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The sound of rain - upside down

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Hello human beings, its Morla here, Laura’s dog companion who participated in, yet, another Interspecies dialogues Youth Exchange. I was observing human behaviour from the corner and how my new friends learned a lot of new things and went into a big journey through their emotions and challenge themselves to communicate without words. I empathised with them having physical contact with strangers, its crazy how similar we are in the end.
I noticed they built a lot of trust between them even if they didn’t know each other from before, they were taking care of each other and also of me, the other dogs and donkeys. We had a lot of fun.
They “talked” with trees, plants and animals and they were really curious on what was happening in the natural world.
They observed and interacted with us, respected us and found compromises between our needs and boundaries.
If you also want to have fun, challenge yourself and have a profound experience in the Italian mountains with other species come join us next time
See you soon, take care
Morla 🐾

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We were by groups of 3 including a donkey and one of us was blind and the other had to guide them through a path. We tried not to talk and communicate by the body. It was very fun, in particular the little jumps that were in the path !

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Today I went to the donkeys' home for the first time after I've been on holidays for 10 days. Usually I go to feed them everyday, so they are used to seeing me and don't always have big reactions when I arrive, they just mind their own business and want food!
This time though, after being away for ten days, they all came to greet me and get cuddled when I arrived at the stable. This is family!!!

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Slow down, here with me
I wanna lay down in the still
Still-ness of you and me

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Listen to Slow Down on Spotify. Red Moon · Song · 2020.

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Today we went hugging trees 🌳🌲

It didn't look comfortable at first, but it was surprisingly comfy and nice 🥰🤗

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Francesco juggling balls like a pro!

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Moving, dancing and feeling the water in us and in nature

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People and woods. :)

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Peaceful

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Today we made digital skits. The point of skits was to show a situation regarding covid and digital. In our (Croatian) skit we talked about bizarre situation that happened in the university. During covid university was online and it was okay for everybody, but after covid teacher wasn't in the classroom, but students were. And students have to be in person looking at the big zoom screen from profesor.

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Monika suggested Energizer that everybody liked. Chairs in the circle and one person inside. Every person has their fruit (apple, pear, banana or plum). Person in the middle say one fruit and that fruit has to change chairs and person on the middle should sit on one. Then cycle continues with new person in the middle. This Energizer was really fun for everybody, there was a lot of laughs and one chair even broke

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https://spotify.link/bKTRxbiN1Db

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When the digital screen drops off. Fear, exposition, feeling "insignificante". 

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1. Digital masks: Fig. 1;
2. Sunset lovers: a sunset is better seen with free eyes;
3. Information and choices: a source, a scattering, a different way of receiving things and catch opportunities;
4. Family: even if you are far from the people you love, they are always with you.

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Immerged in the digital space we receive constantly information and watch influencers trying to shape our opinions.
The media is biased and choosing what to show - or which kind of violence they're not showing.

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Emotions are like leaves on trees, they serve for the growth of the c(U)ore but at some point they will leave and new ones will come.

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Emotions are like leaves on trees, they serve for the growth of the c(U)ore but at some point they will leave and new ones will come.

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Cooperation and solidarity . Thinking of how it’s going in the world in this moment.

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Cooperation and solidarity . Thinking of how it’s going in the world in this moment.

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Everyone talks about peace but
No one educates for peace. In this world we educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of all war. When you educate to cooperation and to offer solidarity to each other, that day you will be educating to peace.

Maria Montessori

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This morning we meet donkeys and went for a walk with them. It was really beautiful autumn in the forest and experience was incredible.

After we had a quiz about donekys and learnt new things about them.

We also met the dogs with whom we are going to engage tomorrow. From their non-verbal communication we made infocard about them.

And we finished the day with relaxing 5 way taking care ritual.

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Without movement there would be no universe, no humans, no animals, no plants or fungi…nothing. Everything started with an interaction that came from and created movement.
Rain falls and creates rivers that end un in the sea that evaporates and creates clouds filled with rain again.
Nature is an infinite cycle.
Every little thing that dies is needed for other processes and generates nutriment for Earth and other beings on the planet.
Everything is temporary alive to serve this world.
Surrender and Love 🌙🧡

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Gran espíritu, gran abuelo, gran abuela
Como soy me presento ante ti
Como soy te pido bendiciones
Agradezco el corazón que has puesto en mí

Y hoy más vengo, no más vengo, no más vengo
Gran espíritu sabrás a lo que vengo
A entregar mi corazón, mi corazón
Corazón que es lo único que tengo

Great spirit, great grandfather, great grandmother
As I am I present myself in front of you
As I am I ask you for blessings
I thank for the heart you have placed in me

And today I come, I come for no less than, for no less than
Great Spirit, you will know what I came for
To surrender my heart, my heart
Heart, which is all I've got

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A lot of rain and dark sky. I made a dance with a greek comrade and I felt like ripped in two pieces like a paper sheet. I couldn't even talk and walk, without energy and capacity to make any noise. I didn't wanted to do the double couple dance, because I saw the others, so close and so involved with the thing, that I felt excluded and terribly different. Their smiles, their fluidity, their connection are deep and solid, I can't empathise with those feelings, I'm too rational and I can't stay in their clothes. But then Daria helped me to dance and it was a fantastic experience, like a lantern in the dark making light and guiding me. I'm so thankful about that.

At the end with my greek comrade we made a very good choreography, I enjoyed it besides Daria and Francesco said us to make it twice. Their advices were useful to enjoy and make me feel free to move without the fear of prejudices and other people.

I feel lucky to be in this ostello with so colourful people.

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A yellow leaf, probably from a black poplar (Populus nigra).

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And we saw an eagle!

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Ok, let's recover.
The tree hugging was like to try and leave. he called me but he didn't want me to hug him, so I preferred to sit along him on my back and seeing him from the roots. then I leaved but I went back again because I thought I didn't do it properly. I felt better the second time, so I thanked the tree and I left.

the evening was a shit. I cried a lot in front of my italian friends and I felt weak and vulnerable. a lot of bad emotion passed through my brain and injured me. It was a nightmare thinking about things I don't like. but they were there for me, telling me I am a good person, even if I don't think so.

It went better after the dinner, so thank you Aurora, Giulia, Raghav, Teresa and Sofia.

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We performed non-verbal stories. From five easy directions we were able to preforme nice piece of choreography.

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We took a beautiful walk in the forest. The rain didn't bothered as to much, we loved how it sounds. We are looking forward on working on this places more in the next days.

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Playing Gobbit after the cafe break. ✨
Really simple but difficult game.

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We went for a walk in the forest with the dogs to prepare the activity of tomorow and the day after tomorow. It was so relaxing !

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After the rain🌈, the sunshine 🌻

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Preparation of the Emotional Path for tomorow 

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Preparation of the Emotional Path for tomorow 

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We were divided by groups with a place that was attributed to each group and prepared the Emotional Path.

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https://spotify.link/z5LxdjtN6Db

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We were in groups of five people and every group engaged with one dog (Runa, Tina, Liz)

Some of us conquered our fears (👏👏), some of us had to improvised because structure we discussed before didn't work, but all in all very successful activity. We practiced our nonverbal communication, our interspieces dialouge and of course learnt some new things.

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Today was a wonderfull Day, enganging with dogs, with donkies and beatiful autumn forest. All the things slowly came to there place.

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I feel confident with dogs. But not with donkeys.

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Fluidity, water and river of people than magic of forest and powers of circle and than dancing with the trees - above, under, through, around and towards and at the and magic of sounds of nature reflects in the people.

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The week in Italian mountain had everyone out of their comfort zone. We had experienced life not just in human society, but also in connection with other beings. We hung out with dogs, donkeys and also plants like threes. For work to be done properly we had to build trust with each other and beings around us and that gave us the opportunity to feel and do things that we probably would never have try otherwise. 🦋

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Youth exchange is a perfect opportunity for everyone who wants to challenge themselves. Even if you are not extroverted, there will be place for you. You will get to know a lot of other people and their story while learning about other cultures and collecting new ✨memories.✨

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Without knowing the others did the same, every group member collected souvenirs during our hikes. We connect our thoughts and feelings to the leaves, flowers and seeds. We want to keep the connection even when we get home.

We're not used to focus really on the things we do, how we interact with species and consider our environment only as scenography of our daily lives.

Being emphatic to nature an so to other species enhanced our connection, opened up our vision and let us taken into account all it's amazing details.

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What we take with us :

You can learn to trust someone who you met a week before

You open up personally inside a group and gain confidence to speak or dance in front of others

You express your own opinion in another language, overcome the fear of expressing yourself by making mistakes

You experience that a group of strangers can become like a family can create a safe place which allows confidence

You feel more comfortable to speak and communicate and make new friendships

You can learn to understand animal behaviour and be able to interact in a way they understand you

You learn more about local food and beverages

You find similarities in foreign politics and get aware of the challenges you share

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The power of counsciousness

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The loneliness of the tree without feeling alone.

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The loneliness of the tree without feeling alone.

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Feeling with mind and body that everything that surrounds us has an energy, understanding how to interact with it as we do with other people: listening, taking time, respecting places and sharing ourselves and welcoming the others.