The Dream. Over.

Yes that's right. The dream is over. They WYD dream, that is. All my other dreams are still in the midst of coming true! hehe.. yes, after waiting for SO LONG for WYD, it's now over and i'd say that it wasn't as great as we thought it would be. I suppose that so much preparation raised our expectations for WYD and so when we finally got to experience it, i t was a major letdown. All those TN ppl who went to WYD would know what i'm talking about: the food was indecent to a certain extent, our group was TOOO BIG, our community didn't reserve the focus for the YOUTH even though it was world YOUTH day, etc. etc. Yes the list goes on and on and on. But you get the general idea..

Otherwise, it was awesome to be able to spend so much time with friends and the rest of the community. The sleepout at Randwick on Saturday night wasn't as bad as everyone thought it would be. Everyone said it would be really really wet and really really cold and you wouldn't be able to sleep well at all. On the contrary, it did not rain a single drop, it was SO HOT that it became unbearable and we all slept like babies. Other groups slept in perfect rows with all their luggage lined up, whereas OUR group? Well let's just say we slept wherever there was space. So we just slept all over the place and pretty much leaning on everyone around us. And our stuff was randomly placed among us, again wherever there was space.

It was a good experience, though it could have been improved, especially our community and not letting the youth have much say. On the whole, it could have been more organised. And that 20 hour bus trip....no comment here.

OH! another good thing was our dance! IT WAS AWESOMEEE!!! it was like a MILLION times better than our Mission Ignition performance! We had SO MUCH FUN on stage! It was like just mucking around half the time because chi tuoi wasn't there, yet we did really really well in terms of timing and judging of distance because we were enjoying ourselves so much! It was simply a blast.

Now everyone is sick. Everyone from TN in Adelaide, that is. This was because on the Monday night, we all had to sleep in the same room, without any ventilation and so everyone who WAS sick became even sicker and got everyone ELSE sick too. Then at the TN event the next day, there was just the Adelaide bunch coughing throughout the evening mass T__T. And one more thing: WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS PICK ON ADELAIDE?! yeah yeah, we know, they even said it at the opening mass with all the Viet ppl: ADELAIDE PPL ARE SLACK AND ARE "PHA PHACH!" so yeah... oh well, we're proud of it!

More later,
Me