the river moves on

Mrs. M

Today I made my debut on Egyptian television. On an elbow rubbing expedition to the Four Seasons for the launch of a conference that is happening here, I came away with two mostly unexpected results.

I've decided that wearing red and being American is definitely the way to get media coverage. Immediately after I started talking to this woman from some TV station she brought over her camera and did an interview about how I thought this conference would help bring peace and what my organization did. After couple minutes of logorrhea, ie verbal vomit, I was approached by another TV station that had seen my stunning appearance and wanted to get a piece of the action.

So if you live in the area check out Nile TV & Al Arabiya on Friday the 3rd and maybe, just maybe, you'll catch a glimpse of a girl in red wearing UN-esque translator headphones, looking falsely fascinated and squinting due to the pain inflicted from my crappy headset.

My next feat of strength occurred during intensive elbow rubbing part deux post incredibly exciting press conference. I met The Mrs. The First Lady of Egypt. I used my international appeal to get through a very small circle of people and ended up talking to her for about 1.5 minutes about AIESEC, about the conference and about the importance of youth involvement. Couldn't be much more mundane, but I did get a nice handshake and pat on the back with a "see you at the conference".

I also chatted to some of the folks at Al Jazeera who were rightly cynical about the entire shindig as they should be.

My sage wisdom of getting media coverage:

1. Wear Red
2. Look Foreign
3. Say incredibly fluffy things in an impressive way

President-hood rocks.

posted by Annika @ 4:25 PM