The Future in our Faces
Thursday 6 Dec 2007
by Razceljan SG-Philippines
Together with the International Youth delegation, I joined them outside the center for the action of the day: climate carnival and face painting.
I helped prepared the campaign materials like the “Climate Roulette” and also the poster I made with an illustration of an animated planet with a statement that reads: Earth Hug!
Then we all moved outside and waited for the right time for the country delegates and negotiators to go out for lunch. The media swarmed the area already and by then, we got the ‘go’ signal to start the event. Other delegates were holding the posters while another one was joggling. I joined the two other delegates offering our faces to be painted by a party delegate to paint the future in our faces. My face was the first one to get painted by a delegate from Uganda’s Ministry of the Environment and another delegate from the Philippines painted the face of the girl next to me.
Photograph by Accestia Christy
While looking around, I saw Koreans with a Polar Bear head dress. I decided to borrow one of the bears and used it which was pretty cute. After all the faces were painted, we performed the classis “It’s getting hot in here” dance.
Undeniably, the creative spirit of the youth loosens up the intense atmosphere in the conference – such a good way to feel fine.