I am heading down to the United Nations building in New York City. I have not been there before, and am looking forward to getting a tour of the place. Then, our group of fifteen is heading over to a mission to have a discussion with some actual delegates. The most exciting part is that these people directly relate to another trip I will be taking soon to the Model United Nations Conference at Harvard. What is Model UN you ask.

Model UN is a club at my school. We go to three conferences a year at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. At each conference we act as delegates representing the specific country that has been asigned to our school. There are seperate General Assembly committees with around 200 kids and then smaller specialized committees with around 15 to 30 kids. The topics range from Dissarmament to Decolonization to Health Issues.

We are assigned a topic to research and then go to the conference to represent our assigned countries position, not our personal views. We debate the issues and write resolutions. It may sound boring but it is really a great time. (You will find out in some future posts)

So, we will be heading down to the mission of the country that we are representing to discuss the issues and topics that we have been assigned with the actual delegates from our country. Awesome, right?

I will let you know how it goes in NYC and I look forward to being able to blog from the actual conference at Harvard.