The day of the big presentation dawned and I went down to
the conference centre to catch the Aussie’s 9am slot. As always they gave an
impressive performance although with it being their last day this had a sadder
element than normal with the sections on their highlights drawing tears from
three of the five team members.
Having sussed the logistics and picked up some tips for our
own slot later in the day I headed back to the hotel for some finishing touches
which turned out to be a complete rewrite as the WiFi failed to let us download
Prezi at the last minute.
Blazers on and back to the auditorium for our slot. Excited
by our surprise finale we scanned the audience for people we knew. The
presentation went almost exactly to plan but sadly our final video – worked on
until the early hours of the morning failed to play correctly. Luckily the
audience didn’t know that we’d spent hours making the footage in time with the
music and enjoyed it anyway.
Our first free time was unfortunately spent in a fruitless search
for Dan’s iPhone before it was time to get ready for the ball.
Some faffing, photo taking and stops at the off licence made
us pretty late an awkwardly there didn’t seem to be a table for us. However one
was hastily put together and we made attempts to disguise the excessive amounts
of wine by hiding half the bottles under the table. It being the Aussie’s last
night we snuck out to get some group pictures taken of the 10 of us and get a
final Gangnam filming in. Duties over it was back into the ball for some final
‘fellowship’.
As always entertainment was provided and it was lovely to
spend time with my first host family, Dennis and Karen and also to see Dennis
take part in the performance with his classmates. Never people to leave a party
early we were the last to leave with our hosts from the first week, Camp Crame.
It seems difficult to believe that a month ago we’d never even met these people
and as it was when the Aussie’s left it will be sad to leave them.
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