ADVANCED PREPARATORY VISIT

Ladies and gentlemen - the project Tutti Frutti 2010 is ready! APV for the Tutti Frutti project took part in Karviná from May 20 to May 23. Team leaders from Turkey, Denmark, Portugal, Romania and Latvia - Tuncay, Karin, Manuel, Natalia and Dace - arrived in Karviná to work on all details of the future Tutti Frutti project meeting.

When we were planning the APV, we were sure that the weather in May will be warm and sunny, unfortunately nature played a game with us and flooded Karvina and a big part of our region, so instead of enjoying sunny days in the Czech Republic, our guests had to experience rainy weather. And what was the programme of APV like?

On the first day the team leaders visited Obchodní akademie Karviná and talked to the coordinators of the project, headmaster, teachers and young participants. In the afternoon Martin, the main coordinator, presented the programme of the project, activities to be done, rules, organisational matters, planned outputs etc. All necessary project details were discussed, agreed and approved by all team leaders. Great! We are on the same wave! To know each other better, we all spent our evening time playing bowling and having a really good game! Well, I can´t remember who the winner was....but this is not important ;-) And as some of the team leaders played bowling for the first time, the photos will remain hidden to the others!

On Saturday, the second day of APV, we all visited the Karvina Chateau (I can´t even count how many times I did the translation into English, I think I almost know the family tree of the Larisch family who owned the chateau) After lunch we did some sightseeing in the city centre and talked over a cup of coffee. We finished our preparatory work discussing Youth in Action programme in general and exchanging our experience, funny stories from various projects and ideas for a future common work. And Saturday´s game? Well, walking in the rain, playing "Armando game" must have been really funny.... Am I right?

So, the APV was quite successful and we ensured that we will work as a team in June and July. By Sunday evening all team leaders left Karvina. Let´ do the final countdown - Tutti Frutti starts in 37 days!