Saturday in New York
Most of today was spent working with the youth delegates from Germany, Sweden and Australia on some promotional materials to use in the display space we will have next week at the UN. We made posters with pictures of youth delegates, one with a list of countries sending them and some advertisments for our side event.
When I left my room to meet the others for lunch there was an interesting spectacle on 2nd Avenue. It was Nigerian independence day and NYC's Nigerian community was celebrating in style. A huge parade with drummers, dancers, trumpeters and general revelry was moving down the street and everyone was having a great time on this afternoon of unseasonal warmth.
We worked until around 6pm - first in the restaurant (although noise from the parade outside meant we had to eat in silence at first), then my hotel's club room and finally a big copying shop. I'm really satisfied with our productivity; we now have an assortment of multicoloured materials promoting youth reps at the UN.
I met up with a friend of mine who works from NYC in the evening and went to my first baseball game. It was hard to understand the rules at first and I needed quite a few detailed explanations, but when I managed to grasp the basics everything was alright. It's a game with endless statistics and there's loads of complicated stuff there, but it's still a fun sport to watch even if you don't understand everything. The stadium was quite full, apparently unusual for this time in the season and the fact that the New York Mets don't have a chance to win anything, but that gave a nice atmosphere and we had a good time.
After the game we moved on to a roof party, a traditional Manhattan experience - it was an excellent evening for it and I met some great people there.
So that was Saturday. There really seems to be no relief from my youth delegate work, but I think it's good to be busy. And it's always nice to have a good night out, there won't be much of that happening over the next week with all this work!
When I left my room to meet the others for lunch there was an interesting spectacle on 2nd Avenue. It was Nigerian independence day and NYC's Nigerian community was celebrating in style. A huge parade with drummers, dancers, trumpeters and general revelry was moving down the street and everyone was having a great time on this afternoon of unseasonal warmth.
We worked until around 6pm - first in the restaurant (although noise from the parade outside meant we had to eat in silence at first), then my hotel's club room and finally a big copying shop. I'm really satisfied with our productivity; we now have an assortment of multicoloured materials promoting youth reps at the UN.
I met up with a friend of mine who works from NYC in the evening and went to my first baseball game. It was hard to understand the rules at first and I needed quite a few detailed explanations, but when I managed to grasp the basics everything was alright. It's a game with endless statistics and there's loads of complicated stuff there, but it's still a fun sport to watch even if you don't understand everything. The stadium was quite full, apparently unusual for this time in the season and the fact that the New York Mets don't have a chance to win anything, but that gave a nice atmosphere and we had a good time.
After the game we moved on to a roof party, a traditional Manhattan experience - it was an excellent evening for it and I met some great people there.
So that was Saturday. There really seems to be no relief from my youth delegate work, but I think it's good to be busy. And it's always nice to have a good night out, there won't be much of that happening over the next week with all this work!
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