Extraordinary situation!

The simulation during the community day was dedicated to the city of Ochsenburg in Austia and its local council meeting. Here you have is the article of the local jurnalists:

Extraordinary situation! Recently on the Local Council meeting some important issues were touched, the future of the whole community was under the threat. The main topic was the drug pushing in the Gothenburg city in south Austria. The invited guests were: officers Jung and Janes, Herr Toppler, Frau Niespeat, Frau Schwarzwald, Dr Warheit und Dr. Falsch, Prof Rosensteig und Prof. Silberberg, Herr Dreck, Herr Stein und Frau Streit, Frau Leidernicht und Herr Weisswasser, Frau Schultz und Herr Schwartz. The well known and one of the best local and national reporters (WE) in Austria were also invited. The first to take a part in the discussions were Police officers, they inquired for more forces to fight against the drug pushers, they scored 10 out of 30, not bad attempt at all.

During the expressive discussions, the High School director suggested to punish the junkies and the dealers by putting them in front of the class as an example... best wishes to his kids. Another wonderful and fruitful idea was to ban the teenagers to stay out after 9pm, this would surely reduce the traffic jams on the Friday nights. The whole audience were shocked when they discovered that they tried to legalize the “soft” drags, but they had no clue what did it mean. Scientists are always in front of the sheep (!!). City council and audience were also widely entertained by an ex-junkie who even didn’t know the difference between reality and being stoned. All of all, everyone had a smile upon his/her face, they got pretty much what they wanted. And they lived in happiness, probably until the death.

Herr. Sweinsteiger und Frau Bild

What does CITIZENSHIP means?

Today we’ve concluded the following:
The term ’’Citizenship” originates in the idea of ”citadel” which means a community leading itself by a set of rules. The sailors explained the origins of this word and its etymology in their languages, as follows:

Cidadania (Portuguese)
Cetatenie (Romanian)
Obywatelstwo (Polish)
Allampolgarsag (Hungarian)
Pilsoniba (Latvian)
Obcanstvi (Czechs)
Bürgerschaft (German)
Burgerschap (Dutch)

We’ve found some interesting quotations on the posters that could describe better our understanding of citizenship:
“To be a citizen means to be active but not to harm others.”
“Don’t think of citizenship like a noisy insect.”
“Think of citizenship as a way to fly and reach great heights in your society.”
“Each person can change society and make it a better place.”

So, to get some more personal ideas of what citizenship means, we have interviewed Paul, Sean and Bruno:

“To me, citizenship means respect each other; it’s the feeling that you belong somewhere, to a group of people.”
Paul

“Making a positive contribution to your society.”
Sean

“Citizenship is a kind of way where all the people of the society must interfere in order to respect a moral code and where they must express their ideas and values to contribute to the development of the community.”
Bruno

So, see you tomorrow with some new ideas!

At midnight...

Wake up sailors! The crew is now complete. The last sailors arrived and joined the group in order to start the engine of our Citizen Ship



Put your markers in place.. ready, steady, go... sailors drawing the map of Europe.





Sailors are having a ship race, and the winner is... Air Force 3(free), represented by Sean, our yellow “subject of the Queen’’.

The sailors also performed today, in order to reveal the main aspects of citizenship across history: Ancient times, Middle Ages, Enlightment and Modern Times.

First Group arrived in Balvi !

We arrived in Balvi this day at 16:30.!!! Finally !!

Thanks to the skills of our driver, we arrived not only fast but also safely. We had dinner and after which we had our first "offical meeting", where we found out some interesting things about each other (favourite things like cartoons and pets, opinions about "the ideal president" of the European Union and what makes us laugh), we joked a lot and really had a good time together. With "arms wide open" we are expecting the second group tonight. We are anxious to meet them, to start the training , and of course we shouldn't forget about the "WELCOME PARTY" !!:D

Sailors on the CitizenShip Navigation Latvia STARTS!

Ahoy,
A friendly greeting to all that came to visit the blog of our latest "cruise". Yes Sailors training has now moved to Latvia and a small town called Balvi. We will update you late every night with new news about our training and about all the fun that is going on here in Balvi. We´ll be happy to get your comments too! Keep on sailing around Europe.

Your Captains and Sailors on the CitizenShip

Polish Sail