Thursday, June 26, 2008
MYSELF AT ASEAN! AHAHA
The ASEAN Plus conference was a conference organized by Dunman High, where students of various schools would represent various countries and debate regional issues and problems and hopefully resolve them, thus learning the importance of regional cooperation. For my school, we got selected to represent Japan, which intially was quite hard for me cause well, besides for the fact that it produced good anime, I knew nothing about the country.
The 1st and 2nd day were fun, as commitee sessions took place. I was in the ATCSC, where we debated about the topic of terrorism and how to put forward a working resolution to address the issue. On the 1st day I was rather hesitant to speak, this being my 1st conference, but by the second day I was out in full force, debating and protecting "Japan's" interests in the resolution. Crisis session on the 2nd day was fun too, as Japan managed to put together and sponsor a resolution to help alleviate the "sudden crisis of floods that have hit South Asia". We managed to get it passed too.
Plenary session on the 3rd day was a bit too long, but we managed to get our ATCSC resolution passed, which makes me happy I guess. Well from these 3 days I learnt how to compromise and cooperate but the most important thing I guess was that I felt the power of Dunman CO, which performed on the 1st day and left me speechless. Later, my chairperson(who was from CO) told me that they regarded RVCO as serious competitors. So pressurizing for us. Hahaha.
And now, pictures!:
My Delegation, Japan, a.k.a ACJC
My Committee, ATCSC
i want this to last 4:50 PM