AYC, Day 1

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Today is July 27th 2010, and for me and seven of my friends, it was the start of a journey. If you go to SMP Santa Laurensia, you probably have heard of the ASEAN Youth Convention. Eight students from Santa Laurensia have been chosen as Youth Delegate Leaders (YDLs) and have to come to Singapore early to join a Leadership Camp.

For those of you who're curious the YDLs are Me and Garry (from the 8th Grade) and ninth graders which include Erico, Evan, Jeffrey, Zoya, Kay and Yudhi. The YDLs have to arrive a few days early for a training. The other delegates from Indonesia will arrive on the 29th.

We all met up at the airport, and took a Garuda airplane to Changi Airport. Soon we arrived at the YMCA on Stevens Road. And unbeknowing to us, this first day for us will be completely filled with free-time.

So now, the problem was what were we going to do?

After much discussion, we decided to go to sight-seeing about Singapore. And apparently for my own sake, I shouldn't divulge any more details ;). Let's just say, we got a bit wet.

When nighttime arrived, we took the Sentosa express to the Beach Station to ride the Luge, which is a kind of go-kart track that goes downhill. The slightly scary part was having to use the SkyRide to take all the way up to the top of the trail. With had a nice guy named Boon to accompany us all day.

We met up with a few Chinese delegates and had dinner together at Food Republic over at Vivo City. At this point it was pretty late over here in Singapore, and we were a bit tired though happy about having a fun-filled day.

I'm writing this blogpost to you pretty late, because I know there are people who enjoy my writing. (The timestamp is using Jakarta time, so you do the math). I would like to say "Thank You" to a certain teacher's compliments on my writing, and also a very big one to YUDHI ANDERSEN BUNJAMIN, the "future leader" for everything he's done to help us here at AYC. I really appreciate it.

I hope everyone, YDLs who have a long day tomorrow, and to the Indonesian Delegates who will be joining us on Thursday, will have a great time here at AYC, and do great things.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. Stay tuned for some more, Live AYC Blog Updates.

--Karin Novelia