2009/10/24

Saturday 10th of October

We woke up in Sarajevo and everyone was tired after the hike in Perucica.

Our programme this day was a visit in the danish embassy, in Splitska-street and a meeting with Thierry Joubert from Green Vision.

After a nice breakfast in the small kitchen of the Hostel we took the trolly to the Parlament and strolled towards the embassy. Here Ambassador Kirsten Geelan waited for us. She gave an orientation about the danish foreign service, the work of an ambassador and the actual state og BiH from a dansih point of view. We were charmed by her intelligence, oratorical gifts and attentiveness. 3.c gave some good questions to the ambassador - like how is the daily life? and how is the situation between the ethnic groups in BiH? In all there was a good dialouque between the students and the ambassador - interesting to visit a part of Denmark in BiH. We all wish to thank the ambassador for a good lecture.

After a short break we went to the office of Green Vision in the nearby Radiska-street.

Thierry Joubert told us about the story of Green Vision, eco-strategies in BiH and eco-tourism. He represents the idealistic NGO-type who devotes his life to eco-life and preservation of original culture in BiH and the Balkans. Green Vision is doing a good job but there are a lot of barriers like corruption, short-sighted tourism, economic profit and ignorance. Sadly Denmark is having some of the same problems with preserving nature.

Thank you Thierry - we really hope that we can work together in the future.

The main-event in the evening was the two football-matches: BiH-Estonia and Denmark-Sweden. Both BiH and Denmark won their important matches and Sarajevo was happy - people were cheering in the streets - what a nice experience.

1 comment:

KaosPilots in Mostar-007 said...

Thanks for blogging about this! How is the current relationship with the Gym. in Mostar?