---------------------------------------Georgios Ampatzidis 27 years / Greece ►►International youth meeting in Estonia
Sometimes he was angry at himself too. What was the point in leaving his home and girlfriend to work for an environmental organization 2000 kilometers away? He was not such a big ecofan anyway. Many of his friends asked him the same question when he announced the plan. What was the answer? He browsed his notes in the notebook. There were some random words like “freedom” or “melancholy” or sentences (sort of) like “I like it” or “it’s so cold that my pee gets out in ice cubes”. He read a note from last Monday saying “Volunteering rocks!” Apparently last Monday he had an answer. Just below that there was a big drawing of him holding a gun to his head but anyway. Kristina made that note. She was the youngest of the children participated in the “save our planet” game. He didn’t want to join that activity because he didn’t like working with children. “If I wanted to work with children I could find a project closer to my country. I chose specially this project because it was about working with adults”. He was the only guy working for the organisation and that made him the only candidate for the role of the wolf in “save our planet” adaptation of Red Riding Hood tale. “It’s a one-time thing”. “Whatever”, he finally replied. Kristina loved his performance. She came to him and said something he didn’t understand. He couldn’t communicate with locals, their language was too difficult or he was too stupid to learn. Depending on the level of self-esteem he had at any moment, sometimes the former was true, sometimes the latter. Kristina had a pencil and she moved it to show him that she needed some paper to write. He gave her his notebook from his bag and she drew a stick figure and a thumb up. She said something smiling in her mysterious language which her parents translated in English as “volunteering rocks” or something like that. Scriptamanent #3
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