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Meeting Africans :D
Written on: Sunday, December 13, 2009
Time: 4:31 PM

As part of an initiative to promote the upcoming YOG 2010, the government had organised a Friendship camp for youths around the world last week. And Debra got to be part of the action of French-speaking Africans :D

Haha I thought it was so exciting to have gathered young people from all over to this little red island to share their views on friendship with ours. Countries with large proportions of people who don’t speak English still can have a universal language with us Singaporeans. Friendship is something that can connect every human being (and animal, or even plants) in the world together.

And was I amazed by the power of friendship. I just so happened to be passing by Hort Park the other day with Jiaqing, Pan, Mag, Hafizah and Bernard and we just so happened to see a sign for the Friendship Camp pointing us straight into the park :D We were so fascinated over meeting Debra and her new friends there. We weren’t disappointed at all, getting to meet people from Egypt and parts of French-speaking Africa there.

Here’s the large open field on Hort Park I took last time in the evening. The other day we were there in the afternoon, and that place literally transformed into a HOT park that I just forgot all about the camera after the (probably) kilometre-long trek. It can be a really wonderful place to hang out/ have a picnic though :D

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Those people just saw us for the first time. But what really touched me was that while we were chatting away with Debra, they managed to coordinate a loud “HELLOOOO!” within their group directed to the group of us.  (Of course we replied!) The enthusiasm and curiosity with which they waved their hands around was amazing. They seem to have a spirit of FUN in the value of friendship that Singaporean kids are missing nowadays staring at a computer screen all they long. (It’s really ironic typing this out)

Diamonds are priced based on their purity. Friendship too. The bestest of our friends seem to be from primary school. After that, things start getting political with stuff like leadership positions and academics bugging us every single year. Friendship here can never cost as much as that found in places like Africa :(