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Get Into Culture cont… (Day Three)
26th February 2018
GET INTO… Culture
Hello, Chiara’s here!
Our third day of GET INTO… was an interesting morning meeting with Chinese culture and an afternoon chat about issues that affect young people.
Today I interviewed Ellie from Newcastle and Dora from Croatia, who very kindly told me something about the day.
None of them had been to a Chinese New Year celebration before, it was a completely new experience! Both Ellie and Dora, after finding out about the programme, were looking forward to see how it was going to be, and Dora in particular was greatly excited since she’s very passionate about China, Korea and Japan and their cultures.
Lots of people attended the event and watched the parade and the dragons in Chinatown, welcoming the year of the Dog: if you were born in 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1996 or 2006, this is your year! Ellie and Dora would like to attend again next years!
After lunch, the group met and some of the participants presented topics that, we hope, will be helpful and useful for them all. Croatia presented Stereotypes and delivered a very thought provoking activity around stereotyping people. It allowed for discussions and debates around prejudice and first impressions people make. The UK delivered a session around understanding mental health, defining mental health and learning facts and figures from the UK; again this offered an opportunity to debate the findings, some of the statistics were alarming, down to the average age mental health issues develops to the length of time it takes to receive treatment.
The issue of stress and pressures was presented by Norway and included some insight in to the effects of social media within this issue. For me observing the sessions this was the one which appeared to have them most significance to many of our young people. So much pressure is placed on young people either with their friends, families and most significant in school. Exams, revisions and course work is a major cause if stress for these young people we work with, and it seems this was apparent in all country groups. It was nice to be able to share solutions and techniques which each group used to recover from stress and tensions and manage them effectively.
So well done to those young poelp who presented and prepared the sessions. You all did amazingly well and presented like total Pros!!
That’s all for today! Thank you guys and see you with the Metro challenge!
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