Weekend at the UN

Well, it was a good weekend at the United Nations. We had lots of fun! Honorary Spain made an appearance and spent the night...just like old times, our Haiti representative joined us for all of Sunday, and we had dinner by a representative from Guatemala. Sound like a great weekend? ...Don't you wish you lived here!

Friday was pretty normal... It was the end of exam week and Korea, America believes, finished strong despite some questionable performances in the exam room. America thinks there was a bit of relief when Korea walked out of that last exam but was surprised to hear that the country had extra credit due!??? Well, apparently there is a borderline grade involved and assurance was needed to boost that little sucker up to a point of confidence. At any rate, Korea still celebrated the end of exams by spending the night out. Yay for Korea!!

Saturday, after Fiji did the normal volunteer work for food aid to the world's hungry, the host-member-nations went to see Spain compete in world sport competitions. Spain came home with the UN and stayed that night. Spain and Fiji went to see a movie, America tended to Korea after the country went to stir the economic pot at the mall with native allies. That night was spent at the UN Headquarters with all four member nations under one roof once again.

Sunday was simply an amazing day - or so America thought. The long lost Haitian representative made an appearance for the first time in a LONG time: America can hardly remember - it was a warm day (and not warm by January standards, real warm) and Korea had just become a new member of the UN when Haiti asked America to help move the geographic location back to an institution of higher learning. So...long time.

We participated in religious activities - went to church - and we were quite the collection: Fiji, America, Haiti, Korea, and Spain (that's what you get when you mix a Fijian and an American). After church, we had lunch, watched a movie, took a nap all before the UN returned to church and then had dinner hosted by Guatemala. It was delicious. The weekend was great!

Today America is thankful for the United Nations. Although they were originally built upon the principles of maintaining something like world peace or, at least, positive international relations in the post World War Two era, the United Nations has fill our lives (Fiji and America's) with abundance. But then again, I guess we really have to thank God for that!