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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” ― John Muir

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Glitch Academy - „Advanced Digital Marketing“ workshop

I've performed my first workshop with few of the locals called “Advanced Digital Marketing“

Participants learned about:

Differences between Traditional and Digital marketing.

Why are people going online?

Benefits of digital marketing

Digital marketing objectives

Evolution of Digital marketing

And in details, advantages and disadvantages of the following topics:

Organic Marketing – (Websites, Direct Traffic, SEO, Social Media, Inbound Marketing, Email Marketing

Paid Marketing – (Pay Per Click, Display Ads, Video Ads, Social Media, Email Marketing)

Reporting – (ORM, Analytics)

Mobile Marketing – (Mobile Apps, Ads in Mobiles)

Also - Basic strategies of the topics and what are their carrier opportunities

After the presentation they had a task to deal with, as following:

Create a company and use digital marketing strategies to promote your business.

•             Create your company (name, purpose, etc.)

•             Create design ( business cards, flyers, banners(PPC), etc.)

•             Build a website (how its going to look like, what type of content, etc.)

•             How you will promote your website (social media, applications, email marketing etc. )

•             Target your audience

•             Calculate ROI (1 ad in google is 1$,1 ad in Facebook is 0.5$)

They did all of the tasks and came up with an idea of making a website, who will allow students to share their content about student materials ( reports, essays, lections, presentations, etc.) 

The idea is possible to be finished in 2 months, so I gave them this as a deadline to complete the project. They’ve already made a Facebook group to share their working materials and ideas only in it.

Next step will be setting the roles of who of the guys is doing what, also the back-end (physics of the website), installing WordPress and Buddy Press engine, also will think about front-end (design) of the page.

 Erasmus + Key competences covered during the workshop:

·        Digital Competence

·        Learning to learn

·        Mathematical competence and basic competence in science and technology

·        Communication in mother tongue

·        Communication in foreign languages

·        Entrepreneurship

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Birds of prey - birdhouse adventure day

Spring is already here and the three of us (together with our awesome mentor Boris) put up some new homes for our audio system aka. the birds around the house.

The houses were done during the amazing wood workshop with Bonk in the "Build Up" project. They were cut from big pieces of wood, sanded and put together with a lot of love from the participants that we consider our family.  

It was a fun day of painting, climbing on trees, beating the fear of heights and making a lot of bird jokes.

- How many birds does it take to change a light bulb? - Toucan do it.

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Micro universes @ Siroka Kula

Micro universes – one of them is village called Siroka Kula. Wonderful place settled 11km northeast from Gospic. Place where agriculture take first place, and on second place is the warmest relationships between neighbors. We were welcomed by one of our friend’s parents, with food traditional for the region and then we started exploring the place around the house.

Endless fields and hills are surrounding the whole village.

Passion, calmness and nature only !

And some electricity also :)

And some more houses...

Chicken houses

Old Romanian paths

Mira and Kreso :)

and fox house

And some water creatures house

fish house

And this is bunar - spring but with human influence. It also collect rain water.

And insects house and maybe some old spirits.

And the air and the surrounding is so clean that even lichen lives here :)

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Widescreen @ Kubus, Velebit mountain

One amazing weekend with our friends, mentors, bosses from Outward Bound and with amazing activities !

And after the funny night, we’ve started with coffee and then we went to Velebit !

We left our cars

and jumped straight into 1,5 meter snow

Weather was super sunny and super windy, but who cares about the wind when it’s funny !

when you get to the top..

...you see magnificent view

Amazed by this we started climbing even more

And once its conquered its time for group photo of course ^^

And to conquer some more paths

On our way to the warmest place ever

And i’m talking about Prpa !

Wonderful house in the middle of nowhere with huge giant guardian

After you pet him for a while, only then you can enter !

By saying the warmest place ever, I didn’t meant only the fireplace but also the rakija and the host of the house, who are bit shy but strong as bulls !

Then we decided to conquer one more peak !

Which have amazing view also !

And then in stories, games, and so much fun, the time as usual pass by so fast ...

Sorry for the long post, here is a traktor !

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On arrival training @ Orahovica

Oh well, here we are again, captured by the mighty forest, enchanted by the stars..Me and Mira have decided to go on one year evs in Veliki Zitnik, the place where we’ve got engaged, the place where we found what we’ve been looking for... peace.

But everything in its own time. First came the on arrival training. Awesome !

10 young volunteers, 2 professional trainers, 2 amazing girls from the red cross and A LOT of food and new skills !

It was 13:00 when we have arrived at Orahovica, we’ve rested a bit and then we ate, then we rested again... with that food you need a lot of rest.

Then we started to meet with the guys, to get to know the group. They were awesome, and they still are of course :)

Expectations, fears, contributions

Day two , we know who we are, but with who we are working, do we know who is who ?

Now we know :) Especially when we met Danijela from the National Agency, she have answered all of our questions

Some more workshops about soft skills, assumptions etc.

To conclude this I can say that all of my questions have been answered, all of my weaknesses has been fulfilled with power, and of course have met new friends with wich will keep in touch :)

Oh and my stomach is full !

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Build Up Croatia

In the beginning is not so easy to find your place at home when you’re back from EVS project. You feel confused, empty although

You are happy to see your friends and family.You are missing the activities, new friends, the house, the village… even the instant coffe.

Lets make it clear: my project was a short term EVS in the small croatian village Veliki Zhitnik.Two amazing weeks full with dynamic, rhythm, a lot of energy and mostly smiles.

Oh, I’ve started again from the end…

It was day by day, routine, facebook, scroll scroll, until i’ve found a group where i’ve find this project.Without any procrastination, i’ve wrote a cover letter, sent it straight to the post owner – Lana, and then she have directed me to two other sunny girls, namely Petya and Lilly from AKSELS. We’ve met, we’ve fall in love with each other and after preliminary training in their office, after 979 kilometers we were in Croatia.

While parking we were welcomed by many smiled people.Until that moment I had no idea that those people are going to become my family.

Arranged in circle in the huge hall of the renovated ex village school in the little village, in the atmosphere there was a great and charging energy, everyone told how he get there, to this hidden and special place, one by plane, other hitchhiked from Morocc, other with bus and train.I’ve cried.

Every day at eight in the morning we were awakened by the Morning team with dynamic workout and yoga. After that breakfast and after – whole day adventures ! There was, hiking, rock climbing, orientation course, rallying activities for the group, amazing !The energy at this whole time was making you to surpass ourselves, every other day you are feeling better, completed, with more potential !

Everyone of the participants completed me in a unique way, that even my parents couldn’t do. This to see alive examples of the cultures of nine countries is indescribably, especially since We were that united to complete every task with 100% success, exceeding even the wildest expectations of turnaround time.

Four days off… again we were together, but this time at the seaside !

By nature I’m a sea soul. Zadar is wonderful place with the taste of cypresses, sea salt, instant coffee and amazing food.

Cliff jumping, walkarounds, volleyball tournaments with the locals, hammocks, tents and long depth and sometimes mindblowing conversations. My favorite !

After the break, somehow naturally we united the positive emotions, knowlege and the love in Veliki Zhitnik in a small wonderful book about the region. But until that moment I did not have the faintest idea that I’m about to rediscover one more challenge!

The week of woodworking has begun… i’ve cried, cried of joy ! With enough tools, for two hours and twenty minutes, i’ve transformed one regular plank into bench, and when I say bench I mean it ! REAL BENCH ! And not only one, and not only benches ! 😀

In laughter, games and jokes the times passed by, showing us that it is the only resourse that we have in this world, except the woods.

In the beginning is not so easy to find your place at home when you’re back from EVS project. You feel confused, empty although

You are happy to see your friends and family.You are missing the activities, new friends, the house, the village… And then suddenly you realize that you have new set of skills, knowledge, meaning of life.One and then awakens one desire for continuous development of warm, sincere and pure relationship with our environment – natural and social.And you’re going to carefully build a better world around them. The project  “Build Up” gave me really great and wonderful discoveries … even the instant coffee!

Check out the video of the project with testimonials of other participants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhi7TEI3pI&t=5s

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St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and Ivan Vazov National Theater

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Pancharevo Lake available at full size in Shutterstock

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Natural Mystic

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Chilling Moss

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” - Tennessee Williams

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Fairy

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ― John Muir

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Autumn

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” ― John Muir

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Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.

Victoria Erickson