Hurricane in Amsterdam

We went to Amsterdam, the original idea was to do trendspotting with the school. Nothing to do with our project, or maybe in a way, since we can spot trends on social innovation there. What actually happened was a little bit different. We felt we needed to finally take some decisions. So we talked for about two hours and got some frustrations aired and learned about mutual passions towards the project and how high the level of committment was of everybody.
We were sitting at a table in the university mensa, finding it a little bit hard to find our way through this. How to go on? Should we connect to the group in Thailand? In which way? Should they send us their footage (since they adopted our idea) and vice versa and should we make one movie in the end? Or still two separate ones that have the same topic? Should there be a movie behind the movie? In what way: as a separate, extra "making of" or as a read thread through the actual movie?
Many opinions, little space to combine them.
After not being able to decide what we wanted to decide, namely if we were going to call the guy with the fire truck and hire him or not, we met with the Thailand group in another building. They had done the original task of trendspotting, so they were at a different point. After listening to them we talked about our talk (in a way a trend in itself, the difficulties in integrating the individual side of persons into a group) and then it blew.
The wind rose, tension got higher, the atmosphere turned dense, there was a lighting and then two members of the group said that they would not come along. Not enough money in our budget, to enough identification-potential, no possibility to integrate their passion.
So, we did not reach what we wanted to reach: agreement on the fire truck.
Sometimes you just have to be patient.