Seeing as this is my first post on this blog, I thought I should start off with a bang! This past Saturday, I attended the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park! In a prospective crowd of 60,000 people, I was reminded of just how big this city is. How could such a large number of people possibly be in one area at the same time?? What amazed me the most, once we were on our way to the park, was how many people managed to fit into the subway cars. My roommate and I ran across the platform, passed several cars, before we finally squeezed ourselves into one. Despite the intense heat within in the car, we could certainly feel the excitement when we arrived at the 72nd Street station. There's something incredible to be said about a large group of people moving as one, creating a unity normally not found within this gigantic city.
It took a few hours to finally get into the Great Lawn area, but we made it just seconds before Hugh Jackman and Stephen Colbert came out to introduce Coldplay. Now, I could describe everything that happened on that stage in great detail, but that would take hours and as an English major taking a challenging Shakespeare class, I'm technically supposed to be reading the second and third acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream right now (what is sleep?).
However, here are some highlights:
- Ed Sheeran and Beyonce performed an acoustic version of "Drunk in Love"
- Sting performed "Every Breath You Take" with Common
- Leonardo DiCaprio. Need I say more?
- Vice President Joe Biden spoke about ending poverty (feat. an amusing introduction by Chris Martin)
- First Lady Michelle Obama made a physical appearance, and spoke about education for girls around the world (post a selfie and what you learned in school, with the hashtag #62MillionGirls)
~Yessi~
