Feeling: the one when you think you have been at IWC Write in Armenia 2018 for long years but in a second persuade yourself it was yesterday when you opened your luggage and struggled to remember a bunch of foreign names your neighbors have. When a thought strikes “Huh, I will not joke around this people tomorrow” and for a moment you make a double take and feel the sudden need for fresh air. When you feel the end of the beautiful thing and wonder how to live now, how to come back to the reality where not everyone understands you, where your creative spark can be perceived as something not to be cherished. When you want to pack all of the people you met here neatly in your luggage (c’mon, even my neighbors will not fit in there!) and feel a million tiny changes that happened to you since coming to Dilijan – all the advices you received on your writing, the long lines of words you wrote on assignments and blog posts, some things people told you, things they didn’t tell but you felt. When you understand you’ve had great time and should probably work like a horse now to not betray the faith the organizers and mentors put in you.

How to eat it: WRITE. Write for yourself and the people you met. Call on Skype or send a text in Messenger. Even better would be to visit a person you miss. Become a bestselling author and make your book translated to the languages of the countries participant of IWC. Bring your words across border.