Today we celebrated that our team has “survived” in Sydney for 3 years… and we are confident that we will keep building towers for many more!
We met, as usual for our anniversary, at Prince Alfred Park. The good news was that, for once, it was not a rainy or super cold day… and we had a lot of cakes to eat, an amazing panera for the raffle and the best company ever. What could possibly go wrong?
Around 1 pm, once all the members of our colla were ready and the faixes were on, we started the performance. Since we didn’t get many people coming to see us, we decided to take this chance to try new castellers in the tronc and leave the 6-level towers for the Diada in September, when we are confident we’ll get a lot of hands helping at the pinya. And this decision really paid off: not only our newbies (and not so newbies!) had a big smile in their faces after every successful castell, but they also proved themselves good at it! All the rehearsals finally bore fruits and we could complete two 4 of 5, a 3 of 5 and a pillar of 4… we didn’t get the newbies wet, but don’t worry: we’ll make sure we’ll do it in September, when it won’t be that cold!
We rewarded ourselves with a nice BBQ and several slices of the delicious cakes that some castellers baked to celebrate our anniversary… and also Ignasi, Joel and Martí’s birthdays! We then did the raffle… and Elsa won! Needless to say, we were all very jealous of everything that she got: the torrons, the ham, the xoriço, the good wine and all sorts of delicious food from back home.
As it’s now starting to be a tradition, we continued with some fun team games and we finished the family-friendly day dancing all together the “polka” and the “train of the happiness”. Before the pub crawl started, we all lighted hundreds of sparkles… it was a definitely a nice way to celebrate Sant Joan from Down Under!