On June 16th 2011, Elise Hennart, journalist for Yvelines Première, a local French channel, invited me to explain my project and my travel in Latvia. Sorry, it's only in French... but to summary it up, it's all about explaining the project, the exhibition I led in April 2011, if I was afraid to travel alone...

Jerome Dupouy, a journalist for the local newspaper "Le Courrier des Yvelines" asked me for an interview. The roles were reversed: after I interviewed people to transcribe their stories,he asked me to tell mine. Why Latvia, what is the project, the reporting, was I afraid to travel alone, how I traveled, what are my next plans... Some key answers in the article.

The European Union is a reality, multiculturalism and a common citizenship another. Starting from this point, Margot Berg made ​​a documentary about mobility of young people in Latvia.

The starting point: a year as a volunteer in an NGO where meetings with young people from all across Europe is a daily challenge.

More than six months after my trip to Latvia, I watched 5 hours of video I shot to make a documentary of 12 minutes with the European citizenship as main theme.

Through nine young people interviews from different nationalities and diverse backgrounds, my goal was to show Latvia through the eyes of its people and especially young people who are trying to build it.

They just talked to the camera and offer a particular glimpse on their lives, revealing their doubts, fears, but also opportunities, dreams to offer a rich melting pot of interculturality.

2011 starts and the project continues its long way in the media. This month, the local newspaper of La Celle Saint Cloud (78) which underlines the initiative. A way to educate local youth about European citizenship and to promote my work.

On the January 22nd, I'll be promoting for a premiere my reporting and a photo exhibition at the city hall of La Celle Saint Cloud. The event will be broadcasted on the website.

I told you so a few months ago. The travel never ends! Nowadays, the adventure is still going on: I'm preparing an exhibition for January 2011 and editing the documentary. Furthemore, I'm looking for media contacts to promote my project.

The iWith.org Foundation, main supporter in the project, let me some lines to express myself about the travel. Discover the article on their website: Family iWith.org, the foundation supports a youth project in Latvia.

Four weeks, 28 days of travel, meetings, discoveries, fulfillment, contacts. Five hours of shooting, 800 photos, 800 unique visitors since July, 10 filmed interviews, 56 published articles, lots of encouragement, this is the numerical balance of the trip. But the most important is the human report of such an adventure.

On the road to Moscow, located about twenty kilometers from Riga, there is the concentration camp of Salaspils. Approximately 100,000 people were murdered during the Second World War.

When I stayed at Ediite's place in Plienciems, I had the opportunity to have a sauna in its most tradition way. 

Still travelling on the Baltic coast and particularly in the north, I get interested in the Livs, a nation considered as one of the oldest in Europe.

The project started from informal discussions with young volunteers far away from their home towns. From Barcelona to Rezekne, two French women eager for the same thirst for discovery, exchange about the way of life in Latvia and Spain. These talks rise questions, interrogations and finally the same question always comes in minde: how do we feel European?