Thursday, 17.06.2010

The very last day at Húsavik was dominated by the final round of our simulation game “CleanAir“. Since a test vote the previous day had revealed that the participating nations were unable to agree on a common resolution, some students came together in the afternoon and finally produced a text acceptable to all. Accordingly the final voting procedure on Thursday morning went on with surprising speed. All of the five controversial paragraphs were accepted and the entire resolution approved.
Ulrich was indeed satisfied with the progress and the results of the first run of his simulation game. Initial comprehension difficulties had been overcome and the students had embraced their roles and indeed developed their own initiatives.
Shortly after our last meal at Visir suitcases were packed and the bus arrived. At 14:00 it started to take us all the long way to Keflavik. Due to the relative brevity of the previous night most of the group were slumbering in no time at all.

Our bus driver managed to find a suitable pizzeria in Reykjavik that was still open after nine o' clock p.m. In some nondescript suburb of Reykjavik we then enjoyed our last common meal.  Kristin left us at nearby Hafnarfjördur to spend some more days with friends. At 11:00 p.m. we finally arrived at Keflavik airport and took the plane to Copenhagen at 01:00 a.m.  There, it was Friday already, the group had to split up and say good-bye.
At 7:00 a.m. Philipp was the first to leave, flying via Frankfurt for Windhoek, Namibia.
With Copenhagen being an airport of some size indeed we temporarily lost Tereza and Rene in the medley which resulted in some hectic SMS exchanges. However, they eventually showed up again to say bye-bye to the all the other I.C.E.- participants.
The wonderful times in Iceland were finally over. Again, this Youth-Camp has been quite a success indeed. Our participants take home loads of new information, impressions, experiences and insights.
And of course they all hope to meet again: 
        sometime, somewhere...

Arne Steenbock & Ulrich Jordan