UN for president

the last couple of days have been hectic, exciting, ridculous, inspiring and loads more. I was at the United Nations Information Communications Technology Task's Global Forum which meant i wore a suit for the first time in about a year, and got to meet various international hero's, private sector big wigs, eg accidentally set jacket on the Education minister of Ghana's stuff :)

i got invited by this crazy old guy(brendan) i know from here, who works for the irish government and is vice chair of the taskforce, so he blagged me an invite. it was cool to be back in the place where i was expectant of what God was going to do and had no idea what i was up to :)

so brendan is the greatest networker in all the world, within about a minute of arriving he has introduced us to about 50 people (us - another guy, Mike who is researching learning techniques, but brendan litterally bumped into on the street one day)

anyway there is a small group of youngish people there (20s) the youth caucus of the WSIS Jenifer from canada, dieogo from brazil, titi from nigeria, mija from serbia, jullia from germany. So after a bit of riverdance at a reception they are clearing off to have meeting (this is at like 9pm!) and they invite mike and i along!

so here we are being asked to input on a slot that they have addresses the whole forum the next day! so we chat away and Mike brings us a few views on education and then they decided that they would like an intervention from an irish person (intervention means that you personally address the whole floor - all the ppl) mike said he was leaving the next day so that meant it fell to me, i very very nearly bust out laughing at the concept me addressing the UN ICT! Anyway Mike realised the opportunity that it was and changed his plans so that he made the intervention (which seeing i havent a clue about education was defo for the best)

but yeah we continued to hang out with these guys and who knows what will come of it in the future, but it was crazy, ill write some of the relflections i have about how we can pray specifically into certain areas and stuff but another great adventure :)