There are 16 participants in the project this week. Whilst the course is being held in Hungary, in the beautiful rural area of Tagyon, the course is being ran in the English language. Although when you consider all the participants, the dominant language this week is Spanish, with over 10 people speaking this as their first language or fluently.
Therefore a difficulty of this kind of project will always be language. The translation from English to Spanish and back again, as well as learning as many Hungarian phrases as possible. All the participants are respectful to one another and are supporting one another to overcome these problems. This example of patience, friendship and understanding is what helps make these projects enjoyable for all involved.
This leads me onto the activity we undertook this afternoon (Monday). Our trainer split us into two groups, European and Latin American. He then asked us how much we knew about the other group. Both groups began to have individual discussions, listing facts, fiction and stereotypes of each nation. The European group drew an interesting collage of images and the Latin American group a map.
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