It is expected that more then 51000 people are at the conference. Youth participation is so uplifting and very impacting. Youth have shown that they know longer want to be in the back of the decision making. Many youth have taken action by making adult delegates sign commitments to where they are responsible to these actions that they have made. A comment was made to bring YLWHA to the table so that we can be involved in policies and decisions that involve YLWHA.

Having just wrapped up the first day of the conference. it has been an exhausting and very rewarding day. Much of the day ahad to do with youth sessions, tghe opening orietnation of the youth pavilion. I am so happy that the e-consultation messages and 244 youth took part in are being recognizerd and really pushed for. I was bombarded by youth at the youthtaskforce table that were so inbterested in all the materials and the shirt that by the end of the day we became limited in the shirt sizes that were left. The posters were a success and has really gotten the point across. I really was happy and very joyable by the amount of adult body delegates that were heading to the commitment desk with a youth delegate it was amazed.
This morning I attended my first sessions, called " From Rhetoric to Action", and i may say that it was interested and somewhat non-identifiable as how youth are going to be involved in IAC 2008, being held in Mexico. Youth were represented but the most important issues were not addressed. I was very shocked that the only political leader that committed to bringing youth issues was mexico's Helath Minister with the commitment of increasing youth participation in the IAC 2008. Peter Piot, well that was a dispointment.