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All Summer long, we organized events on Thursday to "keep the local youth off the streets". Or, in more positive terms: we inv...

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The Five (or Four?) Senses

Our project threw us yet another challenge: organize a workshop during a camp for kids with various disabilities. We decided to ...

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Russian Finger Puppets

We have to keep developing new workshop ideas - if only to keep ourselves interested (Tetrapak wallets are soooo 2013!). So Anna found ...

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Latviešu valoda

Today we had our last Latvian language class before the summer vacation, so it was Scrabble time! Over the past four months, our swe...

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Expedicija Pilsēta

All Summer long, we're collaborating with "ir" magazine to organize a series of children's day camps. Every couple of...

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Herbal Tea Expedition

Two days in the countryside, drinking tea, picking tea, smelling tea, talking about tea.  We learned all about ayurvedic use of her...

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EcoEnglish

For the past three months I've been teaching English conversational skills to a small group of homo ecos: followers. Since most of m...

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Getting creative

I totally caught the upcycling bug! I dumpster dived a mirror for my bedroom, and then rolled-and-glued a frame out of old interior ...

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Arabic Scents pt II

(c) Gundega Šķēla, Annas Lindes Fonds We repeated our "smelly baggy" workshop, this time in a lovely youth center in Valmie...

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Adapting to Climate Change

Santa asked me to go to a two-day conference for scientists and policy makers from the three Baltic States. The presentations themselve...

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Arabic Scents

So not all workshops are easy to organize. How do you organize an authentic "Arabic night" for the Anna Lindh Foundation whe...

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Eurovision

Eurovision: the summit of European integration, collaboration and cultural exchange! This year, I had the honour to watch the Grand Fin...

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Rotterdam meets Kiyv

Anna and I hosted a semi-compulsory intercultural event for our colleagues: complete with Dutch speculaas , zoute drop , stroopwafels ,...

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The Cleanest City in Latvia

This week, we took the bus all the way to Ventspils, to organize a workshop about the Green Toolbox for a youth exchange group. It was ...

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Eko Velo Orienteering

I've never seen so many bikes in one place! (outside The Netherlands...) The EkoTurbulence youth group organized a 'treasure hu...

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Our New Apartment

Anna and I finally settled down! We found two big rooms in an even bigger apartment in the Silent Center of Riga. We're sharing the...

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