The most interesting things that have happened lately were the orientation field trips, so I'll tell you all about those.

On Tuesday we went to the Red Cross. After looking at pictures of the current and past presidents and general secretaries, we were brought into the main conference room. We were given a short history of the Red Cross and shown a four-minute film about what the Red Cross has done in the last year or two. Then we were stuck listening to a senior official discuss the website and learning platform for an hour. He evaded questions, clearly had no idea how to set up a new user, and failed to explain to us why we should use the learning platform unless we were planning on actually working there. It couldn't have been a more boring experience (I realize I said the field trip was interesting above, but I meant interesting from your point of view, not mine).

Today, though, we went to the United Nations! We had to wait out in the cold for about 20 minutes, which wasn't fun, and then we lost two students, but once all that was over.... We visited the library (yay libraries! yay nerdiness!) and the museum (only two rooms, but very interesting), then we went on the general tour. The three conference rooms we were shown were huge, and one had a really great artistic ceiling. We also ate lunch there, which Smith paid for, and it was really yummy!

I'm sorry this post is so short, but I will write another soon.