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Saturday July 19, 2008

After the 5 mile walk (yes..i said it. FIVE MILES...talk about a pilgrimage) we finally got settled into our "camp out sites" where we were going to be sleeping that night. Everyone wanted to go to sleep but we were so excited we were pumped with adrenaline to just be able to endure the whole experience. We mingled with people, got our sleeping bags situated, bundled up and got ready for the freezing cold, listened to live bands and were dancing around having a great time and then enjoyed the Evening Vigil with Pope Benedict XVI. After the vigil, people were still up and wanted to be active. I was a part of being up...not because i was active...because I was forced too. Although I was excited at one point, I needed sleep as well as the rest of my group. We kept being woken up by drumming and apparently some people never went to sleep & since we were in and out of sleep we decided to make a McDonald's run. Yes. Even though we were in a foreign country, we still made it a point to eat at McDonalds. I mean come on it's not like the food they gave us was top notch haha but it was all good. The next morning we woke up to the Pope driving through the Southern Cross Precint and following was the Final Mass. There were a group of Aboriginals who sang and danced and brought the gospel forth. During the mass, I believe there were about 25 people, if I'm not mistaken being confirmed into the Catholic faith. Then there was communion. O wow. There was sooo many people there  I still cannot believe that everyone received communion. I doubt it but there were at least ove 600 priest giving out communion and it wasn't easy receiving it as well but it felt good to search and look to receive the Body of Christ. At the end of mass the Pope announced that the next World Youth Day would be taken place is Madrid, Spain. That is very exciting and I can not wait to have the same experience if not, better than the one I had in Sydney. This was amazing. After mass, we journeyed our way back to the hotels and took very thorough and deep cleansing baths/showers. Can you blame us? we did sleep outside.

I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT WYD =]

although I am sad it is over =[