First Day at the UN

Today was my first day at my internship at the UN!

I met a bunch of interns this morning at orientation, surprisingly I was the only local and even more surprisingly, they only American!  How insane is that?

What will I be doing at the you ask?  Well I'll be working in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) under the Communication and Information Management Systems (CIMS).  This entails writing official newsletters, alerts, feature articles, and other things posted directly on their website!  How cool is that?

My supervisor is pretty cool, he took me out for lunch at the caf today, where we talked about Shaun White and the X-Games!

Aside from that I didn't do too much today, just learning about my responsibilities.

Afterwards, however I bumped into a large protest in support of the anti-egyptian government movement.

First Day Back

Today was my first day back to Fordham for the Spring 2011 semester and my last semester of grad school!  It's so surreal - aside from the fact that i was in 95 degree weather just 2 days ago, but that I will officially be entering the real world as an MBA graduate in just a few months.

Today I was supposed to start my law/MBA class, but apparently that doesnt start til Jan 20th, so all of the MBA students showed up for no reason...  Oops...

My other 2 classes were pretty awesome, I think I'm going to like Thursdays!  I have Mr. Saharia for "IT Strategy & Management" followed by Travis Russ for "Communication for Entrepreneurs."  Let's hope the other two will be enjoyable as well.

This is the first semester in my entire Fordham career that I am taking less than 16 credits!

Back from Botswana!!!

The trip to Botswana was tons of fun!

Here are a few of the major highlights:

• Getting in on in the bathroom... by 2 girls
• Rob, Ian and every other boy getting hit on by Frank
• Game Drive & Cultural Tour
• Becoming a Tourist Attraction
• YAKKA PARTY!!! 
• Seeing LIVE animals - Giraffes, Warthogs aka Pumba
• Almost starting a fight between Chris (Ireland) and La Verne (US)
• Witnessing the aftermath of a bus blowing up
• Getting American on stage dancing to "Down" 
• Peter accidentally eating a bug
• And of course all the boys!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY 2011 FROM GABORONE, BOSWANA!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Birthday Weekend!!!

This past Friday was my birthday!!!  Thanks to everyone who came out, I had an amazing time!!!

Friday

I started off the night at Room Service with about a dozen friends for some Thai food and cool exotic drinks.  I had something like... "Frosted Night in Bangkok in the Winter" or something, and they had other fun drinks like "Do Not Disturb" going with the hotel theme.  The venue was very cute.

Afterwards, we went to "Agua Dulce" which was a very cute venue, a lot of people came out including a bunch from GBA.  We had a bunch of drinks, needless to say they got me drunk... but that's not too hard to do!

Finally after we closed out the restaurant, we went to Coppersmith's for more drinks!  Torres was super sweet and drove all the way back after driving Amarelis home to drive Adge and me home!  (Torres if you're reading this, you rock!)

All in all it was an AMAZING night, I feel soo loved and lucky to have such amazing friends! In all honesty, I was super happy that so many people from the different stages of my life came out, especially my GBA friends (I have real GBA friends!)  You guys are the best!!! <3


Saturday

I met up with my bff Steph for lunch at Celsius and finally met her bf Scott, who I totally approve of!  Then we went to get Crumbs, went to see the tree, had Dunkin Donuts, where we split the cupcakes - boy was that fun, and then went to look at the display windows.  Then the 'rents came to pick me up after J-Dawg was done at Regis.

We then went to dinner at Cascarinos and ice cream cake at our house! :)

Great weekend!

Thanks to my wonderful family and friends! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

It's my birthday today!!!!!!!!!

Boy am I getting OLD!

DONEEE for the Semester!!!

I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!

I handed in my final paper and gave my last presentation for the semester today!  Went to bed at 4 AM and woke up around 9 AM - not bad.  Livesey said the presentation was much better and that I had improved, so that was good, although the paper is very rambe-ly.  I'm so done I'm over it!

Now onto birthday celebrations tomorrow! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY J-DAWG!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 17TH J-DAWG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to the best sister in the world!!!

World in 2011 Festival

Yesterday I went to the World in 2011 Festival, which was a day consisting of mostly paneled discussions.  I was lucky enough to interview:

• Matthew Bishop (The Economist) on Philanthrocapitalism
• Zainab Salbi on Women's Rights
• Matthew Valenza (The Economist) on Finance
• Greg Ip (The Economist) on the Economy
• Kah Wallah (Cameroon Presidential Candidate) on Women's Rights
• Mu Sochua (Cambodian Parliament) on Women's Rights
• Admiral Gary Roughead (US Navy) on War Operations
• Nick Shore (MTV) on the Millennium Generation
• Kal Gallagher (The Economist) on Political Cartoons

The interviews will be posted on my page on Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/business-events-in-new-york/elizabeth-tam

World in 2011 Gala

It's weird how everything can go super terrible to amazing in one day.  Last night I covered the Economist's "World in 2011" Festival Opening Gala.  This was my first event as "press" which was kind of cool.  The event was awesome, I made a few friends and even managed to snag a picture with none other than key note speaker President Bill Clinton!!!

Rain Rain, Go Away!

Today was TERRLBEEEEE

I had an interview for GuestofaGuest.com and not only was I late, I was stuck in a terrible rain storm!   I was walking around in the wrong direction for the longest time... thanks hopstop.com... and was fine with a little bit of rain then got hit by a massive monsoon - the type that only last for about 10 mins but are terrible.

When I got to the interview, I was wet dog status - dripping wet hair, and oh yeah I was pouring water out of my shoes... literally - all for a 15 minute interview?!?

By the time I left I was drenched head to toe and had to go shopping for clothes, as I had a presentation at 8 PM for Dr. Dennis' class.  Great.

Presentation went well, happy I'm done.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I am thankful for all of my wonderful family and friends!!!

Photo Shoot & Fashion Show

Today I had a "Guilty Pleasures" photoshoot with Twana H.  My guilty pleasure was "ice cream."  The shoot went well.

Afterward, I went to Fordham for the Urban Go Green Expo.  I got to be in the Eco-Fashion Show, so that was pretty cool! :)

Big Bronx

Big Bronx was this past weekend - Round Robin on Thursday and the actual tournament Friday to Sunday. 

Thursday

The round robin went well, I judged the 1st round of the Congress RR, first ever for us!  It was pretty cool.  I was pretty freaked out about judging for the first time, but I got the hang of it by the end, and had similar rankings to the guy running the round (who was surprisingly my age).

Afterwards, we went to Japonica for dinner, which was a lot of fun!  I got to sit with Lev, my new college policy friends, and Jon's friend Mike from Vassar.  Lots of sushi!!! Yum!!! :)

Friday

I was in charge of the housing portion of reg, I got to see a lot of old friends and Bx Sci alum.  I only had to judge 1 flight today, due to housing stuff.  Which ended up going pretty smoothly!

Saturday

Apparently, everyone thought I was pretty calm yesterday and that I did a goo job!  Jon basically told me I could come in whenever I wanted today, so I skipped round 4, and came to judge round 5-7.  Surprisingly, I only judge flight B's.

I got out of going in tomorrow!!!  So I will sleep in!

Overall it was a good weekend - I got to see some of my favorite people - Melanie, Rohan, Angela, Lev, Jordan, and got to meet and hang out w/ the Bx Sci debate team!  <3

They are so awesome! :)