There were so many youth organizations, and before this event I didn’t even heard about some of them. Unfortunately, most of them also didn’t know about our club at all. Of course, we, MUNRFE members, Severinova Ksenia and me, Yugay Alexander, were working on it and fixed the situation a bit, but we had a lot of work to do. We explained to the participants who we are and what great projects we do.

The event took three days, and the schedule covered the whole day. This may be the reason why this time for me passed like one moment. It was rather hard to get accustomed to the schedule. As one person from my team said: “The lecture has just finished, now we have 30 minutes to eat, then we are going to play sport games and then to have another meeting. I’m tired and want to sleep!” It was funny to some extent, but these words were the truth.

We were busy almost every minute, and there were so many different activities during the Vlad Fest. For example, every day we had different master-classes, such as time-management, first aid, travelling without travel agencies, printing on T-Shirts, creative thinking, the image of your organization, cheerleading and many others. Unfortunately, there were usually four master-classes conducted at the same time, and we could attend only one of them. Each participant attended three master-classes in general. They were very useful and interesting, and I would like to use some knowledge that I got from them.

Besides, we learned a lot about the Round Table of youth social organizations and its functions and made some projects that are going to be realized in Vladivostok. Participants tried to make some new proposals of making the work of Round Table more effective, and some of them were rather good and possible to be realized. So, one of the main proposals was to make a web-site or to create a community in social networks where everyone can find information about all Vladivostok youth organizations and events that these organizations are going to conduct.

Moreover, there were meetings with many interesting people from Vladivostok. They shared their experience with us and told about their hard way to the success. During one of these meetings we were listening and talking to the person who was one of the founders of a rather popular café “Anticafe”. We also met several representatives of the City Hall, young businessmen and social activists. The emcee was Marina Barinova, she attracted attention of participants more than any other guests because of her style of making meetings. Moreover, I am sure that she was the main person discussed in the each evening team meeting.

Certainly, we found new friends, established new contacts, shared our experience of social events conduction, elaborated a fresh vision on youth policy and our current activities and agreed to work together and to collaborate in order to make our life and the life of Vladivostok better.

It was a really great and beneficial event, and I am glad that the case let me participate in it.

Alexander Yugai