• Anna Jany
  • Anna Jany

Up With People

Travelling with the non-profit organization up with people, our group consisted of 150 students and staff members from 22 different countries. We were performing a show, doing CI and living in host families for 1 year. Read more
  • Enköping

    January 11, 2000 in Sweden ⋅ 5 °C

    Meeting back after winter break: Living in a very small flat with my host mum and her daughter Frieda. I accompanied my host mum, who is a teacher for handycapped children to her school, singing and dancing with the habndicapped kids. In the evening the whole city was dancing arround the Christmas tree to say good bye to winter. the show in enköping was sold out (700 people) and during the swedish madley performing Waterloo the audience ticked out.Read more

  • Falun, schweden

    January 16, 2000 in Sweden ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Living with an elderly cupple, going skiing on cast activity day. Getting a ride on a snow mobile! Going onto a frozen lake with my host family.

  • Karlskoga

    January 20, 2000 in Sweden ⋅ 1 °C

    On our way to karlskoga we stopped ad the famous wooden Horse. In karlskoge we were Visiting the museum of Alfred Nobel. Doing promotion in the pedestrian precinct of Karlskoga while it was minus 15 degrees.Read more

  • Göteborg

    January 24, 2000 in Sweden ⋅ 0 °C

    On our travel day to Göteborg we visited the factory of Wolvo. On promoday in Göteborg, I did promotion for our show speaking through a microphone in a huge mall. I was hosted with three boys and McKell was blind for a whole day. Thanks to you, McKell for trying to understand me. Anyways, my host family spoke German, for they had lived in Switzerland for 4 years.Read more

  • Häsleholm

    January 30, 2000 in Sweden ⋅ 4 °C

    During rehearsal I got the part of the Mayor while we are in Germany. well you're behind the sage, speaking the mayor, bur well, better than nothing. During the show we lost power again so taht we had to do an unplugged show again.Read more

  • Husum

    February 2, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 6 °C

    Having had a very stormy crossing with the ferry, we arrived in Germany! That was so cool to be able to speak German with my host family. We were sold out in all shows and the audience was getting crazy when we performed the German madley. And I did the councelour part in the show.Read more

  • Buxtehude

    February 9, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 4 °C

    Our host code was a song. The band was playing all songs, and you and your family had to come on stage, when it was yours. That's how we found each other. During presentation of blac culture, I found out that Valerie seams to be black... Or is she maybe not and it's all a big conspiracy??? ;))Read more

  • Emden

    February 14, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 5 °C

    On our way to Emden I drove with Ryan in the truck, which was quite exciting. On CS-Day a group of us hd to pick up trash with students from a local school. We picked up a lot of strange blue apes. Later we met Esther, which was supposed to do a paper chase with kindergarden kids for CI, but they had to give up, for someone had picked up all the blue apes, which should show the way... :-) During MIA I got two days off and spend one night in Borkum.Read more

  • Menden

    February 20, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 2 °C

    My Mum, my sister and a lot of my friends came to see the show. That was great, especially because I was finally allowed to do one to one in the show as well as the councelor part. The next day I took a day off to spend some time with my family.Read more

  • Reichenbach

    February 23, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 3 °C

    my host family i a nice elderly couple, with whom we visited an old bridge from the last century and an old castle. I finally got an internship as highwoler, meaning I have to do the presentations for the new applicants.Read more

  • Korbach

    February 28, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 12 °C

    I started working as a highroler (meaning that I had to do presentations about uwp for interested people and do interviews to select the members for the future). We were hosted in a café, which was run by a family of 19 members, who all lived together. That was an amazing atmosphere at that place.Read more

  • Lübbecke

    March 5, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 2 °C

    On our way to Lübbecke we stopped in Münster and met Cast B. that was exciting, meeting back again after 9 month. In Lübbecke We visited an old castle, which was endangered to collapse. That was an adventure. in this city I had five host brothers, but non of them was the right one for me... ;)))Read more

  • Kamen

    March 9, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 12 °C

    My parents hosted me and three of my friends at my place. That was so great, being hosted at home and a little bit confusing, too, when suddenly my world of UWP and my world of my former life got mixed. All my friends came to see the show and it was just great, performing for them.Read more

  • Memmingen

    March 13, 2000 in Germany ⋅ 9 °C

    As a member of the advanced team it was my job to prepare the city of Memmingen for the cast to come in four weeks. That ment finding host families for 120 people, organizing the catering and the social involvement for the cast and doing promotion for our show.Read more

  • deventer

    April 25, 2000 in the Netherlands ⋅ 16 °C

    I was hosted by an old man who was a member of the seven adventists, who believe that you go to hell, if you eat meat, because destroying your body is destroying your soul. He had rent a flat which was used as a brothel before. And somehow he had never chanced the room since then. So Laura and me had to sleep in a room, where all walls were covered with mirrors. that was a very whered experiance... On Cast Activity Day we all got bikes. they even had organized a tandem for me. We rode to a lake where we could take a bath. What a beautiful day!Read more

  • eerbeek

    May 1, 2000 in the Netherlands ⋅ 13 °C

    fortunatelly I have a cool host family again and something else to eat than soybeans... During edtime we talked about our city theme, the four elements. As today it was fire, we talked about our passions in life. then everybody wrote a bad quality of himself on a piece of paper and in the evening there was a camp fire where all these pieces of paper got burned.Read more

  • arnhem

    May 4, 2000 in the Netherlands ⋅ 14 °C

    On our way to Arnhem we stopped in Amstadam. We visited the Anne-Frank-house, which was very impressiv and sad, too. In Arnhem we did some shows on libaration day. But I felt a little weird celebrating libaration from the Germany being German, although I wasnt even born when the Germans did all these horrible things during second world war.Read more

  • Blankenberge

    May 8, 2000 in Belgium ⋅ 19 °C

    We had a wonderful time at the beach. During CI we were creating birthdac cards with the elderly people. On MIA a got a ride in a motor rubber dinghy, which was so exciting.

  • Zaventem

    May 11, 2000 in Belgium ⋅ 16 °C

    I was sooo happy! My host family had a sailing boat and on our day off, we went sailing. That was wonderful! And my three host sisters were crazy about learning braille.

  • Mechelen

    May 17, 2000 in Belgium ⋅ 14 °C

    As it was our cast managers goal, to use as many means of transport as possible, we walked to our next city Mechelen, which was 13 kilometers. In Mechelen my 17-years old host sister is going to travel wih UWP in her future, too. My host parents had a very cool house, because they were both architects and you had dinner on knee chairs. I did community involbvement in a home for mentally disabled people. That was very frustrating, knowing, that once you got into that home, you probably stayed in this cold place for the rest of your life. thank god, that I won't have to stay in this place.. during the show I was in "one to one" and my parents' friends came to see the show.Read more

  • Halle

    May 22, 2000 in Belgium ⋅ 13 °C

    We did CI in a refugee camp, doing a little show for them and playing foot ball with them. Later some of the refugees came to see our show and they did everything to make me laugh while i had to do the manacan at our admission booth.Read more

  • Gistel

    May 25, 2000 in Belgium ⋅ 12 °C

    During CI in a home for elderly peole I met an old former soldier, who had spent some time in Germany. And he made me laugh so hard singing all these old German love songs to me.