Gregor is a man of many talents and even more mysteries – one of which is the number of his talents. While he is just a regular kite flyer and occasional kite maker during the day, at night he transforms into a lawyer, a fighter for justice – and even a president of a Rotary club.
The “Path to Success” Summer School organized by young and aspiring future Rotarians is aimed at building skills high schoolers don’t learn in high school.
Skills like career building and management, product development, marketing, self-confidence training, critical thinking, enterprise evolving, conflict solving, kite making, and the like.
Smart people with a lot of experience come to teach at this summer school, from business leaders to marketing masters to AI wizards, expanding the knowledge and the capabilities of young and upcoming minds.
Gregor as a treasurer of KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia and an experienced kite maker volunteered to teach the kids one of the most important skill a young person can master: kite making. The kite workshop was held in the beautiful outdoors environment of Krka kamp near Dešeča vas, itself a long-term project of Rotary club 25 from Ljubljana.
But as Gregor is a sneaky lawyer too, he infused law into his innocently-looking kite workshop.
While happily making a rather delicate and complex kites the unsuspecting kids were exposed to the deepest and most frightening corners of civil and enterprise law.
Some of you might argue that corrupting young minds with the dirty tricks of how to compose a contract, or exposing them to the dark arts of litigating a property dispute at such a tender age might constitute child abuse. Luckily, Gregor is also a human rights and child protection lawyer, and he dismissed such allegations as preposterous.
So it’s ok.
The banks of the green sleepy Krka river were filled with youngsters making kites and contemplating law.
However this perfidious mixing of kite making with law might be the answer to why not all rokkakus were made as planned, why the kite workshop took so long, and why the kites did not fly at the end … the law eats precious time, so the night came way too soon and the wind ran away.
Sometimes even chanting obscure spells like A Verbis Legis Non Est Recedendum! and Pacta sunt servanda! does not help.
But the kids were happy, if a bit shaken by all the legal horrors Gregor told them about, because they learned something they will really need on their path to success:
How to make a kite.
Actori incumbit onus probandi!
It always was fun to help pupils building a new kite when I was teacher at school. 20 years later one pupil recognaised my kite in the air when I was on a kite festival !!
True – kite workshops can be the best part of kite scene 🙂
And stories like yours are really cool … that’s why we do it!