Our amazing ad.

As I have explained before here goes our ad which encourages people to make some boluntaring work. We have inspirited in the UEFA´s last advertisement and despite the lack of time, the result has been great! Our idea was to do it with people of different ages but we two days left for the exam, the recovered it at least with some students of our age.

GYMKHANA.

As I have said, there goes the explanation of our idea for the campaign. It has never been done but sure that it would turn our really successful and helpful so that the students could understand the crisis situation.

GYMKHANA:

This is an activity we have done with some of the younger students. We put them in different families, and gave each one different roles. Some were the parents, the others were kids. Then we simulated the situation nowadays to concern them about it. In order to that, each family earned a different amount of money. They had to get by and try an live a normal life by going to school, work, the hospital, Inem for the unemployed. To represent the crisis with more emphasis there were some people that were the recession who took the money of them and others were the ilness who made them ill and then they had to get to the hospital and pay to be cured. Finally, there was a policeman who controlled that everything was going on.

Here´s what they needed to do in each area:

SCHOOL:

-A debate between them to talk about the young people with problems of unemployment.

-Test about the different things the EU does to deal with the crisis.

HOSPITAL:

• They decide who has preference to be cured in a non-public hospital. They also have to pay for their assitance.

SHOP:

• Different shops and they had to realise which ones were the multinational brands and which were their locas bussinesses. Moreover, they had to figure out the advantages and drawbacks  of globalization.

INEM:

• Some parents weren't given any jobs so they had to see what was available. They also have to propose a new bussiness.
• Other people were sacked from their work and had to find a solution.
  ( We brought some newspaper with job adds).

WORK:

• They were told how much money they needed for the school,hospital,shop... So they had to make it to the end of the month.
• The conditions at work were very bad, they didn't have time to rest and didn't own a lot of money.

PATXIXA, FEEL, THINK, ACT!

As I have said before this term our aim was to participate in a competition which it´s objective was to make people aware of the Europe´s situation. We have almost done all the tasks but unfortunately the exam arrived and we could finish them all. In this post and the followings above it, I am going to upload what we have done and what we should have done.

First of all, we decided a slogan FEEL, THINK, ACT. It is simply but direct and people understands the message easily. Taking into account that we are students, as target group we took the unemployed young people in Europe. All of us have done some power points where is explained with statistics the current situation and the difficulties that suffer the young people. In fact, our near future.

Another task asked was to work with an NGO. We have presented a lot of ideas such as going to Cáritas and try them doing some helpful work, trying to get in touch with ¨Banco de Alimentos¨ but unfortunately none of them was gone on. However, we have hardly tried to contact with ¨Traperos Emaus¨ another important NGO which is near us.

As fas as the campaign it´s concerned, the idea of make people aware of the problem was partially  a fail. Our ideas were great but starting with the first we have had a lot of problems with the school´s direction in order to do it. Our idea, an gymkhana (which will be better explained in the next post), was quite complicated but it was likely to succeed in achieving our objective, to aware people. At the end, we got the permission of the direction but it was too late. When I said that it was partially a fail is because as for the fact to concern people we have done a amazing video ( I will upload it right now) and it has been made by some students of the school.

We have done a lot of things. However, it seems not to be enough. Some tasks are already left such as a magazine where it has to be all our work summed up. The slogan, the poster, the target group presentation, the ad, some interviews we have done to get information about the target group (young unemployed) and our campaign.

So Patxixa please, FEEL, THINK, ACT! And I am sure that you will take in to account our great job.

Ireland.

Last month we were to an exchange to Ireland and it was amazing. Fortunately and not so common, we came back dry because the weather was quite well. We have done a lot of activities and I was really surprised with their educational system. Despite the fact that this year is one of the harder as fas as the studies are concerned, for them this year is only due to make projects.  In my opinion, I think that it´s great, like that they are bond to be more imaginative and actually they are, we saw a school musical theatre the first day! I think that it would be imposible here...

Mullingar, the city where we were stayed it is not very big, that´s why we went to Dublin, the capital city, several times. There, as well as shopping a lot, we visited the local zoo. I had been there before with my parent and I liked very much but at this time, I found it very sad, the animal were like in kind of prisions. 

And other day that was quite rainy, we went to cinema and be say a real blockbuster film that I wanted to for a long time because I am found of the books. At this time I was also astonished with how easy you can understand a film, it is much different when you have to speak with your partner...

Specially thanks to my host family, they were very nice and they took me like a daughter and in fact it seems that I look like a family member.

Here Andrew in my left and his brother Alex in the right.

Working with a NGO.

This term our aim is to win in a competition whose aim is to deal with current european situations. One of the task asked is to work with an NGO. Because of that, we have been searching and I think that it would be great to work with ¨Cáritas¨.

There is the map where it´s explained where you can find it in Donosti.

  In this video it´s explained what does Cáritas but to sum up with the slogan of live simply so others may simply live, they help needed people giving them money, clothe and so on.



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Ad draft!

Our aim in this term is to make people be aware of the actual situation in Europe and try to offer boluntaring work. In order to succeed we have made this ad draft which is only a brief idea of what is going to be. The slogan is short but direct and the image shows that we have to do something to achieve a better world.