First day of work

The first day of work was a great blast. My co-intern is this young lady from South Africa. She walked me over to one part of the UN complex to get my badge. Its so bling bling.
It’s a pretty small office. They share the space with another Jewish NGO. It’s about 8 people in the UN Watch office normally, but all the higher ups are gone this week, so there is no one older than 24 in the place except for Channah, a 75 year old Swiss woman who has an uncanny resemblance to my late grandmother.
I learned how to take notes on the council. It’s really interesting to watch the whole thing unfold. People are too diplomatic (diplomats being diplomatic…imagine that?). I won’t talk about how the Human Rights Council is a failed system. I’ll save that for a day that I’m a pessimistic mess (and it’ll happen one of these days). Anyway, tomorrow is the first big dog I get to cover in the council because Pakistan is up for review. Today they covered Benin (who? It’s a country in west Africa), and all they have to say is that they hate gays. They discussed a number of ways to cure the disease, and plan to continue to have it criminalized. As for criminalizing child-slave trafficking…they’re working on it.
After the afternoon me and Caylee (the south African) took some sweet pictures in the UN complex on the way back to the office. We got pictures with the UN sign, and with in the seats of a bunch of cool countries in the assembly. It wasn’t unprofessional to go and take pictures in Israel or South Africa’s seat. It was questionably so when we took funny pictures with Iran and Iraq…hehe…I hope to post those soon.