Two crows but not whiskey!

Dear all,

In the morning we started to with our lecture from the side of Gorreti and Marco. The lecture was about social responsibility and the opportunities in tourism.  Quite interesting but the break was something special (not just because of the break!) because we realised that that Kaja is incredible storyteller.

Kaja told us a story about two crows that had an excursion to Postojna caves. She is a great story teller and we really enjoyed! Before we continue would you like to hear it as well? ;)

Two crows and a gossip lady in black

It was a sunny day in the middle of July and the heat just started to rise (it was noon, around 12 o’clock). There was a juniper three just next to more than 50 years old pine, looking towards the Postojna caves. When the first grasshopper started to sing the old crow passed above the three tops and landed on the old pine three. Taking grasps of air to continue the search for food another crow was interested in the ants beneath the juniper three. To further observe the ants the crow land just next to the old crow. Old crow starts to smile to jung juvenile searching for food. “You can forget about  that ants. You will never be able to catch enough to fill your stomach”. Jung crow got upset an said “ what do you know old rag!” You can barely fly for more than 10 minutes before you run out of air”!  If you do not believe me go ahead and see! The old crow said. Young crow started to pick the ants but she only garbed one or two and the rest fled to their underground holes. Old crow started to laugh “I told you, you little brat!” What do you know about the food? Where do you get it?” The youngster replied. “I will tell you the secret but before you have to fly to Postojna caves and bring me the proteus (human fish).”

Wanna hear how the story ended? Well you will have to wait till tomorrow when we will have another morning break and Kaja will continue with the second part.

After the lecture we had lunch, with very good steak with potatoes. At 15.00 we started with our workshops, where we  discussed about our ideas for  final presentation of WS.

Later on we had a goodbye party for Portuguese teachers Goretti and Marco. It was hard to say goodbye, because of that we said see you soon!!

Fonda fish farm experience

Today we met at 8.15 in front of the Faculty and went on the bus to Lucija. From Lucija we went to Forma Viva to enjoy the beautiful view of whole Portorož and the sea.

Then we went down the hill to the boat which took us to the Fonda fish farm. The owner Irena Fonda told us about their company, their history and how they started doing what they do. they told us also about the work of her father, his plans and the success.

During the boat ride we enjoyed the view and the wind in our hair. When we arrived to the fish farm they first showed us the smaller fish which are 1 and half year old now and then they showed us the bigger ones who were really excited to see us because they got the food for us.

On the boat we also got a raw fish and a smoked fish to try and with them a little bit of white wine called Malvazija.

The boat ride was quickly over and then we left each in our own direction because we had a free afternoon.


Nermina, Nastja, Jasmina, Kaja, Uršula

"Creative day"

Creativity is intelligence having fun
                               (Albert Einstain)

Very creative day is behind us. Our lecturers were from Voluntariat SCI Slovenia. 

Voluntariat organizes international voluntary camps and voluntary work with an aim to provide assistance and additional programs on social inclusion, environment protection and other activities that profit organizations and the state do not provide. They consider international voluntary work as a value for personal growth of individuals, promotion of social justice, intercultural learning and education for peace and solidarity.

The first Voluntariat Workshops started with discussions about certain themes about volunteering.

We continued with searching positive and negative things in magazines and presenting them to others.  We also spread some gossips, well actually found out how they appear. We found out there are many factors which effect the flow of information. For example when people gossip an apple can become banana.

After lunch we continue with our workshop which was quite playful, but innovative. It gave us some ideas how to reuse different items instead of throwing them in the garbage. 

Later on we will participate in pizza party at the restaurant Burin where we have a meals every day!

your sLOVEnian team,

Nermina, Nastja, Jasmina, Kaja, Uršula

New day in Slovenia

Today we were listening the lectures about EUROBASKET and how can volunteers participate in sport events because they are very important for the whole organisation and praparations. Eurobasket is going to be next year here in Slovenia that is why it was very interesting to hear about that.

The second lecture was from Ed Bentham who talked about the nonprofit organisations and about how voluntourism is important and we shold try to participate because is a very great experience that could change your life.

After the lectures we had lunch and at three o'clock we started our first workshop with professors and we talked about how could volunteers participate here in Portorož to make some improvements and to make some event or something new that would be great for tourists.

In the evening we met on the beach and hang together for a couple of hours which were very great. :)

Your sLOVEnian team.

Nermina, Nastja, Jasmina, Kaja, Uršula

Multicultural day from the sLOVEnians' point of view 

The day  started with interesting lectures about Olympic games (Stefan Fokkema), Couch Surfing (Konstantin Gridnevskiy) and Sustainable tourism (Dumitru Troanca, Lia Baltador). After lectures we walked to the restaurant where we divided in to planet groups: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.  The whole point of this groups is getting to know each other better.

When we refiled our batteries with a meal and beautiful view it was a time to get back to the Faculty and prepare our presentations for the Intercultural event.

Slovenia as a host started first with traditional Istrian food combination bread, salt and home made olive oil. In 15 min. long presentation we present Slovenian culture, heritage and sport. We also told some jokes about Slovenians ("Slovenians sleep with one leg in Italia and other leg in Croatia." :) )

In the same evening we got a chance to meet other cultures. All the Summer school participants danced during the Romanian and Portuguese presentation, they were learning Poland's geography, watching promo videos of some countries and answering to quiz questions etc.

After all presentations we continued our event on the beach, were we had a chance to taste drinks and food from each country.
The most popular stand was Portuguese one, thanks to Vitor and his skills of promoting food and drinks.

P.S. 4 minutes remaining!!! :)

Nermina Vilić, Nastja Šafarič, Jasmina Jurgec, Kaja Dobnikar, Uršula Klančnik

The beginning of SWT 2012 in Portorož

Dear voluntourists!

The summer school has finally begun and Slovene students and organizers were pleased to have met all of you and we are looking forward to spend the following ten days having fun with you.

The first day of summer school was a success. At first we have listened to our dean dr. Anton Gosar and professor dr. Tadeja Jere Lazanski. After that there was a presentation from Miha and Mitja in which they explained the following activities for ten days and afterwards we did a little game of getting to know activity.

After the presentations we had special lunch inside the Faculty in classroom and it was great because we could chose whatever we desired.   

And in the evening we have a party planned with the theme I scream, you scream, we scream in Cacao. It was awesome. We had so much fun.

It was legen-  wait for it…………………………………………………………………….DARY.:)

Your sLOVEnian team.

Nermina, Jasmina, Nastja, Uršula and Kaja