I find it hard to describe 13 days in 1400 words… there are so many details and unbelievable stories that won’t be told due to length, irrelevance and lack of interest by the wide public.
I’ll try to be as succinct as possible. Part 2 (and the final one), let’s go!
I actually didn’t introduce the other campers… so, here is a brief introduction:
Ukrainian group: Zenia, Igor, and Katia. Zenia and Igor studies juggling and acrobatics in a certain school in Kiev, Katia is their dance teacher.
Polish group: An unknown number of participants that were coming and going all the time. The ones that I remember from most of the time were Joanna, Dominika and Arek. Joanna is from the famous Dembek juggling family (Aneta’s cousin), Dominika is Aneta’s sister, and Arek is a young local juggler.
Lithuanian group: Laurinas and Janeta. Laurinas is a young juggler and Janeta was a circus teacher for about 30 years!
Romanian group: Todi, Costi and Moni. They all are part of “The Serious Road Trip” humanitarian organization. They had some cool sweatshirts of it.
“German” group: Agnieszka (Polish), Triffin (Breton), Sorrizo a.k.a Hercules (Brazilian) and Manu (Hungarian). Except Hercules, they were all working in the German kids circus school “Shake!”.
Countries nights quick review -
Ukrainian: Nice traditional dance. Viktor Kee rulezzz!
Polish: Lots of history.
Lithuanian: Looks like one amazing country.
Romanian: Great food. Did you know that Dracula was not a vampire??
“German”: Interesting circus information. Tasty Brazilian drinks.
I’ve got to say that all the countries presentations were much more impressive than ours… maybe because they made some lessons from it.. or not…
Workshops -
As I said, every day we had one 6 hours workshop.
The wide variety included pantomime, drumming, dancing, juggling and magic.
I guess the funnest one was the drumming because we had the most activity. That workshop happened one day after the drumming group’s great show.
As I mentioned on the previous post, the language difficulties wasted half of the workshop’s time on translation. A thing that slowed it all down and personally got me quite tired after a while… I must admit I rarely attended the whole workshop.. I’d rather practice or shooting some juggling tricks for future projects….
Occasionally (too little in my opinion) we were taken out of our farmville to get our minds refreshed in one of the nearby Lego look alike towns. When I say nearby it usually means a couple of hours drive, but driving can be very refreshing as well.
So the other day we went to Nicolaus Copernicus‘ birth place – Toruń. We took a couple of basic tourists photos next to his statue and moved on to our (mine) main goal – internet. I have to say it went pretty fast and soon we found a local internet cafe.
The biggest pizza in the world. Find out what ingredients are in it and win bonus points!
It was like refuelling myself in a way.. good 40 minutes those were…
Not only that, the lucky lady was very generous and the pizza place was right next to the internet cafe!!
I think they had the largest pizza plate I have ever seen… yet, there is no such thing as large enough.
More city sighting and going back our farmville (there were some lost cows over there)…
Another nice visit was in the small town of Lipinki near our camp (really near, like 10 minutes driving).
This time we had to teach the small native school kids juggling. It was really fun although I didn’t understand a word they say beside “dwa”. The kids were really cute and already knew how the basics, so that was much nicer then I expected.
Cute little diabolo kid twisting his hand
Back to our camp -
All the workshops were about to end and we were offered to make some kind of a show to ourselves.
We were thinking about some kind of a renegade, emceed by no other than Hercules.
It went fine as there were many beers, but unfortunately just about half of the campers did something on the stage…
The Ukrainians dance was very entertaining for me, Arek’s unicycle number was great, Aaron&Neta did their tictonic/juggling dance after Aaron’s extremely surprising extreme unicycle number, Triffin sang in Hebrew while balancing a flute, Todi was precisely shooting light bulbs and then restored them as brand new glow balls, and I did my famous diabolo/birthday routine.
All of the acts got standing ovation. Woo hoo!
After everything was over we had another 4 and a half hours training session back to Warsaw. We stayed there for two days with the Romanian group.
To make a long story short – walking, night club, army museum, pizza, walking, internet, goodbyes, airport, home.
When Todi met Warsaw
In conclusion – It was nice, but still a bit unclear for me.
Big thanks again to Aneta and Michał.
See y’all, and don’t forget to harvest!
Ori
Nicolaus Copernicus
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