"Oh Grits are coarseleh ground corn cooked untill soggeh." She winked at him. "and Darlin, Ah'd nevah call a hunk laik that bah mah nickname... Minister..." She said rolling her eyes, "Is what Ah'd call him to his fayss"

"Yes Indeed ah am... but you Hush about that, Mah husband is a big hunk of a Mayn... Rancher he is... Mmmm" She made the same sound as she did when describing Grits...

"It's loveleh sugah..." she looked at the woman's scowl. "Darlin, don't scowl, the wind'll turn and your fays will be stuck layk that forevah and mah Warren here needs a pretteh girl..." She smiled.

"Darlin, we covered this... Ah know! Remembah?" She giggled. "Mah Husband always says Men just flock to you Darlin!" She giggled.

"That woman really shouldn't speak so loud, she sounds layk a mayn..." Abby said shaking her head.

She didn't let go of Warren and smiled at the woman. "How you're plenty healthy!" Abby remarked in the woman's size. "You must keep your mayn happeh!" She cooed.

Bhanuprasad Balasubramanium entered the conference room, a small, intricately woven magic carpet hovering behind him.

"I am so sorry for to be late but I was detained for it was time in my religion that I must pray." He said with a humble dip of his head at the group at large. "Where am I to sit, please?" he asked softly, his magical prayer mat choosing to roll itself up in a cozy corner where it was less likely to be stepped on.

Jess entered the room a bit flustered. She was late because she had had to babysit her neice, and she felt horrible about it. She didn't even know if she had to sit in a certain place or not. She looked around hopelessly as she tied her hair back with a scrunchy.

Angelina’s green eyes noticed someone behind Rico’s shoulders smiling friendly at her.
Ah, it was Nathan Greenwood. It seemed that he had seen her.
She smiled, nicely, back at him, making sure she wouldn’t forget to pass by Level Two to talk with him after the conference, before turning her eyes back at Rico, just in time to hear him talking.

Oh, maybe she hadn’t explain herself very well.
“I meant to say, everything inside this room.” she replied, still smiling. “Well, I wouldn’t say you couldn’t.. after all, people say that everything is possible. I would say that is more than just a little bit hard to have a positive opinion about everything.”
Angelina laugh quietly before speaking. “ Its really good to hear that.”

He couldn’t be more glad than her for some the fact that people had volunteer to decorate.
Angelina could do a lot of things well, pretty well to be precise, and decoration was .. not one of those things.
Well, to be perfectly honest.. she had never spend much time thinking about how to decorate something.
She had too many things going on inside her head to waist time decorating.
“Well.. er.. I suppose while some people have a gift(or can be pretty good) for decoration.. others just weren’t born for it..” Angelina replied looking around, then back at Rico.
Well, the area she had decorated wasn’t that bad.. it was pretty good in fact.
Luck.
“But I suppose you, men, have an excuse not to be good at it. Usually, there are women who are in charge of decoration.”

"My surprise?", Samantha asked, not able to reveal anything to anyone yet. "Well, I don't really have anything planned yet, just hoping that something good is going to result from this convention, that's all. I just have this feeling that it will, but it's hard to explain. And you!", shs exclaimed, diverting attention from herself. "It's you I'm truly happy for. I have a feeling nothing but good things are going to come your way from now on."

Samantha smiled and sat down quickly, realizing that the ceremonies were truly starting this time. "The Minister will be speaking soon, then the foreign dignitaries," she whispered. "That's Reagan Taylor, Undersecretary to the Minister. She's a very important person, and is really responsible for putting this whole conference together." Deep admiration and reverence for Ms. Taylor were evident in her voice.

Egypt tuned around at the sound of her name. A big smile spread over her face when she saw Valeria. "Valeria." She said as she threw her arms around the woman. "I am so glad you could make it. We are so happy to have you." She twirled around with a smile. "You know how the twins do. You should really visit them. They would love to dress you." She told her. Valeria had a wonderful figure, she was a very beautiful woman. "It has been too long. I am sure my mother would love to see you again. You haven't been to Ghana since that Qudditch finals have you?" She asked her.

"Oh forgive me for not introducing you both." She cried. She was a better hostess than that. Her mother would fry her liver for shaming her. Egypt beamed at her. "Yes this is the love of my life. We missed you dearly at the wedding." She told her.

Egypt smiled at her husband. He was always nervous around people that he thought were better than him because of station or money. She would tell him later that Valeria was almost a mail order bride before she got her fist job as a portkey clerk. Valeria was a self made woman who had to overcome a lot of things in her life to get where she was.

Syd looked up and searched the room for the hollering. It sounded like his favorite celebrity chef, but he knew it couldn't be. Though of course this hollering woman possibly knew her... Maybe she had the 5 sticks of butter some of the food needed.

Deciding to see what it is she wanted, he strolled over, plate in hand. Smiling pleasantly to her, he bowed his head a bit seeing as he had to hat no take off.

"Yes ma'am? I believe you were callin' me? Or was it just my imagination that a lovely lady like yerself would do such a thing?" he asked, still smiling.

Valeria turned to the woman that was speaking to her. "I was beginning to think that Bulgaria was not important to protect their minister." She said with a serious face. Then her crystal clear laughter rang out. "I am kidding." she said nudging her Auror. "I am sorry if I was hard to find earlier. I got lost on the tour." She said as a blush crept up her face. The British Ministry was bigger than any other she had seen. "I am Valeria." She offered.

She smiled at him. "So polite and handsome too. You must introduce me to one of your brothers." She told him with a laugh. "It is so nice to meet you Nathan. You must be one hell of a man so have snagged this one." She told him with a wink. "She was such a heart breaker. So many suiters and she never batted a eyelash at any of them." She smiled warmly at Egypt. "But she held out for you and that is something special." She envied Egypt in so many ways.

"Yes I just had a meeting with your father about outfitting Bulgaria's national team with the latest broom from your company. I do need to get down to Ghana to see your mother." She said. "I do need to visit them if these are the creations that they are rolling out." She looked Egypt up and down admiring the robe she was wearing.

"I was so sorry that I could not make it." She told her. "I heard it was beautiful." Well the Riddle family always did things beautifully.

"Ah, well, most of my friends come from the different houses," Cris said, nodding his head, and smiling slightly at the memories. He then grinned full on at her as she reacted positively to his idea of early retirement. "Yep. And I plan on collecting everything there is to collect in Quidditch. I already have a few shelves back home ready for them. I don't know what I'm going to collect first, but at least I have options. Not getting into an International Quidditch Team was a dissappointment for me, but I guess watching each and every game there ever was is as close as I can get," he said proudly.

Then it was her turn to tell her story, and Cris looked at her slightly disdainful. "Really?" He was a bit sorry for her since she was not in control of her life and all. "Well, on the bright side, you got a lot of guidance in your life." He could not say the same for himself, of course, since he himself decided to run away from home at an early age. Call him rebellious, but he liked the idea and never regretted it. "And, nah, I won't be waiting for the day you tell me. For all I know, I might be able to get in there, too." Heh. As if.

Dree smiled. Then she cocked her head. "A..Rancher? Oh! Itsn't that someone who runs around taking care of animals? What type of animals does he take care of?"Dree asked smiling.

Dree looked around and spotted a lady all by herself. Dree walked over. "Hello, my name is Dree. What's yours? If you want, you could sit with me."Dree said, smiling kindly to her.

Kaylee walked up to the newcomer as no-one seemed to be paying him any attention. She was tempted to say 'On your bum' in answer to his question but thought it might offend him. "Hi there" she greeted him with a warm smile. "The name's Kaylee Whittaker, Australian Minister for Magic" she lowered her head towards him and whispered, "I don't know where I'm supposed to sit either, so looks like we're in the same boat" she gave a small chuckle.

"So, who might you be then?"

Reagan noticed that many of the foreign Ministers were not joining her on stage as she had requested. Either they hadn't heard her, they were confused, or they were blatantly ignoring her. And they better not have been blatantly ignoring her. It was bad enough her own Minister did that. She didn't need it from the visiting ones too.

Reagan announced again, elevating her volume to be heard above the crowd, "Can I please request that all our of visiting Ministers of Magic join me on stage?" She smiled at the few Ministers she saw to indicate that she was addressing them.

Brian let out a relieved sigh once he heard Reagan's call. Finally! Atleast a relief from the embarrassing enquiries and question. He moved forward, standing near by the stage, for in case if she need him to hand over any last minute work.

Jess looked around when she heard someone talking to her. "Oh, um, sure I'd love to," she replied. "I'm Jessica Miller," she introduced herself, "Nice to meet you, Dree!"

Maybe they were both mixing up their words now; what Rico really wanted to say was that he couldn't be in a bad mood around beautiful Angelina....but he couldn't. He couldn't say something like that just yet.

"This is true," he answered her with a smile. Decorating could be considered a talent, surely, something similar to art skills. Rico wasn't bad at art, he just....couldn't decorate. It was something with matching colors and stuff. Ugh.

He chuckled a little at Angelina's statement though. "Do you really believe that?" Rico raised an eyebrow. "I thought those sort of gender assumptions were a thing of the past...otherwise, I mean, I'd ask you if you cooked some of this food. It's delicious." He grinned and took another sip of his chicha morada.

But then, he finally heard the Senior Undersecretary calling all the ministers to the stage...which meant that the ceremony must be starting. "I think we're supposed to go sit down somewhere...." he mentioned casually, hoping that she would sit next to him somewhere...if she didn't have to go sit with the Minister, of course. Because she could just be that important - what did Rico know?

Piper made it to the conference, she was amazed by the number of people that has gathered around and waited to see what was going to happen. As she heard the undersecretary call for the minister, Piper turned to see them. She always wanted to meet the ministers of the world and that was her chance.

"Oh Mah Word! Sugah!" She went all blushy and such, "Yer makin me blush! But it's not fer me that Ah called ya ovah, Have you met Lorraine? She's a dream!" Abby loved playing matchmaker.

"Awl tahpes, Darlin!" She told the girl.

"Oh what in tarnation..." she said to no one in particular and let go of Warren touching her throat with her wand. "Keep yer panties on Missy, we're a comin!" and she grabbed the Indian minister, the Bulgarian one and the Australian one and dragged them up on stage with her. Abby was rather bossy. "Y'all need to relax- Woops... Hang on..." she tapped her throat with her wand. "Sorreh, Ah keep forgettin to turn it oaff," she said in a giggle, "Alright Sugah, whaddya need darlin?"

Samantha watched as one of the ambassadors, she thought it was the one from the United States, took the stage, dragging three other ambassadors with her in the process. Her interest picked up, this was going to prove more interesting than she had originally even thought, after all! She couldn't wait to hear from this woman had to say.

Armen looked down at her plate to the bars. "Sure i'll get some then we can find a seat." He smiled motioning to a table nearby.

Lucy nodded.
"Probably the whole department. It makes sense. I believe everybody in the Ministry is here." she said, looking around. What she didn't want to admit was that she was also looking for Jake.
She decided she'd judge him better in of she known somebody else's opinion.
"So, what do you think about Jake?" she asked, trying to make it sound casual.

Jose walked up to the stage as requested. This was the price to be paid for the office he held. So much unpleasant fuss.

ooc: sorry it took me so long :)
 

Teal nodded as Rowan said she liked meeting new people, it really was pretty interesting especially if that person was from a foreign country. “Indeed.” Teal mused, and watched as her and Vlad acquainted themselves.

As they did so, Teal looked to that crate and decided that it would be a nice touch. He swiftly took out his wand, pointed it at the box, and with a soft pop it cracked open. The shiny, little fairies tore from the box and quickly dispersed high in the tops of the room, shedding light and hopefully, happiness.

Grinning as Rowan thought a drink was a good idea as well, he made his way to the beverage and food table. He wasn’t hungry at all, so Teal merely picked up a goblet and filled it full with firewhisky. Taking a tender sip, Teal’s satisfaction was finally reached as the burning, yet pleasant, feeling ran through his veins.

Reagan had made her way to the stage, and requested that everyone find a seat. Teal sighed slightly and turned to Rowan and Vlad, “I guess we better.” He said with a wry grin and headed over to a row of vacant seats, settling in. He craned his neck, in pursuit of Lorraine, but he still couldn’t see her. Teal took a hefty sip from his firewhisky and pressed his lips together tightly as he withdrew his cup. “Where is Brennan?” Teal asked slightly rhetorically, but to Rowan. The Minister should have been here before all of them.

James stepped quietly into the conference room, seeing the meeting was about to start. A Ministry witch asked for the Ministers to take the stage.
He looked around and saw Piper.

He made his way silently over and took a seat, nodding his head in a nonverbal "hello". James turned his attention to the stage and watched, not knowing what to expect.

Jake listened to what she said, nodding. He blushed a bit and added to her words, "Thanks. If it wasn't for you, it wouldn't have ever happened!" And this was indeed the exact truth. He would always and forever be grateful for what she did. Always.
He plopped down next to her and looked up at the stage where Samantha was pointing. He saw a woman there, and according to Samantha, she was the undersecretary to the Minister. Wow, talk about being important! Even Samantha admires her, he thought as he caught the tone of her voice. "I take off my hat for her then. She really did an excellent job with this conference." he said, still looking at the woman. And she's so young, too!

Andrina smiled at Cris's words and she nodded. "Collecting things? Like what? Famous artifacts? Like the snitch Harry Potter first caught?" She asked, knowing that artifact was world famous. "That would be disappointing, but I think you are right, watching ever game does count." She said with a soft smile.

"Yes really, but i guess I can not fault the guidance I have gotten as you said, as well as the job I managed to get." She knew it was a high honor to be an Unspeakable. As well as a big headache, for she couldn't tell anyone what was stressing her out. "Hmmm you never know." She said slightly mysteriously. "It's possible." She grinned. "Just don't commit a crime and end up in my department." She said with a soft smile.