Today was our last day at Special School Centre Levec. During the first classroom session, two groups of students participated in a unique PE activity: climbing the castle hill! Others went grocery shopping with older students (ages 22-25) learning independent living skills. Those students got to make kabobs with some of the fruit they had purchased. Later, after the second round of class visits, we met in the break room and participated in a review and reflection session with the director and staff of the Centre.
After our lunch break, we walked to the Central Medical Library, University of Ljubljana Medical Center to meet with Živa Makovec, a medical student and a leader of the International Federation of Medical Students Association. (Her mother is Dr. Maya Rus, Professor Velko Rus’ sister.) After a little detour, we found Živa in the medical faculty building. She led a discussion of a High School Destigmatization Project with which she is involved.
When we returned to the hotel, we held another reflection session for the group as a whole. Several participants were very anxious to discuss the insights they had discovered over the past few days and to get ready for our trip to Croatia tomorrow.