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In the evening we had a farewell dinner and closing ceremony. That was the best of all, where the organizer provided a certificate of participation and remarks of the student.
After the official closing ceremony, again our campaign started at a bar. This day we had lots of friends for drinks. Happy birthday, happy birthday…happy birthday to our dear friend Hassan Mousa… we all got notice of the party from the bar. They were celebrating Mr. Hassan, an Egyptian boy's birthday. We also had discussions about our further goals that midnight at the bar. Lots of friends were lawyers there. I asked Ms. Nkaozer, the American girl who is a lawyer about her interest in law. She said to me, you know, we Americans never become poor, it's my hobby.
That day I couldn't sleep, I was just rolling and rolling in the bed. Just thinking about this university environment, does the bar distribute the education? Is it required in the university? I was inspired by this culture drink, dance and study.
It's our day, August 12, International Youth Day; we had taken a boxed breakfast and started a bus trip for the United Nations Building in New York. We had very pleasant bus trip. Ms. Ethel, A Canadian girl, who knew about Hindi songs, handed me a CD player. I had talked with our group leader Jane Francis Alowo. She encouraged me to keep in touch with this network for our action plan with an introduction of donor organization representatives. A university lecturer in Uganda further added, developing countries youth have lots of thing to do. I believe that you can do it.
Our bus driver was well informed about New York explaining the important areas. Gap shopping center was where I bought some cloths. After visiting Times Square, we all met in the UN building. I feel that, New York security was crazy after the 9/11 attack. The organizer had already registered our name. So we visited the UN library, a place of UN's general assembly and more. We had lunch in the UN cafeteria. The UN building is situated on a very nice area close to the East River. We could see the statute of liberty and island.
I was part of International Youth Day Activities in UN where lots of people showed their performance and speech. There was the UN general secretary Mr. Koffi Annan to empower youth. After participating UN international youth day in the evening we returned to Connecticut.
I was surprised when everyone was concerned about Nepal's current situation. Every person had a same question about democracy, human rights and freedom of expression as well as Maoist activities. A country of Mt. Everest and birth place of Lord Buddha was falling into war. All wanted to know about the solution and what next.
On 13th August at noon we departed for New York and then to our countries.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget, my conference friend are amazing and I can't forgot at all.
Lastly, The most important thing is that this conference gave me national & international identity & recognition further more it’s empower and encourage me and other youth to do some thing more in youth and human rights agendas.
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Enos Opati Ongute | Mar 10th, 2007
Thanks for the conference. I wish to attend as i,m an aspiring politician in Kenya.
God bless your efforts.
Enos
efforts Enos Opati Ongute | Mar 10th, 2007
Thanks for the conference. I wish to attend as i,m an aspiring politician in Kenya.
God bless your efforts.
Enos
Great Enos Opati Ongute | Jul 23rd, 2007
Good work. Encouraging more young people to take action.
Enos
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