First, I want to thank my friend Akin who offered me to participate in competition held by UN Baku office and Israeli embassy, then UN Baku office and Israeli embassy for support and great help, our organization-Youth League for Intercultural Cooperation for support and help, my family and friends for support and everyone who helped me and my friend Hamid to represent our country in that congress
When I waved my hand to my family before going towards the gate in airport I had strange feeling. Actually it was the first time I was leaving my family for such a period of time. When we landed in Tel-Aviv some staff from Yad Vashem was waiting for us. We greeted each other and then we were asked to wait for other participants. Actually I guessed that we were waiting for guys from India, because I met them in the row for passport control. So finally they came, they were nice, smart guys. While we were waiting for other guys we spoke about different things. We discussed Indian movies, Bollywood and etc. As the time passed other participants were coming. The guy from Japan, girls from Norway and the girl from Turkey joined us later. Then we were accompanied to bus, and started off to Jerusalem. There was not much traffic on the way. The guy from Japan, Gyo was sitting in front of me. Every time when I hear something about Japan, immediately I remember about Japanese cars and racing. So we talked about those things. And for a moment I slept, and when we arrived I was woken up by my friend Hamid. The Hotel seemed to be nice and it really was. We waited a little in lounge, because we wanted to make calls home. After calling home, making moms calmer, we went to our rooms.
The next morning when I woke up, I was fresh and feelings were strange. Because I didn't hear voice of my mom calling for dinner or dad's waking me up. Then I washed my hands and face and went down, because the bus was waiting for us. Hamid and I went down. When we got in the bus, I had the feeling that everyone was waiting for us, because it was full. Afterwards we started off. There were two girls from Turkey on the back from us. We spoke with them. While we were going our guide gave us different information, and then I began to feel headache and suddenly I saw numbers on the left side of the way. They were the signs showed us how under from sea level we were. After hour or more we arrived at the hill. It was some kind of village of Bedouins. Then our guide gave us information where we were. The way he informed us was interesting. He used one the guys as the map of Israel. It seemed interesting. Then we went into the tent where Bedouin meal was waiting for us. We took our plates, and sat around the table on the floor.
For the first time I was sitting at the table with different people, from different countries. It was really nice, we were joking, laughing while we had dinner. After finishing dinner we had some kind of photo session. Everyone who had camera took photos. Then we went out of the tent, and there was a wonderful to the Dead Sea. It was beautiful feeling to be there. We didn't stay there for a long, but we would have stayed there if the weather was nice. Because the organizers wanted to give us chance to swim in Dead Sea. But the weather didn't let. So we came back to the hotel. We had a rest for an hour or more then we had supper. After the supper we divided to 5 groups. There weren't two guys from same country in one group. Then we went to the place which was waiting for us. There were more than 20 guys in our group. We introduced ourselves to the group. Then we played the game, during which we spoke to each other more about ourselves. Let me explain how we played it. 12 guys sat on the floor in the circle and the other sat in front of those, and then when time was up we switched off our places. Actually during this game I was covered in sweat, but in spite of that it was interesting. By the way our guide's name was Yiftach. After this game we were informed about next day and we were given nice bags. I was very tired after long day, so I went straight to my room. I watched football with my roommate and discussed the finishing day.
