UNA Magazine / march 2015

By: Ming-Sung

Photographing and journalism WF 143 Gauthier, Belgium Corinne, Switzerland

We gain trust by steps but we lose it as fast as the elevators.

Reach for the stars.

Ikuko, Japan

Behaving positive in everything creates possibility.

Ming-Sung, Taiwan

Alyona, Russia

Yurika, Japan

It's a dangerous business, Hunger is the best Keep the heart Frodo, going out your door. with all the seasoning.

You step onto the road, and if dilligence, for out you don't keep your feet, of it are the there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. issues of life.

We love but we are suspicious, nevertheless we are happy!

Skarlet, Mexico

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Lara, Germany

Eun Seob (Woody), MaĂŤva, France South Korea

One life touches another Patience is bitter, and potentially both lives but its fruit is sweet. are changed ; one life touches another and potentially the entire world is changed.

Experience is the name we give our mistakes.

Louise, Belgium

Alicia, Catalonia

Jui-Hsin (Cindy), Taiwan

You will always miss 100% of the shot you don‘t take.

We are what we percieve.

If you keep looking back, it distracts you from now.

By Louise and Alyona

U N A is the official Newsletter publication of Worldwide Friends.

The present publication of U N A has been written by the volunteers of the journalism camp between the 8th and 20th of March 2015 set in the East of Iceland.

I N D E X

Welcome to U N A

WORLDWIDE FRIENDS SECTION International volunteering networks Winter program leaders team Summer program 2015 Education programs in the East Eskifjordur and Stodvafjordur Wall of fame

INTERNATIONAL SECTION Homemade dictonary Cultural shocks International dishes ICELAND SECTION Excursions in the East Local routines Swimming pool The old fish factory Photography contest Entertainment: Crosswords

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FRIENDS

WORLDWIDE

VOLUNTEERING NETWORKS

Why are they crucial?

International networks connect and coordinate national organizations of voluntary services providing the possibility to cooperate between them and promoting international friendships.

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 ”Change in the minds of men”

is a member of two international volunteering networks

 Development of the aims of the voluntary service and its educational impacts, both communities and volunteers.

CCIVS

Alliance Of European voluntary service organizations

Coordinating committee for international voluntary service Volunteer organization founded in 1920 after WWII. At the moment they have 200 members in more than 80 countries

Nationalities

CCIVS and others 23%

14% France 18%

Spain 14%

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Mutual understanding

Networks

South Korea 24%

Japan

COMMON GOALS

International non govermental organization founded in 1982 formed by 49 member organization represented in 28 different countries

VOLUNTEERS IN 2014 Germany 14%

12%

Italy

Improve cooperation between voluntary service organizations

By Corinne and Alicia

INTERNATIONAL

Age

8%

<18

16%

14%

26%

 

Alliance 77 77%

 Respect

Personal responsability and commitment

Creating international friendship and understanding by working

 Together in multicultural teams

18 – 20 21 – 24 25 – 29 30>

40%

For further information check the following links: www.alliance-network.eu and www.ccivs.org

These camps have been led by an amazing international team of leaders who have worked hard to assure the proper working of the camps.

The leaders team arrived in January from everywhere in the world, and as far as it is a life changing experience we want to find out what do leaders think after three months of hard work.

Elena Ovichkina, Russia.

“Life and icelandic weather have one thing in common: it will never be what forecast says.”

Skarlet Franco, Mexico “Quite surprising how

after three months of this experience every single one of us changed. I feel changed”

Dunng Thuy, Vietnam.

Milena Innocente, Italy.

“ I loved cooking traditional vietnamese meals for the international volunteers!”

“Cultural gaps make us richer”

Winter program

Winter has been very busy for Worldwide Friends: We have had workcamps in Hveragerdi, Reykjavik, Eskifjordur and Estodvarfjordur.

Winter program

Núria Perez, Catalunya.

Lorena and Álex, Galicia, Spain.

“23:59 getting sleep in your bed when Somebody says: Auroraaaa Auroraaaaaa!!!!! and everybody goes outsite half-dressed with the tripods and cameras!”

“We didn't see the sun in 40 days”

Minttu Jakku, Suomi.

Alicia Martinez, Catalunya.

“Have

patience!”

Sébastien Prunet , France.

“ I love karaoke”

“I understand what Stendhal syndrome due to Nature means. “

Romain Nguyen Huu, France “I had a very enriching time in Eskifjordur”

“During these months I learnt a lot”

Roberto Righi, Italy. “ I mean... I love icelandic hot baths”

Andrea and Stanos, Slovakia.

“Always ready to work, have fun and enjoy the landscape”

Corinne Kuehnis, Switzerland “It takes a lot from us but gives us back even more!”

Jade Ament, Switzerland.

“Science is cool and Recycling is crucial”

What’s next in Worldwide Friends?

See the SUMMER PROGRAM!

Winter program

Sarah Abdel, France.

By Lara, Cindy, Yurika and Ikuko

P R O G R A M

Reduce, reuse & RECYCLE (Reykjavik and WF farm) Sustainable living (Reykjavik and WF farm) Flúðir – in the middle of the golden circle •Health and Environment (Hveragerði) • The village of hot spring (Hveragerði)

GOGG – Nature in the south of Iceland (Grímsnes og Grafningur)

Vestmannaear festival (Westman Islands)

Close to the arctic circle (Raufarhöfn)

East of Iceland • Journalism & Photographing (Eskifjörður) • Close to nature (Eskifjörður)) Heavy Rock Festival (Neskaupstaður)

Teenage Camp (Stödvarfjördur)

Color code Outdoor Challenge camps Artistic Cell camps Beautifying village camps Renovation camps

Katla Geo park and Vík in Mýrdal

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Outdoor Challenge Hveragerði GOGG Flúðir -Health and Environment - Nature in the south of Iceland - Nature in the south of Iceland Work: Gardening Work in greenhouse Herbs collecting Forestry Fee： €200 Mini bus： €55

Work： Trees planting Environment caring Fee： €200 Mini bus： €55

Work： Trees planting Environment caring Fee： €180 Mini bus： €55

Beautifying village South Iceland-The Village of the Hot Spring

East of Iceland Close to nature

work :cleaning and beatifying the town painting playgrounds maintaining green areas plant trees build hiking paths Fee: €200 Minibus: €55

Work: cleaning and beautifying the town clean the coastline plant trees build hiking paths Fee: €200 Minibus: €150

Artistic Cell Teenage Camp-Fun and Nature in the East of Iceland Work: Travel Iceland Sports Environmental work Fee: €250 Minibus: €150

Heavy Rock Festival Work: Help the organizers of festival clean area Fee: €200 Minibus: €150

The Vesstmannaeyjar Festival Work: Help clean the area Fee: €200 Minibus: €60

Renovation

East of IcelandPhotography and Journalism Work: Publishing magazine Photography Writing article Fee: €180 Minibus: €150

Katla Geo park and Vík in Close to the arctic circle - renovation Mýrdal Work：Hiking path fixing/marking camp

Sustainable living in Reykjavik and the WF farm

Reduce, reuse and RECYCLE in Reykjavik and WF Farm

Putting up signs Weeding Fee： €200 Mini bus： €60

Work: Renovating Farm work Visual art workshop Fee： €200 Mini bus： €55 Reykjavik nightlife

Work： Bicycles fixing Gardening / Harvesting Farm renovation Fee： €200 Mini bus： €150

Work： Painting/cleaning/fixing Coastline cleaning Fee： €200 Mini bus： €150 Perfect for birds watching Artic circle walk

EDUCATION

Art and Environ

The first day when we visited the shop, the local person asked us: "Where are you from?"

One replied, "We are from all over the world!"

By Alyona, Woody, Luïse, Minso and Gauthier The educational camps in the east are focused on environmental awareness. The main goal of the camps is to make children truly love their mountains, rivers and sea which breathe with them. The work camp with volunteers takes place in the small town called Eskifjordur.

We work together to prepare lessons about environmental protection and present the sessions to the kids in the elementary school in the east of Iceland.

The work will be divided between preparation of materials such as posters, brochure, photos and explanations, power points and videos. In order to make the awareness more interesting for the kids, the volunteers use different kind of art to make the presentation.

It was a real intercultural experience as well.

We were volunteers coming from different countries and for 10 days we’ve lived together in the middle of nowhere, sharing dinners, free times, learning about each other’s culture and native language. That’s why this experience is so rewarding and unique.

All of us had different vision of the problem of the environment. But one thing was in common we wanted to learn more and we wanted to share our experience with the others.

IN THE EAST

ment camps

It was surprising to us that Icelandic children and teenagers knew so little about it. We knew that they live in a very isolated area and they are not conscious that the world is threatened by the pollution. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why Worldwide Friends wants to aware them that it is very important to take care of our planet.

We were very impatient to meet the kids because we had been preparing the presentation during a week, and we only had 50 minutes with them. It was very cool to discover the atmosphere in an Icelandic school. In fact, It was very different compared to our own countries. Our first impression was the very familiar atmosphere running the school. Most of the kids had never traveled out of their country so it was also an opportunity for them to see people from different nationalities. We did a quiz at the end and we were surprised to see they really played the game and were able to answer the questions.

Iceland is a small country without a lot of inhabitants (they are less than 400 000 people). At the end, the nature offered them a small piece of paradise with mountains, waterfalls, hot spots,â&#x20AC;Ś but the job of volunteers is to teach the young Icelandic children that they have to preserve their own country and take care of it.

WORKCAMPS

Stöðvarfjörður

Stöðvarfjörður Stodvarfjordur is an Icelandic town of the east of the Iceland where some eastern workcamps take place. In summer the teen-camps will be set in this location.

It is located in the region of Austurland or “Austfirdir” which means “the eastern fjords” Stodvarfjordur is surrounded by mountains on each side of the road 96

Street art

is very present in Stodvarfjordur including the walls of factory, on large rock, on house walls, etc…

PETRA’S STONE – MINERAL COLLECTION

open her home to people to show her

collection

of mineral. This is one of the largest collections in the world of its kind.

In Stodvarfjordur, there is a great artist :

Rikhardur Valtingojer, autrian-born. He exhibits and sells his works. He is a graphic designer today he sells silkscarfs, jewelry, textile art, fine art prints, painting and drawings.

His website : www.gallerisnaeros.is  It is also possible to see the Kanbanes lighthouse, located on a headland that separates Stodvarfjordur and the bay of Breiddalsvik.

By: Maëva

At 5 years old, Petra came to live in Stodvarfjordur. She started picking up stones to play with. In 1945, she bought a house with her husband and can finally store all the stones. When her husband dies, Petra decided to

IN THE EAST

and Eskifjörður

Eskifjörður Eskifjörður is a town and port in eastern Iceland with a large fishing industry. It has a population of 1,043.

Renovation and aurora hunting workcamps and Art and Environment camps are set in this location. The accommodation is the old school of the village.

We can see beautiful mountains and the sea.

“We enjoy eating, making conversation, and playing games here.“ We make lunch and dinner in shifts.

Sometimes we introduce our own countries‘ traditional food.

By Ikuko and Lara

“We prepare lunch and dinner in shifts.

Sometimes we introduce our own countries‘ traditional food. “

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INTERNATIONAL

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World Dictionary

Mexico Hola Gracias Islandia

Hello, Thank you and Iceland

Russia Здрвстуйте Спасибо Исландия

Switzerland Hoi Danke Island

Taiwan 你好 謝謝 冰島

By Ikuko

France & Belgium Bonjour Merci Islande Korea 안녕하세요 감사합니다 아이슬란드

Japan こんにちは ありがとう アイスランド

Germany Hallo Dankeschön Island

Catalunya Hola Merci/gràcies Islàndia

24 Delicate snowflakes dance outside the window in the twilight and three women chat by the angel window in Sólbrekka

Els delicats flocs de neu dansant 窓の外 En el crepúsculo und drei Frauen schwatzen 在天使的窗邊在一個名叫索布蕾卡的小鎮

Steaming coffee in the pot music from the classroom poetry reading in the library each woman is cradling a child

Le café fumant dans la tasse 從教室傳來的音樂 чтение стихов в библиотеке Chaque femme berce un enfant

The island is the whole world and snowflakes keep on dancing the twilight sky

그 섬은 세상의 전부라네! et flocons de neige 躍り続ける im dämmrigä Himmel

Cultural shock Living in community with people around the world

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Alicia has only one towel around her after the shower! Knives are used all the time!

People drink tap water here!

(It tastes good though)

Graffiti is everywhere on the building!

Ice on the road!

Mexican girls are so active!

(Yesâ&#x20AC;Śit's you, Skarlet) Japanese people sleep a lot! (Even during activities) Koreans stretch a lot.

Very flexible!

Cindy peels the apples! (Yurika does too!)

Icelandic people are very generous! They love sharing!

Asians don’t really say ‘’no’’!

They also eat a lot of rice!

Swiss people like order!(too strict sometimes)

Stores close so early here in Iceland!

Europeans don't peel the apples!

People are not as punctual as in Switzerland!

Germans dry their dishes with cloth!

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INTERNATIONAL COOKING RECIPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

By Corinne My name is Corinne and I am from Switzerland. I love travelling and this trip is not my first time I am away from home but I think I learned more in this one then on any other of my travels.

I am here now since almost 2 months and I met many people from all over the world with different cultures. You can see the differences not only in their daily routines but also in their food. For examples some of us are eating dinner early (Switzerland, Germany) and some really late (Mexico, Spain, French and Italy). Some eat heavy food already for breakfast (Russia, Asian) and some like the sweet breakfast (Europeans) with honey, jam and chocolate spread.

I don’t know about you but I always heard some facts about other countries and now I found out not all are true. For example not all the Russians like Vodka and not everyone from Switzerland likes Chocolate (can you imagine that?!), not all Mexicans like Avocado and I can confirm also the Asian are drinking milk.

While living together we had some interesting experiences which are definitely connected to the culture. If there are Russians in your camp you should always have mayo in the fridge, Swiss people instead are always complaining about the chocolate here (it is just not the same like in Switzerland) and bring their own. There is a special relation between Asians and rice, it

appeared one time when the Koreans cooked 8kg rice for 20 people. We ended up eating rice for 4 days in a row.

Some other things I never thought of till I saw it, the Asian don’t use scoops to stir in a pot. They normally just use chopsticks. And when I was talking to them about their food habits, I realized they have different ways to eat in each eastern country. In Taiwan and Japan you lift the bowl with rice up close to the mouth, while in Korea you have to leave it on the table.

In America we found out they just put down their cutlery while in parts of Europe the way you put down your cutlery shows different meanings.

Besides all these differences we have still some rules which are counting for all: we agree in not speaking with a full mouth or not to sing at the table (Skarlet?), also everywhere is the rule about keeping both arms on the table but not the elbows. It is interesting, isn’t it?

But now I think I wrote more than enough boring stuff, now it is time to do something. Let`s cook international! I collected recipes for you from each of the participants.

Russian Pelmeni (10 servings) For the dough: 750g flour 1 egg 100ml milk 100ml water 1 teaspoon salt For the filling: 500g grounded meat 2 onions 1 garlic toe, pressed 1 egg Mix well all ingredients for the dough and let it rest while you prepare the filling. Cut the onions into small cubes, fry them with the pressed garlic and add them and salt to the meat.

Take the amount of hazelnut from the dough and flat it to a circular piece on flour, put the meat mixture on it and half it. Press the edge together till it sticks and fold one more time in the other direction.

Heat water with salt and bay leaves and add the pelmeni as soon as the water is boiling. Now you wait till they appear on the surface and wait about 5 more minutes and they are ready.

Tipp: Serve it with a sour cream, garlic and mayo mixture.

Swiss Bread (~15 slices) 1kg white flour 3 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons sugar 120g butter, soft 1 cube of yeast (~20g dry yeast) 6dl milk, warm (~39째 degrees) Mix everything and knead it for at least 10min, till its smooth on the outside and lots of bubbles in the inside. Put it on a warm place and let it grow to the double size. Then put it in a tray and bake it.

In the middle of the oven with bottom and top heating, 200째 degrees for about 35-45 minutes.

Tipp: To check if it is finished, knock on the bottom if it sounds hollow it is finished.

French Ratatouille (10 servings) 7 tomatoes 3 zucchini 2 eggplants 3 onions 2 green pepper 3 garlic toes Olive oil 5 sprig of parsley Herbs of Provence Salt and pepper Peel the vegetables and cut them into pieces. Heat oil in a casserole and fry the cut onions into it. Let them become golden. Add the tomatoes and cook them, stir occasionally. After a few minutes add the other vegetables to the casserole. Spice it with parsley, herb of Provence, salt and pepper. Cover it and let it simmer for one hour, monitoring.

Tipp: Serve it with rice or meat.

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ICELAND

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EXCURSION IN THE EAST TO MÝVATN AND THE NORTH Worldwide friends offers excursions for the volunteers. This excursions are great opportunities for the participants to get to know the country and its landscape.

Friday 13th of march Excursion diary by Yurika We went

from Eskifjörður all the way to northern Iceland.

First we went to the Námaskarð which is located in Mývatn. In Námaskarð, there are natural hot springs and fumaroles since it is situsted in the foot of volcanic mountain. This area is also connected to Hverir, Hverarönd, and Námafjall and we went to Hverir to see the hot spring. The hot spring was approximately 100 degrees and we were able to see the water boiling.

Next stop is Lake Mývatn. This lake is the fourth largest lake in the island.

Sadly the lake were frozen so we had no chance to see the natural lake.

Although, the landscape surround was very nice and clear. picture by EunSeob Lee Thirdly, to the Goðafoss waterfall. Goðafoss waterfall has a long and interesting history connected about the Christianity in Iceland. From the top left picture, you can see how big the waterfall is. We walked along the waterfall for several minutes and enjoyed the nature.

picture by Jui-Hsin Chen

After the beautiful waterfall, we arrived to Dimmuborgir lava castle. The lava formation were covered with snow, however we could see all different kinds of shape and size of the lava made from the eruption.

picture by EunSeob Lee

The last stop was Mývatn Nature Baths, also known as Green Lagoon. This was the most exciting place I have been in Iceland. The color of the hot water was green blue just like the stone of aquamarine. Since the storm was coming near in Eskifjörður, we did not have enough time to stay at the hot tub but I was very satisfied with all the wonderful scenery from north Iceland.

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A daily life

Asta Snædís Guðmundsdóttir, a 54-years-old lady, is the shop owner who lives in Stöðvarfjörður. Stöðvarfjörður is a small town located in the east of Iceland. Asta runs the shop, named Brekkan, which includes also a restaurant with another partner, Rósmarý Dröfn. The followings is the daily routine of Asta.

I wake up at about 10 a.m. every day in the morning, but I work from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.. Running a shop with partner, we divide the working time into two shifts( from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.), and I am responsible for the second shift. In my free time, I like walking, knitting, reading and puzzling. People like to do puzzle in Iceland. I also like to play cards with friends. In winter times, people gather together every week to play cards. On the weekends, I like to stay home and do some indoor activities. Some people like to go to swimming pool in their leisure time, but that doesn't include me.

I usually eat toast with butter and coffee for breakfast. I prefer to have light meal for lunch and heavy meal for dinner. I use pasta, fish and meat as main ingredients. For fish I like haddock, cod, halibut and catfish. Sometimes I eat shrimp and hummer.

Asta Snædís Guðmundsdóttir, a shop owner in Stöðvarfjörður

of an Icelander “I am a Christian, and I like it.”, Asta said.

Most people are Christian here. They are believers of Lutheranism.

However, there are not many people going to church on Sunday regularly. Apart from Christian, there are still other religion believers such as Catholics and Muslims.

It is not difficult to imagine that it snows a lot and that how the scenery becomes in the winter. Nevertheless, “I like snow. I like the snow to stay, so the children can play on it.”, Asta said so.

Unfortunately, the road into town would probably be shut for once or twice a year because of the snow.

Things that you should know about Icelanders The local meeting point for Icelanders is the swimming pool, which almost every town has. Besides that they get together on the National day, 17. June, having a buffet and some activities for the children.

The people here can get their driving license in the age 17, but they aren't allowed to drink alcohol before being 20 years old. Almost everyone who's got a license got his own car.

In Iceland, people usually have marriage at around 30 years old and have children at about 25 years old. It is common for a woman to have children with different partners here.

By: Ming-Sung

“I think everybody has his right to be wherever they want to be, so I think it is good to have tourists and volunteers here.”, Rósmarý who is another owner of the shop said.

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SWIMMING POOLS IN ICELAND Swimming pool is a huge part of daily life for Icelandic people.

Usually there are swimming pool, kid's pool, hot tubs with different temperatures and saunas.

People not only swim here, they also have their social lives in the relaxing hot tubs! It's on the must-do list, if you ever come to Iceland!

Come and experience it yourself!

By Cindy

How to behave in the swimming pool

3.Shower naked

1.Take Off your shoes

2.Get your lockers In the changing room, you can store your belongings in the lockers. Keys are attached to a elastic band which you can wear on your wrists.

On your way to the changing room, you will find shelves for shoes. Leave your shoes there!

In the changing room, you have to shower naked with soap before getting into the pool. Make sure you shower throughly so that we have clean water in the pool.It's probably the most important rule!

4. Get to the swimming pool/hot tubs 5.Shower again (your choice)

Comments from the locals:

HERE, A CREATIVE CENTRE IN AN OLD FISH FACTORY

By Louise

Stöðvarfjörður is a village in the East of Iceland. Unfortunately, as it is the case for many villages in Iceland, it has to face with the difficulty to sustain their community.

In fact, the fish factory closed in 2005. The village’s economy and population were hit. “It was a political disaster.

That fish is almost all of it here. I think nearly all that we can it in the village.” – local.

32 people lost their job, and this is only counting the people who are working inside the industry, but they are always sight related jobs, so they were much more than that implicate in this lost as mechanics drivers. For a village of only 200 inhabitants the percentage is tremendous. The bank the supermarkets, the post office closed. The consequences of this closure were massive. Nursery and elementary school are under an increasing threat of shutdown due to a significant decrease in the population.

“It’s going to be the closure of the village. If you don’t have a school can you imagine how the young people going to move here raising a family. It’s not going to happen. So basically this is going to be a closer of the village. We can go without a bank and post and supermarket, but if there is no school it’s over.” – Rosà Valtingojer In 2010, a group of creative people start a project to transform the old fish factory into a creative center.

Rosà Valtingojer, the manager of this project who was working in the fish industry explained us how she went throw this project.

How did you come up with this idea?

“This fish factory have been standing active for 5 years. In Iceland it happened really quickly, if a house stay empty, it went to breaks.

This house was very dust and the municipal authority of this location didn’t see any usefulness of it so they said okay we have to turn it down because it starts to be dangerous. I and my husband start imagine in what could happen in the side of this place. Don’t turn it down, we might have some ideas. Since we are both artist, we develop a plan for a new useless of the house: make it into a creative centre. “ How did the population react?

“The good thing with Stöðvarfjörður is that there is a very grand in culture and art. The first gallery of the country of Iceland was in Stöðvarfjörður and that was in 1985. At first they were “what? a gallery in a fish industry in a little tiny village???” But they started this gallery and started importing lots exhibitions and people start coming and they were making art selling and part of a graduating exhibition of an art academy. They really settled the ground. The people here were positive from the beginning.”

In what way to you think this project could work for a sustainable village in time?

“What is unstainable in this village is that young people don’t come, don’t make kids, it’s like a circle, people get older and older and no kids are coming so by sustainable we want to make interesting jobs, interesting environment, make new opportunity to start a family.

We want to make many foundations, many small industries to support the village to stand not one big one who support all the people and then their decided to live because it’s not benefit anymore and everybody is all of deal. This story happens everywhere. We have the history repeated all over and we thought “hé can we learn from the history and make it a little bit different?”

How did you start the project?

“We recycle everything. We don’t spend lots of money. When we got this house it was complete dust. At the beginning we got scepticism, we thought it was going to cost millions to fix it. But we start, people gave us materials, we were doing what we can for what we have.”

What is coming soon?

“Two people are building up a very professional recording studio. So you can also come as a musician. This is so important because we already have facilities for artists and graft mans but a big field of the art is the music. It’s going to be ready for the end of the summer hopefully.

Down floor is reconstructed, we have now this super functional wood workshop and metal workshop and we have electricians. It’s very practical workshop because we also use it and reconstructing the house. We want to have a printing studio, ceramic and glass and sculpture. We have everything for the facilities we just have to reconstruct the space, we have all the materials but we just have to do it.”

How do you get new people to come here?

“We just start with the residency. When you’re completely new, it’s hard to get people here. But now we started it, we already had artists, so it’s not the problem anymore.

We also start to work with this unemployment office in Iceland.

There is always people who have been long time unemployment and they need to go back into society. We going to have accords this month 3 weeks course. So people who have been very isolated they can come and do some graf stuff together. We try to collaborate also with this institution to surve the community around.

We love to have artists abroad. It’s very nice and important. We already have people from Costa Rica, America,…”

How does the project contribute to the environment?

There is a global problem. What can you do about that? Recycling your trash, it’s not enough. Then you start to think, it makes no difference, you want to do more than that. We can take our close environment and we can really work with that. This is where we can make strong influence. And everybody can. Stop looking at the whole picture and all the troubles, look at yours. And maybe you can influence others.

For further info: http://here-creative-centre.tumblr.com/project

On the first day of the camp, a photography contest was organized. We went out and took pictures according to preset topics: Black & White, Reflexion and Movement.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go to see winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picture.

With Louise, Gautier, Woody, Ming, Cindy, Yurika, Ikuko, Lara, Maeva

MAR. 2015

Photography

by Woody

Best Models,

MAR. 2015 When we all went outside, including me, we were tr ying to look for things related to the topics in stones, bushes and moutains. But I became bored of taking pictures from objects. I thought: “Is there any rule that forbids us to take portraits?”

So I looked around and found the best models who were concentrating on their work . Two of our volunteers were taking pictures of each other ’s camera lens for reflexion.

MAR. 2015

Amazing Mirror, by Lara

Reflexion

I just wanted to describe the frame in the frame. And mirror simmultaneously shows us things in the opposite position as well as ourselves. How surprising it is!

Company by Woody

MAR. 2015 The road covered with the soft snow, the way built in the rough rocks. Both paths were so tough to walk on, whether it was mild or rough. Although two ways we are walking are different, we are getting to the same destination.

ICEland crossword 7

1. It is a town and port in east with a large fishing industry.

2. While some cultures may find this shocking, in Iceland it is a simple matter of hygiene.

3. In Iceland this belief is very important.

4 It is constitute more than 70% of Icelandic exports of goods.

5. Most popular dairy foods in Iceland.

6. Iceland doesn't have it.

7. It is not difficult to say.

8. The majority of Icelanders don’t have it.

9. About 11% of the country’s territory is covered by it.

10. The most common Icelandic male name is.

11. It is one of the most popular bird in Iceland.

12. This is the country’s national sport.

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