Exploring Riga

There was a time when I would go to Riga constantly. One semester I went there three times. Why? I just loved the people there, I loved being there.

One time I went with my friend to lead a small conference. Our task was to make the members motivated to join the organization. We were sleeping at one of the members, he was a team member of organizing committee for the conference. We had a mission there to take back our organization's mascot that Latvians have taken during another conference. Our mascot is a huge teddy bear called Džeikas, and we tried doing that, we really tried, but they kept taking it away from us. After the conference we went to celebrate in one of the bars, can't really remember the name. Actually, we went out every night to see the night life. People were in the bars, looking happy, discussing their life. The city seemed alive.

The second time I went there, it was to celebrate the organization's birthday. I went with another girl and we were staying at another member's place. He was organizing the birthday, so at some point before he left us with another member who was a photographer and we had a little photography session. He's really good even though sometimes he thinks he's not. But that's usually how it is, if you are good at something you keep asking more and more from yourself and you can't do anything until you reach perfection. The birthday was in a Rock bar, it was great, we had games, we had dances, we had songs and we had cake! Next day we looked around Riga, we went to one scenic place where you could see the bridge and had a little sit down there. It was peaceful.

The third time I went to Riga and stayed over at my Latvian friend together with a girl from Estonia. You could say we had a little Baltic evening representing all countries. Next day we went to a conference near Jelgava. It was the end of June and the mosquitoes almost ate us alive. But we had fun: we had sessions and seminars during the day and we had party in the night. The organizing committee was so nice that they brought cupcakes for everybody in the morning and there was plenty of tea and coffee. We shared our stories there, gave each other advice and it was also time when the new leading people took over. So in the last night of June there was a little giving away ceremony after which everybody joined in the fun. The new people - celebrating their upcoming success and the people who gave their crowns away - celebrating the success they had. I stayed a few more days in Riga after that: just wanted to walk around it. But I had to leave as well.