The day started with UV members meeting at Puduraya. Pn Fadzillah & I are the supporting staff going. We took the 9.00am bus and arrived at Penang at about 2.40pm. ACS send 2 vans to pick us up. We meet the group, Divine Voice at the bus station. There were 3 members and 1 supporting staff attending the conference.
We reached YMCA about 3.15pm, checked-in and had a rest before dinner which was at 6.30pm.
ahem..... Johari was gracious enough to vacate his seat for Diana (president of MVC) as she was looking for a place to sit.Meet many old & new faces from different self-advocacy groups at dinner. Of course the old faces were excited to see me! It's been 2 years..they must have miss me a lot! hahahahaha There were Friendship Club, Dragon Club, Divine Voice, Bethany SA group, MVC, Kangaroo Club and Dayspring Club. Many new faces especially from a few PDKS from Kelantan & Terengganu, Special Olympics Sibu and volunteers from JOCV and a few from Japan. all together we have 120 participants at this conference, about 80 advocates and the rest are supporting friends & observers.
After dinner all of us went to the conference hall for the night session which was "Getting to know each other".Diana gave a welcome speech to everyone the then the games started. There were noise, laughter & more noise. Its's a wonder we did not bring the whole building down.
ER... they had one game where each group had to dress up one model using newspaper...... guess which group won? hehe...... I couldn't stop laughing especially at the way Johari walks after he was covered with the newspaper. Got it on video and will upload it to YouTube later!After the games it's bed time. Our group stayed back a bit to talk about the resolutions that will be discuss tomorrow in the morning.
ok better go to bed...tomorrow breakfast is at 7.00am......wonder how I'm going to wake up...........
