betterplace, ashoka and rocksteady

Today we were invited to betterplace.org, a very innovative web platform where people in need of support meet other who want to help. Placed under the motto 'one to one, direct and worldwide', it's definitely worth a click: www.betterplace.org.

Filled up from the breakfast in the office, we went to see Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.

I know I write too much about food, but i really have to mention the asian restaurant we went to. I wont mention the name of the restaurant (i don't think i have the right to do advertisement in this blog), but if you want to know where it is, feel free to contact me!

In the afternoon the mexican-argentinian-brazilian-bolivian tour group took part in a event of Ashoka Youth Venture, the six latin-americans could consult experts, and learn acquire a lot of know-how (similary to the ELAYS' experts forum). The difference was, that this time our latinos also acted also as experts!

Later that day, a public award show took place, followed by a aperitif from Ashoka Youth Venture. Unfortunately, we had to leave early because of our 'taste-20-different-beer-mission'. We first worked on the project in the hostel and continued it in a pretty underground rocksteady party at Schlesisches Tor (Thank you Lou for the hint!).

Everybody returned so tired from dancing and 'working on the project', that nobody even wanted to listen to some beautiful poems from a person (which name I wont mention at this point)...

Another cold, exciting, turkish-german day in Berlin

The day began early, because Berlin is a big city Mary, Juan, Lucas, Alexandre and me had to get up at 0600 to go with Tobias to a organization called ''pan alegre'' in the periphery of Berlin, which produces bread on the basis of a selfmade biogas-oven and amaranth, a cereal with a rich nutritional value.

Yoko, Jenni and Maru met the responsible person for Unitopia, an organization which works with students to help raise their awareness on social realities. Both very interesting experiences (i think so, i just saw ''pan alegre'' and this was interesting).

After eating in a strange turkish kebap store in which the cook didn't allow us to observe him cooking our meals, we went to the nord-süd-brücken foundation, where Andreas Rosen already waited for us in order to give us very useful advices on fundraising and communication.

At night, took place the an impakt-event on young social entrepreneurship, moderated by Dennis Hoenig Ohnsorg, where also our latinamerican delegation shared insights on their projects. After having a few social beers (www.quartiermeister.org) we went (once again) eat turkish food close to the Görlitzer Bahnhof, from where we walked back to the hostel which helped us digest our delicious meals.