Nargiz Huseynova

Media – the source of information, nowadays most of all relies on Internet and its abilities. And saying Internet first of all we mean young people who manage it. You, I and the people who can read this post.

If we compare youngsters of Azerbaijan with the youngsters of more developed countries we see that we are not so full-fledged in Internet Media.

Being the resident of Azerbaijan I see how Social Network like Facebook is becoming a part of people’s life, and is helpful for different organizations for PR and different advertisement processes.

There is also one part of the young people who are very dedicated to Twitter – another Social Network, which is still not so developed in Azerbaijan. Twitter is used here most of all by famous and important people, people who are interested in political sphere, social active youngsters and just not so much people use it just for fun, sharing their views about different process going on across them. It’s a great Social Network to show Azerbaijan as it is, and make other people from the different countries get the right information about Azerbaijan and learn the information about it at all.

The other, can say that very new part of Internet variety in Azerbaijan is Blogging. That’s what I’m going to talk about now. Besides I had a blog 2 years ago on BlogSpot Platform, deep information about working on WordPress Platform I got from the Information Technology Center of IRELI Public Union by Sahil Balazadeh. I was a participant of We-Blog 1 project, and as it was very successful there were organized also We-Blog 2 and We-Blog 3, due which can say that the country could get around 100 pretty assiduous bloggers. The topics they write are different. One writes about politics, other about tourism, Azerbaijan culture, funny or lyric stories and just the topics they are interested at all. The best post, the best blogs are always encouraged by IRELI PU what inspire young blogers for the better writings.

As I told before, I’m a participant of We-Blog 1 project. Being one of the active ones as an inspiring present I got a domain, so now here is my blog : http://huseynova.com/ . As you can see all the blog is in English and I’m writing around the topis I’m interested in and try to show my way of thinking to some prosesses in here.

Around 2 weeks ago there was announced about the one day trip to Guba for 30 active we-bloggers. Besides not everyone could be choosen for this trip, the second travel to Ismayilli will be organized for other active bloggers in close September, so don’t miss that chance.

Just in one word can say that one day travel to Guba was just amazing! Why? Cause everything was really highly organised beginning from bus ending with mini-trainings by young experts in different IT spheres.

The first thing I have to notice – very warm company and funny discussions along the way. The idea of sleeping on the way was definitely failed.

Guba is a very famous city in Azerbaijan, the name of which is always asociated with “apples”. So never lose a chance to taste a Guba apple, that’s one of our brands. Guba is the district in Azerbaijan which is situated in the north-east of the Great Caucasus, the first foundation of which was laid in XIV century. So let’s return to the bus.

Our first stop was made in Guba Carpet Center. Very informative tour was showen by the expert of that Center which really made me proud of being Azerbaijanian. The ornaments of Guba carpets formulates are based on ornaments consisting of geometrical design and decorative elements of stylized plant (nabati), sometimes of animal motives. Medallion (medalyonlu cheshni) method has widely been spread in carpets of these schools. The most striking compositions of Guba carpets includes “Gadim-Minare” (Ancient Minaret), “Gimil”, “Alpan”, “Gollu-chichi”, “Pirabadil, “Hajıgayib”, “Giriz”, “Jek etc. “CHICHI”, “Sirt Chichi”, “Gimil”, “Jimi”, “Yerfi”. The Guba carpets glorified by art performance are very popular outside Azerbaijan and decorate expositions of many known museums and private collections. Woven in 1772, the carpet “Goldu Chichi” now is in well-known museum “Metropolitan” of New-York, and it is considered to be one of its pearls. So, just not to bore you, I’ll not tire you with a big amount of information, better, come and visit, you will definitely enjoy it! But you know, as I returned home after the trip I asked my  mother if we had a Guba carpet, and I didn’t expect the carpet which was decorating the living room for many couple of years to be from Guba. That was really great to know that, finally.

The second stop was even not happy one. That was Guba Genocide Mass Grave. As I got from the bus off, the negative energetics seized me. But when I saw the Grave that energetics seized me twice more. Terrible feeling! Guba massacre – is a genocide committed by Armenians in Guba. In 2007, a massive cemetery was revealed during excavation works carried out for repairing the city stadium. The excavation works are preceded. The belonging of human bones revealed in the massive cemetery in Guba to the victims of genocide committed by Armenians in 1918 was approved. According to Aladdin Mirzayev, a director of Guba stadium there has never been a cemetery in this area. The most terrible moment is that human skulls and body bones found in the revealed area were separately buried. It proves that their heads were chopped off with a special atrocities. After these evidences the construction works were ceased in the stadium. I will never forget that feeling when one of the guys there told me to keep my hand close to one of the skulls there. You will not believe, but I felt the warm coming from it. Brrr… God, rest their soul!

Under hard emotions we went back to the bus, waiting for the most interesting parts of the travel – busy rest under the open Guba air.

Bus in loco. Very excited getting off from the bus 30 youngsters occupied pretty large, very nice area of Guba. Don’t exactly know the place’s name, but the place was very successfully chosen. I even couldn’t notice how that 6 hours run, but that was amazing. Mini-trainings by Roman S., Rauf M., Ali H., Sahil B., Kamran S., Hatam Sh. in different IT spheres, games, delicious kabab ( Telet H. was great ), a little walking to river and other stuff was unforgetable. Big thanks to Khagany F., Eldar M. and Imam G. for great organizing work.

At least, that was a great summer weekend !

Thanks,

Nargiz H.