My trip to Croatia - Day 7

Friday, 20th April 2007

On Friday evening our great closing performance took place. All participants were running to and fro excitedly. My group had to execute the most difficult task. We had to present our own poems publicly. After we had selected our best “works” we were practising the entire day reading them out aloud. In the end we felt unable to pronounce the simplest sounds.
Then there were rumours that we should have to scale bar stools with a microphone in one hand and our poems in the other. But to reassure us, Helena and Ivan (our instructors) carried a sofa from the lounge to the refectory where the performance was said to occur.

Sabine, Anita and I came first. We were all suffering a bit from stage-fright but with the first words our scare disappeared and judging by the received applause we did a more than satisfactory job.And what was even better we could relish the evening without further disturbance.