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Day 2
About this event: XVII International AIDS Conference

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Sophie learnt about the history of collage. She then had difficulty overcoming her inner selfish artiste when she worked with a group on a piece about risk. The workshop brought together lots of groups using art techniques to respond HIV and AIDS amongst young people, a fabulous example being Dylan, who you just might get a glipse of if you're lucky and nice in a film we're going to put on the website .

Ruth went to a misleadingly named session on effective writing for media, which just turned into a really impressive discussion about the power of language, but also helped her technophobic self find some friends who'll help with all the digital treats that we have in store for you.

In the breaks we found a lovely bloke from Chicago. He made Sophie go tingly with his stories of the exhibitions he's put on with a group called Project Focus . Now we'd really like to adapt some of their techniques for the Winter Festival that our shiny Unicef groups are planning to hopefully happen on World AIDS Day 2009.

To top the day off we successfully managed to buy a pint bottle of diet coke (AMAZING).

Now we have a fabulous night in store of photo logging (oh my life if we come home with no eyes left don't say we didn't warn you) and interview planning. Woop.

August 4, 2008 | 10:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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Day 0
About this event: XVII International AIDS Conference

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

I'm Ruth, one half of 'Sophie and Ruth, UNICEF UK Young volunteers and AIDS 2008 Delegate Duo Extraordinaire' Catchy, no? Welcome to the test entry of this shiny blog.

Day Zero

I figure it's not day one as we don't leave for Mexico City, where for the next week and a bit the International AIDS Conference 2008 will be keeping us and about 25,000 other delegates busy, until tomorrow morning.

Tonight we just go down to London, as Sophie and I are from the lovely North of England, so we need a day to settle. She's East side (Whitby; fish and chips, Dracula, etc etc) and I'm West (Bolton; pasty barms, Peter Kay etc etc).

So far, so many packing dilemmas. I mean, can you ever really have too many pairs of wedge heels? A philosophical quandry that has kept many a great mind busy, I'll bet. It doesn't help much that I'm STUPIDLY excited.

Been reading the youth pre-conference programme this morning. That's the bit that fills the first 3 days which only lovely young things are let in to, no crumbly oldies for us thank you very much. It looks SO GOOD, positively rammed with relevancy to the stuff our groups at Unicef are working on. The first session has advocacy t-shirt swapping, and I've got 3 wicked samples to take along.

AHA. I think we've found the cause of this non-shutting suitcase problem. Three t-shirts are obviously thicker than you think...

August 1, 2008 | 5:24 PM Comments  0 comments

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Day 0
About this event: XVII International AIDS Conference

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

I'm Ruth, one half of 'Sophie and Ruth, UNICEF UK Young volunteers and AIDS 2008 Delegate Duo Extraordinaire' Catchy, no? Welcome to the test entry of this shiny blog.

Day Zero

I figure it's not day one as we don't leave for Mexico City, where for the next week and a bit the International AIDS Conference 2008 will be keeping us and about 25,000 other delegates busy, until tomorrow morning.

Tonight we just go down to London, as Sophie and I are from the lovely North of England, so we need a day to settle. She's East side (Whitby; fish and chips, Dracula, etc etc) and I'm West (Bolton; pasty barms, Peter Kay etc etc).

So far, so many packing dilemmas. I mean, can you ever really have too many pairs of wedge heels? A philosophical quandry that has kept many a great mind busy, I'll bet. It doesn't help much that I'm STUPIDLY excited.

Been reading the youth pre-conference programme this morning. That's the bit that fills the first 3 days which only lovely young things are let in to, no crumbly oldies for us thank you very much. It looks SO GOOD, positively rammed with relevancy to the stuff our groups at Unicef are working on. The first session has advocacy t-shirt swapping, and I've got 3 wicked samples to take along.

AHA. I think we've found the cause of this non-shutting suitcase problem. Three t-shirts are obviously thicker than you think...

August 1, 2008 | 5:21 PM Comments  0 comments

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