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I went to the UN Conference thing yesterday. It was so much fun! We had no idea what was happening when we turned up, they handed us yellow envelopes with a country's name on the front. Erin was India, Daniel was France, Chelsea was Georgia, Mousie was Sudan, Peri was Mexico, Lauren was Luithiania or something and I was The United States Of America!!!! We read our country's fact files and then had all these guest speakers about refugees. They provided a delicious lunch and recess :) And then we got to the good stuff, where we had a mock General Assembly.
The first question was 'should Tasmania be allowed to be an independant country from Australia?' and i didnt say anything in that one cos i was still trying to figure out what to do, but it was really fun to watch other people get up and have a go. Then we had a go at being slightly more serious with 'suspected terrorists should be given the same rights as other human beings.' And of course, everyone was sending me notes via the runners because i was the USA. I got a few random people sending notes that didnt write their country on there, so I couldn't reply. But of course, Daniel was ever so sweet, writing, 'Get up and defend yourself you capitalist pig!!!!' The person who handed it to me laughed at me. It was nasty. But very funny.
Chelsea and I had fun passing notes about the terrorists. The runners were reading our notes and Chelsea for some reason wrote: 'Terrorists are bad and they will eat our children.' So i wrote back something about cannibalism and the person who was sending it read it and then showed it to a few other runners before handing it to Chelsea giving the two of us strange looks the whole time. It was very funny. Daniel had convinced me, sadly, and I sent a note to the secretary asking to be put up. (The secretary had also told me and the United Kingdom that we had to speak, so we were ready.) And then they didnt use us! It was so crap! There were people beneath us in the list being asked to speak! It sucked hardcore.
The next issue was something about the relevance of the United Nations. Me and the United Kingdom were just passing notes to each other by that time cos we were really ticked off about not being allowed to speak, when I get another message from the Secretary, saying that the United States had to speak. I politely decined. The messenger then said that i didnt have a choice, and that I had to speak. So then I got the messenger to explain the question to me and he gave me some points to say which i said very inarticulately. It was very embarrassing but quite fun. I think the President was secretly laughing at me. hehehe
Anyway, that was really about it. It was really really really fun and I wish I could do it all again. Then I went to work, and Daniel came to buy stuff from me. It was an okay night at work but nothing special.
Work today was fun, I had a party at Maccas and the kids were lovely and the parents were wonderful. And my dad came back from Thailand today and brings my formal dress! I'm really nervous about seeing it. I'm going to try it on tonight, and I'm not allowing myself to even look at it until then. It's very scary because im not sure if it's going to be up to scratch. *crosses fingers and prays that it is* And other than working tomorrow, I have nothing to look forward to. Sigh.