New york Here I come

I have been invited to present an award at the Future Nigerian Awards on sunday,an event which holds yearly to give kudos to all the innovative youth that have made impact in Nigeria it looks to be a great event.with heavy weights such as Ngozi Okonjo Iweala world bank MD and various ministers and first ladies it will be a sight to behold I'm sure.I am also looking forward to seeing one of the nominees, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie hopefully receiving an award for 'young person of the year', and I will be unashamedly chasing her for an autograph as I am a huge fan. I enjoyed 'Half Of A Yellow Sun' even more than 'Purple Hibiscus' I suppose being from Igbo land made me more sensitive to the topics she was dealing with.

Monday morning I am off to New york for the week and I am counting the hours to getting on the plane.I am desperately hoping the flight entertainment will be showing Will Smiths 'I am Legend'.I am a complete sciFi freak ! not to talk of horror movies it doesn't matter how bad they are I'll sit through them to the end.I love plane journeys as you are forced to do nothing (unless you have the kids with you) but meditate and watch an unseemly amount of TV.Tuesday will be an insane amount of shopping at the mall for everyone that is associated with this family, Naija Stylie,even the driver must get a shirt ohh!!,then I am going to see the 'Colour Purple' on Broadway one of my unfulfilled ambitions and do a few comedy clubs.I will also go for a walk in central park, as it is a beautiful space full of hidden adventures, and try not to get mugged.Then there is the food, Americans know how to do food and I will eat to my fill with no guilt attached as I will be walking everywhere!
so on that joyful note I will blog off for the week and let you all in on my adventures when I get back.