tired

whee there's a cake with a candle next to the B- the blogger symbol thing. is it blogger's birthday? happy birthday blogger!

i am really tired and my legs hurt. :(
hence i have a day of resting at home today.
thank you for understanding father.

these 2 previous days has been quite eventful, not really.
human relations with scotch was such a bore.
not fun.
just awkward.
and weird.
but after that was good cos on the tram i was updated with some juicy gossip!

then the next day, i had to wake up early too, and my legs were sore but i still wanted to go, so i endured the pain and i got on a train, got off at parliament station and climbed those grand steps of the parliament house, boy do i feel important!
the building was magnificent! it had huge pillars, inside and outside, and there was a statue of our majesty the queen, and there were paintings of royalty and premiers- including steve bracks.
and just whoah!

the unya conference itself was interesting as well. first we had a guest speaker called tom- who was/is the young australian of the year. he spoke about having passion, vision and action. passion- something you really love about, vision- what you want to see, what will happen, what is the perfect world you want to see, action- "be the change you want to see in the world"- mahatma gandhi
he didn't really say that quote but he was basically talking about it.
he talked about the rwandan genocide and how he went to visit them. there was this man called peter and this man called james.
james had killed peter's family, yet they were still sitting next to each other and they were neighbours. tom asked peter why, and peter basically said that if the whole of rwanda won't forgive those who killed their family, then how can we make peace? and that's when i remembered mahatma gandhi's quote- "be the change you want to see in the world". peter wanted to see peace and forgiveness, so he was the first one to forgive james- sat next to him, and live next to him.

then we were shown a presentation of the global poverty project.
then it was recess, then we re put into groups of our goals- since there were 8 main goals to improve poverty. and my group was group 2- that was education. we had discussions, then it was lunch time.
we had pizza and we socialised.
then we had another discussion- we were given a scenario of south ossetia wanting to break apart from georgia, what would you do to resolve it.
then we got free smiggle pencil cases if we wanted to sign up for the unya mailing list.
then we had a model un debate.
then we had to leave early for music roundabout.
tiredddddddd!