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International Youth Camp

Date: 7-17 August 2008

Venue: South Korea.

 

“So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, happiness and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite,

So long you are young”

 

This year theme was “Glocal solidarity, Glocal Action”.

 

During the first three days that we had workshops, we really learnt to think globally and I hope that we can also act locally.

 

During the first three days, I was a camp leader, leader of Camp B, so we tried to write an impressive slogan for our camp, after brainstorming between campers of Camp B we decided to choose this Slogan “B” be together”.

Also, we decide to write this sentence on our placard “we came alone, we’ll go alone, but now we are together.

 

Oh what interesting nights we had!!!!!

On the first three nights, we had amazing and different cultural performances. I really enjoyed and knew another thing which called “Cultural Diversity”.

On these nights, we were taught different games and dances, heard different songs and also saw different customs.

All of them were recorded not only in my camera but also in my mind and in my heart.

 

Let’s talk about my field study, International Mongolia School in Soul.

The slogan was “Different but Equal”

During 5 days in Seoul we including 10 campers had a lot of programs such as Campaign on the theme Climate Change, visiting Mongolian culture town, volunteering work, Picnic and Sauna.

During these days we were not alone but kind Mongolian students accompanied us.

This field study taught me how to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds; we talked a lot about different subjects that you can not imagine. also I understood another phrase “Multicultural Society”.

The theme of 2008 International Youth Day, was “ Young people and climate change: time for action", All of us, together, prepared some signs for the most important day of our life and went to the streets, we informed Korean people not only about Youth Day but also about the effects of Climate change. This campaign provides an opportunity to alert young people to a threat that may directly affect them in a few years’ time, to encourage them to become involved on a daily basis in finding innovative solutions, and to take up the development challenges facing their world.

 

No matter where we live, all of us live on the planet Earth.

 

The Big shock, Sauna, I have not been in this kind of place before; It was really a good experience. I could not describe it more ….

 

After Sauna we realized that all of us are the same. I, myself realized that all of us are the children of Adam and Eve, I think it is better to change the theme of our field study “no difference and equal “.

 

The last day, the saddest day, again I learnt another thing. I really felt that “Goodbye is the saddest word in the world”.

 

The 43rd annual Youth Camp was one of the most rewarding experiences I have been honored to participate in. I would like to thank the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Mr Samuel Lee, Mr Lee Sun jae and all Headquarter members for giving me this chance to join this camp in the last years of my youth-ness.

 

Hey IYC Campers thank you for everything…