The ancient legend says that once the angels asked God for a gift. He promised them to give a piece of land where men loved each other, respected each other and lived happily: the angles just had to find it. So they came down to Earth and started travelling all over the planet. Everywhere they went they found war and hate, until they sailed across an island standing on a beautifully colored sea with simple and loving inhabitants. And so the angels found their new home, Cagliari.
Hot, hot sun, white sandy beach, clear blue sea…. and 30 survivors, who just crashed on a Caribbean island of the Mediterranean 
and are playing a Greek game, singing “Oh mariam mariam mariam, si do re mi makaro makaro, leo leo pi pi pi, leo leo pi pi pi, one two… three!” Do not be fooled by the song however, we were not in Greece, but we had amazing participants from there who taught us this game. After we recovered from the crash a bit, we learned, sang and screamed many unique Sardinian songs and learned how to dance the traditional dance Ballo Sardo.
Indeed, we fully recovered our strength the next day when we hiked to Cagliari hill with magnificent view and finished the day at THE Swimming Pool Party! With full speed ahead, unstoppable AEGEE people moved from big city life to the peaceful green heart of the Mediterranean Pearl. Although, relaxing in the wilderness, while we were divided in the teams of Lions, Tigers, Zebras, Elephants and Horses did not last for long. We fought for our honor by building a typical Sardinian house called “nuraghi” from small stones, by rescuing the animals from evil organizers, searching for gold under white sand that tasted like flour and nevertheless defended our knowledge of Italian language with five Italian words. In the end we were all winners and the celebration with a great feast took place in the night. AEGEE people changed color that night – group of green with yellow and red spots, and some violet ones too. But in the end everybody was just black (the reason might be that there was no electricity in our sleeping place).
Finally, the next day somebody explained us who our saviors were and what this rescuing organisation helping us recover our powers after the shipwreck is. We realized we were extremely lucky to be rescued by such an amazing, incredible, inspiring, helpful, crazy organisation. Without them we would probably die under the burning sun with 40 degrees.
But, we did not understand why our saviors took us back to the boat the next day. Did they have a secret plan to get rid of us in the 
middle of the sea? But because of the endless amounts of drinks, food and good party music that followed, we realized we were on a crazy BOAT Party trip. We can all agree this was the BEST day of the Summer University.
… and yeah, we did not shipwreck again! That day was a pure success. Incredible organizers spoiled us more by taking us to a different beautiful beach every day and gave us food and games there. More awesome time followed at the water park, where we discovered that our saviors are actually ANIMALS! The Lion was the captain and his best helpers were the Elephant and the Rabbit, followed by a Cow, a Tigress, a Fox and a whole Zoo behind. We did not fear them and instead joined in the next exciting activities in the programme that they prepared for us.
This Summer University was like completely unplugging from an entire year of worries and stress, and charged us with fresh, green, animal energy till the next summer. Each of the 30 participants with their unique culture was incredible and special. From complete strangers we turned into great friends that want to continue meeting on future events and crash somewhere in Europe AGAIN SOON!
Written by Marusa Babic, AEGEE-Maribor