In the space of one week seven days, I have met so many amazing people! It's quite surreal really, how someone can touch your life, in just one moment. Whether it's an encouraging word, a helping hand, or just a friendly hug.
I have realised, people are wise.
Really, truly, indefinitely! Somehow I find that I keep learning, and that I am so often left speechless or pensive by simple words people say. (And then I wonder, yuhui where has all your useless thinking gone to! :/)
Everytime something has passed I always wonder if I could have done more, but that's silly don't you think! And even sillier that I continue to feel like that year after year, event after event. Do something about it, we all must!
This has been a really special week: ICYL! I'm so glad that I signed myself up (such a last min decision too, deciding to join and desperately filling up the form 30min before the deadline when I had no previous intention whatsoever to do so) because I got to meet so many really fantastic people. :D More people, and more about the people around me (like the S3s)!
Being in this convention really established in me a profound respect for the OC and all the effort and emotion they put in to make it a success. I remember so clearly complaining about all the time commitments, moaning about having to wake up early, about how our scenario was so strange, how SFL was so strange, and how having a feminist convention was the strangest of it all! But now all I can think of is how selfish I have been! In comparison to the (clever! capable! amazing! wonderful! pretty!
bluff you one!) OC, the effort we put in pales so much in comparison. You know, the facs secretly think that they rock big time, and we all want to say, THANK YOU SO MUCH and GOOD JOB!
There are some things I'll always remember about convention - the terrible training lunches, stoning through trainings with shuting, feeling so terribly cheated that charlotte didn't actually lose her wallet, wearing formal u for the first time in my life, informal journalism briefing (zan and her power brrrr, becky&charlotte: what do you feel about apples? oranges? potatoes? tomatotes? chairs? tables? okay you get the idea!), bridge addiction, shiya's insanity, joey's infectious laughter, the welcome feeling you get when you enter a group's room and everyone smiles and says hello, how messy the SLAC is and, of course, the endless flow of food!
Ah!
I meant to say something inspiring after all of that but, you know! I slept from 5:30am-8:00am this morning and nothing else so I'm not feeling very inspiring myself at the moment! :/
And so I shall conclude - ICYL was AMAZING! (I sincerely apologise for the lack of vocabulary)
I feel... contented! As if I just had a very satisfying meal. :D Just because I am surrounded by amazing and beautiful people :D and hohoho I shall strive to be one myself!
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