Sunday 3rd June:
Last day of the festival today! And I still haven’t seen as
many VW’s as I thought I would, it’s supposed to be a VW festival as well! I expected
rows and rows of camper vans and beetles and hippies and it to be a place
completely appropriate for a photo shoot or something equally as beautiful but
although it was nothing like my expectations, I still loved every single minute
of it. With today being the last day and us making the five hour trip back up
to the midlands in the morning, we tried to tidy up the caravan a bit. We packed
the suitcase as best we could and tried to decide what to do with the remaining
things. After this we looked through the previous night’s footage and photos and
again were ridiculously impressed by how good the photos looked! Neither of us
are photographers but there really were some amazing shots of the fire poi. (As
I said before, if I knew how to upload them to here I really would do so you
could all share in the beauty of it). We got two newcomers to the caravan today
as well as apparently they were supposed to stay the night before but ended up
in one of the other caravans for whatever reason! So then there were six of us!
For the rest of the day I tried my best to keep myself busy but I had read all
of my book in the previous two days so I waited for Cyd and Amber to wake up
and just spent the day sitting and chatting with them. It’s amazing how much
you can get to know people and how much you can learn in just a few hours! They
invited their boyfriends to the caravan so we were eagerly awaiting their
arrival for most of the day. It took them about three and a half hours to get
to us so we had plenty of time to listen to stories about them and their
antics! It was really strange getting a mental image of someone knowing that
you will be meeting them in just a few hours’ time. And let me tell you this,
they were nothing like I imagined them to be! They were so so so so so lovely
though! Once they got there, 8 of us were staying in the caravan! It was
definitely cosy to say the least!
Again once
we reached about 9.30pm it was time to make our way to the main arena for the
final time to film the magical moments of Area 51 and their performers doing what
they do best. I can’t really remember too much of this night which is strange
considering it’s the last one we spent there. I filmed as much as I could which
wasn’t a lot as I had filled so many memory cards already and we couldn’t transfer
the footage from my camera to the laptop because the programme was only
installed on the Mac. The music was a lot better on the third night as well
compared to the Saturday which was rubbish! I spent a lot of the time on this
night watching the stage shows from the side lines and just admiring their
ability to perform so well, capturing what I could on the camera. I was
starting to get a bit more excited about editing all the footage together to
make the final edit by this time. If you have never experienced this then you
will not know the feeling you get from filming all the stuff that you can and
then editing it together to make something amazing that people everywhere can
view and enjoy (if they like it, if not they can offer constructive criticism
on how to improve). Anyway, the costumes were fab as always! The performers
were amazing as always! The performance was spectacular! All in all another
pretty good night! I think everyone was just putting all of their efforts in to
making the last night one of the best knowing that in the morning they would be
travelling back home and wouldn’t be performing at Run To The Sun 2012 again!
4am
came along and then it was time to pack up the van! What a nightmare that was. There
were so many costumes that you wouldn’t even believe, everything needed packing
back into their correct bags and put back in the correct places in the
backstage area. Then everything needed taking outside to the van in the proper
order so that it was easier to pack back up. Then everything needed to be
actually put inside the van without anything falling though into the seats in
the front and ensuring that everything fit in the van and that nothing was left
behind. It took at least another hour! Even with about 15 of us helping it took
so so long! We kept taking things out that didn’t even belong to Area 51
because we were newcomers so we were unsure of whose stuff was whose and what
went where. Nightmare! But when it was finally done we crawled our way back up
the hill to the caravan to fall peacefully to sleep!
Monday 4th June:
The last day in the caravan! This entry is going to be short
and sweet as we didn’t really do very much. We woke up, showered and got ready
for the day. Then we packed everything away in the suitcase again and made sure
that we had gotten everything out of the cupboards in the bedroom and taken
everything that was ours from the bathroom. We took all the food we wanted out
of the cupboards in the kitchen and packed them safely away so we could take
them home! (Ahh the life of a student hey! Always trying to scrounge food).
Once we’d
tidied everything away, we had to go on our rounds and say goodbye to everyone
we had met! There were so many new people to say bye to, I hadn’t even noticed
how many there actually were throughout the weekend, probably because they were
all arriving at different times but now they were all leaving at once and the
number of them seemed to have multiplied over night! We had to collect e-mail
addresses to e-mail photos and footage and add everyone on Facebook. Once we’d
said our goodbyes though we got all our luggage, made our way to the van and
finally said goodbye to Newquay. I was quite sad to be leaving. I really
enjoyed myself. Gutted that I didn’t make it to the beach though although once
we were in the van I couldn’t wait to be back in my own bed at home!
Goodbye Newquay and thank you Run To The Sun 2012 and Area
51 for an amazing weekend! Hope to do it all again soon!
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