..... Diplomats of Tomorrow

The first time I ever heard about Model United Nations I was unsure about what it would be like? but then I took it as a challenge and went ahead with it, and started on my journey to my first ever MUN (Model United Nations) experience.


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From being unsure, I went to getting selected to being the head delegate and leading my delegation. The country for us came to be OMAN, and for me the committee was IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

Well started my journey on the road to munning as the experienced people  like to lovingly refer to it.

FIRST DAY:

We started off on a good start, and must i say i fell in love with my committee for it truly was the best there was at MUNIK 2010. Must I say at first I was intimidated by the intellectual level of the people around me, but at the same time i felt like i belonged, and then started the grueling and times fun debates of Nuclear disarmament and the NPT treaty with USA and Israel being bashed a lot.
    Our little delegate of Iran was quite the active one. and also Russia and Cuba made awesome points, and well Poland was all about the techie side of the agenda.
 Our entertainment session was the most memorable with my rendering of "GABBAR SINGH AT MUN" being so popular that I was constantly requested for it for the next 2 days :-p Also who can forget the chicken dance of Brazil, or the somewhat weird song choice of the Delegate of USA, (Sexual Healing was the song)
and then Iran's wish to dance and Russia's retort " Iran can't Dance She'll be killed" :-p (damn the stereotyping people)

The social for the first day was entitled "Tides of Peace" a beach party unlike any other, it was nice to see all the intellectual giants of MUNIK 2010 (mind you everyone was head and shoulders above the rest) get down and dance to the awesome beats of the DJ. And the food, and how we piled the plates all is cool, and the fun we had on the way to the beach and all the way back.






 SECOND DAY:

Ah the beach party was tiring and fun, but well everyone was sharp at 8 present and ready to get down and start the debate to save the world,  we started off as usual with a roll call, with our ACD (Assistant Committee Director) doing his unique style of roll calling " Libbbbyaaaaaa" and boy oh boy did we have crises situation that bombed all other crises situation into nothingness. An all out Nuclear War b/w Iran, North Korea, And USA, with Russia joining in the fray. All that was expected did happen and a lot that was never expected also happened, Russia's president gets kidnapped turns up at Oman, seemingly captured by  a terrorist orgainziation, now this tested my own skills, but Oman found him, and then Obama got killed which made Russia jump with joy and USA very upset, and well you know Kenya finally woke up from sleep and said the best line of em all " Kenya would like to find the assasanitors of Obama, because he is black and we are black and we black should stick together"

and Zimbabwe throughout the crises stuck to his stance for AID not AIDS unlike some other delegates form other committees were constantly asking for :-p

Even though it was 5 and the session ended but the Russian delegate still wanted to go about solving the crises, North Korea Stuck to his guns all the way, and Oman and turkey were constantly trying to make the warring factions see the light. and stop aggression. and well China was China, completely neutral during the whole crises.

The second social event was the masquerade ball, which kinda in my opinion resembled a high school prom, with gowns, and fabulously dressed ladies, with masks, and guys sharply dressed in tuxedos, and the IBA house band rocked, i must say wicked cover of the song BORN TO BE WILD, and the IAEA ACD and DISEC chair, totally owned the dance floor.






THIRD DAY:
Well the third day started off really early for me, cause I was the head delegate and we had to attend a special meeting.

ah well what a day it was, we became the first report writing committee in any MUN in Pakistan to pass a report unanimously, the Delegate of OMAN would like to brag here about how the segments were decided and how people worked, and how OMAN got voted into the authors list,and how even India, Israel and Pakistan became the signatories.

and then came the entertainment session where our ACD totally rocked the floor with his awesome dance performance, and the awesome urdu speec by North Korea and the sad story of Poland's lost love life.

Above is a picture of the IAEA committee, my committee, it was so much fun and credit goes to our Director,and ACD for making it such a memorable MUN experience.


CLOSING CEREMONY:

The closing ceremony came, and then the awards began, wow, what a privilege it was to win the Distinguished Diplomat Award in my Committee along with Poland and North Korea. The announcement of " THE interesting Delegate of OMAN" left me in a daze, winning the highest individual honor at an MUN on your first MUN is something to be remembered forever.

Me and My delegation

PERSONAL NOTE:
MUN has helped me grow into a better human being, sharpened my mind to razor edge to think and to react and to adapt all the while without sacrificing your principles. Also for the first time in my life I felt normal, and not alienated, because everyone one of the delegates the secretariat were intellectual giants in their own rights,and feels good to have people who are at par with a higher intellectual level.

I have been blessed to have met each and everyone one of you. may the friendships forged in these 3 days endure the tests of time.

© 2010 posted by Mustafa Ali Khan Afreedi (DarkMystic)