A short interview of two 'Skill Surfers'

Hey you two! Before you introduce yourselves, What moves you to join a tour instead of going to school or university like good kids?

Anna:
Central topics we're concerning ourselves with are especially free education,
due to circumstances of our society producing undesirable outcomes like the need for increasing individualisation, for example isolation.
Many peoples nature is simply to accept dreadful and unhealthy situations, insufficiencies, and adverse conditions, and to feel powerless.

And they are not completely wrong with this feeling!
Day-to-day we're located in a cocoon of countless hidden hierarchies, which do not make it easy to find ways for living and working self-determined, for getting involved in political/social issues, and for changing something.

Anna:

We want to encourage people to take their lives into their own hands (again),
to create it decisively, and as they wish.
We want to encourage everyone, show that noone is alone, and expose ways how to be liberated from
circumstances of lackings, how to get involved with something.

Well, what do you want?

Anja:
Something
more Beautiful,
more Colourful,
more Healthy,
more Human,
more Fair,
more Free,
something more worth living..:-)

Anna:
As it is at present, we simply do not feel comfortable any longer,
quite obiously our home-planet has ran out of balance:
environmental disasters, wars, poverty, unhappy and sad people everywhere
(grannys meet their makers lonesomely and are not found until few months have passed!)

And now specifically: What can you accomplish?

Anna:
During such a long time we will learn a lot and as well we want to convey our knowledge with a wide range of focuses.
How do I build a tipi from wattle and daub?
Which methods can I use to learn for my next exam?
What exactly is fairtrade and how can I get involved?
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.
.

Anja:
In our baggage we've got a couple of practical and theoretical inputs:
We want to spread and develop already existing ideas, build bridges between
projects who pursue shared goals, between individual persons, who simply can accomplish more together...
experiment with different forms of living,
learn together and
find new ideas and possible solutions.

Do you have any emphases?

Anja:
Our main topics are
*free education and self-organised (auto-didactic) learning
*solidary networks for sharing, exchanging, giving
and the possibilities of networking in web 2.0
*"free-economy" and solidary economical management
(just peek at the topics if you like)

Anna:
We are interested in manifold topics,
have a go at clicking through our site and find out more (about us).
We're happy to hear from you if there are any questions or if you'd like to interact with us in any way.

So I can really learn something with you?

Anja:
We'd like to share our knowledge
and the experiences,
we have made/will make with methods and processes of learning
as well as the chances to help ones' self or each other
with learning and living.
Particularly however we want to do a lot of amazing projects
while we are on our way...
let it be open source software,
a better organised organic label,
a solar shower
or a street play.

Hm... Thanks, great, that gives us an idea!