In the afternoon, after lunch, we started again with language learning activities in the Serbian and Bulgarian languages. Each national team, before starting their workshops, introduced a new energizer. The first team has been the Serbians who started their workshop with an energizer that had a goal not to laugh when the person in the middle of the circle was saying to you “I love you” and you needed to answer with the phrase “I love you too, but I cannot laugh”. In case the person laughed, he/she switched with the person in the middle.
We continued with the presentation of the Serbian language. The structure of the activities has been the same: a first part when the group has been presenting the origin of the language, and some interesting facts, and a second part where the rest of the participants has been split into five groups, one for every category, who might accomplish with the new language: alphabet and numbers, ways of presenting yourself, basic phrases, tongue twisters, and national songs. After the group work, every group had to present their achievements to the rest of the participants.
After the Serbian workshop, we had a coffee break to refresh and clear our heads since the Bulgarians were about to take the word. They also started with an energizer: each participant was seated in position and had to lie down on the legs of their partner behind; slowly, chair by chair, a person took away the chair under the participants until a chain of fallen people has been accomplished. After that, the Bulgarians opened the activities with some fun facts regarding the Bulgarian language, and then we followed the same scheme as with the language learning activities.
These presentations helped us to better discover the cultures, and differences in languages among the 3 South Slavic-speaking countries. We learned more about their alphabets, numbers and typical phrases. Above the formal presentations, we also had moments of funny entertainment: we sang national songs and tried to spell some tongue twisters.
We ended the day with reflections among the national groups and later leaders meeting in order to evaluate the day, express our impressions, reflect upon the learning process and prepare for tomorrow.
