Evaluation

Lots of things were said, but we all know that words were not enough to express what we felt 

inside...

“Blind cafe” role-play

It was amazing experience for those who took part in this role-play! Different groups, different tasks... How would you feel in the situation when you can't see and actually can't understand where you are, who are those people around... you hear only voices, music, laugh... evidently it's a cafe. You ask for help, you need to by some food here, but the only thing you faces is complete ignorance and rude words flying into your ears! Then suddenly you meet a person who helps you and feel a kind of relief and gratitude... The thing you experienced in that “Blind cafe” is how differently society treats visually impaired people and how that attitude can hurt human's feelings.

“Blind Shaving” - Lazi trusts more to Gerth than to himself...

This experience Lazi will remember for all his life! He decided to get rid of his beard! Gerth was pleased to help him!

Blind painting

… to see with heart, to feel with fingers, to mix the colours in your mind... to build the bridge between two seashores – your inner world and outside...

Some things you wanted to know... (free time of visually impaired people)

This session organized by Jurgen in cooperation with other visually impaired participants let us ask questions and get answers about things that we wanted to know!

Blind Football

It was difficult to imagine before we tried to play! Yes, it's possible to play football without seeing the ball, but just hearing it! Probably the first thought was “we gonna kill each other while hunting for the ball”, but Konrad opened a secret of using special sounds to prevent “football catastrophe”. 

International Evening

Chocolate International evening with a great variety of choco-stuff from all over Europe!   Jurgen was inventive for giving the task to represent your country in association with the chocolate! So, we did! And then actively enjoyed “chocolate evening” without any fear to loose our teeth afterwords!

Welcome, Active people!

The first seminar day was so fussy, full of funny accidents and laugh... Though participants were a bit tired after their travel to Germany, they couldn't stop smiling and chatting in our welcoming evening!  

What a great event! So many people! Some of them are “old chaps” already and sinking in hugs and conversations. “Fresh-comers” are a bit shy, looking around and wondering what this seminar will bring to them, what one-week experience will they get here, how many friends they'll find...

And we're all here now, from different countries, from different cultures, with different life stories and experience... We're welcoming each other and hope to stay in our “yellow web” not only for one seminar week but afterwords as well!

Breakfast challenge

“Breakfast groups”... do you remember with whom you went shopping and was cooking breakfast? Of course you do... risking and amazing experience! How it felt taking responsibility for buying food and treating almost fifty people!? You did your best! All thematic breakfasts were great and full of the warmth of your hearts! And we are so grateful to our visually-impaired participants for showing us how they do shopping and cook!

During the seminar...

Our “yellow web” is becoming stronger and stronger with every day. We cook together, walk together, sharing knowledge and experience, learning from each other. Once it was said in the seminar “...before this seminar I felt sympathy to visually-impaired people, but now I admire them! Their life even brighter than life of those people who can see colors... ” How true it is, how much we learnt, how much fun we had together, how many songs we sang, how many precious moment we gave to each other!

Experiencing “Blind Stairs”

“Blind stairs” was a great experience for most of the participants. It seemed to be easy in the beginning, but when blind-folder covers your eyes and the only thing you can see is darkness, fear starts coming up from the depth of your mind. You fight this fear and move on, step by step... you realize how important for you is the voice of your friend who tells you the direction... your heart is beating faster and faster...you learn a lot from that simple walk in the darkness...