WHITE!!

Ahhh, today.. such a long day!

We woke up at 6 o'clock in order to arrive early to BC. We were there at 7:45 and still had to stand for half an hour in a long que to enter. After passing through all security, it was just to find a perfect computer spot and start to fix the papers for our Action. I printed the words 'One Voice' in the languages we WAGGGS delegates speak. After that I attended the YOUNGO gender group. We were only 11 WAGGGS delegates at the BC today. All NGOs got only a certain number of extra white cards that they could only use to enter. The percentage given to NGOs in white cards was less than 45 %. Today the BC was relatively empty with respect to the other days. Youth truely make the space more active and lively. There were various actions today in the center, but the groups were few in number.
After the YOUNGO gender meeting, the WAGGGS delegates waited for a certain Mr. Michael and sang to him a 'thank you/good bye' song upon request. He was very grateful and happy for our singing.
After that, we ran quickly to the 'Climate Rescue Station' (it is a huge outside globe in which one can have activities and speeches). We had important guests and sponsors as well as supporters to WAGGGS such as UPS and FAO. Also, Luiza and Gabriella spoke about the projects that they did at home to empower girls and young women with information about climate change and with the ability to cause a change to reverse the effect. After that, we did some charades of some of our activities that we did at home and made the audience guess what we did. That was fun.
After this, we had our Action. The ladies (Luiza, Speedy, Kaya, Myriam, Gaby) and I sang the song 'We are one voice and we are singing...' in a hallway in the BC. We had people stopping by, listening and smiling to our message. We also shouted out the words 'one voice' in each of our languages. Very nice. In fact it was so nice we repeated it twice!
After this action, we attended the WOSM's side event and introduction of their activities. We watched a movie of what the Scout Climate Summit are doing here in Copenhagen. I received a phone call during that meeting from a Lebanese media person working in a local TV station. It was a very interesting chat and it felt good to speak Lebanese again =). During the day, I also met Lebanese reporters and spoke to them about WAGGGS's key messages and beliefs and I also got an interview with NEUN news paper. Great!
(note to self: check out next month's NEUN edition!)
I came home late in the evening and was happy to meet Brian, Speedy and Kaya at the bus station. As we were walking that small bit of road to the Holmen scout center, it started to snow on us and the ground turned more and more into white. IT WAS JUST LOVELY!
After supper, the guys from the Scout Climate Summit, Katie and I went out and had a MAJOR SNOW FIGHT! wohoo! I can look now from the window and notice that the snow is still on the floor (about 5 cm thick!).It's so white and lovely! I made a snow angel =).
Tomorrow Farouk (from Algeria) and Brian (from Kenya) are going back home... eventually we all are. But we will always have those guiding/scouting memories with us with friends from all around the world =).