30/03/2019
Today is the "Earth Hour" so we will not just turn off electric lights for one hour, but we would like to announce our new initiative for this season...
You could learn more from our open letter to :
An Open Letter - Invitation
for Greta Thunberg
from Sofia Blues
Hello Greta,
I admire your noble motives behind Fridays For Future (https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/) Strikes,
but at the same time, I see that you need to learn a lot (like all of us:)
and this way you could be much more effective, so
I would like to invite you to…
Play baseball with me and discover the way to success!
( I'm a baseball coach from Sofia Blues, Bulgaria :)
Of course, I will show you and what is a Strike,
but
In the beginning, let me answer you
Why?
(or just a few advices from a baseball coach ;)
1. If we want to become better (baseball players) in the future, we have to practice to be better every day!
You asked:
"Why study for a future, which may not be there?"
I will answer:
Because Future will not be there if WE don't study* (?!) NOW!
2. If we want to become better in a team sport, we have to work together and to help, support each other because our success depends on the improvement of us all!
- "Why spend a lot of efforts to become educated, when our governments are not listening to the educated?"
Because if we don't do anything and if we don't try to become educated, we will become like the politicians/governments...
So isn't it better to try to educate ourselves, the people around us and even the politicians/governments
and to try to act, to play together?!
3. Let me show you what is a Strike (zone)! Yes, the first strike is important, but our game is much more than one strike...
"Greta requests that people strike in front of their closest town hall, every Friday. With a sign, take a picture and post it with the hashtags
"
“Our house is on fire… I don’t want your hope. I want you to panic… and act.”
OK, good, your first strike was important and it was a successful and effective one,
But it is just the beginning!
You reminded that our House is on fire!
OK,
BUT
what next?!
If our Home is on fire do we really want to JUST scream (every Friday ;)?
and if we are in panic what could we do and how effective we will be?!
Don't We need to do exactly the opposite:
After we heard the alarm -
After we understood how critical the situation was
we would need active, trained, educated people with a good presence of mind!
So We want to prepare, to educate, to train people.
We want those people to think, to plan, to ACT, to PLAY together now and to do this every day!
So Greta, please, continue to study and invite all the adult and not well-educated people to study and to act, to play together with you :)
Education and good activities are some endless processes!
Please, recycle Friday strikes into good educational practices!
You already mentioned:
"Yes, there are many, many things that are very good and necessary, and improve the situation..."
Let the people see and do those many, many things!
If you want, I could help you with some good, fun practices that I would love to share (every Friday) not only with you...
because
We could win only if we play together,
The baseball coach from Sofia Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_cVosm5XA
