Youthink: A Dream Come True
Vjosa Ramadani, LCF Cherkeze
It was ten years ago when I applied to attend camp GLOW. It was first camp of its kind in Macedonia
and I really didn’t know what to expect. I remember that I was very interested and I hoped it would
be a movie-like camp. It was even better, because I was part of it for real: a lot of fun, new ways of
learning, new horizons… the best four days of a junior high schooler.
Then the camp was over, and so were the activities… silence all around…
Years later, things didn’t change much, even though I was still waiting for a miracle. I was still
hoping that my city would become the city of opportunities for me and other youngsters. I was realizing that waiting and hoping was not the right thing to do, that action should be taken instead, but I
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