Donuts and Chinese Food

both of which have been very important parts of my life in the last three days. Because of course the last three days have been the third annual LCS(lincoln Community School) MUN(model united nations) conference. You would be amazed at the level of randomness that goes into creating a good MUN conference. We had four schools participating, two from Ghana, one from Burkina and one from Turkey. Two of the Turkey students are staying at my house and they are so awesome. We've had many good conversations and they even showed me some sweet Turkish folk dancing. Its good stuff. So at the conference the other day (its at the Kofi Anan Peacekeeping Center which i think is pretty sweet) we were discussing a pretty ridiculous topic and a resolution(the written 'answer' to the problem) that made next to no sense. But alas, we as chairs of the committee had to try and keep the debate going. So i called upon the delegate of France to tell us his country's opinion on the resolution. And he proceeded to give a brilliant and thoroughly hilarious analogy of a donut. "this resolution is like a donut. It makes us happy and gives us feelings of joy and it has lots of delicious crunchy things in it. Even though it is lacking in some areas, hence the hole in the middle, it still makes us happy and makes us laugh" By this time none of us can keep a straight face and no one is taking this seriously (bad chair anna). THEN the delegate of China rises and states "The delegate of china agrees with the delegate of France(welcome to trying to talk at MUN it tends to get ridiculous) to some extent. However, donuts are bad for you. they make you fat" Thank you delegate of china for clearing that up for us. Now during this inspiring and very productive debate, the delegate of the UK has been shooting rubber bands at the delegate of china and this is starting to get on chair anna's nerves. So she gives him a look and a carefully whispered "stop it!". Three of those later she gives up. " The chair would like to remind all delegates, in particular the delegate of the UK, that rubber band shooting is completely out of order. She would like a written apology to the entire committee." This is the written apology, somewhat paraphrased. "The delegate of the UK would like to apologize to the entire committee for assaulting the delegate of China, but the delegate of the UK does not like communists or chinese food". Now all decorum and protocol is officially out the window. laughing is now in order delegates.
just a little taste of MUN for you. Ill tell you about the MUN/Lincoln dance in the next post. cause this one is too long. Get excited cause its good