Time was running during the last weeks...

The last entry now is already 3 weeks ago. We are doing presentations and we organize an intercultural evening at Didzdvario Gimnazija. When I compare work in Lithuania to tasks I had to manage at home, I fell like doing almost nothing in here but still everything is much more difficult in a new schhol because of a new system we try to get used to and a difficult language. So time is running without being board.
One of the tasks waiting for the volunteers in the last weeks were some presentations about evs and their homecountry. Linda and me we went through classes to tell students about Germany. When I'm honest I thought more about Germany these days than in my whole life before and we found out some things that even surprised me, like a German invented the television or the fact that adidas and puma are both German soprtbrands. But I also noticed that some stereo types like Germans dirk a lot of beer or Germans are always on time etc are exactly the things you find about this country and their people in the internet. We also asked the students about their opinion and their knowledge about Germany or maybe some German things they even use in their daily life. During this I got to the point that Germany is quite present in Lithuania. There are many German products or brands you can find in the supermarket or other shops. Students know a lot of Germans especially from sports and of course they know about German beer. All in all it was a little bit annoying to tell the same things so often but although I got a little bit proud of my homecountry which is normal I think. It's the place I am born and right now abroad I feel even more the relation to this place.
After holiday the volunteers started a new project, an interculturel evening. If you count teachers, assistent teachers, volunteers and language courses etc there are 10 nations (or even more) involved in Didzdvario Gimnazija right now. We wanted to integrate all of them in one evening and we want to show the school's miscellaneousness in this way. Aditionally the three Turkish volunteers leave in the end of November, so it should be their last project for integrating in school. In the beginning it was not that easy because they do not have any experiences with things like that. But after a while all volunteers worked together on the event and it developed quite well although it was difficult to please everyone. The most difficult thing for me was not the oranizing itself because in my own school I was often involved in organizing events like that. But in my school I knew all the important people, places and possibilities. I did not have to find out who I can ask before doing it. In here it's different because we are totally new in this school and we firstly have to find out about possibilities and people with responsbility we can ask for help.
As a concluition I hope everything will work and our first own project in this school will be succesful. It would be very important for us to finally see the sense in our efforts.
Unfortunately the event just is delayed since yesterday because of epidemic flu in school. We hope it will take place next week.
The last thing I want to write about is our last weekend's visit in Kaunas. We wanted to see the city and visit some other EVS volunteers. It was a really nice trip. Kaunas is a beautiful city with its oldtown and the coalesceing rivers. We enjoyed discovering the town and in the evening we went to a party with volunteers from Kaunas. They have a really hunge and strong EVS community there, around 30 volunteers. We had a very nice place to stay at night and we had to bring nothing besides personal things which is a very confortable and practical thing about EVS network. I feel a little sad that we are not so many volunteers in Siauliai. Of course we can visit the ones in Kaunas or Vilnius anytime but it would be really nice to have an own hunge community in here.
As you can read there is a lot to do in Lithuania and we are not bored at all. But finally I hope we can start working in the radio which is opened since holiday because this is the work we originally wanted to do here.