Y O U T H №1
#INSPIRE
The turning point was the
of
the
festival, defense or constant sound of sirens on
on the next house was leveled to the streets, nothing gave about
t h e t r a g e d y. A w a r e n e s s c o m e s
system
worked,
admission to the school of the and journalist at MSU. The very p e r fo r m a n c e s . L a t e r, e n t e r i n g the ground? fact that out of a thousand the everything about the military the
guys, you entered the hundred world politics, I got into the potential the out on the crowded ordinary
enrolled, confidence state of the newspaper "Non- air The s t r e e t , a n d i t i s e m p t y. C a n
in what you're doing. For 2 p a p e r. " T h i s e d i t i o n , c re a t e d theoretical knowledge, which you even imagine a picture of
years of studying, I exposed by students, covers the main was empty a Times Square? And
to all genres: from poems to political acquired obituaries, but my favorite is place on the world stage. 2 storytelling. years I wrote articles in a dry
give
I was perfectly
write
MSU
prepared for each class. But form:
my target was not to get a
reviews
at
the
events
What?
the
faculty
which
Where?
of
took
When?
Then I learned
of
Israel
defense
told
in
and
system.
the
own
U n i v e r s i t y,
colors
in
my
mind.
next
day
when
you
go
around, only endless flowers
a n d c a n d l e s . A n d e v e r y d a y,
The reason for the second
those mini memorials, grow
a r t i c l e w a s t h e t e r r o r i s t a tt a c k on
And I got bored. I felt that in h i g h m a r k- I d e s i r e d t o e x c i t e my potential was not being fortunate interest in my story not only
...
and
one
day
generally j u s t p a s s i n g b y, y o u w i l l s e e
all terrible sobbing people, relatives who
realized on a full scale, and I events. I was at the time on first gained strength to come
by the teacher but also by my felt dissatisfied. I wanted to the Rambla, and I heard the to the place of death of their
colleagues. write about people and their cry of the people, deafening relatives.
stories. op.
For example, my
disaster in the Moscow Metro
As it turned out, all the
Barcelona.
meters
I'm
story about the victim in a
I
at
have
always
been
Describing
concerned about the question events,
I
political
relied
on
my
in 2014, was the best work on most are why when something like this experience and my emotions,
the course among all students. my memories. Lot’s of them, happens, people do not run which I felt at that moment.
Then I finally realized that it waiting the time to be open in different directions, they And people began to respond,
is my calling. to the world. The first story coalesce into a single stream, to tell me in response to how
that I wanted to share from a crush begins, and many die they became witnesses of the
everyone my experience was an essay i n i t . N o w I k n o w. A t a t i m e terrible events. So, my friend
knows how to share it. But I about the military conflict in like this, you lose your sense from school, who emigrated
know how to do it. And most I s r a e l i n 2 0 1 4 . Ye s , I w a s t h e r e , o f r e a l i t y, a n d i t ' s l i k e y o u r from Syria, told the story how
i m p o r t a n t l y, I w a n t t o d o i t ! I hid every day for ten times brain is blocking everything his family was killed there. He
So, back in 2015, I realized i n a b o m b s h e l t e r, s a t w i t h l o g i c a l l y, saw the faces of those, who
that I have a tool and I have my neighbors for hours in the full animal instinct. Running kills
to use to the full. In the same stairwell, waiting for the next in a crowd is just about that. p e o p l e . Yo u k n o w w h a t ? H e
ye a r, I f i r s t t r i e d mys e l f a s a tt a c k , a n d s o m e t i m e s l o o k e d Speaking I said me they were just like us.
a correspondent at the all- f r o m t h e b a l c o n y a t t h e s k y, l i t distinctly how And in their eyes, he saw hope
Russian theaters by rockets launched from the then I was walking home from and realized that he couldn’t
"Russian drama." My job was Gaza Strip. Sock! Pow! Slam! Rambla, did not run, and then blame
to the And you sit in a concrete cage sat at home and watched the y o u c a n h a t e t h e i r i d e o l o g y.
participants, maintain social and think, whether the missile T V- s h o w s . Another
Each of us has his own
s t o r y,
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networks
but
not
festival
communicate
of
with
exciting
stories
and
turns
about
that
on
d a y,
remember
And
the
besides
the
hundreds
these
friend
of
innocent
people.
said
But
that
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