I’m here alone inside the youth pavilion waiting for anyone to come and allow me to go and buy something to eat. My MP3 battery is over so I opened my new “future” very small laptop to hear some music and I had the great idea to remember my blog and to respect the fact that I’m supposed to blog about the WSIS since my RSS feed is published in some WSIS aggregators like www.wsisblogs.org and www.wsis-wire.net .

Well, I’ve spent most of my time during these last 4 days building the Youth Pavilion and solving the several issues we had. Hopefully many members the tunisian youth caucus team helped me a lot in realizing in reality what we were discussing during several weeks and Ramadan nights. I feel good when I see other Tunisian youngsters understanding the importance of this big space (compared the Youth hub of 2003 not the actual pavilions like Italy or UNDP ones just in front of us) and some of them (Mhamed and Hichem) spent the entire night on the pavilion working on lights positioning and carpet . Yesterday, at the end of the day, even if I was really afraid to reach the limit of 5pm allowed to build stands by the organisers, I had a very good feeling for two reasons. First when I saw the pavilion full of young people (including my father who helped us a lot). The when I noticed that WE’ve prepared about 95% of what we were asked to prepare on the youth pavilion. I was trying to remember all the hundreds of emails I read during these last 3 months concerning the needs of the youth caucus and its partners.

After, I had just the time to go home for a shower and a fast dinner before going to the airport to pickup a dear friend I haven’t met since December 2003, Jarra. I’m not sure he’s becoming younger with years not older like all the people. Hopefully we were able to make in time to make the registration and take the beautiful WSIS bags with some presents inside (but unfortunately missing some important documents like the parallel events listing or the ICT4all exhibition book). I enjoyed the time after we’ve spent after in the airport café remembering old souvenirs while waiting for TIG people (Mike, Jen, Fransizka and Kate). We were both so excited to meet them again and to remake the powerful youth coalition we had in Geneva (starting as usual by TIG members coalition  ). I think that with the equipments they brought to Tunis, with Mike and Jennifer here, they have just to look for an office to rent and TIG may move here.

To be continued ...