Being Youth Again

What a wonderful feeling that is to be young again! Last April 25, Mike Almojuela and Junnie Arreza went with 14 youth dancers to have their taste of dancing in the streets of Toronto.

Well, initially planned to shoot at the Esplanade, it turned out that Ontario Place also had a better vantage point of the CN Tower, thus allowing the video's whole segment to be shot from its hilly entrance.

The youth ages 13 to 17 were so gracious enough to volunteer their time and talent to a worthy cause of being the video background for the upcoming GK Youth Build program called "Spot A Hero" contest. They traipsed, skipped, jumped, and somersaulted their way to what is now to be known in You Tube to be the Toronto-portion of "Spot A Hero" dance video.

Organized by Mica Cruz, a GK Youth Build volunteer, the team from IONA Secondary School was able to fully imbibe the theme of Global Youth Heroism through the dance self-choreographed by the team with Toby Mac's "One World" as background music.

"We plan to have the same video clips shot with various Canadian points of interest from Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal and piece them together to come up with one Canadian video", Elvie Tan, mentioned in late 2007. The plan has now been approved and will launch this coming May 15, 2008.

The video on BETA, or on limited viewing was viewed by 150 in 5 days and was replaced by the current final version with 130 viewers in less than a week. "The beauty about having it in You Tube is that you can link and share with all your friends. This is the objective that we will ask all Canadian youth and volunteers to do when we fully launch this on the 15th of May.", said Junnie Arreza, who shot the video with the help of Mike on handheld camera.

For now, you can see the video by clicking play below.