"Prank day"

      Wednesday, the last day for second years to go to school....

All second years went to celebrate and have a dinner while all first years took advantage of it and start making many pranks all over residences - taking out mattresses, putting everything upside-down or hiding things. While we were having so much fun, second years were actually thinking about us and prepared many beautiful letters in the school building. Next morning we were allowed to go and read them. These last few days can be very emotional. Half of the school is leaving in a few weeks and it will not be the same next year. Maybe we won't be able to see many of our second years in the near future. But wait, this doesn't contradict with the fact that I'm really looking forward to meet out primi! :) 

 Even some teachers didn't end up very well

Prom (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

   I feel very bad for such a delay as it is more than a week since this happened but I believe that upcoming exams and many other important things related to school are the reason for it.

There was so much going on about the prom in our school and people were really going crazy about inviting someone in a really special way. I think that the most interesting one was renting a horse and riding on it to invite a girl. I decided just to keep it very sattle and asked my friend to go with me on his birthday.

Prom itself was fun but I must say that after all these invitation I was expecting more. The music was really nice as it wasn't just the modern kind of music which you can hear in every club and girls were wearing nice dresses. Otherwise it wasn't that special and it was more like a formal evening. I hope and can't wait to go to my old class "Maturiťák" which is really special occasion :) But still we have some beautiful pictures:

March of the Living, Poland

 

       "The March of the Living is an annual educational program, which brings students from all over the world to Poland, in order to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate."

       I was selected to participate in the March of the Living 2013 and therefore I left the school on Thursday morning for 5 days with other 6 UWCAD students to Warsaw. There we met with other 18 students from other 6 UWC which we never met before. First I have to say that this trip should be split into two different parts. The first part I would call the fun part because meeting all the new people who are sharing your kind of experience on the other side of this planet is really interesting and finding out information about their school and your co-years there. I must thanks our sponsor who was so kind and pay for this trip as we had the most comfortable accommodation and especially the breakfast was delicious.
        Now I would like to move to the main reason why we were there. Maybe sad but definitely important to all of us. As we came from 25 different countries all over the world we came because of different reasons and interests. But what I believe that we all want to do in the future is to spread what we heard and seen as it is important to remember what Holocaust is. The whole program was prepared very neatly as we were accompanied by very interesting people.
        Trip started in Warsaw where we visited the Museum of Polish uprising in 1944 or the Warsaw centre, we have been to Treblinka, then Krakow and "finally" Auschwitz. For me personally, it was very strong and emotional experience and I believe that it is important to share this experience so it would never ever happen again. The most interesting quote we heard was from a French survival who came to talk to us: "All I wanted to do was to live one hour more than Hitler." I wish I could explain you what I felt but that is impossible. I came there with many questions but I came back with even more. I wish I could say that I understand why it happend and how it could happen but I can't. All I know is that I'm lucky.