After 24 hours of restless flying journey with Emirates, we
have finally set our foot on Rio de Janeiro!! It was not less than 2 hours of
waiting at the airport for the shuttle service that sent us to Sitio des
Pedras, the location of 6th World Youth Congress.
The first impression of the congress was a process of
waiting. Since the camping site was not ready, we put our luggage in a store
room, filled our stomach, then queued up to get a tent for two. Today was a
challenging day where an extraordinary wind (or small tornado?!) that actually
destroyed one of the canopy at the camp site. So the people were evacuated,
slept under the open air and enjoyed the cool night with the rain forest in
Brazil.
Some people were upset for the inconveniences caused, but
what can we people do was actually accommodate our emotions according to the
situation because no matter how sad we were, things existed. Complaints won’t improve
the situation, it would only bring more negative energy to the people around.
For me, it’s like another kind of summer camp to a greater
extend. I enjoyed very much having to experience such an extraordinary congress
in a brand new Latin America country I have ever visited.
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