Intercultural learning

Now it's already 6 days that we are here together in Rabka talking about social media, pros and cons, exchanging information about how it works in our countries, what we have to take into account etc.

But apart from the program we also have a lot of informal space which for me personally is also very interesting. It gives us the chance to get to know each other and keep talking bout all those topics. But we are also from twelve different countries (two people per country except for Georgia, there's jut one girl), the East and the West, if we want to put it into two categories. Which also implies different languages.

Our official working language is English, but the unofficial one is Russian, since there are many people from Eastern countries whose first or second language is Russian. For me it is very interesting to see how we communicate, and now I refer to non verbally, between each other and how important it is to be sensitive in this way, because it is so easy to misunderstand each other due to different cultural keys.

We actually had an interesting workshop about it: how we can make business with other countries and what is important to know about this culture and their way of communicating. I think the same just applies to us in this group. I am very happy to meet people from some countries that I've never spoken to someone from this place, and now for example I share room with someone from Georgia. Apart from what I've learned about social media I will take home with me also this intercultural learning that for me is very special.