Beef and Baked Potato Soup rocks my world.
So, yeah, I'm home "sick". Again. I've missed AP Biology 4 days out of a possible 6. How's that for a track record? On the plus side, Model UN was amazing! Absoballylootely amazing! We had five sessions, and the first four were devoted to working on sustainable procurement. The last one was to work on coral reefs, but there wasn't all that much to do about that, mainly due to the fact that the UNEP, my committee, already has two sub-committees to work on saving them. So, yeah. The first two sessions were spent getting working papers out about sust. proc., then during lunch I combined the best two working papers into our resolution. But Ethiopia had also come up with a resolution over lunch, which she passed in before ours was done. And it had taken the best parts of our working paper, and combined them with a bunch of things that the UNEP doesn't have jurisdiction to do. So, after ours was done being written, we spent the next two sessions debating the two resolutions and such. It got very VERY heated. In the end, however, our resolution won, 35 to 5. In the morning, India, Japan (Chaz), France, the USA, and I (Ireland) wrote a resolution suggesting that we nuke the coral reefs, mainly because we were bored. This is the resolution:
Resolution: 2.1
Committee: UNEP
Topic Area: Coral Reefs
Sponsors: Japan, India
Signatories: France, Ireland, Nigeria, Jamaica, USA, Greece, Hungary
Influenced by the actions of ICRAN and ICRI.
Horrified at the deadly and dangerous nature of Coral and its subsidiaries.
Acknowledging that a supreme deity kills one or more kittens each time new Coral grows.
Zestfully noting the necessity of nations to rid their arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Further noting the potential uselfullness of nuclear weaponry in disposing of the Coral Enemy.
Commending Greece in its precautionary actions in removing the Coral Menace from their oceans.
The UNEP,
1. Demands the halt of the Coral Menace through means such as:
a. Nuclear Weapons
b. IRA Car Bombs
c. Pollution
d. Bottom-trawling
e. Commercial Coral Harvesting
2. Insists a UNEP sub-committee be created, guiding research to discover a means to transform Coral into a depletable fuel source.
3. Violently Suggests that the Economic and Finance Council fund the research for this goal and also fund a global ad campaign targeting the Coral Fiend.
4. Renounces the ICRAN and ICRI from any affiliation to the UNEP for the following ifractions:
a. Crimes against kittens.
b. Crimes against babies.
c. Choosing to promote the Coral Scourge.
5. Requesting that all friendly nations publically condemn the actions of the ICRAN and ICRI.
That's our resolution. Chaz wrote almost all of it, so he deserves the credit. Funny, nay? So, yeah. Other funny stuff included the delegate from Benin being nicknamed Moneybags, then saying that his country is "in the crotch of Africa". Then we found out what Benin is shaped like. A fallic symbol. Yeah, that's right. Naturally, we won't ever let him live that down.
On Sunday, however, came the best news of the weekend, at least for me. I got a Honorable Delegate award!!!! And so did Chaz, and Chris Compton, and two other people from Gloucester. And I started working on some original political theory. Life is so good.
That's all for now. Tinkerty Tonk!
Resolution: 2.1
Committee: UNEP
Topic Area: Coral Reefs
Sponsors: Japan, India
Signatories: France, Ireland, Nigeria, Jamaica, USA, Greece, Hungary
Influenced by the actions of ICRAN and ICRI.
Horrified at the deadly and dangerous nature of Coral and its subsidiaries.
Acknowledging that a supreme deity kills one or more kittens each time new Coral grows.
Zestfully noting the necessity of nations to rid their arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Further noting the potential uselfullness of nuclear weaponry in disposing of the Coral Enemy.
Commending Greece in its precautionary actions in removing the Coral Menace from their oceans.
The UNEP,
1. Demands the halt of the Coral Menace through means such as:
a. Nuclear Weapons
b. IRA Car Bombs
c. Pollution
d. Bottom-trawling
e. Commercial Coral Harvesting
2. Insists a UNEP sub-committee be created, guiding research to discover a means to transform Coral into a depletable fuel source.
3. Violently Suggests that the Economic and Finance Council fund the research for this goal and also fund a global ad campaign targeting the Coral Fiend.
4. Renounces the ICRAN and ICRI from any affiliation to the UNEP for the following ifractions:
a. Crimes against kittens.
b. Crimes against babies.
c. Choosing to promote the Coral Scourge.
5. Requesting that all friendly nations publically condemn the actions of the ICRAN and ICRI.
That's our resolution. Chaz wrote almost all of it, so he deserves the credit. Funny, nay? So, yeah. Other funny stuff included the delegate from Benin being nicknamed Moneybags, then saying that his country is "in the crotch of Africa". Then we found out what Benin is shaped like. A fallic symbol. Yeah, that's right. Naturally, we won't ever let him live that down.
On Sunday, however, came the best news of the weekend, at least for me. I got a Honorable Delegate award!!!! And so did Chaz, and Chris Compton, and two other people from Gloucester. And I started working on some original political theory. Life is so good.
That's all for now. Tinkerty Tonk!