First of all; Norrbyskär was great- all that we could hope for! Fantastic environment and some many different activities to do!
Some good news!
After tons of phone call to Umeå Kommun (Umeå Municipality) to follow up on the application we sent them I finally got in touch with a women working there who could give us an answer, and it was positive! We got 15.000 SKr from the municipality to use in our project, and that is almost all we need!
Yesterday the local press, Västerbottens Folkblad, made an interview with us. WE took some pictures and the journalist interviewed the Cambodian, Zambian and Swedish participants.
We also did quite a lot of promotion work yesterday. One Cambodian, one Zambian and one Swedish participant group together and went to a school to promote the camp to the students, they went n to each and every classroom and told about the upcoming Midsummer camp. From what I have heard so far the response was positive.
The project is really moving forward and that feels great! Thea group is great, everyone is working hard and it is very inspiring to go to the meetings. As a good teambuilding exercise we participated in the World Championships in Brännboll (Swedish game, similar to baseball) this morning, we were not very successful but we had a lot of fun!
Some bad news…
Only one thing worries me. One of the Swedish participants is hospitalized since yesterday… After quite some time of sickness and he fainted in his home and was brought by the ambulance to the hospital. The doctors have made many different tests but unfortunately they haven’t been able to figure out what’s wrong with him. And we are waiting…
Jonna- happy and worried= confused
