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.