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News from the Worldcamp
The Worldcamp has finished
Posted 4–8–2003 by Sebastiaan
Dear readers!
The Worldcamp 2003 is over. On the 27th of July the participants went home or travelled on to other destinations in the Far East. As people come home stories and pictures will arrive at the Fimcap Headquarters, this website or at the local papers and websites of the different organizations. Stay tuned for more!
The Webmasters
Almost Finished
Posted 24–7–2003 by Carme
OHHHH Almost finished !!!Dear all, we are in the final step of our great world camp 2003. It has been a great experience for everybody which will be in our heart for ever. We have been 3 days all together doing some activities and evaluations. The atmosphere has been great at all moments we could feel that Fimcap was really alive. Tomorrow during the closing celebration we will have in our minds all the movements inside Fimcap. We will think of all you. Kisses to everybody !!!
Genug geschafft
Posted 18–7–2003 by Corno
Hallo an alle, die deutsch sprechen, besonders an alle KjGlerinnen und KjGler! Nachdem wir heute morgen tausend kleine Setzlinge in Plastiktueten mit Erde gesetzt haben, ist unsere Mitarbeit an diversen Aufforstungsprojekten beendet und wir koennen uns voll und ganz von unseren Fosterparents verwoehnen lassen. Morgen ist unser letzter Tag in dieser Provinz Nueva Vizcaya im Norden der Philippinen. Viele Eindruecke schwirren in meinem Kopf herum: Menschen, Pflanzen, Lieder, Taenze, Essen ...
Wenn wir morgen unseren Besuch bei Reisterassen und einheimischen Maerkten beendet haben werden wir wieder ueber Nacht nach Manila fahren.
Bevor es weiter geht, viele Gruesse und gute Wuensche an alle,
Juliane
Videoke
Posted 18–7–2003 by Corno
Hi,
Tomorrow we will leave again for another city. Our projects will have ended by then. Time passes by too quickly.
The last few days we have been working on our project, here in Nueva Biskaya. The first day we went counting trees. Almost all the forests here have been sold out to big logging companies. The cut all the big trees and left a barren place. The erosion of the soil is an enormous threat to the ecological balance of this region. It could turn into a desert if nobody would take action.
Fortunately the government in this region is aware of this problem and launched an enormous reforestation programme. Our project here in Nueva Biskaya is also part of that programme. We were counting trees for the inventory. The different funds that support the programme want to have a detailed account of the number of trees planted, surviving etc.
Another two days we went planting trees on one of the barren mountains. The first day we planted mahoganey, nara and rotan trees. The second day we planted three hectares of coconut trees. That was really hard work because the soil was very hard and difficult to work on. Of course it is still extremely hot so our workingtempo is not at its best.
Today we planted little seedlings in a bigger place. So they will have more room to grow and can be planted in a few years. Ass always it turns out to be very difficult to work together with people from different cultures. A lot of misunderstandings occur but this is part of the intercultural exchange. Fortunately we can laugh about it. And that we do a lot.
The weather has been quite good so far. In the newspaper we read that the people on Cebu must have had enormous tropical rainfall for several days. The weather there was really terrible. I am so excited to see them again in a few days. So we can exchange experiences.
The people here seem to be very interested in our marital status. Most of us are single and that seems to be a very interested topic. When we went to the governer of Nueva Biskaya. We had to appear on stage one by one in front of all the government employees, several hundreds of them, and they asked us whether we are single or not and negotiable. I wonder what they expect from us.
I have been very lucky in my project. And also in my hosting family. Onel wants to bring us to a videoke bar every afternoon. While most of the participants have to spent time indoors, Emmanuel and I spend all our evenings in bars and sing videoke. It is really no exageration to state that there are videoke bars on every streetcorner. And everybody loves to sing and perform. The shows they have put on for us were all very spectacular.
Well I think this is enough for now, see you next time!!
Corno
Message au Camp Mondial, Philippines, Juillet 2003
Posted 15–7–2003 by Zeger
 A la fin de la rencontre du Presidium de FIMCAP AFRICA, qui s’est tenu à Gitega (Burundi), du 12 au 13 juillet 2003, nous les membres du Presidium, au nom de FIMCAP AFRICA, voudrions exprimer notre profonde gratitude à l’endroit de tous les participants au Camp Mondial qui se déroule en ce moment aux Philippines et nous sommes très fiers de chacun d’entre eux pour leurs apports magnanimes au peuple des Philippines. Notre espoir est que vos efforts produisent des effets durables dans la promotion du bien-être de l’humanité. A vous nos délégués africains, nous exhortons de donner le meilleur d’eux-mêmes et nous sommes très fiers de vous ! A tous nos bienfaiteurs qui ont rendu possible ce Camp Mondial, à tous les organisateurs aussi, nous disons merci et nous vous souhaitons pleines bénédictions venant de Dieu.
BRAVO, KOMERA AYIKOO, KUSHE !!!
Zénon MANIRAKIZA, Fr. Daniel Osei YEBOAH, Sylvester NYAMUHWATA
Message to the World Camp in the Phiippines, July 2003
Posted 15–7–2003 by Zeger
At the end of our Presidium Meeting held in Gitega (Burundi), July 12th – 13th 2003, we the members of the Presidium, on behalf of FIMCAP AFRICA wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the participants on Philippines World Camp and are proud of them for their magnanimous contributions to the people of Philippines. It is our hope that your efforts will go a long way in promoting the well being of humanity. To our African delegates we exhort you to give your best and we are proud of you. To all our benefactors who made this World Camp possible and also the organizers we thank you and wish you God’s blessings.
BHEM !
Posted 14–7–2003 by Sebastiaan
They are now enjoying (manila Delegates) at ARKONG BATO located at Pasig, City. Yesterday, (July 14, 2003) they started to carry rocks & sand then in the afternn theY painted the 4 houses. they are all tired but they managed to play basketball after the work. Fr. Alvie's team won the game. Right now we divided them in 2 teams. the sched of 1st team is to teach the children in the morning & continue the painting on the afternn. the 2nd team will paint wholeday. tommorow (july 16,) the 2nd team will teach the children in the morning and in the afternn continue painting as well as the 1st team.so much for that...stand by for the next report.
CHIRO STAFF, PHILIPPINES
Bhem from Manila, Philippines
Hola amigos de Nipac y de Jupach:
Posted 14–7–2003 by Sebastiaan
Escribo estas letras en nombre de Emilia y Alejandra...
las cuales estan hoy ayudando en la escuela de Arkong Bato...
en una comunidad marginal de Manila. Ayer comenzamos a pintar 4 casa...
ellas estan muy contentas al poder participar en el campamento mundial de Fimcap. Os envian un fuerte abrazo. Si po.
Alvi from Vielha, Spain
scvdurgell@bisbaturgell.org
MABUHAY!
Posted 14–7–2003 by Sebastiaan
We are very grateful that FIMCAP chose us to be the host for this event. Goodluck to the delegates & have fun staying here in the Philippines!
FROM,CHIRO STAFF
Leny Gutierrez from Manila, Philippines
Hello from the world camp!
Posted 14–7–2003 by Sebastiaan
We experience a great time here in the philippines. we rode jeepneys, tasted all kind of different philippino dishes and the great hospitability of philippino people.as to mariolijn's question: the weather is very hot and humid, and we sweat as soon as we leave the shower... to all who went to cebu: hope you have agreat time as well!and to the doong people: don't miss the tide!greetings from the nueva vizcayafranziska, swiss participant of the world camp 2003
franziska , Switzerland (at the moment in the Phlippines)
Nueve Viscaya
Posted 14–7–2003 by Corno
Hi everyone,
I'm in Neuve Viscaya in the Philippines now and I'm having a great time hear. If you once have the opportunity to go on a worldcamp, please take it.
The people here are very nice to us. Everyone tries to help and is very kind.
I allready met a lot of nice Philipino people. I'm sure I'll never forget this nice camp here. Today , we're even interviewed for the local television. We will watch that within 45 minutes, I'm curious.
Tomorow and the next 3 days we're going to plant trees here, on the mountains. I wonder how this will be.
But I'll leave you now and I hope you enjoyed to read this little repport.
Met liefs
Karen from Belgium
Greetings from the Philipines
Posted 14–7–2003 by Corno
Hello all of you,
My name is Jannik Andersen, I'am from FDF in Denmark
It is great up here in N. Vizcaya,The Pilpines, I will wish that you all can joint us at the worldamp. tomorrow we start with the reforesting projekt. i'am looking forward to this.
And The Philipines are vere generous and kind people, this is not the last time i go to the Philipines.
Yours
Jannik
FDF Frederiks
Denmark
Hello...
Posted 14–7–2003 by Corno
Mi name is Jorge Bravo, and NO speaking English.
En estos momentos me encuentro en Nueva Vizcaya, tenemos algunos minutos para comunicarnos via internet...
Los primeros dias fueron dificiles ya que en Chile nuestra cultura y costumbres son muy diferentes a las Asiaticas...
Gracias a Dios la poblacion Filipina ha sido muy hospitalaria con nosotros y se ha preocupado en todo momento de nosotros.
Saludos a todos los Jupachinos de Chile o que se encuentren en algun lugar del mundo.
Never mind the heat!!
Posted 14–7–2003 by Corno
Greatings from the Philippines!!
It is great here in the Philippines. The hospitality is in one word overwhelming. Just for that is was worth the trip and all the effort to get there.
We are already here for one week. And right now the group is split up in four groups. My group is in Nueva Viskaya, about 250 kilometers north of Manila. It is a beautifull green and mountainous area. Not like Manila that is a very busy and chaotic city. And chaotic is an understatement. Believe me. The traffic is a mess and the pollution is horrible. After I came home from a walk on a hill in the city I immediately brushed my teeth.
But this was only one of the smaller setbacks. It is so great here and there are so many things to tell, that I just don't know where to start.
The Chiro Phillipines has organised many beautifull presentations of their activities, their country and their foods and drinks. The presentations were enormously spectacular. There was one presentation that was really great. The players wore white gloves and black clothes. With the blacklight this made a very nice presentation because with their hands they formed all kinds of figures with wich they illustrated their story.
We could also practice several Chiro games. We danced a typical Philipinen dance. They took two large bamboo sticks and held them horizontally next to each other on the floor. In a certain rithm they slapped the two bamboo sticks together. The idea is to step in between the sticks and not to get your foot caught between the sticks. Only when you can follow the rithm this is not a problem.
For me, coming from the Netherlands, it is very difficult to get accostumed to the heat. Even sitting down in the shadow is too much. You'll start transpiring. Everybody does. Only airconditioned rooms are bearable. But never mind. There are too many good other things to do.
I hope to be able to send more messages next time.
A lot of Fimcap greetings!!!
Corno
worldcamp
Posted 7–7–2003 by Corno
Hi everybody,
Things are going great here at the worldcamp. Hope you could all be here.
Corno
Greetings from a Dutch participant
Posted 5–7–2003 by Sebastiaan
Hello everybody,
I'm really looking forward going on the worldcamp,
wish you all a good trip and good luck.
See you in Manila!
Yvette Vernooy
Have a nice World Camp
Posted 28–6–2003 by Jeroen
The webmasters of this site (Sebastiaan & Jeroen) would like to wish all participants a fantastical, spiritual and energizing World Camp!
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