Road trip was only eight days of a seemingly unscheduled existence yet will be eight days that will stick with me for the rest of my life. Upon returning home I sat down and wrote out everything I could remember from the week. I created columns and listed my positive experiences of the week followed by my negative experiences. The positive outweighed the negative ones tenfold. So much has occurred that I had no idea how to document it and do the events and the people the justice they deserve.
Stepping onto Terrigal Beach from a twelve seater minivan dressed in florescent pink super hero costumes was a little unnerving yet in hindsight was possibly one of the easier things asked of me over the road trip. All road trippers were dressed up in many different colours and let loose on Terrigal to unleash the awareness campaign. Bight colours zipped up and down the beaches, across the parks, through the coffee shops and down side streets asking strangers for their support whilst dressed up brightly and with their underpants on the outside of their costume. The young people were passionate and full of energy and I was suddenly faced with it.
A huge hick up from my child hood is the worry of what people would think of me. Why am I so caught up in judgement from other people? I’m not sure but the comfort of not pushing that issue too much was thrown to the wind when I signed up for road trip. I knew it was coming but here I was faced with it and I don’t think I was prepared.
The exact same issue of having others judge me forced me to refrain from informing my team members I was worried about it. The brave face on out I went. That day was a stepping-stone for me when it came to breaking through problem firstly as I had little choice other then to get into it. But more so because I saw people who I knew battled with the same issue man up and take it on and come out successful. One of my team mates, Carmon was a little shy and kept to himself for the first few days of the trip he latter demonstrated to the entire New South Wales team that he was a nervous person and that he had massive courage. Cam was an inspiration to suck it up and face your fears.
