Colin Powell

Friday night March 23rd I helped volunteer at the Colin Powell event. For the event the doors opened up at 4:30 and General Powell started talking at 6 pm. At the beginning I had to stand at the doors and help the ticket takers out. If anyone was to come in with a handicap ticket I was to show them where their seats were located. There were about 100 volunteers and everyone was in charge of a section of the stadium or something else. I was in charge of section VV, which was the handicap section located on the second floor. This was a very interesting speech. I wasn't able to catch all of the speech because I was helping out here and there but from what I heard it was amazing. Gen. Powell is very funny, the one thing that he mentioned that he misses from being secretary of state is his private jet. He enjoyed walking out of the airport and having red carpet and security protect him from all the people around. When he would be walking to his jet the pilot would start the opposite side engine, and then once he would get to the stairs the other engine would turn on. The pilot and Gen. Powell were in sync with the starting. Once he would get into the plane the pilot wouldn't take off until he had a diet coke in his had. Also while he was speaking there was a small caption on the screen with a sign language interpreter. It was a very good event and I am happy that I was able to attend it.