Casey Piquette: I can’t believe we are nearing the end of the Tomorrow Steps project! It feels as though I just got here, now we only have one school left. Today’s school was Liepaja 11.vidusskola and it was a challenging day! There were a few logistical problems, we couldn’t get a projector and we weren’t able to do our Global Village, but we made the best of the situation! Being that it was the last week of school and the weather outside was beautiful, the students were a bit restless…but back in high school I would have been too 
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Although there was a lack of response, I believe that we were able to get the AIESEC message across to the students and we were able to show them our concern for the environment. Now we are going to go enjoy the beautiful environment of this town and hit the beach! 
Only one more school left!
Alina Rusu: I guess being in high-school, in your last classes week, you wouldn’t be so concerned with the environmental issues. You’d think about the vacation that is ahead of you and plan some crazy trips to beautiful sites. And when some foreigners come to your school on a sunny Tuesday morning talking about ecology, what would your reaction be? Well today I found out that even if you are talking about crucial problems in the world, not everybody is concerned or even interested in it. Sure, there were some students who were paying attention and there were some interesting solutions to solve environmental issues, but overall I cannot say for sure that we managed to pass out our message- be proactive, be environmental friendly, be aware of what’s going on around you and do something about it. I hope I’m wrong and I hope that you guys will make the world around you a better place someday… by starting now!
One more school to go.. we’ll do our best to make it great!
Genevieve: I loved today’s sessions for the fact that the students were sincere and listened to what me and Ana has to say. It is a bit disappointing that we could not have so much attention from the students who were great enough to be in lessons even though it was their last week in school; it would be great if we could have more interaction with them=) I think they were wonderful to be challenged to present in english even though we had difficulty in communicating with English during the sessions! Great work for the students in my session – thanks for bearing with my accent;) The solutions may seem to be simple and same from schools to schools but I think they are different for the individual students. I think that the thinking process for how they can be environmentally-friendly is the most important part.By the way, I want to say a big thank you to the students who were so nice and sweet to bring me flowers – it’s great motivation!
Nice drawing of AIESEC=) Creative! It’s a virtual recycling of bottles if you can’t see in the small pic
One more school to go before we wrap up our visits to the schools. I hope it ends great and concludes our mission to visit schools very well. So all the best for thursday;)
Ana Marija: This school enriched me with the experience of working with a small number of students and I realized the fact that it’s easier to work with smaller number of pupils. Even though some of them had problems with understanding English, the few who understood us were very interested and I have to say they were the most creative of all students in the past schools in coming up with ideas how to reuse items you have bought from the supermarket. Good job guys!
Logistical problems such as a lack of equipment were solved precisely because of the small number of participating students so we manage to show them some of the planned videos on our laptop. So at the end of the day I deem the sessions as successful and positive considering the fact that high school students were in summer vacation in their minds already.
And the rest of the day was great too… We spent the day on the beach and all I can say is- only 2 more days in Liepaja… it’s not enough!
