Ode to… SMAMUN? (Osama Malik)
The Independence Day couldn’t have been a better choice to start off the much-anticipated Saint Mary’s Model United Nations (SMAMUN). The global village, essentially a display of the cultures and practices of the representative countries, turned out to be a competition about who could be more noisy and savage(we were literally eating leaves :p)
However, after the wild night, the events of the next day were very disciplined and decorous (ahem ahem). Meticulously clean and sleep-deprived students reached the grounds of Saint Mary’s in time for the first committee session just to discover that punctuality is not always the best policy: the sessions started an hour later than the actual time. Now, anyone who thought that his hind was in trouble for sitting through a painstakingly three-hour-session, was in for a surprise: the delegates abused the power of the ‘Point of Privilege’, running out to the meet at the cafeteria after every half an hour; wanna-be Jim Carreys kept making lame jokes at the Chair, and lovers kept bandying ‘Working Papers’ (yeah right :p) between themselves. Oh and speaking of boring, it was always on the request of the Director that an ‘Entertainment Session’ was started, be it after fifteen minutes after the start of the session or thirty minutes after the end of the break.
Charming, isn’t it?
Oh I completely forgot to mention the speeches…clearly because there weren’t much of them (lol).
I’m glad to go to SMAMUN, not because I finally won something, but because I would’ve missed the great performance of Call the band, which kept us on our toes till the end. Not to mention all the crazy stuff we did during the breaks: going to Cinepax to see two movies in a row, playing mini-golf, riding the ark at Pepsi Jungle, dropping at McDonalds for a McFlurry every opportunity we got, and doing some stuff which I best not mention .
So if you’re going to SMAMUN, make sure you have party-poppers, some jokes to share with your committee, and if out of obligation, some research too :p.
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