back in Paris, already miss Tisvilde... (this should have already been sent 3 days ago...)

cool pic, huh ?
hey hey hey !! writing from Paris, where I'm back in this afternoon... just a quick recap of the last two days:
*on Sunday, we had the opportunity of having a panel of 4 people (Mr Wrench - fundamental rights agency for EU, Mrs Kofod-Olsen - Danish institute of Human Rights, Mr Ferschtman - Open Society Justice initiative, Mrs Chahnokh - Human Rights Watch) on the issue of Fundamental Rights in Europe and the perspectives on the fight against discrimination. As the day before, it was a really interesting discussion, reminding me of the courses I had on European law.
Then in the afternoon, there was the moot court workshop. With my group we played the plaintiffs in the case of an Antilleans Database (a measure that the Netherlands wanted to implement) and we won ! After that, I went to the beach (again, I know) the water was then so warm, compared to Friday afternoon.

With a bunch of American guys we went into town, well actually, everything was closed so we ended up at the beach watching the sunset... It's so incredible that the sky still has daylight until 11pm. back at our Sankthelen camp, we played tennis table, I mean ping pong... so funny!
*and yesterday, it probably was the "coolest" day of our opening session in Denmark (I should not say Copenhagen as this will be for next month, when we will close the session). In the morning we were supposed to have a speech from the Dutch ministry of health, welfare and sports, department of victims and remembrance. Instead we had the managing director who read the speech on the relevance of the past in for coping with the challenges of today - minority rights in Europe.

HIA 2008 fellows

*then workshop between american/european fellows on Holocaust memorial/Danish Jews rescue, so as to mutually change our experience using one of the following words : memorable, surprising or thoughtful.

we finally had a bonfire and free drinks. I spent such a lovely night hanging out with other french fellows, dancing on the music (frank was the DJ) but then the speaker just died, thankfully we could rely on Raffi's mini-guitar ;) singing on Beatles's songs...
*The next day, waking up was a bit hard... and we spend like the whole day in transports, whether on the bus, or on the plane, and then back in paris - with guess what ...?? typically French activity, or I should say most favorite 'leisure time' : STRIKES !! it was such a mess in Gare du Nord, but we finally made it... Paris here we come !!!