February 9, 2004

• High School conference is finally over, and surprisingly it's kind of saddening. Major props to Mr. Min Tun for seeing it all through. So here's my weekend in summarized detail:

  
  

  First day of conference, we get to meet all the delegates and start listening to them speak. So many demonstrated incredible speaking skills and I was thoroughly impressed.  I went home, did some evaluations until 4am and decided to take a 2 hour nap for the next day. 6am rolls around the corner and I literally attack my alarmclock without really realizing it...so I go back to sleep. Next thing you know its 8:30. Raees calls my cell phone and wakes me up: "Hello," I answer. "What time is it?" asks the voice on the other end. I'm thinking to myself that this is some kind of joke because I don't recognize the voice on the other end. I roll over to look at my alarmclock, "eight thirty," I respond, "WHY?" I'm still wondering who this strange male voice is on the other line. "Where are you?" he asks. Suddenly it dawns on me that its Raees and that I'm supposed to be at Bourns for highschool confrence. "SHIT!" I respond, "I'm coming right now!!!!"  I hang up, scramble to get ready, and rush to school. I park illegally at the nearest lot next to bourns, but I don't care. I run to committee and everything is cool. Saturday was a super long day and it was extremely hard to do evaluations. Min Tun wouldn't let me sneak out of the dance, which was surprisingly pretty poppin', and forced me to dance. Him and Rob attacked me in so many ways it was so unfunny. But good times, good times. I passed on 9 really good position papers for Johnny to weed through and we narrowed it down to 5, which was my limit on awards. Went home again in deep contemplation.  On Sunday I made sure to wake up super early so I could buy all the kiddos donuts for the end. Raees was pushing them hard and they needed something sweet for all the hard work and effort they had put into it. We ended up finishing super early which was good because it gave them time to breathe, and for me to make final decisions. We only went through two and a half topics: UN Reform and Emergency Topic we finished with passing resolutions. The third one one on World Environmental Issues we went through and they turned in resolutions. SO in reality we went through three topics! Thats amazing productivity! I'm just a little disappointed we couldn't go through the third topic in more depth cuz I think a lot more ideas could have been hashed out and refined. We sent out our rapporteur to the security council and vebhore gave me excellent reviews, and they came back with all smiles. All in all, my kids did wonderfully, and I'm just sad I couldn't give out even more awards.  Thinking about writing to their advisors about their delegates' performance and specified tips to help them sharpen their sword for competition...

  
  

  So that was my weekend: a superb experience and a parking ticket. Oh, and a delegate just asked me to be his valentine over email, which i thought was pretty funny, but so unappropriate?  I'll just send him his position paper and scoresheets for the valentines day  Now it's time for the daily grind of school once again...and to prep for external conferences! I hope I get placed on the team, Cuz New York  rocks!!

  
  

  WOw. my grandma just called me to say she misses me back home. weird.

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