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You will read : *Life Hacks - written by :Ali Tolga Dincer *Information about the youth exchange in Poland “Look at them from different prespective“ *Impressions from the youth exchange in Serbia - written by: Nade Zhevairovska *A tasty from Turkey: Manti written by: Ali Tolga Dincer
Life Hacks HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER Life hacking refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a playful curiosity in the ways they can accelerate their workflow in ways other than programming. Now it is used for anything that will make the life more simple. Here are a few examples of life hacks: * If you have hiccups here’s what you need to do. Inhale through your mouth, swallow your saliva twice and slowly exhale through your nose. The hiccups are gone! * Make unhackable passwords on your phone by using accented letters. You can hold the letter on the keypad to access them.
* For mosquito bites, lick the tick of your finger and dip it in salt. Then rub the salt saliva solution into your bite. * Experts suggest never to take a nap for 30 minutes. You should either lie down for 10 minutes to refresh or nap for 90 minutes to fully recover. * You can use frozen coffee cubes for iced coffee to make sure the coffee doesn’t get watered. * If you’re feeling stressed there is a website www. DoNothingFor2Minutes.com that challenges you to sit and do nothing for two minutes. Can you do it? * Doritos are great for kindling if you’re going to a barbecue
Look at them from different prespective
“Look at them from different perspective” is a sevenmonths joint project of six organizations from Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Macedonia, France and Poland under the EU program “Europe for Citizens”. The main themes of the project are racism, xenophobia, discrimination and human rights in Europe due to the current problem of overflowing waves of refugees. First we want to “look at” how people in our countries see the migration crisis, ask them about it in questionnaires. In the next stage of the project participants will be trained on racism, xenophobia, discrimination and human rights, will visit the center for refugees and will visit a concentration camp in which these elementary values were not respected. So equipped with knowledge, participants will meet the authorities of the Town Hall of Czersk and the local secondary school students and teachers to discuss “different perspectives” inhabitants of Europe have on refugees. Participants will share with the residents of Czersk their culture during the open intercultural evening. The press conference,
website, presentations, film, exhibitions and workshops for residents will effectively disseminate the project results in local communities of participating countries. Europe is one despite the many cultural and geographical differences, we have different views and experiences, but we share a common history and common values. Through this project we want to make our residents aware of that.
Preparatory visit to the project Between 23 - 26 September was held in Czersku preliminary visit to the project "Look at them from different perspective". For the record - this project is cofinanced under the program Europe for Citizens. The meeting was attended by representatives of NGOs from Macedonia, France, Hungary and Latvia. In those few days, participants debated the measures to be taken before the main event of the project - the meeting of November because on 13 - 19 November representatives of these organizations (and the Italians, who unfortunately could not participate in preparatory visit) once again visit Czersk . In November, participants will deal with issues that concern the immigration crisis in Europe and the associated issues of racism, xenophobia, discrimination or human rights. The further events related to the project "Look at them from different perspective," you'll find out the state of the other articles published on
Association "Our Lag - our village," as the organizer of the project, assured the participants of the preparatory visit also several excursions cultural studies. Foreign guests took part in the Festival Gothic in Odry, visited the aqueduct Fojutowie, a Sunday afternoon spent getting to know the history and culture of Polish Kashubian in Szymbark. A nice touch was also enjoying the sunset in Borsk. The project ended with a farewell dinner.
My impressions from the youth exchange in Ada, Serbia It all started when I applied for this youth exchange called “Do something for yourself and society” and found out from the president of the Association Pavel Satev-Kocani that I’m going to be the leader of the Macedonian team so I knew that a stressful period was coming for me ,compared with the times when I’m just a participant, with more responsibilities and obligations even before going to Ada but as always I think I raised to the occasion and did my best in every task that was given to me like selecting the team, arranging everything with the organizer and my team for the way of travelling, for the intercultural night, then preparing leaders presentation about successful examples of self employment businesses and much more. So the morning of 15 September came and we all met at the bus station in Skopje and our adventure started. We travelled for around 7 hours until we got to Belgrade.
There we waited a bit and then a few people from the organizers came to pick us up and then we drove for 2 and half hours and then we finally arrived in our hostel in Ada where we met the main organizer Istvan and some of the other participants, we got our rooms and my roommate was Szofi the facilitator of the exchange which at the end I was really happy about it because she was a great roommate and even better facilitator. It was funny that me and one of the other Macedonians, Jovana, got lost going to our first dinner in the restaurant, but luckily we found someone to show us the way and after the dinner we got our first look of the workshop room where we would spend a lot of time in the following days and then we all introduced ourselves and since we were so tired we went early to bed. The next day started with the usual name games, some energizers, then we got to know each other, we established some group rules, wrote our fears and expectations, learned more about the Erasmus + program and the Youthpass, we had workshop about Active citizenship, Daily evaluation and I had my first leaders meeting and at night we had the Serbian intercultural night where the Serbian team presented their country on a funny way, then we tried their traditional food and drinks and danced one of their traditional dances and I was great at it I must add,
although I danced that dance few times before. The next days were filled with workshops, team work activities, discussions, presentations, role plays, 2 coffee breaks and amazing Serbian food with a lot of meat for lunch and dinner. Some of my favorite workshops were the learning of the situation of the youngsters nowadays, unemployment: causes and solutions, society and entrepreneurship, the ideal entrepreneur. One of my favorite not so work related activities was the City Rally where we wore the t-shirts we got with the topic of the exchange and the logos of the Erasmus + program and the IFIX our hosting organization and had some interesting tasks to complete through the city like finding the most cheap product in one shop, finding some famous places in Ada and taking pictures in front of them like the church, the city hall, singing a song on the stage in the center and also taking some pictures with the local people. I also really liked the treasure hunting game where we had firstly to find the keys to get out of the room and then get the answers right of the riddles that were hidden in the room and then outside and in the hostel and we got a lot of candies as a prize at the end when we figured out the last one.
Also I really enjoyed our visit to Senta, a city that is around half an hour bus ride from Ada. We walked a bit across the city and took of course a lot of pictures like in front of the river bank and at the statue of the Ferryman where we had a Macedonian group picture which reminded me of the last time I was taking pictures there and that was with another Macedonian team in 2014 which was by the way my first time as a group leader, , when we were on a youth exchange in Coka, a city also close to Senta so it brought so many good memories back and especially because we continued to sit down and eat pancakes in the same Caffe Style with an amazing view and I even sat on the same sofa like the last time I was there.
After the pancakes we continued exploring the city and then we ended up eating Burek for dinner and we ended the night in a club called Mojo where we sang and danced on pop-rock music with a really nice band playing and singing next to us. I have also to single out the Macedonian night as something special for me where the others learned more about our country through the Macedonia Timeless videos, the quiz with magnets from Macedonia as prizes plus they learned some interesting facts about our country. Then we had a special guest which I’m proud of for bringing, funny story is how it all happened: that night he was working in the hostel,that’s the first time I saw him and we had our first talk and when I learned that he plays an instrument and knows how to play 2 of our most famous songs I invited him to come to the Macedonian night which was happening an hour later and he accepted and he was like I live closely to the hostel, so I will have time to take the instrument and come back and I was really happy about it since we were the only ones who had live music and he played our famous songs “Makedonsko devojce” and “Jovano Jovanke” while we were singing them and afterwards we invited the others to dance with us while also teaching them the traditional fast dance called “Pajdusko oro”.
I also loved the intercultural nights of all the countries where we learned a lot of new informations, songs, dances, we tried their traditional food and drinks and every one of those nights ended with partying in the workshop room where we were singing and dancing until our permitted time ended and also we liked to gather in some of the rooms where we talked, joked, laughed, even played mafia and just had fun and used every single free moment to spend with each other. The last day before the departing day came and I felt a lot of sadness because I knew that would be our last day spent together while we were having our last activities like preparing for the next part of the project, presenting the youthpass diaries and we ended with an evaluation before having a Farewell party and there we also saw the unofficial video of the project and what was happening all those days that were now behind us. Since we were leaving in 5 in the morning there was no sleeping for us, we used our last hours for partying and hanging out. I used my motto for this type of projects to keep me awake which is “You can’t create amazing memories with sleeping”.
And here we definitely created amazing memories, I have new friends now from Serbia, Croatia, Greece and Hungary, I learned a lot of new things, got new skills and tools for the future, improved myself on every field and I’m a better person, team player, leader, future entrepreneur maybe and just a better human being now. I can’t wait for the second part of this youth exchange which will be held in Hungary in November where we are going to see each other again and continue with the work and fun we had in Serbia and I’m sure you will read about it in this magazine soon after we come back.
A Taste From Turkey: Mantı…. How to make it?
Mantı is a traditional Turkish food for ages. It’s made from minced meat putten in small pieces of dough. It’s similar to tortellini but the pieces are made from dough instead of macaroni. The dish is usually made from beef but it can be also made from chicken. The dough is made from 3 glasses of flour, 1 glass of water, 1 egg and salt. After mixing them he dough must be opened widely and cutten in square pieces. Then the mince is putten in the pieces and closed by hand. It takes time to make this one by one but in the end it’s worth it :)
After closing, you put the mantı in boiling water and wait for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile you can do the tomato sauce. For the tomato sauce you fry a piece of butter in a pan and wait for it to melt. When it melts put the tomato paste(доматно пире) and fry them together for 5 minutes.When the mantı is ready put it in a plate and put yoghurt with garlic and the tomato sauce on top. If you want you can add red pepper or peppermint on top. Bon appetit :) History The origin of mantı is uncertain. It’s presumed that the word comes from the Chinese word mantou. Until the 8th century the Turks and the Chinese made different variations of mantı in the Middle East. After the 8th century the recipe moved to Anatolia with the migrating Turks. It is still popular in both territories.
Variations of Mantı In Kazak Cuisine: Sheep or horse mince is putten in the dough pieces. It is cooked in steam with pumpkin pieces. Sour cream or onion sauce is used for the sauce.
In Kırgız Cuisine: Mince, potato or pumpkin is put in the dough pieces. Then oil is added to make the Mantı more juicy. It is cooked in water, steam or oil. It is served with melted butter on top. For the sauce, sour cream or tomato sauce is used. Pepper and onion rings are added to the dish. The food is loved by the most of the country and it is cooked by all of the family including the elders and the children
The magazine was created in cooperation with EVS volunteers in Association Pavel Satev- Kocani and eWorld Community Association Pavel Satev- Kocani Karl Marks 64 2300 Kocani
November 2016
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