Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Madame Secretary, Jessica White, Fellow American

Today was so amazing. I had the honor of going to the United Nations in Geneva to see Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton's historic speech on International LGBT rights. Charlotte said I had such a patriotic spirit that she could see the American flag spinning above my head. We were both so cheerful as we got on the train and took the tram to the United Nations. However, we almost didn't make it because the gate was closing at 4pm and we had only 10 minutes before it closed. We ran 500 meters and made it in the nick of time. You should have seen us. We looked like we were chasing the Beatles we were so excited.

When we got there we ran into our other classmates and got into the hall about 2 hours before she went on. We met two really interesting people. One person worked for the Human Rights organization and gave us the inside scoop on the topic of the speech. The other is a speaker who lectures on age and self esteem. As we were waiting I was so excited I felt like it was the night before going to Disneyland and I couldn't sleep. Hopefully, this wasn't a once in a lifetime opportunity because I think I could get used to being a citizen of the world.

Find the historic speech below and see if you can spot me. I'm sitting about 10 rows back on the left hand side!

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