We are really exhausted. That's the main feeling of both Finnish and German groups. İt is unbelievable how tired we are after only four days. When you think about the project and the tasks we have been doing, it shouldn't be as tough as it feels like.

For two days we have been working in smaller groups. İn these groups we have been going around in the city and trying to see it as a blind or deaf of physıcally impaired persons. My group is working on the subject organizations. İt has been quite difficult to get into any organization so until now we have checked one big shopping mall, smaller shop and a bank. When we have visited these places we are all the time making attentions concerning special parking places, the entrances, elevators, guiding lines, lighting, toilets and also the amount of information or clarity of signs.

The most interesting part for me has been the fact that when you don't pay any attention to these things, every place looks like a good one. But when you take a closer look at it, quite a few place in the city is really difficult or even impossible for impaired person. Like sometimes it can be really hard to try to train mobility if the guiding lines or safety things are missing. Modern world is messing around with huge amount of things and for impaired sometimes less could be more. Simplicity, good contrast, visible and clear information is the ideal world.

After gathering the notices in the city we went back to Schlossstrasse to write them down with the computer. We have a long list of questions that all take a close look at the difficult places for impaired persons. We answer the questions and think about the fact how suitable are the places for blind, deaf or physically impaired.

Today we had a meeting at the İnstitution of Health. There we heard something of the way that Stuttgart arranges social help for families, chronical or contanious diseases having, mentally impaired or handicapped people. İnstitution of Health also gathers information into statistics of subjects for instance as how healthy is the community and does the living enviroment has something to do with it. The interview was interesting and it was also for them a nice opportunity to compare their system into the Finnish one.

We ended the day with our presentation of the Finnish youth work and after that we instructed few games with them. The presentation gave a wide view of all kind of youth work opportunities in Finland. Games and plays are a part of our work as a youth and leisure instructors and we showed our knowledge of those with eight games. And because we really are tired, we ended the day with a small relaxation listening same time Finnish music.

// Elina