THE FIRST CONGRESS OF CHRISTIAN YOUTH IN BELARUS

BELORUS

AHH...THOSE FEW DAYS I SPENT IN THE CAMP WERE GREAT...

WE HAD REALLY NICE TIME THERE. THERE WE HAD GREAT SEMINARS ON DIFFERENT THEMES...SPORT COMPETITIONS...

BY THE WAY WE WON THE SECOND PRIZE IN VOLLEYBALL COMPETITIONS...BY "WE" - I MEAN OUR GUYS...

THE COUNTRY IMPRESSED ME VERY MUCH...

WE ALSO VISITED BREST FORTRESS THERE...

THE FUN THING IN THEIR COUTRY  - THEIR MONEY

1$ = 3 000 RUBELS

IT IS FUN TO BUY A CANDY THAT COSTS LIKE 1,5 THOUSAND RUBELS

  THAT IS NOT MUCH MONEY...

YOU CAN NOT BUY EVEN A GUM FOR THIS SUMM OF MONEY...

THE LANGUAGE IS ALSO NOT AN ORDINARY ONE

IT IS A MIX OF RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN

SOUNDS REALLY FUN

BY THE WAY

MY GRANDPA WAS FROM BELORUS...

SO IT IS KINDA MY SECOND MOTHERLAND

I ALSO DREAMED TO GO THERE

SO MY DREAM IS ALMOST FULFILLED

WHY ALMOST?

BECAUSE I DREAM TO GO AND VISIT THE VILLAGE WHERE MY GRANDPA LIVED

BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THAT VILLAGE HAVE THE SAME LASTNAME, THE SAME I HAVE

HOPE ONE DAY MY DREAM WILL COME TRUE

busy...lazy...

i'm a bit busy these days...so no blogging...

=(

home... sweet home...

back from camp finally...

the camp was great...

the kids... the kids are always and everywhere the same... noisy... but funny...

i spent great time there with a good team...

a week spent far away from home...

but..

as usually i got those connection issues... i had to find the highest hill there to get internet connection...sounds funny...doesn't it?

oh well... anyway...that was fun...

back to the camp... it was great...seems i mentioned it before already....

we sang songs with children... we played lots of fun games...

tried to spend our time as good as possible...

we had a big big big...no.. huge fire in the middle of the camp...

if you know those christian bracelets... with colourful beads... every day we had one colour...

yellow... black... white... red... (blue)....and green...

each colour has its own meaning...

and every day all the leaders wore the t-shirts of the colour of the day...

oh yeah...forgot to mention my group...

i've got a group of nine nice girls... the age...what was the age ?

whoooops... i guess they were 13-14 years old... 

every day we had: morning exersises... sports... crafts... Bible lessons... morning and evening meetings...

but most of all i loved such called "silent hour" or "silent time" - the time when kids were supposed to be in their rooms for 1.5 hour...

that was right the time when i was mounting the hill in hope to get the connection.. ha ha... the kids were wondering from their windowswhat was i doing over there on the top of the hill..

but... the time flies so quickly...so that i had to come back to kids quite soon... 

we've got a great team... there were like 12 of us... 6 guys and 7 girls...

oh well.. i'm not good in math... so there were 13 of us...

one day we had time just for girls and just for guys... hen-party and a stag-party.... let us call it so...

we gathered all the girls...and made them make-up... made their hair... polished the nails... and stuff...

the boys went to the river... and i have no idea what did they do there...

oh yeah...

we also had the day of twins...

not an actual twins...

but...

ok/.. let me telll...

everyone had to find a twin in the camp... and i found one... not really..

                                         but

just the girl from my group came to me and said that none wanna be a twin with her...

so i told her that we're gonna be twins...

we even won the second prize...

i have much much much more impressions from the camp...

but i'm too tired to tell about all of them...

so that's gonna be the end of the blog...

=) 

... sunday... friends ... wedding ...

 what a nice day was today... sunday... friends... wedding...

today was the first time i was on non-christian wedding... it was something new for me... cause i was only on christian ones ....

and i think that was the first and the last time...

not because it was bad... it was ok...

just i don't like that alcohol stuff... drunk people...

that was my groupmate's wedding...she was sooooo beautiful... she was a BUG.. =)

the wedding was new for me...

cuz i saw many new traditions people hold on non-christian weddings...

that was fun... but i left quite early... before all of them get drunk...

i do not like that stuff..

+ i had to get ready for tomorrow... because tomorrow starts a new camp...

 

it is called "Sunflower"...

i used to be as camper in this camp when i was young...

and now..

i'm gonna be a leader in this camp...

that is so cool...

hope i'll enjoy it...

no...

for sure...

i'll enjoy it...

because i'll have a good company with me...

hope the connection will be ok there...

so i can chat with that american guy...

so...

i'll tell you how was the camp later... and now back to repacking my suitcase...

=)

a week without laptop.. does it seem like i'm laptop addicted?

hey...  quite a long time without blogging... and chatting...

but...

i'm back...

so the blog is gonna be about how i spent last week...

i was in Sumy... the reason i was there? ok ..

It was The second Regional Youth Camp of Central Ukraine... there were representatives from 8 regions of Ukraine... there were olike 350-400 representatives... Our region was the biggest...as usually... there were like 120 of us... a big delegation...isn't it?

<= these  are the girls ... the best girls from the delegation... =)

the 1-st such camp was 3 years ago... this one was the second...

there were  lots of fun there...

lots of interesting seminars... lots of different sports, competitions... among them were: volleyball competition, football competition, Strongmen competition ... different extreme competitions... and others... 

and what is fun... that we..i mean our region won all those competitions...

what's fun is that we won all the competitions 3 years ago.. so all the regions were a bit angry on us i guess... but that was fun... our guys were very good... they won the volletball tournir easily... the hardest thing was to win footbal tournir... but they're good...

+ they had us... by " us " i mean the girls... 20 best girls in the camp... we cheered them up the best way we could... 

The win of the football tournir was the best moment for us in the camp... 

<= just a minute after we won football tournir!!!

the guys in blue t-shirts are our football players... they did a great job... the camps was good... but thhe only thing that wasn't good...is that i didn't have my laptop with me...so i couldn't chat with one nice person... and i really missed it...

so today i'm home...and can chat... tomorrow my  friend has a wedding... + i haave to pack my suitcase... or to repack... ha ha...and monday morning leaving for a new camp...but this time not as a camper..but as leader... but this will be in the next blog...

=)

=(

i'm sorry ...but no blogs till saturday..

will miss

i "love" my camera

oh well.. let's start...

i missed yesterday's blog... but... the day was great... let me tell you...we had a great beginning of the day..as usually: sunny weather... beach...tan... it was cool... 

+ i managed somehow to chat with the American Guy... without any connection issues...

but the fun of the day started in the evening.... at 19:00 we were ready to go to the downtown...to have a walk ...to take pictures... on our way to the route taxi i told my friend i told her a story that happened to me when i was in the other city with the quire i sing in... as usually i take my camera with me... and you know how often it happens when you go somewhere and take your camera... and in the very moment you need it it says "the battery is low"... but it didn't happened to me that time. cuz i took like 16 batteries... in case i get "your battery is low"... and in that very moment...i took my camera...turned it on... the battery fully charged... i took a picture...and guess what... you'll laugh at me... my camera told me "no memory card"... oh well//let  us get back to our story...

so we got a route taxi to the downtown... we walked ... ate an ice cream... had fun... oh yeah... we found a great building of an Opera House... it is very old ... i saw it before...cuz i've already been to Odessa.. and my friend asked me to take a picture... as my hands were busy with an ice cream...i asked her to take the picture herself... she took my camera and took a picture of that great building...when she looked at the screen of the camerea...guess..what did she see? yep...you're right.... my camera was saying "no memory card" =)

why this always happen to me???

but anyway... we found a mall.... and at the last floor we found an Ukrainian Quisine Restaurant.... it is called "Puzata Hata"  - in english it would sound like "Paunchy Hut" - funny name heh? 

after all that we decided that we'll come back home, to the guest house...and will take pictures there...near the sea...

so we came home...took lots of pictures... and then decided just to sit outside on a swing... but... one guy... actually not a guy...but kinda a 40 or 50 year old man was allready sitting there...so we just enjoyed the bench... but when he left... we occupied the swing...and then he immediately came back... and sat with us... as we found further he was from Finland... he came here on his motorcycle... but we also found out that he was drunk... so we just asked him to take a picture of two of us... and wished him good night...and left... oh well... that was not the only swing there you know... so we found an other one... the day was great...and it ended at 3 in the morning... 

at 4 i got a "goodnight wish" from American Guy... and fell asleep...

so it is 11:33... and i'm still in bed... writing this blog... it is the last day of my vacation... and i'm too lazy to go to the beach...

.........................................................seems to be the end of today's blog..........................................