and together had long evenings full of games and music.
Next day, those who could ski went to Isaberg, and others went to a hill for pulka. Although it might seem not as exciting as skiing, participants were screaming with joy on their way down the hill.
The days past so quickly. It was so nice to see how participants became very close to each other. They were dancing Arabic, Palestinian, Afghan dances. Two wonderful junior leaders Jesse and Afnan were guiding responsibly others.
The last day, participants were given a task to plan next joint trip. There was an interesting sport schedule suggested by first team.Others designed their trips to Stockholm, Göteborg, going fishing and etc.
There is a big hope that this plans will not just stay on papers... and our participants will make their plans come true.
After another 2,5 hours in the trains we arrived back home. Lund sweet Lund!
We decided to stay at one of the local and quite centrall churches. There wouldn't be any other perfect place to stay for this trip, because it has large, well furnished rooms, with huge kitchen and gym hall for our indoor activities. I couldn't help catching strange surprised looks of residents in of a small city, because they saw such a "multicultural" group at once for the first time I suppose.
The aim of the trip was first of all to give our lovely teenager participants opportunity to try out skiing. Second objective was to bring along volunteers and participants from both Tamam Lund and Uppsala for teambuilding and strengthening communication.
After a couple of get-to-know-each other games participants seemed to find a common language. Finally we arrived to Isaberg, a skiing place, on the mini van which could barely move. Oh yes, if you saw 5 guys pushing the mini van up the road...this was us again. Everyone seemed so excited. We saw a big hill and happy families that were equipped with skies. But as more people stood in a queue for getting shoes and helmets as less our kids seemed enthusiastic. After last efforts to get the equipments on, some participants refused skiing. Others barely could stand on the skies...they slowly and carefully moved after the leaders.
First morning team came back to the church disappointed at some point, because most of them could ride. In the evening we fried hamburgers and together had long evenings full of games and music.
Next day, those who could ski went to Isaberg, and others went to a hill for pulka. Although it might seem not as exciting as skiing, participants were screaming with joy on their way down the hill.
The days past so quickly. It was so nice to see how participants became very close to each other. They were dancing Arabic, Palestinian, Afghan dances. Two wonderful junior leaders Jesse and Afnan were guiding responsibly others.
The last day, participants were given a task to plan next joint trip. There was an interesting sport schedule suggested by first team.Others designed their trips to Stockholm, Göteborg, going fishing and etc.
There is a big hope that this plans will not just stay on papers... and our participants will make their plans come true.
After another 2,5 hours in the trains we arrived back home. Lund sweet Lund!
Great article :) You keep suprising me :)
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