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S LO#5

Yesterday I started my MMUN (Montessori Model United Nations) conference in New York. For this conference, I am a member of the bureau. As a member of the bureau, I help lead the committee sessions and volunteer to do anything else needed to keep the conference running. Yesterday I had my bureau meeting to gather the materials we needed for the session and do a little prep work with the other people on my bureau. About an hour after that bureau meeting we had the opening ceremony. During the opening ceremony people essentially welcome all the delegates to the conference, have some speeches, and there is a flag procession. Since I am a Vice-chair I helped with the flag procession. Two delegates that were representing a certain country would carry the flag during the flag procession at the opening ceremony. I was in charge of lining up schools one through ten and guiding them through the flag procession. Other vice chairs lined up school eleven through forty-four. I stood in a specific spot with a sign that said "1-10." Other vice-chairs would bring me delegates whose school numbers were within 1-10. When I got the delegates I lined them up in order of school numbers. It was really helpful having the other vice-chairs bring the delegates because I think it would have been a bit chaotic if I had to do it all by myself. the other vice-chairs also made sure delegates go to their number quickly, so I think the whole process was more efficient because we had a lot of people working together. After all the delegates were lining up all of the vice-chairs walked them to the opening ceremony room. Since I was in charge of groups 1-10 I was one of the first people in the procession and essentially guided all the delegates through it. After getting through the flag processions I started guiding the delegates in the procession to their seats while the procession was finishing. It was really fun to get to walk during the flag procession because I never got to do it when I was a delegate.

  


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