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 together during lunch. For the other activities, it was pretty easy to get us all together. The first activity was a presentation that the middle school made, and we were all able to fit into the high school to listen to it. Then we had a lion dance, which we watched on the basketball court. After the lion dance, we had our chopstick relay race, which was a lot harder to supervise with a lot more teams playing. Keeping cheating to a minimum was difficult, but everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and were happy with the outcome of the race. I think that overall the celebration was a success and really fun, and I am really proud of myself for being able to plan an event for a really large amount of people and have it be successful. It seemed like people really enjoyed the celebration and got to learn a lot about Lunar New Year and how it is celebrated.
September 30, 2021 Last Thursday I went to my MMUN Internship. For my internship, I work with Upper Elementary students (4th-6th grade) and I help them get prepared for the Montessori Model United Nations (MMUN) conference, which will be held in February. This week the students I am helping, needed to be sorted into their topics and committee rooms so that they can start research on their topics and countries. I volunteered to do this for my supervisor so she could focus on the other things that needed to get done. I prepared a form that listed all the topics and their descriptions for the students. I had them pick their top three topic choices so that I can sort them into groups based on their topic choices. When I got their forms back I started working on sorting them all into their topics and committee sections, with the other interns that I work with. This process was quite difficult, because some topics did not have enough people that chose them, so some student...
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