International youth exhanges are always a good experinence - Estonian group's article

International youth exchanges are always a good experience to practice our language skills, to improve our tolerance and to meet new friends from all over the Europe. So, taking part of this exchange has been a very good experience. We think that we all have learned something out of it, and possibly have some use from that also in the future.
As in Estonian team there are also two 17-year old girls, it was their first time taking part of this kind of project. The most important experience they got from “Zapping Poverty” was getting to know international diversity. Also, it was exciting to practice our skills in English while having discussions with different people and compare the general things with experiences of other countries. It was interesting to get to know, how the situation is in different states, and to hear what do people with different social and cultural background think about their life.

While attending to the project “Zapping Poverty” in Bucharest it was also important for all the Estonian participants to discover the city and to get to know a bit of Romanian culture. In our point of view, the project was well organized and motivating to take an action to improve the situation of unemployment and poverty around us. While having a lot of discussions, our understanding of unemployment problems in Poland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Turkey have became better.

In conclusion, we are really happy about the experience and relationships we gained during this week in Bucharest and we hope to meet all the participants again, to see how have the current situation changed. We really enjoyed our being here, and hope that everyone else did the same.