Tuesday, August 21, 2007
IC is officially opened
The IC 2007 in Istanbul is officially opened! - now step by step...
This morning started very early at 8:30h with Opening Plenary. Every country presented its role call in front of the all delegates - that took quite a while... The German role call (yes, I am part of the German delegation) was interrupted after ca. 40sec. and not like the others after 1min. Whatever, it was a nice but looong morning plenary, as expected.
Right after the plenary we were taken to the Global Village venue. It took place in the Feshane Convention Center. Much smaller than last year it was n
ot that much of an atmosphere of a global village, but it was nice to see all the countries presenting themselves. And we had additional guests from Germany as well. Not only the You Can-delegates joined us but Tielko and Miri from Berlin visited the German table, too (we shared a table with France...).
The Global Village lasted until the early evening so we traveled directly to the venue of the Official Opening, near the Fenerbace soccer stadium. Good and average speeches were held by a young representative of HP, the mayor of Istanbul, the speaker of the BoA, and of course by Gabitza (PAI), the CCP and the MCP Turkey. In-between was a show of Fire of Anatolia, a dancing group that was dancing very fast and was nice to watch.
Since the whole day we only got the food from the global village and small, soft and dry subs without any water I am quite exhausted now (okay, it's late as well...)
Tomorrow the IC starts with the sessions - I will tell you more about it wh
en it is over since I don't have any clue what the sessions in detail will be about. Good night :)
PS: Neda (middle) arrived today. She will represent Iran during the IC since Iran will apply for Official Extension!
This morning started very early at 8:30h with Opening Plenary. Every country presented its role call in front of the all delegates - that took quite a while... The German role call (yes, I am part of the German delegation) was interrupted after ca. 40sec. and not like the others after 1min. Whatever, it was a nice but looong morning plenary, as expected.
Right after the plenary we were taken to the Global Village venue. It took place in the Feshane Convention Center. Much smaller than last year it was n
ot that much of an atmosphere of a global village, but it was nice to see all the countries presenting themselves. And we had additional guests from Germany as well. Not only the You Can-delegates joined us but Tielko and Miri from Berlin visited the German table, too (we shared a table with France...).The Global Village lasted until the early evening so we traveled directly to the venue of the Official Opening, near the Fenerbace soccer stadium. Good and average speeches were held by a young representative of HP, the mayor of Istanbul, the speaker of the BoA, and of course by Gabitza (PAI), the CCP and the MCP Turkey. In-between was a show of Fire of Anatolia, a dancing group that was dancing very fast and was nice to watch.
Since the whole day we only got the food from the global village and small, soft and dry subs without any water I am quite exhausted now (okay, it's late as well...)
Tomorrow the IC starts with the sessions - I will tell you more about it wh
en it is over since I don't have any clue what the sessions in detail will be about. Good night :)PS: Neda (middle) arrived today. She will represent Iran during the IC since Iran will apply for Official Extension!
