HOP DO DUHY

HOP DO DUHY

2007

Kratký film

Introduction


What is Duha?


Summercamps - Dlažka


Summercamps - Morawia


International Summercamps - I-Club


Workcampy


Inside Klub Ulice - Duha WINGS -


Hop Do Duhy - the end


:)

Our Party

A little bit I was „afraid“ to get inside Tolcův Dvůr yesterday.
Everything started there, and our „farewell party“ was like „and everything finishes there“. I thought i could be sad.
And of course it’s true that at the beginning getting inside the room, with our exhibition i was shocked… Too many memories….I didn’t think that watching ourselves now, from outside could be so…… colourful!
But the truth is that during the party the main feeling, was not a „farewell feeling“ but a „never ending feeling“…. Somehow.

Too many feelings that somebody got so confused, that forgot everything…...
Hem hem… future President of Poland who gets inside (by mistake) an other flat at 3 o’clok in the night… why not??? Of course just for FU…………………………

I think that we made a nice movie... I put here one part of it, a very small part... but one of my favorite!
Pictures on Picasa! ciauUU! Vale

Irinas-Profile - Get Video Code

Fresh news from Germany...

Hi to all colourful people!!!
I just spoke to Vale on MSN and she asked me to write you something about "my new life"... so here are the very fresh news from Leipzig.

I arrived yesterday and took a walk to the city centre. It is very beautiful, with a deep history. Every second building is my university. My flat is close to the very centre in an old beautiful house. People I met are nice. Im sharing the flat with two boys and one girl, in this time we have one more room-mate, who is doing her practise in Leipzig for some weeks, but she is leaving next week. One of my room-mates is also a volunteer in one organisation for childern and young people with interesting program. I think I will join in the next weeks... every thuasday they organise "language evening". People meet together and speak foreign languages. I like this idea:-)...

Tomorow I´m gonna meet the real face of being refugee:-)... first I´m gonna sing myself for studies and then I will probably visit offices for inhabitants of Leipzig and for foreign people living in Germany, if I´m not gonna spend the whole day with singing myself. On every institution I will wait some hours I think... and I will experience one interesting thing called "biometrical photo"... maybe I will regret I didn´t take any Zubrowka;-)... at least there is a welcome party on friday:-)...

I´ve heard some classes are already full, cause the German students can sing from yesterday. I hope they will allow me to visit classes I like... think of me. The winter term starts on monday.

That is actually everything in this time. If you want to take holiday from your hard work in Duha, my doors are open!!! Good luck with working on the booklet!!!

Best autumn greetings from Učí!

The song of Happiness....

I love taking pictures, as sometimes a photo can describe situations better than words.
Especially now that I am leaving into EVS life....
How to explain deeply with words, a situation where a Bulgarian , a Lithuanian , a Portuguese a French and an Italian carry a sofa' in the night for about one km, under the rain?
Or how to explain, sleeping in a gym with homeless people who are gonna playing into a theater-festival?
Or a moment where, finding some benches into a changing-room of a school, someone says: “Now we have 15 minutes”. “For what?” “For sleeping”, being too tired from previous crazy days...

Sometimes I feel it's impossible to describe some moments, as inside this experience there is a whole bunch of feelings and to describe them I would risk to be banal and all these moments are a lot of things except than banal and facile.

I was very proud of the pictures that i had taken last Friday during the big event in Šumperk of Doduhy Most.
Unfortunately I don't have those pictures anymore, as my camera was stolen.
I didn't know if I felt sadder for having lost my camera or for having lost my pictures. Or for the fact that probably my camera had been stolen by the people for whom I was working for.

And of course the suspects of everyone there were mostly on some gypsies kids who I had around all the time.

My camera was found, but not the pictures as they were deleted by the “thief”, who, against all the “expectations” was not a gypsy.

I firstly felt grateful to my Friends who found it, terrible sorry for my pictures but mostly, somehow shocked for the reaction of one the gypsy kid after the “retrieval” of my camera. I run to him as soon as I got my camera back, as during the evening he and other gypsy kids had been “interrogated”.....
I wanted to show him that everything was ok now.
I excepted him to smile, but what I saw was that there were tears in his huge, deep, black and proud eyes.
I am not sure if his tears were of sadness or happiness.
Even because i also wanted to cry for several different mixed feelings...
Again, I don't know how to explain some things....

Anyway, after we sung the song of Happiness in Italian (La canzone della felicita') and everyone was happy again...

Vale

Sumperk-Doduhy-People - Get Video Code

Are you not "scaramantic"???

For Italian superstitious people,open an umbrella into non-open spaces is, a very bad sign for bad luck... In Lithuania evidently not!
Alfonso is so worried and shocked that starts to "coin" new words... as SCARAMANTIC (in italian "scaramantico" means "superstitious").Enjoy the video!
Valeee

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

Babí léto 14th-16 September

Hey people,
I suppose you also got the e-mail from Štěpán with information about the next TAMJDEM. Who is gonna join:-)?
My exam will be over, so it could be a good possibility to meet all together... What do you think?
Šárka

Kasia is really sad.....

I have a little depression because of my leaving ...
I will miss Ostrava so much, of course the most my lovely children..
But I am sure that I will be back here soon!!!

Vale, I think that I will need a lot of zubrowka in the nearest future because of my sadness after leaving Ostrava hahaha...


But I don not want to say here about my bad mood today...I will tell you one of the greatest sranda which we had during this two months ;-)

One day at my tabor I played some games with my lovely children. But I noticed in one moment that one girl, Veronika, is not in the room and we need to be all together so I wanted to go and look for her.
But in the same moment when I was opening the door to go outside Veronika was going to our room and I said:
Ohhh, tady jses, a ja te szukalam
I have forgoten that this word, which in polish means looking for, in czech means something totallny different...
It means .... fucking

So I told that time:
I was fucking you.....

Can you imagine how loudly my children laugh?

see you soon

Kasia

Some of the Reach The Rainbow girls in Krakow!

Pity Pity but True that our trip to Krakow is already finished! It was only one weekend, but very intense!

I even got the opportunity to visit Auschwitz...
So, what I know more after this weekend?

• First of all, that Polish people (of course for my experience) are very kind, friendly, hospitable, generous and funny people, and sometimes they get głupawka...

• That Krakow is a beautiful city!

• That sometimes Polish tv broadcasts rubbish-Italian sitcoms with a strange kind of dubbing...

• That sleeping with Irina can be dangerous
  

• That I am a pierogi-lover!
• That Uči's future son (little Mister G) will have a strange Dutch green best uncle..
• That Caterina cannot live without Zubrowka... but well...we already knew that, to není news!;)

• That I am looking forward to seeing all you Reach The Rainbow people!!!!

Big kisses to everyoneeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! {Nadaaaa!! I am missing you!!!}
Vale

some photos from Katka' s camp

http://picasaweb.google.com/k.cieszynska/OstraviceCamp02

Tangersdorf The Video

So, this is the video that i made in Tangersdorf.
My staying there was of course easier with an aim to reach (making the video), and of course it's a present for the children as well :)
Polibek! Valeeee

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

P.S. - Some photos...

If you are interested in pictures from Ahlbeck:
http://picasaweb.google.com/shaarka.rainbow

Camp in Ahlbeck: "I will survive..."

Hi to all of you, friends of the rainbow!

The last summer camp has reached its end and I´m back home... Heilbad (healing spa) Ahlbeck was a lovely place to stay again, even the camp was quite tiring this year. However I take it like a very useful experience about working with group with big differences between members and finding compromises. And also fight with big bordel in the organisation. But I think (and hope), that we have prepared nice time for the participants.

Actually there was no time for evaluation at all, cause I had to changed my thoughts very quickly. But time will show and I thing I will take it very possitive at the end. I´m sitting at my table with psychological and pedagogical books since yesterday... I´m looking forward to taking the last rest with you in Krakow!

Dear Valentina, unfortunately there is no exact information about Mister G. His first idea was to stay in Germany to "arbeiten". He changed his mind at the border, while the policeman was checking his "Indian" passport for 20 minutes... But finally he could could arrive to Germany and get the food, drinks and accomodation for free („his family in India would be very thankful for that.“). Except of that he also got some emotional and sexual support from his „děvky“, that he could experience „český ráj“… He tried to become famous in ping-pong tournament, but he only occupied the second place - that was not enough to get the German citizenship. Last message from the German police says, that he was seen in Neptun costume swimming to the Polish border and shouting: "Asupisamas... this is the shortest way home!" I hope we will hear about him soon! :-)

Next written message in three weeks... if I won´t get crazy till then. Enjoy your free time as intensive as I will be learning:-)!

Kisses and hugs from Sha

Valentina čači

Strange title for this post?

I know, but this is the first thing that comes in my mind when I think about Tangersdorf, my summer camp in Germany. I am used to hear people using with me strange nick-names that should sound italian, but actually they're not... like someone at the camp used to call me „muchacho“... (??????). For this reason it was normal for me that one of the Czech children used to call me Valentina-čači all the time.

Only on Sunday, the last day, coming back from Germany, she told me that „čači“ is a Moravian way to say „pretty“. (she comes from Moravia). I was very surprised! With this girl and almost all the participants of the Czech group I didn't have a common language, however I „spoke“ with them a lot. Of course the lack of a verbel language created problems sometimes, but what surprised me it's that despite this big lack we communicated a lot. It's like, that if you want you can develop alternative way of communication, putting verbal language on a second plane. In this case I totally ignored the fact that a person was calling me all the time „čači“, totally ignoring the proper meaning of the word, but feeling at the same time as a friendly mean created to be closer to me.

This second camp was very different from the one in Liberec, for many reason, but now, I feel it as a continuum of it.

The camp lies in the Brandeburg, just into a forrest. The German leaders used to call the place Ass of the World, I agree with them. What we had around was only trees, lakes and wild boars... The children were 2 groups, Czech and Germans. They were very nice and funny, even if in the Czech group someone was sometimes too „lively“... But i liked them really much, and I spent very nice moments with them.... one of the best was of course when everyone in the camp was sure to have lice... It was a fake lice epidemic who created panic in the camp for some hours.. actually it was not true.. but we needed the doctor to stop this panic!

My „disadvantaged position“ to be there alone, was somehow an advantage too: I was like an observer, not German, nor Czech, I could watch from outside the different behaviours of the groups... it was funny!

Cultural shock for poor Sardinian girl:

One day they served Rise with sugar (Alfonso... now I know the feeling that you had in your summer camp).

Ok now I am Prague again, and I am really happy to be back. Even if it was a positive experience, I was very tired at the end, and 14 days are really a lot! But again yesterday, waking up in the calm flat where I live, i felt a bit lost, and somehow i miss the nice mess of the summer camp.

Hey, what about Mister G? Does someone have news from him??
Next weekend i'll leave for a very special WEEKEND !!!!! I am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!

And people at Meet At The Freak?? I guess it will be cooL!!!

Hey, I am not joining the working camp in september! Some friends are coming to visit me FROM ITALY! And of course, i want to stay a bit with them ; )

So, I put some pics of Tangersdorf.. i even made a video, that the children appreciated a lot, but it's quite long, so, maybe I'll cut something and I'll load it here!

KISSES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vale, Tinozza, čači!!!!

All good things come to the end...

Pity, pity, but true – my camp is finished! Now, I am again in Ostrava, but still with my lovely children in Ulice Club where we may meet every day from Monday to Friday.

Those 12 days in Ostravice were great:

Swimming , sunbathing, climbing, playing games, barbecue paries, disco parties, ghosts’ raising, talking in the evenings....

In the shortest way: VELKA SRANDA!!!!
And I have invitation at next summer camp!

It was wonderful time, not only nice moments, but also solving some problems like conflicts in he group or crying children missing home. All experieces are very valuable for me. And everything thanks to my lovely children...Because of them, I know that it will be very hard for me to leave Ostrava...I have spent so much time with my children that I have attached to them very strong.

Anyway, I am happy that I have had possibility to do all this things!

And nearest future seems to be nice for me: this week one of my best friend is coming to Ostrava, at weekend I am going to Krakow (hurrrray!!!) and then workcamp in Karlstejn with Gigi ;-)

Kisses & hugs & greetings
Kasia

Deep inside the Bohemian paradise

NAZDAR HEzky KAMARAD!! !!! :))

I miss you rainbow people..
I was deep in the forest hidden from civilization, in a duha workcamp
called Osinalice with other 10 international volunteers .

The organisation is called DoNitra (that means something as deep inside)
it promotes many different courses with a sustainable and eccological attitude
only vegetarian meals that i loved , i even stopped eating meat at all :))
no water in the pipes, everyday we would need to get water from the fountain
and eccological toilettes that separated the pooh from the pee,
the pooh would go to compost
and the pee to be absorbed by the soil! Quite smart swedish invent,
because the urine has too much urea for the crops.. :))


what did i do?
NaTURE of the area known as the Natural paradise of Bohemia,
i relaxed very very much, no traffic, wandering in my bike :))
i worked, digging, working with cement, making wall, painting, seeding, cooking and other stuff,
i went climbing for the first time,
i tried a Sioux Indian Sauna very mistical and hot experience,
i read some cool books,
i learned something about other cultures, especially about New Zealand,
i practised some Asian Calligraphy,
i learned how to build a camera obscura (the first photo "camera" ever made),
i swimmed in the natural swimming pool with my clothes while rainning :)),
and i met interesting people

i didn't get tired of the isolation i plan to come back to DoNitra in September, i even left my bike there! Still it was cool to come back to the city chaos (and to have a shower)! :))

Paraphrasing Nad, "You allready were strange, now you are even stranger!" :)) now i prepare to leave to Germany next wednesday, i want to buy the material to offer workshop of camera obscura.. :))

Have fun all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joao

Katka je rada na ten tabor ....

jsem velmi rada!

This tabor is like holidays for me...
I really enjoy it despite my duties- it is only pleasure for me!

My children are lovely, every day they ask me new smart and sophisticated questions, and I try to get them answers in smart and sophisticated way, in czech language of course!!!

The weather is beautiful, there is swimming pool next to our building, food is delicious, we have trips every day.... what may I want more?

I have adopted five children! They told me that I would have been "hezka mamka" so I had no choice!

I am sharing my room with Stania and it is really ok for me!

Now, I don' t know if I want to come back to Praha... I have such a wonderful kids here, that I would like to stay in Ostrava ;-)
So don' t be suprised if you don't see me in September hahahaha...

kisses
Katka

Šárka and Mister G are leaving to Germany...

Hi people!!!
I want to say just a short hi, cause my train to Prague is leaving in 45 minutes:-)...
Yeah, me and Mister G we are going to Germany tomorow morning! Well, I hope at least: Luckily Helena from Arabela called me today and she is now sending G back to Prague. They changed the dates of departure somehow and G was supposed to come back to Prague tomorow. We would be gone... So: Everyone please pray for G, that he won´t miss the wonderfull 12 days by the sea:-)...
Anyway, my holiday in Holland was great... I will tell you in September. Looking forward to seeing you then!
Enjoy your camps and projects, guys!!!
Šárka

kasia is going at the camp

I feel in duty to write sth before my leaving at the camp...

Yes, on Sunday I am going with my lovely children in Beskidy Mountains!

I am happy as I really love mountains, but on the other hand I am worry a little if I have enough patience and energy to spent with them all time during 12 days of our camp ;-)

As they ask me every day “Katka , ty rada na nas tabor?”...
and they ask me so many (so sophisticated and smart) questions that sometimes I don' t know what to answer!!!
For example: Do you have a husband? Do you have a boyfriend? Do you have children? How many children do you want to have? Will you raise ghosts with us? Will you live in our room (boys asked)? Will you sleep with us? Etc.

So I suppose that I won' t be bored next days any minute ;-)

I decided to take one bottle of zubrowka if hard moments come hahahaha ;-)

I hope to hear from all of you in the nearest future and see some of you at my camp!

Enjoy wherever you are and whatever you do!

Buziak from Katka ;-)

Chocolate

Very sad.. but yesterday at LAST I got back from the camp ;/ And.. I am fine, thanks :D and how are you all??!! My first blog message was about 6 pages long but I remembered that 'tree' girl told me to not use bad words.. So now its only 1 page long :-)

PEOPLE! You know whaaaaaat?? Few days ago In my camp was an angel! Not imaginary or something but a real one. So It was about 2 o clock in the afternoon, I was sleeping when one of my eyes opened and I saw some mature people arriving at our camp… thoughttt mmmm interesting! But after few minutes they all sat near the table and started to tell their life stories! Borring! So got slept for one hour more! Gigi was so tired of sleeping so he woke up. He was seeing all this people gathered near the table and sharing their experience what people should do and what they shouldn’t do in their life, what is bad and what is good:D So Gigi was running from them! Anddd! My dear readers, yes, including even you;) I saw a girl! She was like 4 years old and all shining in brightness! I was playing with the football ball and she laughed at me non stop for 10 minutes, after we started to play together and she started to laugh even more, she was falling on the ground all the time and standing up if nothing happened, she was even ‘catching’ ball with her head but on every minute of our game laugh was getting more and more powerful. Sometimes when I stopped the game for some time there was no laugh just an incredible huge smile direct to me:D She wasn’t real I guess because I think
that she arrived from some planet to visit me;) Thank you little angel! Unfortunately I don't have any picture of her.
Soo pictures! I will put just a photo of two my best friends in the camp!

On the left side is Barchio(Bara, Barushka) and on the right Honzo!

Also in the upper picture you can see a front picture of Honzo and a piece of the sky I could see through my cage’s hole.

Allll this stuff I was writtening you from DUHA's small office in Ostrava(now I am stealing Kasia's internet SORRY KASIA!;D)

That's all for now;)

So Thank you for
your time and now go to work because job needs you ;-)

G&G

Arabela in Liberec (the video)

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

So, this Arabela, the place where I made my summer-camp.
Maybe Arabela will close, because the municipality wants to sell the house.... I can't immagine that this place will die. So, let's hope they'll find a solution! Ciauuu! Valeeee

POMALU POMALU


Back in Prague! There were moments in Liberec tha I felt like I was in exil, as it was a little bit difficult for me to perform „communication“ there. With Helena, the director of Arabela (the home where I lived), luckly there's always been communication, even better, I really had fun with her and the others of „Arabela's family“.
But I was there even to stay with the „children“, and the fact that they were too shy and afraid for trying to speak in a foreign language, made me feel like impotent sometimes at the beginning. And as many know, in order to fill up this lack of communication among humans, I turned to the nature....
I was speaking with Gigi on msn yesterday, and he asked me if I really believe that a tree can hear me... And I think it was the crucial point of everything there in Liberec: one evening speaking with my favourite tree, I suddendly thought that maybe it could not be possible that he understood me, as I used to speak in Italian with him, and actually the tree was Czech. And in that momenti I felt myself lost, lonely and alone. But after I thought that it was an „oversimplified thought“. Com'on, if you wanna communicate with someone you can do it, it doesn't matter if you have a common language.
Pomalu pomalu, it was just happening this in Arabela. Slowly the children realized that I wasn't so alien as I looked like, and almost everyone tried to communicate with me, in different ways.
Sunday morning when I told them BYE BYE, I must admit that I felt really sad to leave them and from their eyes I can say that they felt the same.... And on Monday morning, when I woke up in my very silent and calm flat in Prague, I felt a bit melancholy, as I missed the nice chaos that was in Arabela.
I even meade a video while I was there, and who knows, maybe I'll load it here.
So, my first summer-camp was a very nice one. Not easy sometimes, but for sure unforgettable, in the positive way. Next Saturday I'm leaving for my next camp, in Germany for two weeks! So, please keep in touch! It was very important for me during my „exil“ in Liberec to hear from you, especially thanx to Nada and Caterina, thank you really a lot! And of course it was great to have Joao with me, even for 2 days(you can see him in the picture)!
Yeah, ok ok, long post! But i think it's a nice way to see what is happening in Reach the Rainbow!
Kisses for everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plan of Action - Joao - August

It seems very egocentrical :))) but here it is:

30th July - 12 August - Workcamp Osinalice
I won't have any mobile network and probably not that much internet also, so if you wish to contact me, do it by text messages!!!

16th August - 2nd September - Meet the freak

See you soon shiny people!! i will miss you a lot :))
joao

WORKCAMPS - SEPTEMBER

Krasne rano beautiful people!!

:))

About the Workcamps that we spoke about
here are the subscriptions:

Rajnochovice
- Alfonso
- Irina
- Mr. G
- Joao

Karlštejn
- Kasia

Gigi, Valentina and Nada are still not decided / thinking

Enjoy your day!
Joao

Tinozza in Liberec!!!!!

Ciao Friendsssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a beautiful feeling to come here and to find all your posts!!!! great!!! i am happy that you're doing fine!
Joao! so you went at your favourite place ! i was sure u enjoyed a lot! and the picture is very nice!!!

Ucitelka, here there are a lot of people that know you, the germans and helena and kuba...!!! you are a famous ucitelka!

Pedritoooo?????? co to je?????? you opened a shop in prague??? ah u missed a nice movie last week!

And Caterina, na ja, i know you're fine, and i am glad about it!

Nada, i think that i won't have the time now to read the files you sent us, but it sounds interesting! so, when i'll be back we'll speak about it! ah, your pivo/mentor is a great delusion, no pivo since ages, co to je??

Yeah, let's speak about me... As many know, I am in Liberec, since Thursday, and I'll stay till Sunday.
I live in a kind of house with a group of teenager from Germany and Czech Rep, that are spending 10 days here, having "leasure time". The director of the school is very nice , very active, i think she 's really a good person.

But life here is even hard. I am here, among a group of young people, a little bit shy, and very afraid to speak an other language.... So, when i need to speak, because human being needs it, i speak with trees. I have my favourite one, he's very nice, i mean, he doens't reply, but he listens to me, and he's nice.

YEsterday we celebrated Xmas here! Yeah, it's not a joke! Helena (the director) created a very strong Xmas athmosphere... and we got helped by the bad weather too! It was great feeling.. xmas in July!

OK, i go now! I post you some pictures of my experience here! (one picture is of the 'treasure's haunting" that i organized yesterday... guess what are the names of teams...)
(today we went for a walk....: "walk"... from 11 to 18 in the evening! ). Na ja, das ist gesund!
A kiss for all you!!!!!!
Valeeeeee

news from Ostrava...

uff...I don' t know what did you do last weekend but I was working very hard...

My lovely coordinator, Stania, had to check all camps which are now in Czech Republic and she took me also... it was a really great experience for me!
So we visited 7 camp in 3 days, we drove about 1200 km... and I did my survey - it was my main task during our visiting... So now I have nearly 200 survey to read, analise and assume....I will be veeeeeeeeery busy in this week ;-)

And I want to finish it before Saturday, as my mother and brother are coming at weekend!! (with pierogi and zubrowkaaaaaaa)!!!

greetings from Ostrava!

AUGURI A TE, AUGURI A TE, MOLTO AUGURI A TE... AUGURI A TE!!! HHEHEHEHEHEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!! :)

AUUUGGGURRRIII ALFONSO!!!! :)))

Un bono jorno con molta pasta al dente (non dolce)
a tuto di bono kamarád!!!

i have just returned from Usti nad Labem,
i was there to visit an open club called NOVY SVET,
we had there a Tamjdem some time ago,
and now i came back to visit the people and the city that i love very much! :))

This club is in this street called Matični ulice, a roma/gipsy neighbourhood
that many locals fear. Even in the train, one guy told me: " don't go there! It's very dangerous!!"
When i told him i met those kids and those people,
he became to be a bit afraid of me... :))

I enjoyed a lot, it was cool to stop by there
i met many foreigners that were in a Workcamp there in the club,
i was playing with the kids and taking some music made by them..
(have you ever heard vocal beatbox?)
and i drank a lot yesterday celebrating streetart and new business .. :/

Tomorrow i go to that movie fest :)
and then my plans are to be in beautiful Morawia
for the entire week!!

See you very soon!!! :)))
Enjoy Liberec weekend!!! :)))

and Tinozza.. FUCKING AMAZING VIDEO!! :))))
IT IS REALLY COOL!!

joao

Hey there!!

Hey guys, I hope, you are having fun like crazys, while I work like a Roman Empire slave :P


I was walking in the street, when I saw this.... What else can I say besides "WHAT A FUCK!!

Hope to see you soon!

Hugs to you all
and One special one for ALFONSO!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UČÍÍÍÍ SAYS HI!!!

Hi to everybody!

Thank you very much for your nice messages! I can be lucky as a mentor, that you are doing fine.

Thanx Valentina for the great video! I was impressed:-)... I would like to put here some picture or video too... hmmm... I don´t have any recent but I´ve found some old rainbow picture from Ústí nad Labem. This is the place, where our "webmaster" disappeared:-)..... just to keep it colourful like the rainbow:-)...

Anyway, people, I got the date of my exam today: 10th September. It is quite good. And got the best chief of the commission I could... (small yuhooo - this is the half of the success). Still it is great, that I will have a lot of time to spend with you in September after I will pass or fail...

I´ve got another suggestion for you. I know film festival in Uherské Hradiště sounds really cool and I would like to go, but it is really far away... I haven´t given up yet... but also I´ve just spoken to people in Arabela (the place in Liberec, where Valentina will spend her next mission) and we could visit them... Some excited souls for that? Liberec is nice city with lot of possibilities, people there like to drink beer and it is just one hour far away from Prague. For me as well...

I would like to do something on the weekend, cause otherwise I will be home alone...:-)

I´m looking forward to hearing from you again soon. Just keep in touch like now...

And of course.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALFONSO!!! (I hope they will prepare some good cake without pasta for you in Přerov...)

I wish all of you all the best!

Vaše učitelka Šá:-)

Reach the Rainbow in Ostrava

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

Dear Friends,

I am very glad that the blog is working , great!

So, life in Prague is always fine! Yesterday it was my first day without pivo.. i know that as Nada's 'Mentor of Pivo' i should be more devoted to the national symbol of this Republic.. I am sorry, but reccently Nada has special tastes for „car cocktails“ and she wanted absolutely drink one... I don't know, maybe it's a trend in French..... ;P

Whatever... tomorrow I'll leave to Leberec (i'm not sure it's the right way to spell it... ) for my first camp for 10 days. I'll leave alone, so none of Reach The Rainbow people will be with me, sighhhh!!!! I'll miss you, but I'm sure it'll be a nice experience! Please if you're travelling there around, come to visit me!!!

Tomorrow it's Alfonso's birthday! Don't forget!

As I am a totally „scatter-brain“ person, in Ostrava I said that we could celebrate it together next weekend... without realizing that I will be in Leberec... To Je Skoda!

What about Gosha? Let us know about you!

Yesterday, I collected some nice pictures and videos of our weekend in Ostrava and here you can see a video about it. I hope that i'll manage to post it, as Joao is not here...
The songs of the videos:

Sent the Pain Below – Chevelle
Opera – Jade
Special Needs – Placebo
Caje Sukarije - Kayah & Goran Bregovic
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (of course this song!!! it sounds like our soundtrack!).

I hope you'll enjoy it ! Especially it's for our nice „host“Caterina.

Kisses for everyoneeeee!!! Valeeee

ahoj everyone!

I want to tell you that you left in our office not only a big BORDEL ( hahaha- no, I am joking, bordel wasn' t so big), but somebody left also the green sleeping bag...and t-shirt also was left by Vale...other parts of clothes wasn't found ;-)
Despite this bordel, it was very nice to meet all you, I enjoyed more than great at our party... Pity, pity, but it' s true, that your visit was so short! too short! So you are invited once again to Ostrava, especially that I read my giude and I discover that there are some interesting things to see and to do here!
So waiting for your next visit I will improve my skating-yesterday evening, at my second lesson of skating I didn' t have any fall...so I try not to run into local squirrels, not to change the positions of street lamp and trees;-)
polibek from Katka!
ps. on Sunday (from morning to noon) I will be probably at summer camp in orlickie hory, so if somebody is also there at the same time...

Dužiny Akce!

Dužiny is the name given to the local groups of Duha!

Knowing about our project,
Some local groups that are not hosting us,
made us some offer for us to visit them!

Local Group	Dates	Place to visit	Notes
Duha Jasmín	15/07 – 25/07	Summer Camp Řičky, Orlické hory	Visit or short stay for up to 2 volunteers
Duha Ča-čua	12/08 – 25/08	Summer Camp Šelmberk	Thematic camp about czech history and mithology. Visit or short stay for 1 volunteer (they prefer Irina Rendy to come! :))
Duha Rysi	24/07 – 2/08	Summer Camp Kočvaruv Mlýn	Visit or short stay for 1 volunteer

If you want to participate/visit any of these, contact Martin at the office!
I don't know anything about these Summercamps.. :/ i mean, how many people are there,
the age groups, ... , but we can easilly find out! :))

And in Šelmberk Summer Camp, they prefer pani Velikova, because of some game where they portray different nationalities, and someone from Varna would be welcomme... :))

Hezky den!
Joao

Summer Film School 2007

In Uherské Hradiště from 20th to 29th July 2007, the 33rd Summer film School! I will stop by at least one day :)) ! Many movies, concerts and Workshops!
To see more, click here.
Joao

VOLUNTEERS SEARCHING THE RAINBOW

SVC	Malgorzata Mroz	tontogorron@seznam.cz	774618934
Duha Dlažka	Irina Velikova	rendy@abv.bg	774641828
	Alfonso Albero	a.albero2005@libero.it	774641596
Duha WINGS / MORAWIA	Giedrius Meiluans	beirut@cosmicemail.com	774685327
	Katarzyna Cieszynska	cieszynskakasia@op.pl	774649548
Duha I-CLUB	Valentina Piras	valentina.piras@gmail.com	774642498
	Giedrius Kalvanas	GiedriusKalvanas@gmail.com	774651753
Duha office	Joao Duarte	cao.joao@gmail.com	774143063
Duha / IYNF	Pedro Henriques	munarijo@gmail.com	775297485
IYNF office	Nada Moumneh	nada.moumneh@gmail.com	774641826

Reach the Rainbow Soundtrack

!REACH THE RAINBOW! OST - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

Free Beer

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

As the say
Black Cat,
Free beer . . .

The Headless Knight

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

Danger for the knight
the drunk
were making
drunkiness
and suddenlly the head fell on the floor

THE 19 ELEPHANT

Upload Video - Top 50 - Get Video Code

Afterall the other worms were missing... :/

Avoid drugs, friends
humans and inhumans

Valentinaaaaaaaa

CIAO PEOPLEEEEE!!!!
i misss you all peoplee!!!
Jak se mate???? I hope you're doing fine!!! What are you doing in your local groups?
In Prague is everything ok! I am relaxing a lot , drinking Pivo and so on... The only negative thing is the rain!!!
Today Gosha came to visit us in Prague, but just for short time, and tomorrow we'll do something together. BY the way, Sarka is here too!
I guess that Alfonso and Irina are in working camps now... does anybody have any news from them?
So, dont't forget please that we have still to sing our NAtional Anthem all together!
NExt week -end me, Mister G and Nada are probably going to Ostrava!!! so, we'll meet Caterina (ZUBROWKA PARTYYY!!!!) and Mister G!
Ok, i send you a big BACIO to everyone, hoping to hear soon from you!

Tinozza

Valentina from Italy, she is a very good girl,

there is no other like her in the world,

She says she will be back in 10 minutes,

I hope it's true, because we're late at Karolina's Pub

Gigi

Gigi is from Lithuania but he drinks only wine from Moldavia,

Yeah he's very cool because he's not fool.

Gigi from Lithuania is talking good cech

and he knows how to say „Bočiouti Mergas“.

Mister G

Mister G is taking the time for celebration of volunteer stuff,

G is called Mister G because of his blond hair

and he loves drinking beer.

Hard Working

Nada

Nada is from France
And she isn't here by any chance
She is looking good
And she likes chinese food

She lives in Grenoble
But she hasn't any Noble,
Nada loves chocolate
But now she is fucking late.

Gosia

Gosia is from Poland
And she has never been to Holland
She speaks czech fluently
And she loves czech people apparently.

Gosia has blond hair
And she allways plays fair
She likes U2 group,
And she also likes to cook.

Alfonso

Alfonso is from Naples,
now he's in Czech Republic and he's very happy for the girls

Alfonso loves the music
and he listens it all days
Now he hopes that the czech music
is good like the italian music

Kasia

Kasia is from Krakow
But she loves Italy very much.
She dreams of travelling to India
and now she is in Prague.

Kasia is lazy
When she needs to learn in May
But she is crazy
When she is on holliday.

Irina

Irina is from Bulgaria
Now she is in Czech Republic
She loves dogs
And makes very nice pictures

Pictures is pic's
Not pigs.
Irina is with brown hair,
but, of nature, she is blondy.
Irina is very "quiet"
Irina dreams very,
all the time.