I really enjoyed MUN due to the fact that I was talking with other people about solving the worlds' problems who actually cared and knew what I was talking about. I really enjoy debating with other people as well as try to convince them to my cause. I also enjoyed trying to creative as well as work with other people on solutions to world problems that all of the countries that we are representing can agree upon. Due to me knowing a lot on the variety of topics that we discussed, I really shined during MUN.
However there was some negative things in MUN as well. One of the negative things is that it seems that almost everyone no matter what the country that they are representing beliefs are on the problem we are trying to solve join a group due to their own personal beliefs and not the country they are representing, the group being the biggest, or just because the "smart" people are there.
Another reason is that the people seem to forget that the when we are debating, we are defending our country's point of view not ours. A experience that happened to me was when we were debating on child soldiers and my country, Libya supported child soldiers. I tried to tell why my country might support child soldiers but the person who represented Canada thought I was expressing my personal opinion and personally attacked me while trying to demonized me to other representatives when she could have listened to what I saying. Not to mention because I sat next to her, every time I did a stuttered, couldn't explain something in words, or pronounced something wrong, she corrected me in a stubborn manner.
However despite all of this, I really enjoyed MUN but I didn't enjoy to point where I would actually want to join MUN due to the fact there are other things I want t o do more then that as an after school activity. One thing that MUN did help me realize that I need to practice on speaking clearly so that people can understand me better.
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