Thursday, May 1, 2008

First party SNOW HEAT – served chilled

Agora, as most of AEGEE-events combines both official and unofficial parts. The first day of Agora in Ljubljana was not an exception. After the official opening ceremony and snack and vine tasting finished, the guards of the venue kindly asked the participants of Agora to leave the place. But AEGEE-Ljubljana did not let people get lost in the night streets of the city, but kindly invited everybody to the Bachus Center for the very spring party “Snow Heat”. The name of the party could be discovered on a nice cardboard snowman with a hole instead of face for everybody to put his/her face inside the hole and make a picture. Moreover, there were lots of AEGEE people wearing winter hats in order to correspond to the unofficial dress-code of the party. There were also cases of other dress code, mostly AEGEE-special dress code, such as orange costumes and boas of the Dutch locals.

Indeed, it was pretty hot inside, especially on the underground floor. Maybe, it was due to the volcano of positive emotions, warm hugs with friends whom people haven’t seen for ages or just because of the hot AEGEE-spirit. Nobody knows how, but AEGEE magic worked out perfectly. Despite being tired after the way to Ljubljana or sleepless nights at the pre-events in Maribor and Trieste the Agora participants made the party burst out with real heat of positive emotions and true AEGEE-spirit!

At the very beginning people were just wondering around and chilling out before the start of the real party… After 10 p.m. the Bachus Center turned out to be a really mysterious dance place, as everybody went to the dance floors, which turned out to have enough place for more than 600 Agora participants and organizers… The very distinct feature of the party was the ‘migration’ process between the dance floors. When it became almost impossible to dance on one floor, but only move in the rhythm of music people moved to another dance floor which was also getting overcrowded with some time, so that people had to migrate elsewhere… At least, people were not staying at one place and had the possibility to meet more old friends and make the new ones.

Generally, it was a great start and Agora participants are looking forward towards continuation of informal part of Agora.

Will there be even more heating tonight?

Maria Morozova
AEGEE-Kyiv

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