The Omladinski centar has project partners in many different parts of the world and this week a group of Americans is here to lead activities for the kids.
It's actually really cool because the leader of the Americans, Craig, has been coming to Gornji-Vakuf Uskoplje since 1996, so he knew many of the teens that we work with now when they were small.
It has also been nice not having to organize activities for the kids and get a chance to interact with them more one on one instead of trying to get them to do something. It's also interesting to see how the younger kids are more familiar with us than the Americans so they still come up to us and ask us what we are doing next even though we don't know.
Because there are more Americans than us they do different activities than we do, they also brought lots of supplies with them, so we have done lots of crafts with the kids which is nice because we mostly do games with them.
This week was also cool because yesterday a group of American youth came to visit the centar. They are part of a program that discusses different world issues and talks about how media can help raise awareness. When they came to visit, we got a chance to present what the four of us were doing in Bosnia, so it was nice to be able to share that experience with other people (you can see this in the picture above). Although, most of the Americans were more interested in the teens and what they did at the centar and what it was like to grow up in a divided town, which is completely understandable since they are here to learn about Bosnia.
Anyways the Americans are here for the rest of the week and have lots of stuff planned which is nice, they will also be here on Monday which means that the four of us will have less than three weeks of activities left to plan for the kids. Time has been flying by! I wish it would go by slower, but I am grateful for every day that I have spent here and every day that I have left! :)
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