Model United Nations (MUN) is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda. The participants role-play as representing a country in a simulated session of an (committee) of the United Nations, such as the Security Council or the General Assembly. Participants research a country, take on roles as diplomats, investigate international issues, debate, deliberate, consult and then develop solutions to world problems. In general, the participants that the executive panel considers to be most contributing are given awards, such as ‘Best Delegate Award’.

Emersyn has been preparing for MUN for the past couple months. She was assigned a country – India. Her topic of debate is human trafficking. She left on Thursday morning excited to participate in the International MUN Conference in Kuala Lumpur (KL). As always for Emersyn, none of her friends had joined MUN. She is fine going without a “buddy” and has discovered it opens the door for new friendships. From the repots of her excited tales, she had a blast in KL. She missed Easter at home – we missed her, but she didn’t miss us!

Her resolution passed and Emersyn did come home with an award again this year. She was given the award of “Most Diplomatic Delegate”, the same she received last year. Very few awards were handed out for the entire MUN delegates so she was all smiles showing us her achievement.