Today I have a Montessori Model United Nations (MMUN) working session on bullying. A working session for MMUN is essentially a mini-conference where all the students just focus on one topic and work towards coming to a resolution. For this working session, I was a member of the bureau which means that I helped lead and facilitate the conference, along with my other bureau members. For this working session, we went through what an MMUN Conference would look like while the delegates discussed and came up with solutions for bullying. The delegates each represented an NGO and represented the belief of their NGO. The delegates decided on their subtopics and then were split into two breakout rooms on zoom. I was facilitating one of the breakout rooms. I helped guide the delegates to writing their resolutions, which included pre-ambulatory and operative paragraphs, which are part of how the UN writes their resolutions. We were able to finish a first draft of the resolution, but sadly we had no more time in the working session, so we were not able to go through the rest of the procedures. This student working session is important for global issues because it is important for young people to share their voices and speak up about issues that are important to them. I got to experience this as a delegate and I know get to work with these globally important issues as part of the bureau of MMUN.
Yesterday, my high school had our Lunar New Year celebration. For the past three years, I have been organizing the celebrations. This year, the teacher who supervises my planning wanted to have our celebration with the middle school, so we can get more students involved. I thought this was a great idea, but I was at first worried about how we would accommodate a lot more people in our activities, as we would be going from about 110 people to 180. This meant that I had to purchase a lot more materials for each activity so that all students and faculty could get participate. We also wanted to make sure we all were staying together and really integrating middle school and high school. For Lunar New Year, we always provide lunch, so I thought it would be good to serve food in the middle school, then require that everyone eats in the high school or on the quad. This way, we were all staying together instead of separating into our building. I think that this worked well to keep us all togeth...
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