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The power of HUG

Posted: 5 h, 58 m ago By: Bing He

For a Chinese, like me, it is a litter bit strange to greet friends or others with HUG. Since that is not the tradition for us, normally, we have the hand-shaking instead.

But when I am now leaving for China, I got several HUGs from my

Tags: hug, tradition

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New participants are about to start soon...

Posted: 12 h, 47 m ago By: Susanne Brovold Hvidsten

It is soon time for new participants to start their exchange in- or outside of Noway. I'm looking forward to meeting people at the prep.course next week, and it's strange how I feel a bit envious...

Do not misunderstand that word. I have

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A Whole New World

Posted: Sep 06 2010 By: Amro Owaineh

it is not easy to describe how you feel when you move to a new country, a country totally different than what you ever experienced.

sometimes I ask myself, what brought me here? and the answer will clearly be, I want to try new things,

Tags: gocy, kenya, nairobi

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Kristin’s balcony and means of transport

Posted: Sep 04 2010 By: Kristin Laugerud

Today’s topic is not seasonal, but something that concerns Malagasies every day, and also visitors of this country. As you know, Madagascar is a huge island, in fact the world’s fourth largest island. People need to move around whether within

Tags: antsiranana, pousse, taxi-brousse, tolagnaro

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Planning my next project follow-up

Posted: Sep 03 2010 By: Susanne Brovold Hvidsten

We have hectic days at the FK office right now, and it will be very exciting to know how our new teams will look like - who will I be working with, and what will be "my" thematic field...?

At the same time I'm now planning my next project

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Web 2.0 for development

Posted: Sep 02 2010 By: Jorunn Stokke

Things are really hectic at the office now, and we are beginning to see the end of the restructuring of the organisation. Some people (including me, yay!) will start working with new challenges and all of us will be collaborating in new

Tags: prep course, web 2.0, work life

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Brønnøysund: New place, new people, new life

Posted: Sep 02 2010 By: Ridma Fonseka

After being with my goCY family for more than 3 weeks, felt a little lonely as I arrived in Brønnøysund. Though it is one of the few cities up in North, not more than 7000 people living in the entire community.

People so far I met in

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Rapport augst

Posted: Sep 01 2010 By: Kristin Lystad

Denne måneden starta med en uke streik. De som jobber i bhg "communitario" har ikke fått utbetalt verken bonus eller støtte de tre siste måneder. De får ikke fast lønn, for da de sa ja til å jobbe, ble de ansatt som frivillige. Men de har til

Tags: nicaragua

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Preperations over!

Posted: Aug 31 2010 By: Ridma Fonseka

Following the FK prep course all the goCYs attended the Y global prep course held from 13 - 27 August, 2010.

We started the course in a nice little farm out in the forest in Aarholt (2 h drive from Oslo) and moved to a campsite by the

Tags: y global prep course

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Open mail to all FK participants

Posted: Aug 31 2010 By: Nirajan Thapa

Dear all
Namaste ! (typical Nepalese greeting)
I am fine here and hope you all are sailing on same boat there. After being departed from the FK, I really could not spend my weekend nicely. I did not make any plans to go out or have fun of

Tags: nirajan thapa, redcross, training

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