This is my first post in a good while, and also about a past event.

The WYC happened in august last year, almost six months ago. It was one of the most well organized events I ever been to. Much of the credit for this is probably because of the fact that it was held in the University of Stirling, with its beautiful and welcoming campus. Scotland itself is a great place, during the congress I had to chance to visit one of the northern towns in Scotland, Durness. We spent a few days there, supposedly working with local youth. We did meet local youth, but for DJ’ing classes and tours around the small village. I’m not saying it was bad, I loved to be there and meet and chat with them, it really interesting the see things from the perspective of someone who grew in a small village, and being in the northern tip of Scotland, how they had to adapt to the weather in the highlands.

The congress in stirling was a great opportunity to meet people, specially some friends that I haven’t seen in over a year or two. But I had to confess that I didn’t participate in much of the ‘work’ proposed by the congress. All the drafting and discussions about policy just seemed a little bit uninviting to me. Talking to different people from all over the world was much more interesting to me, I tried to spent more time with the Latin American delegation, and build a stronger regional network. I met some great people from South America, hope to be able to meet them again and work together in the future. Also for the first time someone I met abroad came to Brazil, Cezar, from Mexico and spent a few good days with me in Rio, in the last week of December. Maybe some of you I met will follow his lead during this year? ;)

The congress came back to my mind last week when I received the WYC pack with the DVD and CD, seeing all the faces again and watching the videos made me feel refreshed and reenergized again...

Anyway, I also uploaded a few photos from the WYC last night, you can find them in my flickr page.




just a well deserved note, today is my sister's birthday, she's 24 today :)