concrete jungle

How does one describe New York. Each i would assume would have a different take on the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle were dreams are made of. Here is my take on this big beautiful city. It is over populated (as it would be, it’s New York), tall buildings, dirty and yet it has an allure to it. On our first arrival we assumed the bus was wrong so was Claire and every one who had been there before because where we were dropped of was nothing like Gossip Girl or Brown sugar or any other movie that was made in New York. As we soon made our way to the Subway with luggage in hand ( you can only trust a girl to bring 2weeks worth of clothing for just a weekend) we made our way to our residence. Having already been told that the evenings would be packed with formal events we soon made our way to our first one at the SA Consulate General offices. There we were greeted with the smooth music of Hugh Masikela and South African traditional cuisine even iwisa made an appearance. Soon we started our meet and greet with the guests, some were South African and worked in the office of the Consulate and some were deployed in the UN security council and others were under the employment of Standard Bank and various other corporations.

It was an amazing opportunity to be amongst such greatness in one evening and yet it bothered me the most that we had to come all the way to the US to get to speak with people in the offices of importance in our own countries and that only 15 students would be amongst the lucky ones to hear about the on going struggles that is faced by the SA UN Security Council members, hearing of the great job that the consulate was doing in New York to bring awareness about our own country. I still find it truly sad that we had gotten such opportunity that some will never receive and some times it may not even be their lack of enthusiasm with regards to the issues affecting them directly and indirectly but rather the unavailability of the opportunity to availing itself to the people that may also want to hear about it the most.