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 This page is the informal log of my transiency process, in reverse chronological order.
+July- 21 August
+A full month in Lithuania.
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+It has started with an extremely intensive and complex week in Panevezys where i facilitated a project Migrating Birds. The aim of the project was to bring a divers group of people to create ideas and projects to revive the city. The goals where achieved, projects created and participants inspired. But a small group of organising team that we where was left with a bitter taste and completely drained of our energy. My colleague that agreed to assist me wasn't familiar with the methods i was using and was stressing out all the time.The second assistant that was suppose to help out had to concentrate on the other issues that appeared after being too generous to accommodate many wishes of the participants. I was mostly left alone with a lot larger group than agreed and deal with the problems that i had not much experience with (such as writing press reports and so on...).On top of all this during the week we realised how complex the topic we are working is. The city that after independence became ruled by mafia gangs, 3 very large industry sectors collapsed and got abandoned, cultural life that lived only on the legends of a few intellectuals that past away years ago and even a river that sometimes runs backwards against its current... We new this before we arrived but we couldn't estimate beforehand how deeply these problems still are rooted in the daily life of the citizens. (Even the hotel we stayed in is obviously build on illegal money...) How much energy it took for us to keep everyone calm and not start fighting. Well we kept it all under control... Or almost under control. The last evening blood was spilled... and the largest quantity on the mayors jacket. Such a reality check...
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+As part of my transiency i can only say i managed to facilitate the whole event on my own. From the initial design to the implementation. All worked well and gave me a lot more confidence to do this in some less complicated circumstances. And be strict with organisers about things we agreed upon ( number of participants, extra activities, help needed...) Also measure well the energy spend vs getting back.
+On a plus side i've visited one of the abandoned factories Ekranas. I feel very sorry that i couldn't spend more time there in the compleet vastness. The space is huge and so empty like a set for cinema.
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+After that the holiday followed. But it seemed as if all the good weather was spend on the week in Panevezys and all we had left was only dark clouds,rain and low temperature.So instead of settling somewhere we traveled around without meeting too many people. One of the top destinations was a city of Visaginas. It was built as a town for workers engaged in the construction of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (exact replica of Chernobyl).
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+It is a city- museum. I never been in city build only in Soviet style. The development of the city stopped after decision to close the nuclear power plant was taken. So it is really unspoiled and feels like traveling back in time. Even people still dress the same.
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+Another very nice trip was visiting Liepaja in Letland. A small city on the coast of the Baltic sea that survived the war without too much damage. Wooden architecture so nice and warm and almost no people on the streets.
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