From theater to Italian dinner

04.11.2010
Köln

In the beginning of the day all of the group woke up, had their breakfast and then went out to start their activities as used to.

After we all had gathered in the training place and started our awakeninig games, we began our workshop about integration. The group was divided into 6 groups in order to work with each other in creating a theatre that talks about immgration cases.

Every group had its case and we had to put ideas together to be acted by the group members.

Then we all had discussion to interpret the solutions. Then we left for an NGO organization of migrants in Germany.

The people there told us about the organization mission and its activities, we have played many entertaining games, and also they showed us a small show which they had filmed when they were in Palestine, we as Palestinian participarts were very happy to see the talking about our country as they understand our culture very well, we were happy also because we saw our streets and University in this short film.

After finishing the activity, we were divided in pairs to go and make street actions, we had a great time talking to people in  cologne streets and giving them surveys about global challenges to explore their way of thinking and their new ideas.

Then we were back to the social center to continue our workshops, we first continued the rest of the theater plays, and discussed them together. Then we were divided to seven groups, every group was asked to talk about a story that expresses experience of migration and integration, the groups were as follow; Imposed_ extrnal migration_ return_ internal migration_ chain_ external to urban_ step migration. All of the stories were presented by a group member, after every presentation we had evaluation and discussion.

In the end of the day we went to have Italian dinner, and we were back to the hostel.