Rezekne youth experience in winter camp in Norway

In the period from 3 to 6 March, the Rēzekne Latvian Red Cross (LSK) took part in training as a four-day winter camp - “Winter Friends – a Friend with Winter”, which took place in Norway. 10 young people - Eva Rubene, Jānis Šaudiņš, Christine Pokule, Aivis Stranlims, Maria Kalinina, Aivars Mežatučs, Mara Gailume, Elvis Rubenis, Aleksandra Kutuzova - from Rezekne and Rezekne municipality, as well as 10 Norwegian young people, participated in the training. The main topics of training were: first aid, snow lavines/landslides, missing people, rescue works, when a man was buried in snow, appropriate winter clothing and winter transport. In addition, the views of Latvian youth on camp:
Tatjana: “It was a useful experience that could enjoy the beauty of another country, feel a real winter and try to“ dive ”into snow, remember (from school years), which is skiing, theoretically find out how to properly dig rescue caves and apply these knowledge into practice, provide first aid in extreme conditions and search for missing/buried people in snow. These training took place in a circle of friends, with many positive emotions, adventures. Experience, twinning, new ideas for work and opportunities that will be realised in the future. THANK YOU! '
John: “First of all, i would like to thank the head of the Rēzekne Social Service for Sylvia Strankalei, as well as the Rēzekne Red Cross for the opportunity to participate in this camp. I did not only enjoy the pleasure of the Norwegian winter, but also gained a very useful knowledge of how to survive in an outdoor environment in winter and how to help people in life-threatening situations. Looking back at the time spent in the camp, i can tell you now that i learned not only the first aid skills and the basics of the Norwegian language, but also got very fun and energetic friends, which i was charging myself. '
Mara: “I would like to thank you very MUCH for the opportunity to participate in training in Norway, the unique experience and knowledge gained. I assured him that the red cross was doing a surprising and invaluable job to help people, without paying any remuneration from them. I'll always remember this journey with a smile in my face and a huge pleasure in my heart, because i got a new life experience, great emotions, new friends, enjoyed winter joy and laughed to tears. A huge thank you to the organisers of the project from Latvia and Norway for their pleasure and affection. I hope that i will still have the chance to participate in red cross activities, continuing to learn and develop. '
Aivis: “First of all, i would like to say a great big thank you for the red Cross, for giving me the opportunity to go somewhere further, make positive emotions and educate.” Finally i felt like being flying with an airplane, overcoming my fear (i had a panic fear of height), expanding my vision of travel and the world as a whole. I was given the opportunity to learn. It was interesting to dig up the caves and watch each group deal with a cave-digging task, and it turned out that each group had their own cave-making technique. The training on trainees and movements in such times as Norway is unlikely to be useful to me, but it is a knowledge that makes people interesting because nobody will be interested in communicating with an uneducated and non-conscious person. The theory of first aid was provided, although this theory was already acquired in Latvia, making it possible, in Norway, to have its nuances that differed from that of us. Though it was hard, i enjoyed skiing and i could say that i had improved my skills in skiing. All together-training, missing search, working with a map that i had never seen before seemed interesting and i had no more trouble with the map. I saw beautiful views that i would not be able to describe, very nice time, as Norwegian and Latvians were very responsive. I had a lot of pictures, as well as an unforgettable memory of Norway, and there was a great desire to travel in me. Thank everyone for the opportunity. '
Elvis: "I am very grateful to Latvia's red Cross, Oppland red Cross the opportunity offered and the knowledge acquired. Learning is the best way to convince and be interested in taking new information. It is also one of the ways to facilitate the storage of new information in ours. These four days will remain in memory for a long time with the laugh, the time spent, the new friends, the moments of the language barrier, and the tasks they have performed. Thank you! "
Kristine: "This trip to Norway was fantastic thanks TO a SUPERFICIAL and EXCELLENT team from Latvia! Winter Camp there was a chance to get a new experience, knowledge, and a great and useful time to spend time. The hospitality of the hospitality and the nature of Norway at this time of season was very much liked, as there had been no real winters and snow in Latvia in recent years. A little more from this trip i had expected to be able to communicate directly with the people of Norway, but unfortunately, because of the differences in age and English knowledge, communication was at a lower level than expected. "
Aivars: "The Latvian team was perfect. For camp - three activities that will stay long in memory: 1) snow-making; 2) skiing from the hill and getting back with the help of snow wakes; 3) conversion into Red Cross employee to implement simulations. Some of what was taught in the lectures of theory was already known to me, but there are no two equal teachers, so it was interesting to listen. It is only very sorry that communication, for the most part, was just between us - Latvians. "
Alexandra: “The journey to Norway gave a lot of knowledge, experience, new skills in first aid, as well as new friends. In four days we enjoyed snow that had long been in Latvia. We had snow caves, Slide with spacious skies, took picnic in fresh air, took part in the theoretical lessons we used later in practice. In addition to that, we got a little insight into Norwegian. Thank you very much for THE group, without which these training would not be so fun, adventures and new impressions. '
Maria"You can never know how much cool, interesting, and exciting is around, but if you're offered a chance, you must be sure to use it. It also happened to me when i offered to go to the red cross training in Norway. I didn't know what was going to happen to me, how things would happen and another flight in my life! Now, looking at it all, i think i had to worry! I had the most fun, friendliest and nicest people around me. What an emotion, the laughter is adventurous! It can't be forgotten. Thank YOU very much FOR LSK and Oppland red Cross for such an opportunity! "
Eva: "After these training, or winter camps, it is unequivocally willing to agree with Richard Baham that learning is to remember what you know, to show you that you know it, the teaching is reminding others that they know exactly as well as you, and we are all students, breeders and teachers. These were the training in which we had previously learned the knowledge of the first aid, our tasks as we had, supported and encouraged the other when it was afraid to do something, for example, to fly or ski. We, the people of Latvia's red cross, were pupils, breweries and teachers (one another). During training, knowledge was gained in topics and emergency situations that are not really topical in Latvia, but this does not prevent us from learning and knowing more than practically necessary. I would like to express my delight for such organized and educating training. I would also like to thank THE LSK and Oppland red Cross on the opportunity to participate in training, knowledge and the fact that i took such positive, sincere and obedient friends in such a short period. Thank them, too, for their shared adventure. "
 
Eva Rubene,
Head of the LSK Rēzekne Youth Unit