after the bombing of the synagogs on saturday there was a second attack today in istanbul. the hsbc bank central building and british consolate were bombed by live bombs, both in very central and crowded places in istanbul. 27 dead, 405 injured so far. news are on tv anyway, and you may know about them from the world televisions or internet already. all I can do maybe is to share experience. this morning waiting on the bus stop a friend was passing by with a car and took me to the metro station, the entrance in front of the hsbc bank building. a little earlier than I could go with the bus. I took the metro to school, somewhere beside the british consolate. around ten minutes earlier than I was going to be there without my friend. and around ten minutes after the class started we heard the explosions. the ground shaked and a huge cloud rose up to the air. I imagined the sound to be some thunder, though I somehow knew and it was such a beautiful sunny day today. and all dissolved when someone said "these are bad days.." . we watched the reddish brownish clouds from the balcony and listened the alarms of the ambulances. first we were not let out of school not to be live targets and listened to the news let into the design studios from radios, then we went to donate blood but came back becouse too many people wanted to help and were on the queue anyway. I think I never was so close to explode like a ten minute shift. neither other people in school and so who most hang around at the same places.. So was the rest of the day to settle down and we went on with the afternoon lectures and all other events were cancelled. I don't know what I feel, but it definitely is not fear. I used to have difficulty understanding, now it looks more clear and more stupid as well. I can see, or guess the reasons of such inhumane acts. I can have guesses on who do it, what kind of brainwashed creature can be a live bomb, what are smaller scale and bigger scale aims behind these kinds of attacts. All I know is none of the reasons I can think of or I've been told of are sufficient to be one's aim, one's life, one's fight... they are no reasons to fight and kill for. we blame and are all against terror.

bilge - nc - tr

hello, just wanted to say that we arrived and everything is ok... miss you a lot and hope to see you in france... marijela

We've got back to Moscow yesterday evening and were absolutely exhausted though the way back was not too long. I wanted to thank Spela, Anya, Alex (special thanx for the first two nights!!!) and other organizers for the work they've done. Everything was great! I had a very good week (actually that was more than 10 days we've stayed in Ljubljana) and i was really happy to meet you all...now i do hope to see in Robaix next summer. Also i wanted to thank an italian team for the last night when we and Kosovo guys were staying together in there appartment and having a great time! And i will do my best to get the new NCs from the lost Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Actually i think i will go there in a while and do the presentations by myself.

Yours,Inara

dear EASA community

sounds and looks like you all had a good time can you (organisers and those ncs who participated in slovenia) please inform the rest of us of what went on, if that is allowed?

for those that couldent go and would like to be kept up to date on issues discussed.

in my own personal interest i would like to know did you discuss the issues raised here easa.antville.org if so what conclusions did you draw?

vedimo se dunk

for those interested, here's a group photo from saturday at the end of last nc meeting.

thanks a lot to organisers, it was a great week.

take care all, jovan_nc_uk.

i would ask anyone who posts stories onto the webblog to put his/hers name and country after the comment they are writing to help understanding where we all are from and how we are connected to the EASA-network

thanx

johannes b. germany

from the INCM in Lubiljana ( and a day trip to venice ) available on www.freigeist.info if you wanna have a quick look

english version of the 2004site coming online www.easa2004.com

all comments are welcome!!