I have such a bad case of SPRING FEVER right now. I need an adventure, and I need one faster than Pres. Bush needs a grammar lesson.
In my state of adventure-lust, I remembered what I was doing roughly about this time last year- I was a first time visitor to New York competing in the Model United Nations Conference. Equation for the randomness that makes up the rest of this entry= boredom + too much Presdient's Day free time + an assortment of incriminating photos + a personal blog.
PHOTOJOURNAL:

Yay! Talk about wild adventure- this is me buying my first meal at an original NY city food vendor. In NY, street vendors stay open 24-7, when I returned to Chicago, I missed being able to cross the street at 2 AM and order a food-poisoned Gyro made amidst the fuel exhaust and run-away rodents of the city streets.
I have to admit, before 9-11-2001, I didn't even know what the World Trade Center was, but it was still amazingly haunting to see the hole in the sky line where the two buildings should have been.
The Wall of Heroes was touching but oddly out of place on the fence around the construction site of the new Freedom Tower.
My friend also took me to the huge American Girl Doll place- including a doll restaurant, a complete doll hairstyling salon, and a doll hospital (gasp!). The photos were too horrendous to post for public viewing.

Here we are getting chummy with one of the security guards.

Ok, so its not quite Starbucks... but don't let that distract you from fine international pedigree.
Amazing! We spent the day in the actual room where the General Assembly is held! Here each country's vote is being tallied on the wall.
You know what they say- you can't judge a country until you sit an hour at their assigned seat in the General Assembly. Here we are being Cuba.
Pierre is originally French and Masashi is originally Japanese, but for the week they were in American students representing the country of Albania- that experience just wouldn't be complete without Christina paying for a dollar dance.
never underestimate the party animal that lies within every Model UN nerd... especially after alcohol...
I would add a caption here if I had any recollection of what the hell we were doing with Mr. Ireland.
Did I mention that our school won an Honorable Mention for our representation of Albania?!?! All in all it wasn't too difficult, as Albania has no known position on any global issue. In acting clueless, I guess we were accurately keeping in character.
1 Comments:
What great pics, looks like you had a fab time. I've been to NYC exactly once and I was 14 at the time - still young enough to wear around my foam Statue of Liberty headpiece and not feel like a total dork!
PS - Doll hospital? Yikes!
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