Thursday 12 July
Waking up early was being more difficult day by day since everybody used to fall asleep at about 2 a.m. in the morning. Fortunately, the brunette girl in the room in end of the hall (Jenny) was good at waking everybody up. Today is a special day and this makes us believe that having breakfast as fast as possible( even that the Danish food is too delicious to speed up while tasting it) would help us more . We have an important meeting with an interesting specialist of democracy and education. Mr. Jacob Erle is the director of International Academy of Education and Democracy , headquarter of which is in Copenhagen and now he was visiting our wonderful house and he was very interested in sharing his perception on democracy and globalization with all of us. He knew that being in touch and debating with international students, the main discussion about globalization and the democracy would be more active and alive. We all knew that the following discussion about implementing democracy globally and talking about different levels of democracy worldwide would be amazing.
As BFTF-Fellows, we were all taking notes while Mr. Erle was explaining his power point presentation about the most important events that changed eventually the stream of human communities in earth, levels of democracy worldwide, the difference of perceiving democracy in different levels, globalization, multilayered democracy and the history and the kinds of democracy itself. We had lunch together and then we were divided into two groups, each of which had to play a democracy game where we given challenges, power( who addresses this challenge to), and participation, and we had to put each challenge in the right level of democracy: Global ,Regional, National or Local level. When both of the groups were done with filling the spaces with the little papers according to their group choice (although debate in groups were very rough), both of the teams had to compare their answers and argue about different choices they made.
The debate became as interesting as everybody was involved in talking about international politics and the way people have chosen to lead this world. Everyone was tense as well, because our birthday girl was on her way to come from the airport. Joline, the Swedish amazing girl was joining our reunion and while we were thinking in surprising her, she surprised us. She ca
Then the night went really good. We got dressed nice and clubbing style but made our own party in the house. After Joline took her presents and enjoyed every single hug from all of us, the night was completed with nice music played by and a few poker games with some of us involved in( we had just bought our new chips:))
Sergi Hoxha
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