Freaky Facts

Hey everybody!!
Hope your preparations for World Youth Day 2008 are going smoothly.
I have been recently looking over the Australian and New Zealand WYD websites and found some curious facts that I’d like to share with you – some of them are rather amazing!!

SYDNEY(2008):

• 1000 pilgrim groups have registered already, representing 65,000 pilgrims and the registration has only been open a little more than 50 days (released on the 28th April).
• This works out at 23,000 pilgrims from the US 15,484 from Australia and significant numbers registered from Canada, Germany and the Philippines
  NOTE: these statistics will have changed already by now..

COLOGNE(2005):

• 1.2 million people attended the Final Mass
• Pilgrims came from 197 different countries
• The oldest applicant was an 82 year old woman from Cologne
• Around 420 litres of Communion wine was consumed over the week
• 2.8 million hosts were received for all liturgies.
• There were12,000 mobile toilets and urinals in total,
• 5,000 tonne of food
• 6 million meals
• 3,000 kilos of coffee
• 1 million sets of compostable cutlery
• 900,000 bread rolls per day and
• a WYD radio channel with live stream on the Internet.

Incredible aye!! I especially like the ‘1 million sets of compostable cutlery’!!!
Just shows again how big this is going to be…

Ok that’s all for now, good luck and God Bless

- Sarah