{"id":24686,"date":"2014-10-07T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T09:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=24686"},"modified":"2014-10-04T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:18:30","slug":"summer-university-think-different-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/10\/07\/summer-university-think-different-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer University Think different: Get out of your comfort zone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone returned home, feeling eventually relaxed after two crazy-rushy-hasty-HAPPY weeks, but at the same time, reluctant even to upload photos, not talking about writing stories of the week. But how different it was just a week ago!<\/em><\/p>\n

Each morning started with some person (sometimes you did not even know who he or she was) bursting into your room saying some random sentences about “<\/span>having breakfast right now<\/em>” and “<\/span>leaving in half an hour<\/em>“. Well, ok, I’m getting up, really. We carried on sleeping. After half an hour, another cry: “<\/span>Guuuuuys! We\u2019re leaving in five minutes!<\/em>” \u00a0Sometimes without shouting \u2013 just the magic whistle was enough. And all of us \u2013 sleepy, sometimes thirsty (because of the night before), with wet hair \u2013 went out into the daylight.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then they said \u2013 dance Zumba! Climb walls! Sing Ukranian songs! Go hitch-hiking! Walk in the street with your eyes closed and touch everything you are made to by your fellow-participants! (The list goes on like this: people\u2019s shoulders, people\u2019s faces, people\u2019s beards, pavements, horses, trash bins). But that\u2019s not the end – Drink vodka! Walk for several kilometers up the hill! Photobomb! Pronounce Polish tongue-twisters like W Szczebrzeszynie chrz\u0105szcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego s\u0142ynie, \u017ce chrz\u0105szcz w\u0142a\u015bnie brz\u0119cza\u0142 w trzcinie which means “In the town of Szczebrzeszyn a beetle buzzes in the reeds.\u00a0 And Szczebrzeszyn is famous for it” and does not make much sense, but it is funny because it is difficult to pronounce.\u00a0Walk in toilet paper! Undress! Run in the forest in complete darkness! Eat DISGUSTING mushroom soup (\u201cBelieve me, it\u2019s delicious!\u201d).<\/p>\n

In other words (just six of them but so full of sense and craziness) \u2013 GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE!<\/p>\n

That was the kind of holiday that is not just entertaining, but so much developing as well. Glancing back, I realized that everything I hated doing is now good memories and amazing experiences, and they will be remembered as a real adventure! They made the most normal of us to do incredible things, the most scared face their phobias, the shiest throw away confusion and fear, the most sleepy go on and party! The result was us getting closer to each other with every day, eventually coming to miss each other enormously now. I hope all of us changed at least a little bit (well, I did), meeting the aim of being full of AEGEE spirit!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I wonder how many times you guys (the organizers, I\u2019m talking to you) were laughing, while watching us do all the crazy stuff you had invented to challenge us with? I suppose you were getting sheer delight out of that. But, anyway, that is the thing I am most grateful for \u2013 you made me do something I would never have done alone.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Inna Mezentseva, AEGEE-Minsk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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