Wow! What a weekend!

Today was the second (and last) day of COY5 and it began much like yesterday. In the morning we attended workshops covering a variety of topics, from the policies that will be debated during the conference to how to address the media. These workshops certainly added to our knowledge and skills that the entire youth constituency and we will bring to the COP15 tomorrow.

In the afternoon we had breakout sessions in our respective regions. We, of course, attend the North American meeting, which was eventually broken down into countries. The United States youth certainly seemed organized, ambitious, and ready to send a clear message at the conference and back at home that the American youth wants our government to take action concerning climate change. We broke down into even smaller working groups. Emily attended the communications meeting, and Maria and Sarah attended the action meeting. It was nice to meet with other Americans with similar ambitious and be able to share with each other our reasons for being here in Copenhagen.

After the breakout sessions, the WAGGGS delegation received an urgent message that we were finally able to get our identification badges for the COP15 conference. So we immediately went to the conference center and joined the line. At one point before security, a police officer took all of the WAGGGS delegates out of line and opened up a new security line just for us! This just goes to show that the guides and scouts really are know and respected worldwide. So, be honored, all of you WAGGGS members! That police officer really just recognized and did a nice deed for all 10 million of you!

And that brings us back to the true reason of us being here. The WAGGGS delegation is speaking on behalf of the 10 million WAGGGS members who could now be here themselves. Guides and Scouts are visible and are heard all around the world. We;re just doing our part, and other people see us and wither know why we're here, or they don't. If they know, chances are that they're probably impressed. And the case that they don't, we will definitely let them know.

So tomorrow is the start to a very busy couple of weeks! We are more ready than we were when we arrived for this conference, and we can't wait to get started!