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April 5, 2009

Great week with SuFu in Copenhagen

Today morning was the last time, when participants of "Sustainable SCANdinavia" gathered together in the hostel common room in Copenhagen, to look back to this great week and see what they had learned.
It both seems like ages ago and like yesterday at the same time, when participants were welcomed in the hostel, where they also got their own personal mug, that was used during the whole week (no plastic cups were used during this event).

It was nice to see people using their SuFu mugs everywhere. Hopefully they will be also used in future events :P

Copenhagen has many sustainability practices to show: everyone knows about the big amount of bicycles in the city, in fact the city hall representative, who gave us open speech for the whole week, also arrived on a bike. Alternative community Christiania represents it's own version of sustainability, where we had guided tour.

Another aspect came with the visit to waste management center: Danes seem to have recycling in their blood and public recycling centers are used often.
It is also no problem to find organic food in Denmark, even visiting a most common supermarket, the organisers could find enough products to make almost totally organic dinner for all the participants. On the last evening we even got the chance to dine in a 100% organic restaurant, where everything from the clothes of the cooks to the drinks in the bar was organic. Plus the meals, that were made right in front of the customers in the open kitchen.

It was great to spend this week with so nice participants, who really made the event come alive. Besides the crazy parties, participants still managed to wake up every morning on time (big thanks to our wake up responsible Miguel!) and stayed energetic during all the days (thanks to Percin for all the energizers!). Also weather seemed to like us, as on the last days some people even managed to get small sunburn.


The concrete results of the "Sustainable SCANdinavia" are probably still to come. Many nice ideas were created for next possible events, and if we are lucky, we might even have 2nd Scandinavian sustainability lesson still this year in Sweden.

Finally I would like to thank Karmen from Ljubljana, who was one of our trainers and AEGEE-Copenhagen guys, for arranging us probably the most delicious dinners in the history of AEGEE events and showing us the Copenhagen nightlife! My last thanks go to Katrin and Dragana, who were the managers for this project and worked on it for many months. Well done, girls!

2 comments:

Karmen said...

Thank you for amazing week! Miss you already :) Panda hugs and kisses to all of you!

Miguel said...

It was indeed one of the best events I have attended, and it is not a big surprise when I look back and I see how it all fitted perfectly. We had an intensive program that we managed to fulfill, a great team of friends as trainers/organizers, and the ideal mix of participants, interested in the topic and eager to make sustainable friendships!

I also want to thanks Dragana and Katrin for the previous work and the coordination efforts; the people of AEGEE-Copenhagen for the choice of restaurants (I am slightly afraid of AGORA although I trust Magusa people will feed us well too...); Kadri for her hugs, Karmen for her smiles and for staying late at parties with me; Percin for all conversations and his morning "I hate you"s.

And all the 21 participants for their effort, comprehension, openness and enthusiasm. We had magic!

Let the panda guide our steps!