Day 64: Gold medal for GB!

After ice skating yesterday evening, it had been decided that the whole group were going to hit the town and visit the clubs - a very vital part of the student experience in Valmiera. It was late into the night when we realised that we had to be at the university at 10am for a lecture the following day. Luckily for me, it is optional to attend lectures, so I took the liberty of skipping the morning lectures and caught up on some sleep instead.

I turned up at the university for lunch and joined the UK team's rehearsal of the national anthem for the festival later on. I stopped laughing after our first go at it; it was time to get serious. We were given our red, blue and white ribbons, checked that we had the Union Jack and Welsh flag and felt very confident that everything was going to be okay.

3 hours of lectures flew by and it was time to go back to the dorms and decide what to wear. We each wanted to wear red, blue and white, staying true to our nation's tricolour. Blue and white dress, red scarf, ribbons in my hair - sorted!

Germany got me jigging along!

The Portuguese pouring out there hearts.

Tapping my foot along to Turkey.

The Dutch doing their thang!

An upbeat dance by Uzbekistan.

Azerbaijan's amazing solo. 

Slovakia and China unite!

Before we knew it, it was our turn. I did get one of my friends to record it but I'll keep it on my camera (for now!).

Me in the spotlight!

I began by explaining that the UK is clearly a multicultural society looking at the array of backgrounds in our team, including English, a mix of Jamaican, English and German (<- that's me), Welsh, Taiwenese, Chilean and even part Latvian.

Post-performance.

As you can see from our big smiles, the national anthem went very well. I could even see some people joining in! My cheeky line at the end topped it off though:

"When Great Britain win all those gold medals at the Olympics, that's the song you will hear"

I'm honoured to have been able to see so many different countries perform national songs or dances. It was like watching Eurovision live, but much better of course.

The Latvians and Lithuanians in the last performance of the night.

Oh and one more thing before I go to bed...

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW! 

It's not like I'm excited or anything...