Hello! You are reading a message from International Children Computer Center or Kuhomorie - a little paradise near lake Pleshcheevo. Of course, the place which you are reading from is exaggerated. Now there is an isolation period. Adults work all day, streets are empty and students fed up with an online-school. And we, kuhmars and kuhmar-ladies (such a kind of people in the camp) are aggressively waiting for our summer shifts.
I'm kuhmar with only 3 shifts in the back and of course I tend to infinity. It is already strange to realize that you stand on the same ground as plenty of years ago. Every shift days are compared with each other, but people are often the same. I want to tell you my story.
The first reason why I go there is a distraction from school life and troubles and recharging the batteries, but it's just familiar for everybody. When you visit the camp for the first time the new life begins. The subconscious mind generates it for memories, new mates' names, knowledge, etc. And only for this place. This new life can be not connected with your ordinary life, and I find it marvelous. New people, new places, new opportunities are able to distract from summer homework, troubles with classmates, and others. But how is this reason connected with ICCC? Every day every kuhmar attends the so-called departments. They are interacting activities, their number varies anywhere from 20. In such a way, summer homework becomes a couple of projects.
The second reason is a continuous activity. About 5 hours a day we spend in buildings A, D or even in the street doing something. This "something" means a lot. All departments are based on skills and hobbies of vacations. Guitarists go to the guitar club and often introduce their skills on evening events. Painters make wonderful things on the "Art ship". Since the camp depends on computers, there are lots of activities connected with the web, programming, IT - technologies. But it's not necessary to worry, because every child finds an activity to his liking. You can play games, make something in photoshop, improve a skill, or start learning a new language.
In the evenings there are different events. I ensure that even if you are the laziest person in the world you will find preparing for today's event a very interesting thing to spend time to. So, in that case, you can prove yourself like a needful person in the squad.
The third reason is friends. In the camp, I guess, literally everybody introduces himself from the best side. We find in people around us new, interesting, not ordinary personality traits, we meet people with the same interests during the first days, we become so close to each other, that you have never imagined how. Well, the main thing about friends is their being nearby for a long time. The camp's statistics show that about 80 percent of vacations go to the camp again and again, so, it's possible to spend all shifts with the same people. During those terrible breaks between shifts, there is always a comrade who you can talk to your summer plans with. Of course, after shifts or during different communities appear. It doesn't matter if you are from one squad or you have the same interests.
The world is so small because I have friends from different countries and cities, those are too far from Moscow. It's easy to have a kuhmar-friends who are your neighbors in the city, who turn out your new classmates.hy don't we have other drinks? Well, I like this tea
I've already mentioned the fourth reason. It is an opportunity to introduce yourself from the best side. Nowadays a lot of children are unable or don't have reasons to tell their opinion, do what they want, listen to what they want, and etc. ICCC is the best way to do it because of departments for me. No parents (strict parents are often the main reason for the destruction of dreams), no jealous, disappointing, humiliating mates - that's the best reason to show all the world your abilities. Read poems, play the violin or the piano, dance, sing, take part in evening events - you have people who are ready to support you. Only you build your authority. Just remember that it's impossible that you can't do anything.
The best thing for me is the camp's service. Ok, show me the person, who liked it on the first day of the shift.
Well... It brings so much atmosphere's colors. All rooms are different from each other. Somebody has bedclothes with animals, his neighbors have with flowers, cars or diamonds.
Walls are full of posters from evening events, diplomas, photos from previous shifts...
The best friendships begin in the queue to wash - there is only one shower for girls in the squad. Getting up at 5 a.m. and go heating water is very happy. I like the shower room in the camp because it's scary and nobody goes there.
Big rooms, small lobbies which are filled with diplomas of victory, drawings from the festival of countries and squad's poster merge into one. And everybody likes it. Just pay attention to the end of the day, some companies are talking on the sofas, two people in sleep clothes play ping pong, somebody is waiting for cooler's heating. Go for a walk and admire the pines, they are calling card of the camp. A small area is only your universe on this day, somewhere the music is playing, the buildings are full of multicolor light. You can go to the disco, watch the film, take some photos. The evenings are amazing.
I also admire the limited internet, because you don't need it. People are here and now, activities are here and now. The main problem nowadays is spending a lot of time on the internet, and ICCC provides the best opportunity to forget about it.
So, the picture where we are playing the guitar, having a party, shouting songs, eating nuts or makeup boys while they are sleeping must be here, but those moments weren't captured by a camera
I am sure that people who were in this camp can describe the atmosphere for hours.
Now, somewhere around January 6th, you are lying in the room and the heater doesn’t hit you, someone else is playing with neighbors there, and you are listening to good music under a blanket and sometimes pay attention to the lights on a garland wrapped near the mirror. A kuhmar's Santa Claus enters the room and congratulates you on Christmas, you wake up and go to drink tea again, but this time with cinnamon, the January blizzard rings in the street, and you feel good at heart because you are in your favorite place with your loved ones. It’s already hot in the room, but you don’t want to take off the huge sweatshirt, because it’s comfortable. Tomorrow you will wake up early in the morning and you will feel thirsty, you will go to the hall, where in the darkness a multi-colored garland burns the wall. You will think about the fact that the shift will end in 3 days, and this is inevitable, and you can’t put up with it. You go to Sasha's room to the building D, and there is Grisha who turned on the sound of the fire, you sit, discuss all kinds of things. And it was never as good as in these moments, problems disappeared from your head for that week of magic spent in the best place for you in the world. The end of the shift is coming, you and the squad are singing a song about how painful it is to lose your dear people and weep under the Wind of change. The next day, a lump in the throat is in the morning. The last 10 minutes in your favorite room feel completely different as if you are losing yourself. But then there is your smell and a couple of inscriptions in the closet.
Why are these people with suitcases standing here? They don’t want to go home. But you must. You say goodbye to friends whom parents take away and cry much more. "Yaroslavl" left. Going to Moscow. Your friend promises to come out to you as soon as he puts things ... but he doesn't. "Moscow" left. The soul has an indescribable feeling of resentment. You stand almost alone in the entire camp with leaked mascara in front of your eyes and look after the buses. People cry there too. Everyone is crying.
Here is the last bus picking you up.
On the bus, you listen to songs from the shift and again cry. Everything was like yesterday. Yes, yesterday it was. And the day before yesterday too. And there was a pose the day before yesterday. And it was cool. And you want to repeat it.
But that detachment will not assemble again. First, everyone leaves for different shifts, and then they fall into c2. And more 16-year-olds will not yell in the same way as 11-year-old songs at a party.
And you are waiting for the next shift.
So, that is why I like International Children Computer Center