WCDMUN

 My second MUN, yet still very daunting. Around 200 delegates representing far-flung countries including China, the Russian Federation and New Zealand.

Fueled by a potentially lethal concoction of caffeine and jelly snakes, I headed to Wesley. I can be forgiven for my antics, as the conference started on the same day that we returned from Gartan. Although we were on a mental high following the great week, physically, we were drained. Nonetheless, our delegation (which was that of the Netherlands, by the way), carried on regardless.

On Friday we split into our committees and handed in our resolutions. I was on the Economic and Social committee , or ECOSOC for short. In the last MUN conference I had attended, I had been on the disarmament committee, yet, being quite the pacifist, I couldn't handle all the talk about terrorism and guns!

It was much to my surprise when I received a note from the chairpeople informing me that my resolution was going to be discussed. Naturally, I was ecstatic - But that didn't guarantee me any success with it. We began discussing it on Friday evening at around 8. We had to pause the proceedings at 9 o'clock as it was time to go home. Fortunately, as the case may be, at that stage I was in a vegetative state of tiredness and disillusion, so for my own sake, it was a relief to go home!

Feeling rather refreshed on Saturday, we went back to the school and began discussing my resolution again. After about two hours, we reached the voting procedure. By a handful of votes, my resolution passed!

We spent the hours following drinking tea, deliberating and discussing. My committee passed another two resolutions in this time.

After lunch we went to GA (General Assembly) - I really should have a glossary for this blog post! - This was where all the delegations gathered together irrespective of which committee each delegate was on. We began discussing an emergency resolution about ISIS. A resolution about NGOs working with governments followed. Unfortunately, though we put up our placard a number of times, we were only recognised once.

It was another really enjoyable MUN, and as a delegation, we are looking forward to the next one. Well done to all of you!