http://maya.tigblog.org/ What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe? en-us http://maya.tigblog.org/post/3181 Mon, 18 Mar 2002 05:56:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/3181 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/3161 Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:38:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/3161 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/2113 Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:06:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/2113 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/2055 Wed, 19 Dec 2001 02:34:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/2055 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1699 Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:20:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1699 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1466 English slang (and many other things like grammar) makes sometimes problems to me as well:) But if I don’t understand I always ask. Thanks this I know today what does “bud” or “you are rule” mean. (Thank you Derek and Jarra).
Sometimes I really feel foolish when I’m asking, but it is like when a child is three years old. He/she starts to speak and to learn mother’s language. And many words seems to be without meaning to this child. So he/she asks oft “why?” , “what does it mean?” We can call this age Asking Age. So all people, whom are learning a foreign language need to get through this “Asking Age” to improve language skills.
And please don’t appreciate people when they speak in foreign language. Because the level of their (for example) English can be low and they just can’t explain their thoughts.
This happened to me four years ago. I worked with one guy from Syria. His Slovak was weak. He answered only “yes” or “no”. That’s why I thought he isn’t very intelligent. I met him yesterday after two years . His Slovak is much better now and I know that he is young genius with a lot of dreams and great ideas.
]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2001 02:40:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1466 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1424 English slang (and many other things like grammar) makes sometimes problems to me as well.:) But if I don’t understand I always ask. Thanks this I know today what does "bud" or "you are rule" mean. (Thank you Derek and Jarra). :)
Sometimes I really feel foolish when I’m asking, but it is like when a child is three years old. He/she starts to speak and to learn mother’s language. And many words seems to be without meaning to this child. So he/she asks oft "why?" , "what does it mean?" We can call this age Asking Age. So all people, whom are learning a foreign language need to get through this "Asking Age" to improve language skills.
And please don’t appreciate people when they speak in foreign language. Because the level of their (for example) English can be low and they just can’t explain their thoughts.
This happened to me four years ago. I worked with one guy from Syria. His Slovak was weak. He answered only "yes" or "no". That’s why I thought he isn’t very intelligent. I met him yesterday after two years . His Slovak is much better now and I know that he is young genius with a lot of dreams and great ideas.
]]> Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:56:00 EST http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1424 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1359 On Saturday morning I woke up and I heard some bells outside. When I walked out from the door I saw Shepard and about 60 cows. Then came out one of the two little boys (3 and 5 years old). He was scared, but surprised. After few minutes he asked: “And where is the purple cow?”. I am not sure if you know a chocolate Milka. It is very popular here in Europe. The company use a purple cow in their commercial spots. And kids starting to think that cows got to be purple. What an experience! We had so much fun.
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]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:34:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1358 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1357 „The world as a heterarchical net offers endless possibilities for each individual to enter new networks and thus get to know different people and co-operate with them in creating cultural and economic activities, irrespective of geographical and time differences. It depends on us whether we are willing to master the „new mobility“ – spiritual as well as physical, which life within the Net will certainly require from us. It therefore depends on us whether we will behave, in this „net of the nets“, like a „fish“ which has been caught and is thus condemned to death for lack of oxygen, i.e. relevant skills, or whether we will behave like agile „spiders“, which feel themselves literally at home in it.“
I think that thanks TIG we are all learning to behave like agile „spiders“.
]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:33:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1357 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1356 TIG in Slovakia is starting as a partner of Slovak Centre for European Integration in Kremnica.
But we want to inspire, informe and involve all young people in Slovakia.

]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:30:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1356 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1240 Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:52:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1240 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1239 And the evening was party time. We were in Wine-bar till 2.30 a.m. We drank a little bit more as usually , we danced a lot .

]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:50:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1239 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1238 Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:49:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1238 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1237 Second workshop took place in High school. Classroom was full of English speaking students. So the discussion was very interesting. After finishing workshop we left Bratislava. At 7.30 p.m. we arrived to Kremnica – home sweet home. I came home and I said hallo and Goodbye to my mum and we went to my favorite Fish restaurant for dinner.
The picture is from second workshop.
]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:47:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1237 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1236 Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:46:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1236 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1162 Mon, 08 Oct 2001 08:15:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1162 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1161 The day of TIG team arrival. Now I can tell, that I was quit nervous to meet such an “important people” and that for first 20 minutes I understood them only every second word.:-
]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2001 08:15:00 EDT http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1161 48.7 18.916666748.718.9166667 http://maya.tigblog.org/post/1160 Special thanks to Georg Flachbart, to Branka Gudelj from ACCC and of course to TIG team Toronto.
Thanks them I met these wonderful, inspiring people. Each of them has a different and unique spirit, and together they are great TIG team. They have inspired, informed and involved many people in Slovakia.

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P.S. We look wonderful, don’t we?
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