Monday, October 15, 2007

Then it has passed one month in this beautiful country. We have spend this time to get to know the Lebanese Red Cross Youth in the best way as possible, and to get to know the Lebanese way to live their life. There are a lot of exiting things that is happening in the Red Cross Youth, last weekend we participated on a workshop in PPP (Planning Project Programme) which is a tool for strategy and planning. We got to know four out of the five programs the youth has here. The programs are, exploring humanitarian law, environment, prison, AIDS and traffic safety. It was very useful, we got to know a lot about the programs, we got to meet the volunteers, and practice some of our Arabic we so far have learned. The learning of Arabic goes in slow motion, but I proudly say a full sentence here and there. We are having Arabic classes three hours per day, four days a week, the rest of our day we spend our time in meetings of different kind.

Up to now Camilla and I are members in the organization development (OD) committee, the weekends from now on will be used to visit all the different districts to hold workshops for the volunteers. We have set a personal goal to visit all the youth centers in Lebanon, there are totally 34 centers.

This weekend was off, and we went straight to the beach. The weather is still very warm, it is around 30 degrees celcius. They say that in a couple of weeks it will get colder and start to rain. So we took advantage of this and went to the beach. It was incredible.