Before i begun i have to say – i am not a very patriotic person. Maybe it is a fault of that globalization process, but i consider myself as a citizen of teh world.
despite that i am proud of my country and my origins when things like this happens – my story:
2009 Lithuania were celebrating a 1000 years ot it's name, since it was first time mentioned. so 2008-10-05 yacht "ambersail" sailed from port of Klaipeda and begun a journey around the world. purpose of that was to ask Lithuanians around the world to celebrate the event. The sailors left a flag and a letter from president to every lithuanian community all around the globe. And 2009-07-05 "ambersail" came home. To great the yacht was going lots of people and we vere there as well.
It was a sunny day so i took a bus to town. Then i was heading to meet a few more people. And after really long time i was exiting not because occasion i mentioned above, but cause i‘ll have a chance to be in a boat (it doesn‘t have to me very often). So, we took a ferry and went to the sea gate of the port to see those sailors. It was a warm day and we thought it will last so.... but as we spent a half of hour watching other boats the wind just got stronger and colder. Despite that i was prepared to stand that and watch „ambersail coming. But after more then hour spent in a freezing wind my fellows were getting old so they went to look a warmer spot.... i checked for a guy with binoculars where is the yacht at the moment and he told it will get to the port at least in an hour, so i joined my folks.
As i found another good spot to watch it coming i had to disappoint, cause boat was sailing far from my side of a bank of the bay... i gad to use a maximum zoom of my camcorder and it was kind of hard, cause blistering wind made my hands shake and that and maximum zoom is not a good combination.
It took me a while to edit the video, but i made it. And it took me longer to find a place to host it, cause photobucket didn‘t support this and youtube make it mute...
But now when i have found the hosting service i had to dramaticly decrease it‘s quality...
Anyway, i present you my video impression from greeting the yacht that sale around the world with lozung – „one name – lithuania“ and was promoting the millennium event of the little country.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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