The Powerpod teamed up with the Young Scot crew in the Eco-Village. Straightening hair and charging mobiles for free using renewable energy was a big hit, once the news had spread... The staff camping was a dream, with our own toilet block. Nice.
Rachel, Powerpod Peer educator: "I lie in the tent. Feeling, for the first time in my life, very lucky that I’m just under 5 foot 4 because I seem to have placed the sleeping bag across rather than along the tent, as it was intended to be. The music and indistinguishable roars still issuing from the “relentless” tent wash over me. The whole day runs through in my mind. I’m here. I’m at T in the Park. After two weeks of “casually” dropping into conversations that I, me, Rachel Gibbs, would be one of the eighty thousand attendants of the coolest, most exciting music festival in Scotland (and definitely just after Glastonbury in Britain!) I was finally here. I’d just about turned fifteen in front of The Verve. The set ended at 11:40 pm but I’ve decided that in my mind I might just stretch it another twenty minutes even though Richard Ashcroft…and the other guys aren’t exactly my favourite band. It still sounds pretty cool. I drift off into a 4 hour sleep. Not knowing that I was going to end my birthday screaming along with Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs) to “Oh My God”. It was a pretty good birthday.
So, how did I manage to spend my fifteenth at T in the Park? By having a great time with the Powerpod! After spending the best part of a year being a part of the Eco Club at my school (Drummond Community High School) it was suggested that we join “The Powerpod”. It all sounded a bit ominous. But then Sara came along and we were all converted! My first ever Powerpod activity was in fact a pizza party which I couldn’t help but feel like a bit of a fraudster in attending but the pizza and people were pretty good so I forgot about it. My next Powerpod excursion was to CAT in Wales. I’d like to think I was “initiated” here. This is where I became friends with all the original and best of the Powerpod. Memorable hours were: Chinese charades….(!); managing to eat a packet of biscuits between six of us while creating very inventive new games for workshops; and who can forget Ben and Josie’s expression through music. All in all it’s been a rather excellent 5 months. Bring on the next bunch of endearingly over enthusiastic kids with the windmills and PV cells…………… "
So, how did I manage to spend my fifteenth at T in the Park? By having a great time with the Powerpod! After spending the best part of a year being a part of the Eco Club at my school (Drummond Community High School) it was suggested that we join “The Powerpod”. It all sounded a bit ominous. But then Sara came along and we were all converted! My first ever Powerpod activity was in fact a pizza party which I couldn’t help but feel like a bit of a fraudster in attending but the pizza and people were pretty good so I forgot about it. My next Powerpod excursion was to CAT in Wales. I’d like to think I was “initiated” here. This is where I became friends with all the original and best of the Powerpod. Memorable hours were: Chinese charades….(!); managing to eat a packet of biscuits between six of us while creating very inventive new games for workshops; and who can forget Ben and Josie’s expression through music. All in all it’s been a rather excellent 5 months. Bring on the next bunch of endearingly over enthusiastic kids with the windmills and PV cells…………… "
