"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party." - Ron White

She took me out for
a burger :) 

Today was a good way to a very relaxed week. I went in early, did some work by formatting of some documents (they figured out I'm pretty good at formatting stuff and Microsoft word so this is pretty much my whole life now).

At lunch, I met up with someone who I had met randomly in the General Assembly halls! She noticed my Canada pin and just had to say hi to me. So I just had to say hi and e-mail her back.

She's actually super cool, she's working with an observer organization and used to be a former MP and held several Minister portfolios. Best part was, she was so easy to talk to and super down to earth! The only issue is that it was a bit hot outside... Like swelteringly so.

Afterwards, I headed back to work, and although I have been getting a lot of

Oh my lord was there
just so much food.

small projects, I don't have too much long term stuff going on with my life right now. So it's some pretty sporadic work where I do what I can when I can and then I have long periods of downtime. Makes me feel kind of useless so I've just kind of taken it upon myself to, when I'm at my desk and not trying to attend a cool conference, I just look up issues related to sexual exploitation and abuse. It's been pretty good to read about.

Afterwork, I met up with a friend who was going to be interning at the UN and started his first day on Monday! So I knew I had to make his first day in New York a memorable one.

I took him on a bit of a mini tour of Mid New York, through Grand Central, Bryant Park and some other places. It was a good but a short tour. We headed over to the UN after the tour, met up with some of the Canadian Mission interns and went in (since you have to find someone with a D badge to let you in). We had to go over to the

Beautiful view of the building I work in!

other side and grab some "Delegate's Lounge" passes and give our IDs, but we didn't even end up going there.

Instead... We went to the Dining Room. Where there was a HUGE party for Venezuela.

Their independence day was on the past Tuesday, right after Fourth of July, but because it was so slack (and because Venezuela parties so hard) they planned their party for Friday night!

It was pretty amazing. I'm lucky I went with my "diplomat friends" (they're interns at their own missions but they get a D badge because they've gone through all the proper security and they work for the mission) since I got in with no problems.

Some of the Crew

As I went in, they gave me a bar of chocolate, a calendar and ... oddly enough, a Venezuelan DVD

(That I need to watch ASAP, I mean, that's pretty cool right?).

It was decorated beautifully, with the colours of the flag (red, yellow and blue) and there was lovely live salsa and dancing music, open bars and a table full of Venezuelan food on top of the appetisers that were being handed out. It was pretty bomb diggity.

More of the crew <3

I got to introduce my friend to a flurry of other people (don't think he remembers half the people's names) and danced and talked for a long time. Oddly enough, this was the first party where I was stopped so much by people wanting to talk to me *weirdos.*

I headed home after the few hours there and skyped with loved ones and then did my laundry. Not an exciting end to an exciting Friday, but a solid need-to-do kind of end.