Tuesday, March 30, 2010

THIMUN and Student Leader 2009-2010

In September Ms Reeder and Fabio elected to choose two student leaders who would be in charge of heading the meetings each Friday. The role of the student leader was to keep a log of everyone who attended, email all the students if there was an update, and chair the debates we would have each meeting. A few students applied for the role. We had to stand in front of the MUN group and give a presentation on ourselves explaining why we would be a good candidate for a Student Leader role. Luca and I were chosen to be the student leaders.

For the first few months, we would have debates during our meetings and Luca and I would chair the debates. Once we found out that we would be representing Nicaragua in THIMUN we immediately began preparing for the conference.

Each member of the MUN group was assigned a certain aspect to research about the country ie biggest imports/exports, political history etc. Luca, Ms Reeder, Fabio and I held interviews to fill the 10 spots on the delegation. This year we had 10 seniors and 2 juniors attend the conference.

As ambassador, I had to partake in opening and closing ceremonies. During the opening ceremony, I had to walk in with the real ambassador of Nicaragua to The Hague while he carried the Nicaraguan flag. Once in the assembly hall, the ambassador passed the flag to me as a symbol of his trust in me to carry out his duties for the THIMUN conference. Before we went into the assembly hall, we were able to talk to the real ambassadors for a little while. It was truly a great experience being able to talk to him about the debates we had already had in the morning and about the resolution I had written.




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