"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." - William Arthur Ward

Gorgeous report

It's been kind of tough this past week because it's been so slow. But I've tried my best to take advantage of thisinto different meetings and events to try to make up for it.
by going

Today, I did have some work as well as a meeting, which gave me a lot of responsibility and some stuff to research. So I did that for a bit before I headed down to the 2016 UN Drug launch by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

I only stayed for a little while because I knew I couldn't keep going to conferences and media events like that so I left after half an hour (Although it was extremely interesting and I really enjoyed sitting there and listening to them synthesizing and explaining the work they had done, especially because the report itself was done gorgeously in colour) and headed over to a "Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization Conference" which, as I found out, was a lot more boring than I thought. They were just doing a follow-up meeting to a previous DPI/NGO Conference they had had in Korea a month ago.

I ended up leaving there and went downstairs to grab some lunch. Low and behold, there were some

UNNGO conference

sandwiches, which I grabbed and some soup as well.

Afterwards, I came back up to the office, helped read some reports, did a bit of research, enjoyed my job shredding (which is actually quite soothing if you let it be). 

At around 3, I asked if I could go to the closing ceremonies for the Global Compact Leadership event, which was all the way at the Mariott hotel at Times Square (google how long it takes to get to Times Square from the UN. It's a stupid amount of time). 

I ran. Well, speed walked, and then ran part way. 

Closing ceremonies for the GCLeadership

I finally got to the conference, headed up the fancy elevators (you actually have to press a button outside the elevators of the floor you want to go, it'll tell you which elevator to go to and then that elevator takes you straight to that floor. There are no buttons in it.

I was able to listen to the last two closing speakers before it was over. My bad. But it was totally worth it! I got to hear Jan Elisson, who is the Deputy Secretary General, speak and talk about the power of the future and the importance of everyone coming together to work for the sustainable development goals to make a better tomorrow.

Cute gifts

It was great. 

Afterwards, as I was leaving, I grabbed a little gift bag with the sustainable development pin (which
is super cute and also like $4 at the gift shop) and my friend, who I had met the night before, also gave me one! So I gave the extra to a coworker.

I ran back to work, did pretty much nothing as there was nothing for me to do, and walked down to the ECOSOC chamber and watched an awards ceremony for a bit before I headed down the stairs again and met up with my friends to go to the first ever UN Interns Association meeting for New York.

It was in a UN building (obviously) and it was quite small but it was nice to be there! I met a few new people and talked. 

Afterwards, we all headed over to the Intern bar, enjoyed some drinks, met some new people and just had a good time.