07.11.2010
Aachen
Day started later than planned :) in a beautiful church called the Dome of Aachen, it was an optional visit to the church and attending the mass. Many people joined though with a good mixture of Europeans, Turkish, Palestinians, and Egyptians. A mass was running for around 2 hours with several hymns and choirs in a very organized way. Even though, I am Christian Orthodox, I can still relate several movements and songs to the mass back home. This means that if it not because of the language barrier, I could have joined them in some parts. Some people took communion and my question after this to the organizers: Does this church believe that the bread and wine changes to the blood and body of Jesus (which is a strong believe in the Coptic orthodox church) and he said it does have the same believe (which shows that even they are from different culture, some churches still have the same believes…
From Gender Equality to Misunderstanding and Respect: this was my title for the morning session. Our focus in this was not anymore the gender issues but rather the internal way of communication of the whole CST teams. Relating this back to management and organizational evaluation technique, this was a good approach to refresh the main values in this conference; which are intercultural understandings and ways of communication.
Aachen team did a great job, trying to make sure that they do the right things and at the same time tried to make sure that the CST participants are happy. The city tour was great-Thank you Andre. You can be a tour guide as a side job ;)
Later in the day after having lunch that was prepared by Aachen organizers, we went to a Mosque and we had a good but long chat with an immigrant family over there. Several interesting topics were brought to the ground however; we did not go in depth in most of them. Later in the evening, we went for a drink to celebrate the last day in Aachen.
Aachen
I like Aachen except the weather; it has been raining the last few days not giving us a lot of time to just enjoy the beauty of the city. The last few days in Aachen were somehow relaxed than the ones in Koln and the schedule was a little flexible than before.
Day started later than planned :) in a beautiful church called the Dome of Aachen, it was an optional visit to the church and attending the mass. Many people joined though with a good mixture of Europeans, Turkish, Palestinians, and Egyptians. A mass was running for around 2 hours with several hymns and choirs in a very organized way. Even though, I am Christian Orthodox, I can still relate several movements and songs to the mass back home. This means that if it not because of the language barrier, I could have joined them in some parts. Some people took communion and my question after this to the organizers: Does this church believe that the bread and wine changes to the blood and body of Jesus (which is a strong believe in the Coptic orthodox church) and he said it does have the same believe (which shows that even they are from different culture, some churches still have the same believes…
From Gender Equality to Misunderstanding and Respect: this was my title for the morning session. Our focus in this was not anymore the gender issues but rather the internal way of communication of the whole CST teams. Relating this back to management and organizational evaluation technique, this was a good approach to refresh the main values in this conference; which are intercultural understandings and ways of communication.
Aachen team did a great job, trying to make sure that they do the right things and at the same time tried to make sure that the CST participants are happy. The city tour was great-Thank you Andre. You can be a tour guide as a side job ;)
Later in the day after having lunch that was prepared by Aachen organizers, we went to a Mosque and we had a good but long chat with an immigrant family over there. Several interesting topics were brought to the ground however; we did not go in depth in most of them. Later in the evening, we went for a drink to celebrate the last day in Aachen.
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