When I met the Sri Lankan president

First of all, we 'met' the Sri Lankan president on Thursday. Well, not really met, but it was the international youth day with a ceremony in an indoor arena in Colombo. Eight of us got VIP-seats at the front as we 'represented' different countries: Sweden (me), Spain (Violeta), N. Ireland (even though no one was n. Irish), Jamaica (Sinead), Hong Kong/China (Amy & Xin). The ceremony itself wasn't too exciting, mostly speeches in Sinhale.  

Highlights:

• Different Sri Lankan dance shows
• Getting VIP seats when the other volunteers didn't (haha) 
• President walking past us and doing a Sri Lankan greeting (Palms together underneath chin while saying "Ayubowan" 
• Soundcheck guys. They kept insisting on soundchecking in English even though they were quite bad at it. "One. One. Tchwu? One. Check. One. Tchwu. Tee. Check. Double up. One?" *With loads of pauses looking up with a heavily confused face expression*
• They filmed the whole thing, with loads of close-ups on the 'foreigners', and apparently we were on the news later in the evening

(Unfortunately no pictures from this as we couldn't bring them in due to security reasons..)