Ambassadors, To Do Lists and Broadway Musicals

"Hello, Ambassador" (former Ambassador to Sierra Leone, John Hirsch says in passing someone in the hallway)"Oh, by the way, that was the Jordanian Ambassador"(said in an as-casual-as-one-can-be tone).

Ambassador Hirsch gave Ashley and I our staff tour of the UN today (as we now have our passes and can go "behind closed doors") so we got lots of usefull (and useless) information about the UN. Over lunch, the useful (and useless) information continued as we learned all about the city and things that we should do in our (spare) time here.

That's right we are full fledged interns, badges and all.

So we had lunch with Hirsch, attempted to shop for books at the UN bookstore (although we were easially distracted by shiney objects, such as cool pins and postcards) and then rushed to Broadway to try and get Rush tickets to see "Avenue Q". We didn't win the lottery for cheap tickets, so we went to the TKTS booth and bought half-price tickets to Hairspray.

We had a good time at the show and now I am about to crash and burn. Lots to do, so very little time.

E-mail or call me if I seem out of touch ... I am deeply distracted.

For now.

Love and Broadway,

Jessie