Students:Diana Dobrovodská

About me

I'm 21 years old and I'm from Slovakia and live in a town called Trnava which lies a few kilometres from the capital Bratislava. My subject of study is International Development Studies at Palacky University in Olomouc where I am a first year student. I love winter and especially snowboarding! Also I love animals and that's why I have 7 gerbils and 2 turtles at home. :) I'm very excited in this trip because I'm very interested in meeting new people as well as travelling! :)

Sustainability

For me sustainability means the way people can live or learn to live on Earth without constant damaging it. I am very sorry that people can't find the way how to be satisfied without hurting our planet at the same time. People tend to think they are the strongest and the brightest but they forget nature is the one with all the power. I think we all have a lot of work to do to start acting like aware people and not hiding our heads in sand. I hope this trip will help us all to realize that there are other ways to be satisfied without doing any harm.

Day 1

Thirteen of us met in front of Coffee shop in Prague, we loaded into bus at 11.30 and hit the road. After 8 hours we arrived to our pension Restaurant im Sportpark in Luneburg. After quick look to our room we went downstairs to have perfect dinner! After that we sat outside playing name game to easy remember everybody and afterwards discussed what does sustainability mean.

Day 2

We woke up to a beautiful sunny day which we started with delicious beakfast after that we met our guides Insa and Marlene who took us for a city tour where we learned very interesting things about Luneburg. After tour we went to Leuphana University campus where we had lunch in mensa. After lunch we had a presentation led by Maik Adomssent on Basic concepts of sustainable development after which two students introduced us the OIKOS initiative and showed us their acitivies at the university field and did a workshop with us. We came back to our hotel and had great dinner.

Day 3

First thing in the morning we went to the University and started with lecture about renewable energy for the city of Luneburg presented by Alexa Lutzenberger. They have very ambitious plan of reaching 100% renewable energy within 50 years. After this we had a campus tour with Irmhild Bruggen where we learned about university's actions towards sustainability as long term cups for coffee or campus garden for students. In second part of the day we drove to the former landfill in Neu Wulmstorf where we had an excelent tour guided by Tilmann Wolfsteller who showed us how landfill can be used for production of electricity. The last thing on the schedule was free time in Hamburg where we enjoyed a beautiful view from tower and exhausted walked back to the bus which took us back to Luneburg to have excellent dinner again.