Lunch Panel

The best things about Geneva is that you can attend a lot of conferences, seminars, and panel exhibitions of well known professors and professionals from very respectable and relevant fields. It's especailly great for a student who has a very flexible schedule.

This time I had the privilege to go to a brown bag panel meeting on topic of preventing natural disasters through climate change mitigation. It was hosted by the Geneva mission of Japan and had various specialists and country representatives discussing the subject. The different perspectives were very interesting and really intruiging, especially having been a victim and victim family of the tsunami in 2011. The only down side to it was that the representative from Japan was absolutely terrible. He couldn't speak English at first of all and he's the first secretariat. Second of all, why send that kind of person to a panel discussion? I almost wanted to stand up and speak on behalf of him. But in any case, the best part was that the lunch was catered by the Japanese representative organization hence it was sushi. In a city in which a simple sushi platter can cost over $30, I stuffed myself with however much my tummy can take!