I rode a bike all around Geneva on Friday. So beautiful! But i'm not going to lie...it was slightly tough trying to learn how to ride a bike again. Had a few close calls with the on coming traffic! and going up the alps on a bike is not really my thing...but it was nice to get my barrings around the city. Then we all went out as a group to the American bar up the street to celebrate the 4th.
So we got back from Italy at one in the morning last night. Italy was...bizarre. We started the trip off on a great foot by getting 2 hours of sleep the night before (worst idea ever). I stayed up on the train to Milan because it was so picturesque that I could not fall asleep. Going around lake geneva and seeing the mountains and the vineyards and then northern Italy was just breathtaking.
Milan was breathtaking too....but in the "it's too hot outside i can't breathe" kind of way. Milan was kind of dingy and we got so lost and really weird things happened to us. Like our hostel for instance, Hotel Medusa, which looked straight out of a movie with a hostel you would never want to stay in haha. There were no locks on the door and it was a 9 person room! hahahah we definiately got our 13 euro worth i suppose. Then, we got hijacked by pigeon people who threw corn in my hand and forced me to stand there while pigeons landed on me. And then forced me to pay them for this service which I did not ask for....hmmm. After walking around for miles with no map and no clue, we finally settled down for a nice dinner at...Mcdonalds...hahah! because we could not find anywhere else to sit. We got back to our hostel and I delirously made friends with our new roommates and fell asleep for 9 hours, which was the best part of that day.
Venice the next day was worth the entire trip. It is exactly how you imagine it. Very romantic. Also very hot haha. But we drank wine by the grand canal and I ate spaghetti (an awful choice for it being 90 degrees out, but whatever...I was in Italy). It was an amazing four hours in venice hahah until we were so hot that Erin and I decided to put our feet in the water and then pour canal water all over us....HAHA. We were smelly and partially diseased for the 7 hour train ride home.
Oh and I have developed a horrible case of talking in my sleep which culminated on the train by abrubtly waking up and shoving my train pass into some poor Italian's face thinking he was the conductor coming my to check my ticket. And then yelling at my roommate Caitlyn telling her that I lost my key in the middle of the night.
Today was our first day at the UN. And a very full day at that. We saw the beginnings of the CCW negtios on cluster munitions and then met with the secretariat of the CCW (Convention on Conventional Weapons for short) and also met with a representative of the Human Rights Watch. So interesting to see everything. We will be observing these negtios over the next week off and on. They should be going on until the 25th when they are supposed to come to a proposal on the use of cluster munitions ( ha ha yea right). UN track negotios take a long time and are mostly not as effective nor efficient as other negiotiation tracks.
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HA! I can totally see you waking up in some stupor trying to give away your train ticket. Hehe.
Italy sounds lovely. You didn't get some really expensive leather shoes in Milan?
no i did not get any expensive leather shoes in milan. I got hijacked by pigeon people instead. Plus, people in Milan like to shop in groups in 10,000 so you cannot even get in the stores, let alone get close enough to buy anything. haha
Also on that note, Milan is not as "fashion capital of the world" as I thought it would be. As Erin put it, there was more Eurotrash than anything else. And me being there in my disgusting state and same outfit from the night before definitely did not add to any fashionable standards
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