A Youth event?
There was an invited speaker all weekend at the Reformed church in the city. 5pm Saturday, a special ‘dabate’ for young people. Subject: ‘The Micha Challenge.’
After learning from painful past experiences I didn’t get my hopes up at all.
I was extreamly surprized to see that about 3/4 of the youth group had turned up at the meeting point…"maybe I am being pessamistic, maybe it will be great, be positive Stace".
We arrived at the church (after a short detour via the boulangerie, mmmmm!), to find that ours was the only group of youth there. The ‘hip and in touch’, trying-too-hard speaker then went on to ask one of our youth workers, who is 25, which high school he went to. D’oh!
We started. A big table. No projecter, music, videos, games. Nope, this is France…we must be serious and pump you with information. I was prepared for this.
But then the debate started. The collected group of random adults then proceeded to discuss important matters such as: Do cows pollute more than cars? Is it worse to be a mother or a single women in terms of the job market today? And the legality of collecting perscription medication. All of which, as you can imagine, spoke directly to our group of 15-17 year olds as they hung on every word…when they weren’t playing solitere on their iPods or texting.
The trip to the kebab shop afterwards was a huge highlight for everyone…even me. How much does that explain?!
