KO live: They are among us!

There is something magical about Kelajak Ovozi Summer Training Camp. Each and every day in the camp is different. Not merely because of trainings, events, but also because of the show KO live, and the people who touch it. KO live is the show which brings with itself fun and happiness to the whole camp. KO live is the program which has an extraordinary mission, unique style, rubrics, traditions, and experience. 

The youth camp show “KO live” began to be shot in 2012 year in Kelajak ovozi Summer Training Camp with the initiative of the activist of Kelajak ovozi YIC Mansur Normatov.

Mansur Normatov, leader of “KO live”:

Our TV show “KO live” was founded here in our dear Kelajak ovozi Summer Training Camp. Tell the truth, the founder of the program was the committee of Kelajak ovozi YIC. Last year in 14 days KO live was presented 11 times. The importance of this show among our youth is that we always try to take different events, stories from daily life of the camp, and show it in a humorous way. The tradition of shooting the program will continue this year as well. After the opening ceremony day we showed our first KO live for 2013 year. I want to say that this year we want to shoot more than 15 series of our program. We claim that KO live will continue in future, and make everybody smile.

As every day in the camp is hectic, full with trainings and competitions, the participants are really tired. And they want something that makes them relax in such kind of moments. For this KO live plays a great role. At 9.00 pm everyday KO live presents its new series to their audience, with what the show adds its own part to the activity of KO camp.

Dilafruz Sarimsakova, participant of #KOcamp:

To say honestly, KO live is one of the most impressive events which shows the real atmosphere in the camp. So many impressions and a lot of fun I have got from this show. The funniest thing of the program is that the secret camera shoots the problems, unexpected situations during our activity in the camp. In this show not only the participants, but at the same time all trainers and coordinators laugh and relax. I really thank Mansur Normatov and his colleagues for doing their best, and making us smile. All participants of KO wish them good luck! We are long for new series of KO live!

KO live is one of the best things that has ever happened in KO camp and let me tell you that I am truly blessed to watch it. This is one of the things what I believe makes life in the camp perfect.

Dream

Today I saw a wonderful dream,
In my dream I was with him.
He was standing next to me,
And I was standing next to him.
We were walking holding arms,
Arms were holding awesome hearts.
We were alone in the whole space
Flying from one to another place.
Like birds were singing for us,
And the God was looking at us.
He was singing for me,
Heart was singing for him!
(written by @DiliKadirova)

Natural and Cosmetic Beauty

     Once a girl went to Kelajak ovozi Summer Training Camp-2011. There she met many people who were the specialists of different spheres. Among them she noticed a young artist who was drawing the picture of the nature. She introduced herself to him, and asked him to draw her portrait. The girl said that she would bring her photos. As she promised, the next day she brought her photos. The artist looked through them, and could not find the suitable one. The girl asked him to choose one photo, but the artist said: “My dear, when I draw a picture I always try to see its soul, inner beauty. You brought me very beautiful photos, but in these photos you have hidden your soul with make-up. In these photos I cannot see the natural beauty. When I do not see the natural beauty, I cannot draw anything.” The next day the girl brought the artist another photo in which she did not put on any make-up. The artist said: “Nothing can change the real-natural beauty..!”

     “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” It means that not all people have the same opinions about what is attractive. Some people think that when we put on make-up, it will be the real beauty, and some people think vice versa. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the natural beauty and cosmetic beauty. The three main differences are time, health, and money.

     The most notable difference between these two kinds of beauty is time. When we put on make-up, it takes us too much time. Instead of wasting our time standing in front of the mirror for hours, we can spend our time on useful things such as learning something new, or helping someone and so on. Will make-up give us anything, if we spend our time on it? Of course, no! We should not think that people can achieve renown with their colored substances.

     Comparing both types of beauty we can notice another difference. It is health. I heard that even ten year-old girls have started wearing lipstick and make-up in imitation of the older girls. Do not they think about their health? If they put on a lot of make-up, they will have problems with their skin, and also they will get older earlier than usual. Instead of buying these beauty products, they can buy fruits and vegetables that are full of vitamins, and that help to be always healthy.

     Yet another difference between these two types of beauty is money. The attractiveness of the natural beauty is that it does not cost too much. But anyway some girls fritter so much money away on expensive make-up. There are some girls who do not work. If they do not work, where will they find money for buying make-up? Of course, they will spend their parents’ money that their parents earned with difficulty. Instead of spending their money on make-up, girls can buy books- keys for their bliss future.

     Here are the main differences between natural beauty and cosmetic beauty. As it seems, it comes down to a personal choice based on the time each person has, the attention he/she gives to his/her health, and the money. I prefer natural beauty better than cosmetic beauty, but sometimes it is better to look differently by putting on some make-up. Anyway, whether we put on make-up or not, our souls will not change..!

Dancing Fountain

     Las Vegas! It is the city of dreams, colors and emotions. The city where my heart became a slave, the slave of pure love..!

     It was summer. My friends and I wanted to go to somewhere new where we had never been before. So we came to a decision to go to Las Vegas. The first thing which we did in Las Vegas was visiting fountains of that city, but I did not even imagine that those fountains would change my life to 180 degrees.

     That day was Open Party in the area of fountains. All of us took part in that party. My friends danced, ate, drank, and swam. Only I walked, and enjoyed myself watching the beauty of the nature. While walking I heard somebody's voice. Someone was singing, and it seemed as that voice was calling me. I found the voice.

     There was a small cafe near those fountains. I entered the cafe, and sat out in the crowd. They came to hear him play. At that really moment I wished that I would be in his arms like his Spanish guitar, and he would play me through the night till the dawn. I wished that he would hold me in his arms like his Spanish guitar all night long. His magic voice enchanted me. I was hooked to his chain. I wanted his eyes to find me from that crowd of people. At last, he found me. I did not want his eyes to lose me. He was singing a song “Dancing Fountain”, and it became the melody of our love…

How to develop self-confidence?

     Self-confidence is a key to success and happiness. Self-confidence helps a person to achieve a successful life. It is all about believing in yourself, and having a faith in what you do. What will happen if we have lack of confidence? I think that the lack of self-confidence can be destructive for a person. In order to achieve success, a person should build confidence in him or herself. For instance, sometimes my confidence is high as the sky, and I feel like nothing can stop me, and at other times, it is at the rock bottom. In such situations I use four steps of developing self-confidence. They are: believing in yourself, feeling yourself important, realizing failure and identifying your success.

     The first step is believing in yourself. A person who believes in him or herself can achieve everything he or she wants. When I was a pupil at school, I always hesitated to do something, but my mother told me to do a thing which I believed to be right, even if others criticized me for it. My mother's words really helped me to believe in myself. After that, I used to do things which I thought right. As it is said: “Put your future in good hands-your own.” It means that first of all every person should believe in himself, and then others will believe in him too.

     The second step is feeling yourself important. In my opinion, a person can feel himself important when he understands that someone needs him, or he has places to visit, people to meet, and important work to do. Before winning the Educational grant Program of Fund Forum, I did not feel myself so important as I feel myself now. But after winning that grant, I found such kind of feelings in myself that I could not explain. I began to do important things, visit important places, meet with important people. I can say that important things that you do make you also feel important. The secret to inner confidence is to know your value and to feel yourself important.

     The next step is realizing your failure. Every time you fail you become stronger than before, and as Peter T. Mcintyre said: “Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.” It means that we should admit our mistakes, and learn from them. By realizing our failure, we will get ready to the difficulties of this world. Every time we fail, we learn and increase our inner strength. So, every failure can make us more likely to succeed.

     At last, identifying our success is one of the steps of developing our self-confidence. Everyone is good at something, so we should discover the things that we accomplished. We should be proud of our own talents, and show them to others. What if we do not have any successful accomplishments? We should find something that we enjoy. We should believe that we were born with talents, and we can develop our talents.

     By following these four steps, I always develop my self-confidence. These steps always help me to find motivation, enthusiasm and eagerness to believe in myself, and show others that I can be confident, successful, and I can do things like others, or even more. Self-confidence builds success, and no one can take it away from you! 

Presenting New Language

It is known that every teacher should know how to present new language items to learners. As we are future teachers we should know how to present them.  This article shows what benefits it can offer us when we need to present something new to our students.

     In this article there are given two approaches for the differing techniques we can use – deductive and inductive. While reading these two ways of presenting new language I understood that learners are independent in the inductive way, and they are dependent in the deductive way. Because the inductive way makes students work on their own. In this situation the teacher is only guide for presenting new language items. But does this way support our students’ learning fully?

     However, the deductive way makes learners work with the teacher, and the lesson is controlled by the teacher. But does it give learners the chance to develop their strategies and learning styles?

     I think that the inductive way of presenting new language is difficult for our learners. For instance, when we do something in the inductive way, it takes too much time and hard work. Sometimes we do not understand what we are doing exactly.

     In order not to make any difficulties in learning something we should mix these two ways. So that we can keep balance in presenting new language. Or as it is written in the article we can start with a deductive approach, and then move on to a more inductive way of learning.

Prejudice

     Prejudice is an opinion that was formed before knowing someone or something well. It causes the discrimination of people. “Never judge a book by its cover” – it is what all nations always remind people. It means that we should not prejudge others by their appearance, especially when it is formed without enough thought or knowledge.

     I am the fan of Indian films. I get information about the lifestyles of Indian people while watching their films. In India, as I observed, people do not invite widows to the wedding parties. Because they think that widows can bring unhappiness to the new bride and groom's life. And also widows cannot start a new life after their husbands’ death. In one of my favourite Indian film which is called “Father In-law” we can observe the act of prejudice when father in-law wants his daughter in-law to be happy and cheerfully after his son's death. When relatives whose minds were full of prejudices were against of the widow's new marriage he said: “The person's life is the most important gift which is given by God, any prejudice must not make widows to suffer and live as dead people. Why we-people cannot change our belief? Why we let prejudice make our lives full of problems?” The great king and poet, who is well-known in Uzbekistan, India and other countries, Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur was disappointed when he faced the prejudice of the widow's life. Because widows were burnt after their husband's death. In order to help the Indian nation, Babur had to be against the Indian king Ibrohim Lodi and have wars. After the war between Babur and Lodi many widows anyway burnt themselves after their dead husbands. Because those strong beliefs were kept in their minds. Zakhiriddin Muhammad Babur realized that his efforts were unsuccessful against such kind of prejudice. 

    

     Sometimes people prejudge others by their appearance. I noticed that blonde girls are thought to be silly, dumb and light-minded. Maybe that is why, blonde girls are the symbol of dumbness in many films as “The father's five daughters”. This prejudice seems funny and ridiculous for other people, but it is irritating for blonde woman. However, there are blonde women who can show that it is wrong. The best example is Gulnora Karimova who is famous for the nickname of Googoosha. She is very clever, creative and forward-looking. She is the leader of Fund Forum and other national projects. Many Uzbek women admire her stable and strong character and try to look like she is. I am also a blonde girl. I am sure that I will be determined and self-confident like Gulnora Karimova, and prove that the prejudice about blonde girls is not right.

     In my conclusion, I want to say that we should prejudge no one or nothing without knowing it well.  Because it would be the reason for different misunderstandings between people. That is why, we must not let our prejudice blind us!