Australia New Zealand Buddhist Youth Camp 2012 *Day 1*

Australia New Zealand Buddhist Youth Camp 2012 was held in Perth.
I actually can't remember the first time I got to know about this camp. If I am not mistaken, I saw my friend, Fiona share it on Facebook. Then, my brother and I went to the Fo Guang Shan Temple at Maylands on Buddha's Birthday. And I saw the posters again. Discussed with my brother. And decided to go..

So, on the 6th of July, I took Red Cat down to City Hall then took bus 55 to go to the temples. ^^
It was easy though. The bus stop is just right opposite the temple. Registration progresses. Then there's tour around the temple. I went around then back to the Main Shrine to rest. I was too tired after packing things and unpack things and packing again for the camp. No spirit at all.. I think I missed a lot of things, due to that. Opening ceremony, then we get to do our own bracelet and then Lunch. My first ever vegetarian lunch I guess, the food are so delicious. After lunch rest again. LoL. Too tired dy.. Then after a while heard that the bus has arrived. So, took my bag and move towards the bus according to group. The groups are Dhaka, Kuranga, Garuda, Saphara, Nagaa and Vyolla. Hope I didn't get the spellings wrong. I'm in the team of Kuranga, which means the horn of the deer, on dragon.

I slept all the way until Fairbridge Village. As I said, over-exhausted. Can't even enjoy the pretty scenery along the way. I did wake up on the way, and saw horses, cows... and fall back asleep easily. By the time we reached the Village is already almost 4pm. Yes, it's almost 4pm. Then put our bags into the cottages designated. The cottages that we used are Nelson, Kitchener, Cook, Shakespeares? and Glassglow. Hoping no wrong spellings.. Lol.. I was in Cook. Met our cottage leader, Eva. My roommate, Adelyn.. Next door, Megan and Shirley as well as the friend of our cottage leader, Meiyu..

Right after that, we walked to the gym for the first activity. We were asked to grouped together with the activity team. And being introduced about the Dragon Calls by the White Dragon (Loong - President of YADWA) and his committee members and the Journey to the West. ^^ The theme of the camp is " Together as One". We get to introduced to our team members by playing a pretty nice game.. LoL.. Then a game that I don't remember the name of it. But it's that when the music stopped, 2 ppl form a house shape and 1 sitting in the middle. Was fun, but got kick out very fast.. =.=" LoL

After the evening chanting, will be our first meal in the village. The dinner is called the Silent Dinner, whereby everyone had to be silent and also no sounds made from the cutlery and the plates. It was good because in my everyday life, my dinner would have a lot of chit chatting within the dining hall. I found that Silent Dinner, let me actually concentrate on chewing and tasting the food, which I think I never did that before.

Later that night, there are performances from different states representatives and theme song dance learning session. It was fun to watch the representatives presentation. I didn't get the chance to record anything down. *Too Bad!! =(* This is due to my mobile phone's lousy battery.. Only half day, the phone was about to die due to insufficient of battery life.. zzzZZzz... After the presentations, we were taught to dance and battle. =.=" Alright. After supper, we went back to dorms to tidy ourselves up and get ready to bed.

That's most of it for the First Day at ANZBYC 2012..

Stay tuned for photos and the remaining of the days... =)