Unnoticeably the last day of our project came. In the morning we started discovering our “secret friends”, really nice game that everyone enjoyed. After made our final evaluation of the project and filled in the “Memory book of the project”.
In the afternoon everyone were occupied to rehearse for the Final concert as a result of our creative task – there was 4 international mix groups that played a worldwide famous hit and mix group dancers that made a choreography on these songs. For each one of us was great experience to can share experience and play together with youth the same like us from other country. We learned a lot during these few days working together.
During the Final concert the 4 mix groups played – “All of me”, “Dani California”, “Smooth criminal” and “Play that funky music white boy”. Also the local Sandanski band “Third floor” played some songs and made a great party. Everybody enjoyed the concert!
After the end of the concert all of us went back to the hotel where for us was waiting one amazing cake YES from "1001 Торти" and on an official ceremony the organizers gave us our Youthpasses. It was really emotional end of the project because only 2 hours later we had to send home the first two groups – Spain and Latvia departure for the airport. After during the rest of Sunday all of us went home.
During this 9 days we made a lot of new friends and learned so much for so many things that we can’t resume it here.
After a great concert everybody woke up really happy. And with joy in our minds we filled our Youthpasses. At the evening second day concert has started by Romanian dance group ‘’StarFix’’. The second were the Serbian guys by performing traditional dances with some modern moves and then also Serbian band with help of some Spanish guys performed some songs. Then came the turn for Latvia to perform, they played some great covers and everybody loved the solist. To get us back into dancing mood Romanian ‘’StarFix’’ dancers danced for us a bit more. Last but not least, Serbian DJ played mix of electronic and national music and closed the concert. The show was great!
Finally in
the night time of our sixth day, the concerts started and all of the musicians,
dancers and the DJs made an awesome show! The Bulgarian band "Third Floor" opened the night with their rock music and then the also Bulgarian dance group "The
Hopers" danced for us. The third who performed was band from Spain "START the fusion
group". After that, the Greek girls danced traditional dances. Slovakia then
rocked out with their metal band "Zachovajte Paniku" and "The Hopers" again mesmerized
us with their dance. The Turkish band "Taksis" then played popular pop songs
in their own unique way and made us all dance! Last but not least, the Greek DJ "Taf" played some electronic music and closed the night. Everyone had the
best time ever!
The day
began with departure to Historical source of Bulgarian culture and lifestyle the smallest town Melnik, where we had a chance to visit and see how people were living in the past.
Also we tried home made Bulgarian wine. Then everybody came back to the hotel
to rest for a while and then they went to have rehearsals at the club DaVinci.
On the
morning of our fifth day, everyone had breakfast and coffee and then we all got
to work on our projects with the workshops. Music & Dance creative workshops
practiced their songs and their dances, Photo & Video workshop gathered all
of the photos and the videos of the previous days. Then they organized, edited and
gave them to the PR workshop so they can publish the photos to our blog! The PR
workshop also went to the town of Sandanski to hand out flyers, put posters and
tell the locals about the concerts. In the night everyone went out to a piano
bar and had a great time!
Early in the fourth day of this project, we had a mid-term evaluation of our work and experiences so far and a presentation about Youthpass certificate followed after that. In the evening, each group had a photo-shoot and they also made a video saying the word YES in their respective language showing the respective sign used in their countries. After that each of the workshops started doing their projects. By the time the sky was dark, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey presented their cultures again with lots of food, music and fun!
