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Friday, July 22, 2011
Seliger 2011. An Intimate Glimpse.
Written by: Ksenia Semyonova – Russia
Until a few years ago I associated the word «Seliger» exclusively with the name of the lake but then everything changed. When this summer I found myself in International Youth Forum Seliger 2011 I realized that since that time Seliger for me is an incredible opportunity first of all to attend lectures of world famous teachers and of course meet new, interesting, ambitious people.
As I was in Seliger for the first time I didn`t get to talk about comparisons with the previous years but expectations of a coming one. So what were my hopes for Seliger? The priorities were set as follows: Seliger being an educational forum always aims at providing young people with educational programme of high quality. Thanks to different lectures, trainings and workshops students got both theoretical and practical knowledge in the sphere of business, politics and mass media.
Young entrepreneurs had a unique opportunity to promote their projects during daily World Cafe discussions. But one shouldn`tforget about rest: my friends and I were pleasantly surprised at the variety of evening activities we had during Seliger: numerous open-air rock concerts, fairs, culture parades, parties, fashion shows and performances.
Theatre performances and guitar song evening.
One evening I found myself …by chance… at theatre performance. Why «by chance»? Just because I wasn`t a frequenter of Art Parade cultural events .The first thing I noticed was a scent of hay. Everybody was sitting on hand-made basket-chairs in the atmosphere of silence and shimmer. The acting was splendid. The plot was «fresh». So we didn`t even noticed how fast the time passed. Having thanked the actors with stormy applause we came back to our camp where a wonderful guitar song evening was waiting for us. Guys …having made themselves comfortable around the fire were singing «Beatles» and «Radiohead» hits. Our evening would probably go on unless a quiet hour that was announced soon.
Indian Night Party
Among plenty of parties that were held during the forum this one turned out to be one of the greatest. This was the only party I prepared myself for: proper clothes and hairstyle you know…besides my appearance was completed straight at the party when I was made a «tattoo» on my wrist. It seemed …that night the whole India moved to a small spot of land called Seliger!
P.S. Seliger for me is,,,,
as hospitable as Russian soul
as safe and reliable as Swiss watches
and it leaves such a pleasant aftertaste as French wine…
Best wishes
Ksenia Semenova (k.s.you)
COPYRIGHT KSENIA SEMENOVA
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