Report of the second meeting in Gargzdai at April 21st - 25th

in the Saulute primary school

Present were:

from Finland: Minna Kinnunen and Juhani Heikka 

from Lithuania: Liudvika Norvilienė, Lina Petrauskienė, Jolanta Gilvonauskienė, Vaidutė Mažeikienė, Ilona Stonienė and Vanda Valantinienė 

from Spain: Carolina Dominquez and Salvador Ledesma 

from Slovenia: Zlatko Kauran, Andreja Košti and Simon Dragšič 

from Bulgaria: Velkov Angel, Tsvetelina KilitaNova, Ana Rabadzhiyska and Tsvetanka Plachkova  

from Italy: Giuliana Caperna, Lucia Serino, Rosalba Minatta and Guido Dell'Uomo 

from the Netherlands: Gerard Oeljee, Hans Walrecht and René Hamstra

Sunday 22nd.

The majority of the group had a program in Vilnius, but as René, Gerard and Hans were not there, we do not have photographs of that part.
At the end of the Sunday everybody joined us in the "Euterpe" hotel.

Monday 23rd:

Most of us went to Vilnius first and at the evening of Sunday April 22nd the whole party was hosted in the "Euterpe" hotel in Klaipeda.	Monday April 23rd. The day of the actual meeting. The day was started with pupils performing dances, songs and music. Very nice.
	Visiting classes, always a nice part of international visits.
	Descriptions about the participating countries at the wall.
Time for presents!
Dalia took all the group photographs and was a great assistent. She also took the picture below.

From left to right: Lucia, Minna, Ana, Rosalba, Juhani, Tsvetanka, Guido, Simon, Tsvetelina, Carolina, Giuliana, Zlatko, Andreja, Jolanta, Vaidute, Salvador, Gerard, Angel, Hans, Liudvika and René. Lina and Ilona are not on this photograph.

Time for a break...	and our lunch, which was well prepared.
	The start of the actual meeting. As we worked hard, there are little pictures of the meeting itself.
Our meeting was interrupted by a journalist of the "Banga" district newspaper. Her interview can be seen by pressing the "Reports" button.	After the interview it was again time for a break.
	At the end of the meeting it was time for presentations.
Our diner was perfect!!

Tuesday 24th:

The minibus was brought into action again.	Here we are at the peninsula, the Curonian Spit. The harbour of Klaipeda is visible in the distance.
Our guide told us everything about the nature of the Curonian Spit.	Minna near one of the many wooden statues the "Hill of Witches".

The whole party at the "Hill of Witches".

The walk to the high dune from which we could see Nida.	The nature of the Curonian Spit is impressive.
One of the many special windvanes in Nida.

At the end of this beautiful day the minubus brought us to the "Euterpe" hotel. Time to say goodbye.

photographs: René and Hans