The eight day started with going to the animal shelter
in Valga. Everyone
was very excited to do some volunteer work for the
sake of animals who are
left behind. We split into two groups. One of the
groups got the
opportuinity to walk with the animals for about 2
hours. And the other
group was busy
with doing different work for the shelter. We helped the
place out by cleaning up, finding materials for the
dog shelters, chopped
and piled up some firewood.
After the activities we had an interesting group
discussion with the owner
of the shelter. She kindly explaned what her work is
about and answered
our questions. She was really happy to see the dogs
being tired because
its natural for them to run around and they cannot do
it in the shelter
too often. It was a rewarding experience.
to visit Latvia. We just had to walk 500m to visit an
another country!
Most of us had not been to Latvia and this meant a lot
of funny pictures
at the „border“. After coming back, we had some free
time to
make the animal right videos ready for uploading. The
weather was finally
sunny and warm so we could stay outside and chill.
After dinner we gather in the seminar room to start
the Estonian night.
First we watched a presentation of the country and had
a little quiz.
Everyone was happy to get very nice national presents:
delicious white
choclate, crackers, a keychain and a badge with
traditional symbols. Then
we danced a funny Estonian dance called Kaera-Jaan.
Estonian
team had gathered a lot of traditional food and
drinks. After the
presentation of each one of them they invited us to
try the tradional
sauna. Some were brave enough to join and even jump
into the cold pond.
In conclusion, we finally got to do something about
animal welfare, saw
the real situation of aniomals in shelters, changed
ideas and last but not
least got to know the traditions of the hosting
country. It was a splendid
day! :)
Diana, Henry, Javier
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