Bulgarian Graffiti and Architecture of the Week: Looking Forward for Open Europe
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
This weeks entry is not about Bulgarian graffiti, instead I will take you to an even smaller country (yes they exist) in the North EU. Just over a week ago I was in Latvia for a youth exchange. Participants included people from Portugal, the Czech Republic, Latvia and of course Bulgarians. The title of the project was called Looking Forward 4 Open Europe. Thought this was grammatically incorrect, the idea was fantastic to bring students from all over Europe and discuss issues and prejudices among Europeans that make communication and interaction more difficult across borders. This event encouraged youth to look passed these differences, embrace our similarities and learn to appreciate what we can learn from each other. The project was successful. One of our projects included creating some graffiti at a local school with a design created and implemented by the whole group that also included the "Youth in Action" logo, which is the organization responsible for the project. The graffiti included an eye that symbolizes the "looking" forward, Hands symbolizing youth working together and stars from the EU flag that included the flags of each participating country at the event. I hope this provides encouragement for the local students and that the participants implement similar projects in their hometown to spread the idea about and "Open Europe"( without borders) for everyone. 
Posted byCindy Lou at 11:18 AM
Well, Bulgaria actually is one of the biggest countries in Europe. You might hear from local people that this is a small country because they compare it to the old Bulgaria this was the strongest country in Europe and it was bordering 3 seas. But as I now see Bulgaria is bigger than :
Austria,Belgium,Holland,Greece,Hungary,
Czech Republic,Slovakia,Portugal and much more.