Competition day 1

Today was to be our first full day at the competition and also the day before our booklet. Most of the day we studied and prepared for our booklet with breaks for meals (yay more food!) the only activitys where in the late afternoon. We started with the momento extange. Hayley and Anna started off rather shy at talking and trading with people but within short time they where trading and chatting with people from other affiliates (states and countries) 

Hayley- This was one of my favourite activities and I revived lots of cool items from all over the world! 

Straight from there we had the opening ceremony which involved lots of talking and flags. The girl carrying the silver fern flag looked really good in her Maori clothing and when the boy carried out the New Zealand flag with our national amthem playing we were all really proud and started singing our amthem. The Texan's had their 10 gallon hats over their hearts in respect of all national anthems. It was really cool to watch.

We went to bed as soon as we got back in hope of a good sleep.