6 million ways to make a programme – choose one!
February 10, 2010
From around 18.00 on Sunday evening until 5.30 this morning (Wednesday) your via Experientia team has been together, living together, meeting together, eating together, kind of sleeping together, walking together, cooking together, making noises together, laughing and telling stories in Oostende, Belgium seaside town…
Last night, in the restaurant owned and run by one man on his own (he does everything – cooking, serving, smiling, taking orders, clearing tables!) we put down some ideas about our time together these last days and nights. For you to decide what is true? what is false?
We were on good behaviour!
We were respectful!
meeting
We had some conflicts and we solved them!
There were some headaches!
We created a wonderful programme fulfilling everyone’s needs, wishes and aspirations!
wonderful programme
Even understanding why we are involved in this via Experientia!
why we do this?!
We worked hard to eat within the budget in order to save money for Italy!
waiting happily for Turkish food!
We found out that Kaasteel beers help Aura help Dirk focus on budgetary questions!
We walked the mean streets of Oostende, with a biting wind, even some snow whistling past our ears..
ah, the wet streets of Oostende!
The seagulls sang to us as we wended our way past the port
Oostende seagull about to sing
and discovered trawlers which used to fish near Iceland!
Amandine the trawler
and it was cold and Mario needed to get us back to the meeting room where it was WARM!
Mario convinces us all!
Computers rule our world and help us think, maybe!
Clearly – for some of us – the effort began to show on our faces!
Extreme concentration
and we get closer to our goal...
and we had some exciting discussions based on our learning diaries from Kirksnove!
these things we write are so incredible!
And we left Oostende, thankful for Dirk’s hosting of us (and the wonderful Outward Bound Belgium bus – DANK U!)
and convinced that the next step of via Experientia will bring us all so much!!
See you soon!
And remember to take part in the Belgian team’s Moquito Quiz!
(by the way, the title of this blogas article is influenced by Björn’s favourite DJ Cam track which has someone saying “6 million ways to die, choose one” over and over on top of some very sweet music!)
[by the way, by the way, we decided to re-name this blogas and call it "Our Blogas" as soon as the web master can make the change! so don't be surprised! It is the same blogas, it just changes the name to better describe what it is!]
Hi guys!
Sooo looking forward to coming to Italy in may – time doesn´t fly fast enough these days ,) Hope everyone is good!
great to see pictures of you all. Looks like you were all working very hard and did not get much sleep
- I´m starting to plan the family/cancer group and I hear that more and more families want to take part. Guess if it goes well I might just continue
Besos
Ósk
Hey, where is Darius? Did he have a long swim in our cold North Sea?
Experiential family!!!Great to see you back on track
Bertas: Darius was present, but I bet he was most of the time behind the camera. There is one picture though, where you can see his thoughtfull frame
and now there is another in which Darius is even more present!
Aaaah, sometimes you should have a closer look not?
Hi guys,
This time I did’n manage to swim.
It was a bit cold even for lithuanians…
And the programm looks genius!
Looking forward to italy, but first my own project starting tomorrow!
greets
Hey labas everybody, I was interested how Via 1st edition is going on. It so lovely to see you all working together, even I met most of you separately
I hope that if there is another edition I could take part.
I am still living from my practise in Kitokie, Amatu, from X-perience, and the great kick off was in 2003 on Mooolta, meeting Mark.
Hugs everybody,
greetings from Prague, greeting from IYNF,
Lucie
…and there will be another IMOSC conference on outdoor sports in autumn > http://www.imosc.org/ > come over!
Hi Lucie!
great to see you on here!
thank you for your comments and rest assured we have great plans for the future in via Experientia, so keep watching the web site and keep in touch!
Mark