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My first views of the EDD
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Hi everybody!

I'm Elise Ackerot, 16 years old from Sweden. I'm a part of the swedish Plan youth advisory board and it's off course very fun!

Me and my two partners from the board came here two days ago with our two chaperons Tove and Jessica. It was a long journey that started alradey at 4 o' clock in the morning. But well, I guess you have to take that when you're going to such a special event.
Almost the first thing we saw when we came here was an angry french womazn hitting a french man, great first impression, don't you think?
And spaking of frenchemen; later when we sat at a café eating omelett-lunch there was this man sitting at the table beside us. He had a cute little dog beside him, but himself looked very sulky and also - he was reading the telephone directory. Later on, a lady came, took the dog and the telephone directory and gave the man a 5 euro bill. Strange story, we had a few disscussions on why all this happened.

Well, maybe I should write some about the EDD to, not just about strange frenchmen...

Yesterday we had the Youth forum in the morning, talking and disscusing about children in local governence, and also a few get to know each other games.
After that we went to the opening ceremony and it was much just talk talk talk, not so child friendly I think. Unfortunetely me and Jessica missed one of the most impressing speakers, the nbel peace prize winner. But we listened to the president of Action Aid international and afterwards my collegeue, Jessica got to do an interview with her in the EDD tv-studio, it was cool :D
A good end to the EDD that day...

Later in the evening we had dinner in the hotel's restaurant. I've realized it's hard being a vegeterian here in France, I got salad and salad. Quite hard for me who usualy don't like salad.

Today there's been some seminars and I recently came back from an interview with the swedish ambassador for democracy, Maria Leissner, it was my first interview here so I was quite nervous first, but it went out quite well I think :)

Now we're soon going to see the cathedral here in Strasbourg.

See you!

//Elise

November 16, 2008 | 4:47 PM Comments  1 comments

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melissasnowden Melissa Snowden
November 16, 2008 | 4:02 PM

Welcome to TakingITGlobal! That sounds like such an exciting experience. Can't wait to hear more ;)
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