Started the day singing and dancing on the top deck of the ship with people from the Will Stieger Foundation.
Walked over to the square right by the Dubliner Bar (Where I tried the best beer 3 nights ago, Kilkenny).
For the 100,000 people protest! Tried to meet up with people by phone, tried to describe landscape to them. "We are by the Panda bears with flames on their head, and the kids climbing up on the telephone poles, by the river, and the red party van.", "We are by all the people with the purple flags, and behind us is a dragon, and on our left there is a Santa Claus with a gun, and a bunch of pirates." It was pretty hilarious, but we eventually found everyone! (We would lose them again soon)
We all went and got breakfast, and saw the best street performers ever (Like I ACTUALLY GAVE THEM MONEY!) It was 5 guys playing songs by blowing on bottles, but like really really well, they played I'm Walking on Sunshine, Under The Sea, Jingle Bells.
One of our group, Moey was dressed as a mermaid because she is the bottom liner (coordinator) for the youth policy on adaptation group I am in and her adaptation plan was to become a mermaid! We made fun of her a lot throughout the day and night though!!
Now for the March, we started out together and singing and dancing by a party bus. Then we reached the top of a hill, looked back and saw 10's of thousands of people carrying signs and walking for this protest! Incredible! We continued to walk, dance, yell, scream, and join in the chants, WHAT DO WE WANT? CLIMATE JUSTICE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW! and many many more.
We got split up and then danced to Paper Planes for a while, filmed a ton of things, walked and found our people eventually. I could go in to great detail about this march, but I won't because Unless you were there you can't fully understand it. The funniest part was seeing all the police in riot gear in front of a Macdonalds, then starting to chant again!!
At the end we all met up again and bought like candles/torches. It was like hemp/burlap wrapped up about a meter in height covered with wax, it worked really well as a candle, and then me, Moey, Caroline, Kat, Katherine, Reed, Jeremy, Chelsea, Zach, etc etc. danced around in a circle with our candle type things, because we were at the end of the march, there was a stage and music playing and speakers and we just danced and went crazy and awesome, and had our fire sticks, and it was incredible. Then we heard the speakers and proceeded to leave.
100,000 people leaving at the same time created a huge amount of congestion on buses, so we as well as many other people ended up walking about 3 stations down (probably 1.5 kilometers) so we could get on a train.
While we were walking we sang, we realized that there are very few songs we knew all the lyrics to so we often sang just the chorus!! But we ended up singing all of Bohemian Rhapsody, may Beatles songs, Disney Songs, Journey songs, more chants, 1985, and Staceys mom. It was incredible and I connected with these people and attempting to describe the ecstasy that I felt as I marched, cheered, hoped, danced, and led a revolution with 1000's in Copenhagen, and millions world wide is impossible.
We finally got onto a train, and got to the station we wanted. It was like riding the 84 Sheppard West in the morning but for 45 minutes, and with about 10 more people in it.
We went out to dinner to a vegetarian buffet place, which was great! The food tasted great (probably due to 5 hours of walking and dancing and shouting. At the end due to our cheapness, me, and Zachary, and some other people went and got a plate of bread and tinfoiled it up for later (it was my breakfast and lunch today) because we payed 90 kroners, 20 canadian for our food, and we wanted it to last! :P
we found more people as we headed out to the NGO party at VEGA (an incredible club that was booked for all NGO's which means people from like 65+ down to teenagers (me) in the same place, drinking, and dancing till 3 am)!!!!
We stopped and danced to a live band in the town square for a while then found the right bus and headed out to the party. In the coat check line, me, reed, josh, and ethan said the cahnnukah prayers, and sang Maotsur (no idea how to spell it) Even though we are all from different cities we all had the same tune, it was incredible. I danced with some girl in the coat check line (gonna cross that off of my To Do List :P)
Then we headed upstairs danced to the first band (a Salsa band), the second band played Middle Eastern/Jewishy music. It was amazing, then it was midnight. The next 3 hours was like one loooong song, it was all just that type of music you just want to move your body to and that's what we did, all night long! It was incredible to see people from around the world, from 16 - like in their 80's dancing literally all night long! It was possibly the best way to end a day filled with an experience I will never forget!
The last two days of this trip were incredible, and I love this city.
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