KLIMUN

This entire week has been devoted to the KLIMUN (Kuala Lumpur International United Nations). It is a kind of conference that aims to simulate an actual United Nations conference in solving a particular problem. We sign up as delegates and choose to represent a certain UN country in a certain committee (political, economical, technological etc) My group represents Sweden and I chose to represent the ecological committee. Because it's an international event, delegates from many countries came as well. We have a whole group Czech Republicans here, as well as some from Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe and other countries.

The actual conference started on Tuesday where we were supposed to be lobbying and forming allegiances with other countries, obtaining signatories and donations and writing resolutions. Everything would have gone smoothly that day if only the news that the SAT results had not come in at a critical moment when we were finalizing our resolutions. As a result, there was a slight panic and confusion among some of the AUP students of INTI... Luckily I found that I had passed the cut-off point of 1800 marks... with an entire section missing from the final score... How lucky >.<

The second day was for the committee debate, where we presented each of our resolutions and voted for them. This is where the situations are simulated as in real life. It was interesting, with some amusing debates by the different delegates. They also presented us with a crisis that we were supposed to solve in 20 minutes, divided by continent. Europe (our continent) was the only that joked and laughed through the entire 20 minutes, and our resolution was the one that passed.. so of course we were talking about it some time after that... We were also just informed today that our resolution made it to the General Assembly on Saturday, which means it was among the best in our committee. At least we got something out of it.

We're going to have the mid-term exam for computer class next week, right after KLIMUN... 500+ pages of the book and I've barely touched anything. This will be a first.. Let's see what happens then... O.o