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Day two: Also one of the longest days of my life. Friday began with 8am breakfast and from there went to orientation for almost the entire day. After breakfast some of us slipped out and went to the convention center to get registered. The convention center is gigantic. No joke. It is so amazing and beautiful and HUGE.
After lunch we all wondered back to the convention center for three hours of anti-racism training. The training was truly pointless and didn’t tell us anything really. We did have discussion time, however, and that was a lot of fun. I was sitting with a group of YAD’s and we had good and true discussions about racism in today’s society. It was awesome to hear everyone’s s stances on the issues and to get there insight on many other difficult topics that we encounter as youth.
The day ended with our first YAD Caucus (a worship/informational session that YAD’s have every night to relax and share our experiences for the day) and elected our YAD co-moderators for the week. I was interested in running, but so were twenty others who were much older and much more experienced than I, so I sat that opportunity out. It was good though and two really great YAD’s got the positions.
As for making friends … no problem. If you’ve never been to a youth conference you may not understand, but when you’re in a place surrounded by other youth your age who have the same beliefs and faith, it’s is truly easy to be yourself and therefore make friends. I hate to say it but I've sort of fallen into a notch and am now part of a specific group of people. Not that we aren’t open to new people (we actually would love to include everyone) but there are about eight of us who connected on the first night at dinner and have been together ever since. It’s weird to think about the fact that we just met two nights ago because I feel like I’ve known these people forever. Every time we are together, we have constant questions going around so that everyone answers and we all grow closer. Also flying back and forth every time we are together are the jokes. I’m almost positive that I’ve never laughed as much as I have in the last two days.
Alright, I guess I should pay attention now; we are starting something (as always), so I’ll get back soon.
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Posted by lcob on 2008-06-22 03:16:11 | Rating: | Views: 48
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