I have never felt so old and young at the same time!

Seriously!

I am still very much exhausted after days of non-stop activities. I have not gone home for the past five days and I finally hit my sack yesterday night. Whew!

I was in Penang a few days ago. USM Penang to be precise, for the RI District 3300 Interact Conference  from 23rd to 25th Nov. No, I was not there as a participant (I am no longer an Interactor, sigh). I was there as part of the D3300 Rotaract team who were helping out in organizing and coordinating the event. What an amazing experience it was. Believe me, 30 Rotaracters trying to coordinate over 600 Interactors full of adrenaline is no easy meat.

I was given the responsibility to be the Group Discussion Leader (or in short GDL) for Group 17, a.k.a Ickythump (tonight we’ll dine at McD.. lol). There were all in all 25 Interactors in the group. As a GDL, I was supposed to only give my advise, guide them and do nothing more (incredible ain’t it).

It may sound boring but it wasn’t; not when you have a bunch of teens with you. They reminded me of my good old days as an Interactor, only that they seem less shy and more energetic. Geez I feel old! And on top of that, they are suberbly creative as well (human layers burger @ McD?)

Well, you must be wondering what did I do for the three days I was there other than advising and guding the Interactors. Well, as we were all in USM, we had to abide strictly to USM rules and regulations, although we are part of the organizing team. No nights out for us. But you can never count on Rotaracters to abide by those rules. We managed to sneak out on the first night, just like how they did in Mission Impossible (jumping fences etc, but it turned out that we only had to act coolly and walk out through the front gate)

We weren’t that lucky though on the second night. Half way through our walk to the front gate, we were stopped by one of the staffs of USM.  After two phone calls and much drama, we were allowed to go out for supper.

Rebels we are.

After three days in USM, I think that the sight of curry chicken will induce vomit from me.

I’ll upload some of the conference photos later. By the way, another major rally happened in KL while I was in Penang. If you want to know more about it, my friend, Daniel  has an amazing first-hand account of the event in his blog.

Till then, cheers!