The week before Christmas

So this was the last week before Christmas and a lot interesting happened!

On Tuesday we had a Skype-conference with the ONE BSR team. The main topic had been to search for bloggers who write about their worth telling everyday life to inform the Baltic Sea Region about their home countries especially their region/town. Next year the innovative and international platform "newsWave" will be finished and bloggers will add their texts. I will write more about it after the next conference. Here you can see how my desk looks while the conference:

On Tuesday evening we had our Nordkolleg Christmas party where we had a little annual review and big slideshow of photos from this year. After it nearly all colleagues went to the "Eisstockschießen" (Curling without a broom, nearly like bowling on ice) where the Nordkolleg team made the fourth place, have a look!

On Wednesday Randy and I had a meeting with our project colleagues about how funding, insurance, planning the workshops and presentations and about the name of our volunteer-project (Check out LKJ who are organizing this voluntary social year). More about the project I will write after the next meeting.

From next week until the 1 January I will be on vacation celebrating Christmas and New Year. Did you remember our snowman?

What a pity, it thawed and now he looks like this:

 

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. Celebrate the next days as good as you can.

Writeya

After three successful years

After more than three years of working as the Head of ARS BALTICA Secretariat Andrea C. Bayer has left the team. In these three years, two of them spent at Nordkolleg Rendsburg, she made a really good job. 

For ARS BALTICA it will be a great loss, to let her go, but I know she will go her way as it will be the best for her and she will do well. Anyway we all will miss her very much because she is not just capable in her job but also a very friendly person.

 

From now on, the ARS BALTICA Secretariat consists of Guido Froese, Chairman of ARS BALTICA and managing director of Nordkolleg, Franziska Schindler, project management ONE BSR, Jana Büscher from the Nordkolleg department for languages and communication, and me, the volunteer.

Not just the ARS BALTICA team but also the whole Nordkolleg will miss you, Andrea, for your friendly and humorous nature and wish you the very best for your future.

You will find your way.

Bye-bye

Planning a project

On Tuesday Randy and I had our first meeting with the other volunteers to plan our project. For reminding you: in this voluntary social year I do every volunteer has to plan and create a project referring to his working place. On the seminar in October Randy from “VdM”, I from ARS BALTICA and two other volunteers, Daniel from “Musiculum” in Kiel and Frieda from “Offener Kanal” in Kiel have decided to create our project for summer next year together.

Here we are sitting at “Musiculum” discussing about what we want to present:

The topic of our project is to bring people and music together. Thus we are planning a project day where some workshops will be offered e.g. a drum circle where people get directly in touch with trying percussion instruments or a guitar crash course where people can learn about basics on the guitar.

Also we will present some historical instruments from Germany and from the Northern countries by giving audio tests and the chance to try playing on them. Another workshop will be a presentation by a music therapist who will tell about how music can inspire and influence our body, thoughts and feelings. 

Also you can learn about modern pop culture by another presentation.

Interesting topics, aren’t they?

More information after our next meeting

Writeya

Bye-bye Laetitia

Now the four weeks of your BECC exchange are over and you went back to Brussels. What a pity! The time you were here was very nice: I learned a lot (not at least for my knowledge of English ;)) and had a lot of fun. We will miss you.

 

I hope you also enjoyed the time and learned a lot about ARS BALTICA and Nordkolleg Rendsburg as well as we learned a lot about IETM. And when you are back to Northern Germany one day you already know how to greet someone: Don’t forget about “Moin!” and “Mahlzeit!”

We hope to see you again!

With best regards from NordKolleg

Writeya

First snow in Rendsburg

Yeah, the winter is visiting Germany early this year. The good thing is that we could do things like this:

The negative thing is that I need more than half an hour to drive here, but it’s ok as long as the Christmas spirit stays.

I wish you all a beautiful pre-Christmas period and best regards from NordKolleg.

Writeya