by Rob Aspinwall | |
Published on: Jan 12, 2003 | |
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Type: Interviews | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=926 | |
Interview with International Youth Advocate Leader Rob Romeijn From The Netherlands. =Hi rob You are now 19 years old what did you do till now: Well I did a lot when I was a baby I wass allways a busy boy when I grow up in a small little village where I still live I was going to a local basic scholl andthis was an big expiriance for me at that time =What did you do after your basic school? Well I was not so good in school at that time so I followed special education 6 years and after that I maked a dicision to do a cooking school =That is totally differend ? Yes it is a totally differend way as what I do now and I am still busy with this I am still learning for cook and this is my last year =But what do you do next to your school and work as a cook? I work as an volunteer in a model boat building club we teaching to young children how to build a modelboat and they are building them from a draw Next to this I have created a youth council at my school where we can making difference in how we want to have things or what we want in schooland yes as the final I have created 3 years ago a youth organisation that will help in the the educational sector sustainable development sector and we working also with the UN on a book that called a white book =What is the meaning of that whitebook? It is all about youth participation in each country of the EU =So that is a lot of what you are doing how can you scheduling this well normal I working late in the evening on my projects answering emails about 120 every day I working 4 days a week in a restaurant and 1 day a week I go to school 1 evening that I go to the youth boat building club and than I have my free time that I most of it spent in bed with my laptop to write making homework =Wow you also meeted a lot of special people can you thell us who? Wel I met queen beatrix of the netherlands prime minister balkenende old prime minister kok old prince bernard president chirac from france and I hope to meet old president Bill Clinton in marth this year Oke thanks for this short interview but our time I over have a great year Written by marlies bakker « return. |