THOSE LOVELY MEMORIES (:

Wednesday
woke up at 6 in the morning and the first thing that came to my mind was: I don't wanna go for thimun. looyee,crystal,ethel,jia min,sherilyn and me met in compass at 7am and we took bus 156 from there. all of us were dressed in formal wear,so we were all wearing collared long sleeve blouse with skirt or pants. we really blend in well with those working adults,haha. reached hwa chong institution at about 9am,got our name tags from mr lim and we went straight into the different lecture rooms according to our committees to do lobbying. i didn't know anyone in my committee so i had to take the initiative to approach others and try to make friends with them. so after that,we started showing each other our resolutions. i co-submitted 2 resolutions- 1 is the forum on effects of atomic radiation whose main submitter is russia federation and the other is the forum on palestinian refugees whose main submitter is germany. the lobbying was for the entire day and we were all exhausted by 5pm. .

many things went thru my mind throughout the whole day. i was feeling very intimidated. i feel that i'm not even fit to go for this conference. everyone there speaks so fluently and they were all rich in english accent. many of them are from china and korea but they can speak so well,and why can't I?perhaps it's because of the fact that they study in international schools but i can't help but feel inferior. i feel i can't communicate with them properly and i can't really speak my mind out cause i'm afraid i'll say the wrong things. i was feeling so uncomfortable the whole day because i don't feel like myself. rahhhhh! how i wish i studied in an international school. i seriously need to improve my english =X


Today
woke up in the morning still dreading to go for thimun,but i told myself that today will be different frm yst. indeed,everything was way better than yst,it was sucha relief :D we started off with extended lobbying. oh well,there was nth much for us to do so we chatted with each other while the main submitter brought the resolution to the approval panel for it to be approved. got to know my friends better and we talked about more stuffs today =) after that was debate session. i didn't take part in any debates before so it's my first time. learnt lots of things and i really admire the way some people speak,it was fantastic,haha. i think the fun part was the passing of message slips. sometimes the debate gets so boring that we can just fall aslp anytime,so the only way to keep ourselves awake is to pass message slips to each other. of course,the message hv to be related to the topic that is being debated,but sometimes we just want to ask each other personal questions so we started using code language x) the funny thing was that,this RI guy told me that his friend took part in thimun last year,and there was this guy who wrote a message slip to a girl,it wasn't related to the topic at all but it was some sort of love letter. in the end,the admin staff passed the slip to the chair instead of the girl because it was not related to the topic and the chair read the message to the whole forum. of course,the guy was super embaressed,haha!

i learnt alot today,especially during the debate session. i couln't understand the procedures of a debate even after reading the notes,but today's session sort of clarified all my doubts. it feels totally different to experience the whole thing. i'm starting to enjoy this conference [:

posted by janice @ 11:41 PM