No single comment to the dish we are preparing with Filiz and some other
friends for you here, so i keep telling
1st my OST experience in Germany
I had the honor to assist Juliane Neumann last week in Vlotho at Learning
Exchange meeting of German Consultants.
It was a great experience as already language helped me to stay out of the
issues and the community and i was happy with that.
Juliane was a wonderful facilitator; perfectly invisible but present to observe
and hear everything, people actually thought that she was a butterfly or an
assistant.
Mia, another colleague in our team was also wonderful. She was very experienced
in OST organizations yet she
made everything so easy and fun for me. She didn't forget to translate me what
was going on despite the work load,
they both made me feel part of the team, cooperating with me, listenining to my
questions, making time and space to answer them.
And all the Boscop members made me feel at home and welcomed whenever needed.
So i especially want to thank to Juliane Neumann and Mia Konstantinidou as team
members, and then Juliane Adler and Michael Pannwitz (the junior)
as organizers and all the boscop members ( Michael -the senior); Jo, Yaari,
Anna, and all the participants some of them i knew from POP Berlin,
some were i met for the first time...) for giving me this first opportunity to
work professionally at an OST meeting and to make even some money
out of something that i love and enjoy so much.
Berlin is a beautiful colorful ciy, hosting many cultures and societies. An
unforgottable experience for me was a self organized, spontaneous dinner where
it suddenly happened that we were 4 people around a table, eating italian dish,
drinking italian wine, listening to turkish music and each talking
different languages at the same time (english, german, spanish and italian),
yet we were able to make jokes, understand each other and laugh.
I also had a chance to meet different people who work a lot with OST. A lot of
OST work going on Europe and I didn't know that.
So please i kindly ask to hear more european OST experiences on the list, they
are crucial for me as examples and they give me some ideas
about integrating somethings from here to some of them or vice versa.
Please don't think only about bombs and terrorists, we have so many things to
offer;like music, food, dances, fun, laughter, love, brotherhood,
cooperation etc....( i don't know why i needed to tell this but i wanted to
mention)
2nd what we are doing here now
When it comes to the dish we will cook here, these are the steps already taken;
1) here is the web site in turkish;
www.acikalanteknolojisi.com
I also have some pictures of our daily life where you can see that some of it
is already naturally organized as OST, they are not there yet but they will be
included very soon.
2) we set up a team of 4 women for the time being; Filiz, me, Sirin ( she is an
arcitect very active in Greeanpeace ), Begum (she is a lawyer and first woman
rally champion in Turkey)
4 of us will be there in the last page of the web site, there is only me for
now.
3) Michael Pannwitz ( the senior) and Jo are coming to visit us in february
4) We will organize an international training with them in may
5) IAO conference in October or November 2006 in Istanbul for which i had very
insprining meetings and conversations in Berlin.
Now before i tell you more about my dreams and projects; i would like to invite
Yawar, Karolina, Sirin and Begum to subscribe to the list.
I will talk about that probably in the afternoon as i have some things to do
now.
Funda
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