Here I AM! BACK IN THE BLOG! =) I didn’t write for 2 days so I’m gonna catch up  today!

Day 3:  2 days ago we arrived in Elba Island at 1 o’clock. It is just like a dream, being on a 61 meter long sailing boot, the sun is shining and we are allowed to jump from the railing into the sea!  After 3 days on board it was time to swim. I really enjoyed having fun with the whole group.

Later on we started the discussion about the theme of “discrimination” . The first impression was really great. We began with women’s rights. The discussion started by one teenager saying that the problem is, women’s rights can’t be released in lands where it is anchored in the cultural background that women don’t have rights. Many of the others didn’t share this opinion. But we knew that outstanding governments can’t be involved in changing the situations. IT MUST COME FROM THE INSIDE. Outstanding organizations can help then.

The evening:  Continue of the dream! All of us were lying on the back of the ship and we were playing games from different countries, dancing and just having a great time!

In the evening we made a roll play about the Summit “ International Climate Change Conference” , which takes place in Copenhagen this year. We were split into groups like the EU, G77, USA, BRIC and so on and represented our facts. It was very interesting to see how hard it is to make a compromise with that everyone can live with.

Day 4:  I jumped off the highest point of the Bow which is 9 meter! IT WAS SO AWESOME!

Day 5:  In the morning we had to clean, like every day the ship, but afterwards we went Free Diving! I wasn’t able to get farther down than 4 meter but it was very beautiful. Florent and I saw something on the ground (9 meters under sea level) and he just took a deep breath and dived down there. It was just paper but it was cool to see that! Later on we took the small boat to get to the coast of Elba Island. There we went swimming and finished our conversation about the environmental. I noticed that at all our votes we had more than 80% agreement. We wanted that the EU, the USA and the BRIC make a binding contract for reduction of the emissions. At night we got an introduction about economic but we all were very tired so we went pretty early to bed.

Niklas helping exhausted Clara down the mountain.

My name is Niklas. I’m 17 and I come from Germany. On the first day, I have already had very strong experiences. In the morning we played a game where we had to trust the people we have known for only one day! After this game we had to use our new knowledge to fit as many people as possible into a hula hoop. I’m proud to say that 14 people fit in there! One girl was on top of all us others! IT WAS CRAZY! But there were volunteers who just stayed outside to balance the mess! It felt that 20 young adults from all over the world became 1 team! This feeling was very intensive! Later that day we were in groups of 2. My team mate was Alexander from USA. I put a band over his eyes so he wasn’t able to see anymore. Then I had to lead him through the ship, upstairs and downstairs, over ropes and through doors. We just met 24 hours ago but he trusted me, in the true way of its meaning. . . blindly. Later, I had to trust him like that and it is definitely not as easy it sounds! Going blind through an unknown ship! I am really looking forward to start talking about the G8 topics because I already talked with many teenagers on board about it and there many good ideas.