Long time no see. (Leo club Slovenske Konjice)

I was looking around my blog and found out that I left it without new posts for too long time now. This mainly happened because I had my matura exams and I was paying much more attention to books and school. But there is still a lot that I can tell you about that had happened since May.

Me being accepted as member

So in this post I’ll try to tell all about what has happened in Leo club Slovenske Konjice. Firstly I have to tell you that I have been accepted as full member on 17^th of May 2012 in Zreče at charity dance of Lions club Slovenske Konjice. Than we had another project, it was a stand-up comedy in Slovenske Konjice. Entry fee was 2€ and I total we raised round 300€ for children in needs. 

Grajska Finača

Electric show

I told you before about Grajska finača, but now a can tell you more how it succeeded. Three days long festival was a success. All there days the concerts had big numbers of visitors. So on first day (electronic music) we had some DJs performing (DJ BREZZA, DJ PLETINIO, DJ BRLEE and DJ BUSHEE). Some of them were local others were from all over the country. We also had different show with lights and flames.

Bone fire team

next day was reggae night. We had Makako jump, Same žvadi, Tadiman and 3 Kings Sound system preforming for our visitors. On second afternoon day we also prepared a bone fire for third day of festival.

Visitors

Third day was the big deal. It was Rock night with local bands and one very popular Slovenian band: Cover Lover. We also light the bone fire we prepared the day before and had a grate night. Me and my friends who also helped preparing the festival were sleeping in tends on the castle of Slovenske Konjice where this all took place. 

Long time no see. (Youth center of Dravinja valley)

So also in youth center we did a lot. In March there was an action across all Slovenia. It was called “Lets clean Slovenia”. Round ten volunteers went to clean from our youth center. We got two locations to clean, and I must say that there was a lot of thrash in the nature. Together we picked up two filled car trailers. When picked we delivered trash to local dump center, where they weight amount of trash we delivered and took them. There were a lot of citizens that day; also army helped us to clean and others … Youth center is currently also organizing the biggest event in year. “Grajska finača” is three days long music festival (electronic, reggae and rock) and it’s happening on castle of Slovenske Konjice.  I’ll tell you more when the event is finished.

Grajska Finača - banner

Long time, no see. (School students club of Dravinja valley)

Zasilni vhod

So I finally found time again to write my blog. Because I’m senior at school this year, it can be hard to find an hour to write something. A lot has happened during my off time, so I have a lot to write about each and every organization.

I will start with my own, school student club. I don’t know if I told you this already, our club gets the stage in our youth center every moth for one event. So usually that day we organize a party or small concert with local groups. In March we got a request from brand new band in our town that they would like to play. So we made that happen. Band with name Zasilni vhod (Emergency entrance) had their first concert which was a great success, a lot of local rock lovers came to see how they play and I must say that they were satisfied. Also in previous week, there was very big event on a ski resort near our town, so our school student club, together with high school student association of Slovenia went there to promote them self’s.  I must say that there were very few students skiing that day, because of late season time, so our stand up there stood pretty much in loneliness. So we decided that we will be the ones who will visit stands of our “neighbors” and made them a little hope, and some fun time for us. And now the last thing about school student club, do you remember project called Boomerang? We decided to host one, next week we have a lot of planning to do so there will be more updates about this next time. 

Our small projects

Lately my high school club members decided that we should spend more time together, so we could be more connected and the spirit will became more informal. That’s how they came up with small project called movie night. Movie night cost us nothing but can do a lot for our club to work better. All you need is a projector and a laptop, a place where to stay and some dinks or TV food, which anyone can supply. Most of technical stuff can be provided by our youth center so all that was left to us to get were some great movies.

So during our winter holydays we organized two movie nights one on Sunday, which was after the scheduled meeting and second one was on Thursday. Both of them were a great success and visited by most of our active members.

So first Saturday during our winter holydays was movie night Saturday and the second one was a lan-party Saturday. Because previous lan-party, which was organized by our youth center, was very well visited by high school students, we decided that we are going to try and organized it every two months.  So we made a decision who will take care of organizing and just did it again like the youth center did it last time. Because we were also a big part of it we already knew how to do everything, so if this event will happen every two months that should be a problem for us.

Winter school of creativity

After a long time, I finally found the courage to write again. Last week in February were winter holydays here in Slovenia. I don’t know if you remember, but each holydays we prepare a creativity school in our youth center. So it was now. Winter school of creativity lasted for three days.

Because the project was near carnival, we were doing masks on our first day of school. We did them from balloons and glued paper. And later we painted them together with elder people in local home for elder. 

The second day we went outside and built some snow castles which we later also painted with homemade paint.  We ended up with riding on bags downhill. The last day was more of a sports day. We went to the gym and prepare a simple polygon for children, made two teams and did a little competition which one is faster around it. Than our EVS volunteers from Spain showed us their traditional sport “human tower”.  

But this wasn’t the end with children, workshops continued also in the next day as a guitar class. On Wednesday we also had a traditional carnival for children in our town center and I was there as a security.

14th Cultural week in Slovenske Konjice

On 8^th on February Slovenia was celebrating a cultural day dedicated to our biggest poet dr. France Prešeren. He also wrote Slovenian national anthem Zdravljica. So in this purpose our Students club of Dravinja valley is organizing a cultural week.

This is usually a 10 day project full of everything. It started on Friday, 3^rd if February with Circus workshop in the afternoon and some music animation in the evening, on Saturday the 4^th they opened a photo exhibition of all previous cultural weeks, and in the evening there was a mega concert of very popular Slovenian rock group MI2. On Sunday there was a movie evening, Maruša Kuk one of member that was a volunteer in Peru previous year had a travelogue on Monday.

On Wednesday, 8^th of February students represented their collection of poems titled “Ob koncu sveta – By the world’s end”.  They release poem collections on every Cultural week. So there weekend was also full of concerts, yesterday we had EMKEJ an MITO, two famous Slovenian reapers, on stage, and today we have BIG FOOT MAMA, another great Slovenian rock band.  

So this is something about the biggest project of Students club of Dravinja Valley. You can find more on:

http://www.ksdd.si/kp/