08.03.2013: Saying 'Good Bye'

This is the last day of the exchange. The time passed faster than we expected and wanted it to pass. In a few days everyone got to know each other, we can proudly say that the ice-breaking games fulfilled their purpose in every case. But the more closer we got, the more sad was the farewell.

After five days of hard work the sixth one was a bit more relaxed, but in my opinion that relaxing break was well-deserved. So on the last day we had a lot of freetime to exploret the city. Almost all of us took the bus to go to the city center. There we went to a huge shopping mall to spent remaining money on provisions and souvenirs, whilst the others where doing their own business at the hotel (maybe preparing the farewell?).

Then we were busy with packing our bags, also the last improvements of the blog had to be finished, because the next hours were the last ones we all could spend together. For privacy reasons pictures of packing our stuff ;-)

Then we were called to the community room. Our "managers" prepared another kind of game for us. It wasn't a real game, but we were asked to write everyone letters of what we want to tell him. Some students forgot to put their names on the letters, but nonetheless everyone got to know each other well enough to assign the letters. In the picture on the right you can see Kiril writing one of his letters. It's a great experience to see that sense of community. 

Afterwards we also took great photos of the farewell evening, which you can see here -

Last dance!

Also the latvians said good bye to their own comrades :-)

A happy good bye picture from the bulgarians

And after farewell we had to wait for the taxis, coming to 

pick up the latvians. During that remaining time we moved

 our dance willing bodies to the dance floor. We didn't want to 

let the evening leave sad memories. 

F-a-r-e-w-e-l-l   P-a-r-t-y !!!

Im pretty sure that the exchange was a full success. We're able to note some achievements concerning our goal to evaluate the freedoms in the EU, as for example new experiences regarding the teamwork with students from other countries using the english language, worked-out recognitions concerning the freedom to travel and of course new contacts and a worthful stop on our life's timeline.

Thanks for the amazing time!