This morning we had to wake really early .The big day has come - today we were going to be trainers! So after the quick breakfast we gathered together to start our trip to schools: some of us went to Kuressaare Gümnaasium, the others to vocational school named Saaremaa kutsehariduskeskus. We all had 1.5 hours to facilitate workshops about human rights for the students. In Kuressaare's vocational school we all worked in groups that consisted (generally) of 15-20 boys at age of 16-17. In the beginning it was very hard to break the ice communicating with them but later it got better. 
Sadly, the youngsters didn't really want or were not able to talk in English but luckily we had Estonian in our team. After the workshops had finished we all had a bit of free time to relax and think about what had happened. Later we had a session to talk about our experiences in schools. Some of us were really happy, some of us felt really frustrated. For some groups it was very hard to make youngsters to be interested in such topic and be active in the workshops. But in the end we all agreed that it a really great experience and we believed we planted a little seed of tolerance and understanding in those students hearts.
After a brilliant morning, we continued with "Learning Outcomes" and "Evalution". The first session was the tool which gave us the chance to summarize what we have learnt and be ready to put that on the Youth Passes. During the evaluation everyone could state final opinion about the project's activities, the group and the trainers.
We talked about continuing cooperation and projects we could and should do together in future. We all divided in groups according to topics that we had same interest in. Then each group worked out a plan how to make a YiA project on that topic in their countries and presented it to others. We had a lot of good ideas, and surely they will not stay ideas but will also all take place in the future. :) After that we had our last study buddy sessions and filled out our Youthpasses.
In the evening we had the ceremony of receiving Youthpasses and putting a closure to our project. For the final energizer we cleaned the walls of our main work room from posters, presentations and various materials we had put there during the seminar. The most important ones were stored carefully and can be used in future whenever we wish. For the final game we all wrote something nice about each person on a sheet of white paper on the person's back for each of us to have something as a reminder of our lovely seminar during or journeys back home.
After the formal part we had the final goodbye party to say farewell to all of our wonderful participants. The week of our seminar was filled with hard work and spending amazing time together and we hope to see you all again very soon!
Warm wishes,
Roberto, Aušrinė and Greete
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