'Crazy in the city', Spain 2009

18 November, 2009 - 21:35

This summer 27 youngsters from Spain, Austria, Sweden and The Netherlands met in Blanca, a village in the Region of Murcia -Spain-. During 3 days all then where participating in a 'Youth in Action' youth exchange organized by Nómadas. The exchange was called ‘Crazy in the city’, and it was worth its name, since it was actually a ‘crazy’ project.

This exchange was something more than just youth activities, it was a lot more, you can ask our participants! During the week all the international participants had the opportunity to discover the 'real' Spain, with its real young culture. The youngsters brought to their home countries a good number of new friends. It’s common to find new friends in a youth exchange, but it’s less common to find a lot of local friends.

At the same time we were running the exchange the village was holding its annual youth week, that was definitively the point that changed this exchange. The end of the exchange day program was just the beginning of an evening plenty of, always, different things to do. But the best one was having the opportunity to socialize with the local youngsters, who were also really kind to all of us. It was really easy to get ‘lost’ among dozens of local young people, chilling and having fun with them. There are a lot of funny gossip stories about the relations among the exchange participants and the local people.

We also joined several activities of the local youth week of Blanca, like the sangria contest (where we noticed that there are hundreds of sangria receipts, all of then tasteful), we did rafting in the river Segura, the biggest one in the Region of Murcia, we participated in a barbeque organized for 1000 people… It was an unforgettable time for all of the participants. If you have the opportunity to participate in an exchange, just don’t think twice!

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Crazy in Blanca