Leo Olympics

On Friday, 25^th of November, Leo Konjice organized third traditional Leo Olympics. They took place in our local youth center, where I also do a lot of volunteering work.  Participants were competing in game of darts, hand soccer and billiard. Entering fee was 5€ per participant, we were also collecting money with selling cocktail. All the money that we collect on the event is going to go to the children from socially disadvantaged families. Winners from each discipline also got the medal at the end of the tournament.  I myself tried my luck in playing billiard, but I was accidently eliminated in semi-finals for putting the black ball in to early. So let’s hope for more luck next time.

Hanging out with Leo club.

So on Saturday, 19^th of November I went bowling with two friends from my local Leo club Slovenske Konjice, about which I was telling you recently. We went to Maribor, there we also met some friend from other Leo clubs cross Slovenia, so I really got to meet some great people that are interested in the same stuff that I am.  All this was organized by Leo Maribor, so each participant could bowl for hour and a half; we also ordered some pizzas and drinks, just to make our evening better. After our time ran out we went to the city Maribor.

First club meeting.

On Friday, 18^th of November, I had the first meeting with my club in school year 2011/2012. All the students are filled with energy for oncoming year, so we talked about allot of things.

Firstly we made a plan for our next event. That a rock concert that we are organizing for young high school students bands. We are going to host three very good bands, of which all the players are aged from 15 to 18. Reaction of fans and local youth so far is great, so I hope that all bands will be able to show their qualities to them, and of course impress them with their music.

Next thing was our firs working weekend. We are planning to go to a sky resort near our town, and spend their three days. Goal for this weekend is to make as detailed plan as possible for our next year and off course getting to know each other even better, so that the relationship between us can get even stronger, and with this I believe that we can also improve our work. On this meeting we made a schedule for our staying time, we set the rules and talked about food, drinks and free time activities that we’re going to do.

At the end we also said something about making our own T-shirts, and a trip to Barcelona, which is still in a planning stage right now. 

St. Nicholas delicacies

Passed weekend I was again doing some charity work with LEO club from Slovenske Konjice.  We are collecting goods, for children from socially disadvantaged families.  Firs we had a meeting on Friday where we made a plan, who, when and where we’ll collect delicacies for children. So we formed groups of two that will work in two shopping centers. Each pair was on duty for two hours.

So our plan was that we will be standing at the entrance to the shop, and informing people about our action. Main point is telling them that they can buy anything they want for those children, and after buying it they can leave it in the shopping chart, that we have it prepared at the exit. Allot of people bought different things this Saturday, so we collected in total more than two full shopping charts of different candies, toys, books and school supplies. Next week we will repeat this in the next shopping center in our town, hoping that we’ll collect enough for every child. The presents will be handed over to them on St. Nicholas day at 6^th of December. I can’t wait to see those happy faces, and I’m also hopping that next week action we’ll be also a successes.

The general assembly

On 2^nd of November we also had the most important meeting for our club. That’s general assembly, where new members for different committees of club are elected for next year. So in one hour we got 15 new, some of them are from last year, students that will help me as a president to work on a projects and different volunteering work.

Because this is the last year of my presidency, I hope that I’ll go on grate with new team, and that we’ll be as much successful as we were last year and even more. 

Autumn school of creativity

Cooking with elderly

So during the week I had my autumn school holydays. But most of students were resting during the holyday, but not me. I was animator at autumn school of creativity in your local youth center. This is a program that we do in every holydays. We include 25 children from age of 7 to 15 and its all free for them. This week the program lasted for three days.

Interesting experiment – making electricity with indoor bicycle

On first day the theme was generation gap and intercultural learning, so we took the kids to local home for elderly. There we had a travelogue about Peru, and after it they were doing together one traditional Peruvian food. After that we went back to youth center where they did one drawing made from sand, that’s glued to the paper.

Group picture 

Second day we went together to Maribor to house of experiments, where kids had three very interesting workshops. In one they were building wooden planes, and they were flying very well. In another they were calculating how many dices of sugar are in some drinks and other food that we eat. And in third one they were doing different experiments that were very well adjusted for children’s mind.


On Friday, so third day, we went on a two hour walk on the mountain of Slovenske Konjice, when we returned we had presentation on aikido, so everyone learned some basic moves of this sport. And after that we also prepared some chestnuts for them, to celebrate another successful creativity school. 

View point on our way.

A busy two weeks.

So some time had passed since I last wrote on my blog, but don’t worry, I’ll try to write everything that happened in those two weeks, that I was gone.

So let me start from a Saturday 22^nd of October.  On that day some of volunteers from our school student club went to a rehearsal of local fire department as people involved in crash. So the plan was easy, they got two old cars, crashed them and park them. And then our job was to get into those crashed cars and wait for firefighters to get us out.  Sounds very easy, but it’s different. Even if you know that everything is just a simulation, you still get scared when you see those big scissors that are going to chop the whole car and get you out. It took almost an hour to get me out. But it was an experience that will certainly keep me away from crashing my cars.

 Next thing was on Saturday, 29^th of October, it was an assembly of all youth clubs in town of Slovenske Konjice.  We had to meet because president of assembly is going to Washington DC for three months and he had to give his place to next person.  So we elected new president and now we are waiting probably on a next meeting where we’ll set all the boards that we need, to get assembly up and running.