Dear Diary, I'm at a loss for words. What a day I’ve had! It started with a wake up call involving pots and spoons being clanged, making a most godawful noise and ending with my committee passing our resolution! GA was the cherry on top of a fantastic week. Yesterday I went to bed quite late because I had to write a speech. Thankfully that wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined, because all of my new friends from my committee helped me. Only then did I actually understand the impact teambuilding had on us. I didn't know any of them 5 days ago but now I am able to trust all of them completely. Maybe the weird moose ritual wasn’t that silly after all. Trusting in my new friends has paid off, we passed our resolution and people actually came to me and congratulated me on my great speech! Defending our resolution, which we had been working on for 3 days, was very emotional. Seeing my fellow committee members support each other was magnificent. On top of that, I was surprised by the brilliant points made by people who were not in my committee. I mean, I didn`t know anything about our topic before the session, but these guys debated about it as though they were all doing their PhD thesis on the topics we were discussing. These "Moose preachers" have turned out to be some of the smartest people I have ever met! I came here with no expectations and the moose game sort of creeped me out. Now I can say most sincerely that I want to come back and I can't wait for the next session to happen. People in EYP are not only clever, they know how to find the silver lining in everything and combine their positive attitude with highly serious debates. Even though the session ends today, I am certain that this is not the last time I will reminisce about my EYP adventures here.
August 10th Delegate Diary