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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Nov 7, 2005
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I am now back in London, after what can only be described as one of the best months of my life so far. Living in New York, working at the UN and meeting so many great people all combined to produce an experience I will never forget.
The last week was the least busiest, something I rather...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 30, 2005
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After the couple of days following my return from Montréal, things are generally more quiet work-wise. The highlight of that weekend was visiting the Blue Note Jazz Club, located downtown, for the late session on Friday night. It was a great gig, with a fusion-style band fronted by piano genius...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 20, 2005
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The train returning me to New York from Montréal arrived perfectly on time, coming into Penn Station at exactly 7.40pm - an unexpected luxury considering the excessive length of my outbound journey! It's great to be back after the charming relative peacefulness of my stay in Canada; I was...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 12, 2005
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Compared to last week this has been like a walk in the park! No hectic agenda, no rushing around from meeting to meeting and no planning for side events. It's a relief in one sense but also slightly anticlimactic after everything that happened last week and the resultant chaotic lifestyle. My...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 7, 2005
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The final day of a weird and wonderful wonderful week. What can I say? To be perfectly honest, it was a bit anti-climactic after the hectic previous days. I didn't even spend very long at the UN - had to pack everything up in the hotel and check out first.
Once that was all done I went to one...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 6, 2005
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October 6 was always going to be a big day. The General Assembly Plenary took place and there was a massive list of speakers! It was good to see many youth reps take the podium. Structurally speaking, the meeting consisted of two three-hour sections with two hours' break in between.
During...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 5, 2005
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Wednesday was another early starter. A couple of youth delegates had been rushing around all the previous day trying to arrange a meeting with Kofi Annan and the result was a hope that he might show up at a side event at nine. Unfortunately, this didn't happen and we were in the Vienna Café with...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 4, 2005
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This day began with a 'working breakfast' meeting at the Swiss Mission, on the subject of mental health. It was well attended, with many national youth reps coming along to discuss the situation on this issue in their countries and think about ways to improve things. Although this isn't exactly...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 3, 2005
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This day began somewhat earlier than I had anticipated, with an phone call at 5am from the Ghanaian youth delegate! He'd only just arrived and wanted some basic information, so I provided that and went back to sleep.
I had to wake up around 7.30 after that though but unfortunately overslept,...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 2, 2005
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Well, not a lot really happened today. In the morning I went over to the UN to access free internet and post blog entries, as well as designing some promotional literature for our side event on Tuesday. It was really dark and spooky in the basement of the building, since tourists are only allowed...... [view]
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Posted By: Rapscallion
Posted On: Oct 1, 2005
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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...... [view]
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