Here we go, today I’m in a judge’s skin. David is one of the judges too :-) We’ve never done that before but why not :-) Fortunately my skills in graphic and web design might help a bit but it’s still an environment I did not expect to be in! Vic is quite confident about us, maybe more than us haha.
Let’s go back in time would you? :-) This is where I’ve set my campsite last night. It was great, very quiet as expected and no one bother at night.
The lake is not really far away and the view is not too bad too. Good to be homeless :-)
I’ve got a friend over there :-)
This is the city side of the lake. Let’s pack everything and go the fashion show I was talking about previously.
Vic told me she would be here at 9am but when I got there she was not here. She told me she would bring breakfast. After more than 30min, still no one around. I got hungry and decided to get some food at an indian place. Soon after that, Vic texted me (of course). “Dam, where are you?” haha.
The actual event is situated at the church where Vic brought me a week or two ago. I did not dare to take some pictures before but today I will!
I still have that feeling that this place is a sect (sorry Vic). Every sunday, people come here (like any church). The thing is, most of them are Filipinos women. To me, the reason is that the man that they believe in is from the same country. FOr about 2 hours, they watch a screen where a meeting is transmitted from internet. The Guy, Apollo Quiboloy, is travelling around the world and does conferences in big cities. He believes that he incarnates god himself. He tries to convert as much people as he can to repent so they will go to heaven, the real one :-) Well, I cannot believe in a story like this, sorry.
Soon later, the fashion show takes place.
At an introduction, one of the two commentators sing few songs.
Atmosphere.
The negative part of being a judge is I don’t have any time to take pictures… Only at the end when we finished our job, I could take some photos and videos but not much. There was lots of categories like : Winter, Summer, Recycle (The one above), skinny jeans and two others. For each category we had a big table to fill with many criteria. The one I remember were : catwalk, posture, pause, confidence, exit, and five other ones! Plus we had another 4 tables to fill: Best body, best run or something like this. I don’t remember the others…
When the first woman appeared I tried to fill all those criterias but didn’t really know where to start. I looked at the model then looked back at the table, looked at the model again… Hey! This is not the same model already! They walk too fast! Slow down guys, I cannot follow haha. During the first 5 rows/models, I was quite lost…
Then I looked next to me (like a lazy student who wants to cheat). I asked quick questions to the judges on my sides. Even the other judges with experience said there was too much to mark. It was kind of streesful at the beginning but after seeing the same girls coming again and again with the same attitude and different clothes I got faster and could do a fair job, I think.
The final.
Everyone is now waiting for the results and felicitate the candidates.
In the room, at the back. Vic and Arlene (one of the organisator) work hard to add up all the different scores and find out who is the winner for each categories and the winner of the day.
During that time, people wait.
Later on, they call the judges one after the other. This is David’s turn :-)
This is my turn…
Later on I had to do the same thing as David. Do I have to carry this? Really?
The judges team :-)
A second one -)
All the models wearing their recycled dress.
The winners, organisators and a tourist…
Photo, Photo, Photo :-)
And more photos.
And even More!
She is the winner! The woman on the left side says “Come, come with us for the picture”.
Vic (in the centre) and two if the organisators, Ella and Arlene.
The finalist plus two of the organisator. This is the end of this unexpected day :-)
Later after the show, David invited us to his home. We had a very good chat. Then David went to sleep and we kept going for a little while.
More pictures :-)
And more :-)
It’s now 1am or something like this. I want to sleep. I’m going walk with Arlene until around her place and then I will go back to the beach to sleep. What a day!
Trop top !!
Hey Damien, well done! wow fashion show judge your amazing!
Recycle dresses are fantastic!!! Last one in the video looks difficult to walk…..
hey Damien<it is great to have you as one of their judge.