Mysterious evening
‚Representing different countries’ - that is the definition of the word ‚intercultural’. This adjective is used by Youth4Media to call each second evening of their media camps. But what actually does it mean? How can you represent your culture in 5 minutes? what can you learn during the Youth4Media intercultural evenings?
As a managing director of Youth4Media I am always trying to organise the best intercultural evenings but I can never suspect what will happen. People have crazy ideas and those unusual presentations of their countries can be the best ones.
First of all, you get to know the weirdest facts about the nations. Would you suspect that: Romanians discovered pencils, the longest word in German has 27 letters, Polish are the most pessimistic people in Europe, Germany has the biggest number of zoos, each word in Polish is declined, Turkish Raki (the national vodka) is turning from transparent to white when mixed with water, Greeks don’t like their own national drink ouzo and that Danish people are the most satisfied in Europe? Of course there are some things to discuss, like which country’s women are the most beautiful (so far Romanians and Polish were fighting for that title). But you can be sure that: Kinder Bueno is German not Italian and vodka is Polish not Russian!
Second of all, during the intercultural evening, you can experience some performances. The best are: traditional dances, fashion shows of national clothes and presenting individual talents. Last time in Greece, I was amazed by the mini concert of our English participant. The talented rapper, Liam Powers, decided to share with us his songs. And even if I personally don’t like hip hop, the performance of the young Brit was amazing. Everyone (including me) was dancing and singing. Let’s just say that Liam had much power to involve all participants.
Another point is food and drinks. After learning, dancing and singing, you have a chance to eat something which you can’t get in your country. I will never forget: Turkish delight and halva, German gummy bearschen, Spanish chorizo, English tea, Greek white cheese, Romanian sweets and Polish pierogi…
Intercultural evenings are made better when one of the participants is a DJ. This time we had Grzegorz Konopski who made everyone dance untill 5 o’clock in the morning!
Those are the tastes and colours of intercultural evenings organised by Youth4Media. I hope that now you know more about it and you feel invited to join us next time!
Daria Jaranowska
