LSMF 07

I've just returned from LSMF 07. It was wonderful.
It took place near Litomerice, in Mentaurov (I'd already been there, at SEM, a long time ago).
I went there with Lan, Meldath and a42. I'd also known some other people before, mostly thanks to Meldath. Sometimes I maybe talked too much to my friends, but not too much later. It was interesting to watch them. I must admit I admire them in many ways. Everything they can do and I can't. Hard to have any self confidence, when having people like this around oneself. Yet the positive sides greatly surpass everything. As I think about it, I always seek people who are better than me...and watching them and staying around them make me improve myself. I always see inspiring people around.
Besides my friends, I met a lot of other wonderful people. Some of them with interesting personality, a lot of them with interesting skills and experience (hey, the life seems a bit like a RPG ;-)
There were interesting lectures, though some of them just too easy for me (as the camp as itself was directed toward secondary school students). It may be also because I was one of those few not sleeping during the lectures.
About sleep. There was just too little of it. A lot of games during nights (even though weather was rather gloomy). During after-lunch breaks, I was sleeping instead of talking to others. Pity. I feel I'm just a too sleep-sensitive person. When sleepy, I'm just lazy to do anything, to communicate, to joke... Other people I know are e.g. more aggresive, but that doesn't impair them that much in overall coping.
Food - too much meat, little vegetables; but at least the final dinner was splendid.
Games - they were fun, though even orgs admitted there were a lot of sportive people there, so to my liking, there were perhaps too many physically demanding games. When I see my body, there are scratches everywhere, my hand is crippled (nothing serious, fortunately)...
Some games

• Day of the Triffids - inspired by the novel. I haven't read it, but it may be interesting. The game consisted of living one day without sight - with headscarves over our eyes. One whole day! There were also some more games during the games, made as to simulate the life of blind people. Wonderful experience.
• Game of Life - every period of life lasted for some time and we were going around orgs with different functions (education, pastime, relations, work...) and were thinking out our lives. I ended up having attained nirvana as a buddhist monk. This led Lan to remark she hoped I wouldn't end up like this in real life ;-)
• bills of exchange - we had some "money" (some from the begining, some having gained by issuing a bill of exchange) and we could buy other people's bills; I ended up binding myself to helping with cooking Christmas cookies, on the other hand I gained a possibility of sleeping and being guided in Vysoke Tatry and Stribro.
• writing a letter to myself - orgs will send it in a year and I'll be able to read what I wrote to myself :-)
  

I hope I'll meet at least some of those people again. Some of them perhaps at Matfyz (as it's a matfyz sponsored event and a lot of orgs are the students), some of them somewhere else.
Point of view: Lan, Meldath