"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. the question is what are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau

Straight view of the East river

I learned my lesson from yesterday and I now wake up and leave earlier from work. When I got there, there was just a small line up in comparison to the really long line up yesterday. I ran into a friend and we talked and enjoyed each others' company as we walked through the UN. I started off as the first intern in and did a little bit of work my project, on and off.

Italian Mission was
giving out free
espresso and I just had
to try it!

One of my friends, who is with the French Mission, messaged me because she wanted to show me the UN and take me on a tour (she can take me into areas that I personally cannot get into), unfortunately, because she is a Mission intern, she just had so much to do all the time always. Her meeting, which was supposed to end at 12:30 - 1ish, ended up finishing up at 2. Poor girl. I ended up going to lunch with a few friends in the UN Rose garden, which is, right now, under construction. 

The whole garden outside of the UN is actually under construction now. This is because the UN was undergoing renovations in the last few years to update the secretariat building and others, so not only were people scattered around the city working, but they also built a building in the garden to temporary house people like the Security Council and the Secretary-General and his staff. So

Yes, those are delegates watching football.

now that the secretariat is "all good" again (asbestos free I hope), the build was torn down and the garden is being reconstructed. 

Drinks with a friend !

After lunch, I headed back upstairs and worked a bit more on stuff, but then my French friend messaged me and asked me if I wanted to go on the tour since she was finished with her meeting, so we walked around and made our first stop at the Delegate's Lounge. We had previously tried to go into the Council rooms, but they were all locked or had something going on. 

In the Delegate's Lounge, we ended up stumbling upon another event that the Italian Mission was hosting and got some free espresso (as it turns out I am not a big fan of the bitterness). We sat and talked for a bit and then both headed back to work.

This was "close"

I stayed at work for a while before I headed out with a friend and went to the Irish Pint, a rooftop patio near by. It was busy as all hell, but we managed to steal a few seats and sit down. I gotta say, it was a pretty cool bar. The table we were sitting on had tap handles on it as decoration and even in the washroom, the sink handles were beer handles. We sat there for a bit and another friend saw me, grabbed me and pulled me over to his group of friends and I ended up meeting someone FROM CARLETON!! He had just graduated a few weeks ago. 

So nice! Sponsored
concert of course

The scale of how small this world is keeps shrinking and blowing my mind away.

Everyone was actually starting to leave so I headed out with them and then walked very uptown to
Central Park (I know, eventful day). I met up with a friend and we headed over to the Great Lawn together, sat down on the blanket she had so cleverly brought and we sat with a crowd of at least a hundred thousand and listened to the New York Philharmonic play. They play free every summer quite often.

They were beautiful. 

The view at night is unreal.

Actually, New York plays concerts in the park all the time (for free too!)

I headed home on the subway (which isn't scary at night, at least for me) and headed to bed!