Presentation in Carrickfergus

The haven of Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus YMCA

The missing cameraman: Michael ;)

Yesterday morning. Terribul! After I have been ill, it's Michael's turn now. As he had high fever, he couldn't come with me to the presentation in Carrickfergus.
It was really a pitty, because it was the first presentation in a city at the sea...

So finally I packed the videocamera and the laptop, put on a raincoat and went alone. I think Carrickfergus is a great place, very beautiful... but not yesterday ;) It has been raining all the time, but there's nothing to wonder about as we all know "there's not much glamour about the English weather". Oh dear ;)

Doing the presentation was easier then I had expected. The young people are really interrested in the YOUTH Programme and so they participated quite a lot - I was really surprised!
I also did presentations during my EVS in Cornwall and people often weren't even listening to what we wanted to tell them. This time we planned it a bit different: to motivate them for more active participation and to involve the young people into conversation from the beginning on.

The young people from Carrickfergus gave me some inside of their points of view:
In general they like to live in Northern Ireland, but most of them told me, that everything is about the troubles. They said, everybody still speaks about them and if they meet somebody, their always asked at first about the troubles of NI.
For a better Future they want more say about the politics in NI, they would like to stop the "seperation" between protestants and catholics and they also welcomed my presentation of the YOUTH Programme, as they just want more possibilities for their freetime - to make new experiences and to go abroad.

It was an interresting experience I had yesterday, to talk so closely to the young people in NI about their points of view and their visions. But to tell you more it would take me hours... and my back is hurting already ;)

So bye for now... Til next time.