MUN 2012

COMUN  2012 was a great success. As the Head of Administration which is the 3^rd highest position, I had a lot of responsibility, perhaps even more than the two positions above me. To the week leading up to conference, I did SO much work and stayed late in school almost everyday whether it be sorting out placards with my deputy head of admin or sorting out packages, parcels, certificates, purchase requisitions, placards, etc. In addition, I single handedly handled the 3^rd day which was taking place at Cinnamon Grand thus I was always in contact finalizing details, etc. with my contact from Cinnamon Grand. In addition to organizational aspects, Suleik, my deputy head and I had a lot to do in terms of training the admins and assigning them final responsibilities, etc.

The day prior to conference which was the 1^st of March, I along with some others were at school till around 11.00pm working on MUN related things. As conference finally approached and after 8 months of hard work, things went really smoothly, especially aspects I was in charge of. There were a few errors such as one room not having enough seats, a slight mix up with assigning of countries however they were all things that the EXCO worked around and problem solved. On the 3^rd night, the Head of Logistics (Jaish) along with myself transported all the banners, equipment, printers, etc. to Cinnamon Grand in the night and later on that night most of the EXCO joint us as Cinnamon Grand to set up for the following day.

The 3^rd day was an absolute success and everyone was completely impressed whether it be delegates, faculty advisors, viewers, etc. this made me feel especially good as I was completely in charge of the final day. The arrangements, food, setting, staff were all very helpful and I received very good feedback from the faculty advisors who said I did an excellent job. In addition, Suleik and I received an award for the Best Admistrative staff which were decided upon feedback from the faculty advisors as well as Miss Jasmine and Miss Snyder. The conference went amazingly well!

I learnt many skills through the entire experience. I increased the awareness of my own strengths as I realized I’m very good at organizing events, getting people to listen to me, etc. I also learnt what I need to work on in the context of COMUN as I realized I need to get slightly more familiar with MUN protocol and world issues.  Throughout this entire process I undertook new challenges such as being completely in charge of the final day in which I had a lot riding on me. This process forced me to plan and initiate activities but more importantly it allowed me to collaborate with others and that is something I think I did quite well. Despite me getting extremely stressed out during tense situations, I felt as if I got the opportunity to work with different people ranging from different ages to races and people with different outlooks. The conference itself engaged with issues of global importance and lastly, throughout the past 8 months, despite things getting hard I believe I showed a lot of perseverance. I am right now most likely to get the position of Secretary General 2013 as every single member of the EXCO excluding one voted for me. If and when it finally is made official, I would achieve a goal I set at the beginning of the year in which I said I want to be Sec Gen ’13. I’m proud of myself :)

MUN 2012

COMUN  2012 was a great success. As the Head of Administration which is the 3^rd highest position, I had a lot of responsibility, perhaps even more than the two positions above me. To the week leading up to conference, I did SO much work and stayed late in school almost everyday whether it be sorting out placards with my deputy head of admin or sorting out packages, parcels, certificates, purchase requisitions, placards, etc. In addition, I single handedly handled the 3^rd day which was taking place at Cinnamon Grand thus I was always in contact finalizing details, etc. with my contact from Cinnamon Grand. In addition to organizational aspects, Suleik, my deputy head and I had a lot to do in terms of training the admins and assigning them final responsibilities, etc.

The day prior to conference which was the 1^st of March, I along with some others were at school till around 11.00pm working on MUN related things. As conference finally approached and after 8 months of hard work, things went really smoothly, especially aspects I was in charge of. There were a few errors such as one room not having enough seats, a slight mix up with assigning of countries however they were all things that the EXCO worked around and problem solved. On the 3^rd night, the Head of Logistics (Jaish) along with myself transported all the banners, equipment, printers, etc. to Cinnamon Grand in the night and later on that night most of the EXCO joint us as Cinnamon Grand to set up for the following day.

The 3^rd day was an absolute success and everyone was completely impressed whether it be delegates, faculty advisors, viewers, etc. this made me feel especially good as I was completely in charge of the final day. The arrangements, food, setting, staff were all very helpful and I received very good feedback from the faculty advisors who said I did an excellent job. In addition, Suleik and I received an award for the Best Admistrative staff which were decided upon feedback from the faculty advisors as well as Miss Jasmine and Miss Snyder. The conference went amazingly well!

I learnt many skills through the entire experience. I increased the awareness of my own strengths as I realized I’m very good at organizing events, getting people to listen to me, etc. I also learnt what I need to work on in the context of COMUN as I realized I need to get slightly more familiar with MUN protocol and world issues.  Throughout this entire process I undertook new challenges such as being completely in charge of the final day in which I had a lot riding on me. This process forced me to plan and initiate activities but more importantly it allowed me to collaborate with others and that is something I think I did quite well. Despite me getting extremely stressed out during tense situations, I felt as if I got the opportunity to work with different people ranging from different ages to races and people with different outlooks. The conference itself engaged with issues of global importance and lastly, throughout the past 8 months, despite things getting hard I believe I showed a lot of perseverance. I am right now most likely to get the position of Secretary General 2013 as every single member of the EXCO excluding one voted for me. If and when it finally is made official, I would achieve a goal I set at the beginning of the year in which I said I want to be Sec Gen ’13. I’m proud of myself :)

Updates

Creativity (MUN) - MUN has been crazy recently as the conference is two weeks away. I've had A LOT of work to do such as sorting out the invitations, organizing all things relating to Cinnamon Grand, sorting out ID cards, sorting out banners and sponsorships, etc. It's been a little stressful however I've got all my tasks completed whilst balancing them out with my acedemics. I've shown both collaborative skills as well as leadership skills within the past weeks as I've also had to delegate. The conference should be interesting :)

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Goals -
1) Give the children a pleasent learning environment.
2) make sure he murals painted are attractive and colourful.
3) Make a child's day.
4) Make something the kids will be proud of.
5) Help develop the school. The tsunami which took place on the 26th of December 2004 destroyed many houses/schools, etc. along the costal area.. thus everyone school/house being created or imprpoved is a symbol of development.

Tuesday 24th January 2012 - On tuesday we first played with the children for the first half an hour but at a point, some people went off to start working on their induvidual projects such as maintanence work, murals, etc. The wall we had to create a mural on had a couple of elephants drawn on it and we were instructed on keeping those elephants. Hence my group mates and I (Zara and Margarret) decided to turn it into an underwater world. We used blue's to paint the water and there after painted fish, star fish, turtles, etc. we ensured that it was very colourful.We were orginally going to paint trees in the background however due to time constrains we decided to paint the background light blue. We planned on completing and adding finishing touches to the mural the following day. I was quite impressed at my groups cooperation today as having to work with an existing image was tricky yet we came through. In addition, even though I was group leader, I didn't feel as if I needed to tell people what to do as everyone did an outstanding job, all collaborating really well.

Wednesday 25th January 2012 - On Wednesday we added final touches to the mural and Onkar and Bryce helped paint the top bits of the mural as we couldn't reach. Thereafter Ashwini and I had to write sinhalese on the inside of the school which was definetely tricky as I havn't written sinhalese in a long time but it came through in the end. There after I drew flowers on the wall and tried to make it more attractive. There after I helped with minor jobs here and there such as sanding, painting, etc. The day however was a short day as we had to do a performance. We sand "Stand by me" and a sinhala song "rambari". The sinhala song was a little bit of a fail as I didn't know the words but everyone had fun with it. We got to see the children performing too and they were absolutely adorable.

Thursday 26th January 2012 - The following day we went site seeing and saw two temples. One temple was on the top of a rock so it was tiring getting up there in the really hot sun. Later on we went on a safari which was quite fun.

During this week I believe I really undertook new challenges as I had never painted a mural prior to this and taking into consideration the preasure to make it look appealing, I think I did a good job. We also had to make use of our collaborative skills as we had to collaborate with other people in our class. Even though it was tricky at times, it was a group effort which eventually made everything a success. Lastly, peservereance was shown as the murals did get tedious to do due to the heat, etc. however everyone struck through it in order to make it succesful.

Goals for 2012

Last year was quite a successful year regarding my CAS activities. I felt like I did a lot when it came to MUN (creative) and Cleft Palette (Service). For MUN last year we really focused on raising funds for the conference as well as general organization. I raised Rs. 400,000 in addition to organizing the venue for the 3rd day of conference (Cinnamon Grand) and sorting out the admistrative staff which is my job as Head of Admin. For service, the Cleft Lip and Palette group organized an extremely successful charity concert in which we made a large profit.
This year for CAS my goals will be as follows:
MUN - I will continue to do what I have done except myself and the entire group may have to work a little harder as we are getting closer to the conference and everything is going to become more hectic. My goal is still the same in which I want to become Sec Gen for next years conference thus I am just going to continue doing what I've done.
Service - For service this semester we decided to do smaller yet more frequent fund raisers (such as a movie night) rather than one big event. Hence the group and I will have bake sales, movie nights, etc. and my goal for the service activity is to become a leader next year as I have done 2 years of Cleft Lip and Palette.
Action - the action aspect of CAS would probably be my least active area. I did a little bit of Zumba however during christmas break I started doing Zumba and Pilates which were really fun. So my goal is to keep doing Zumba and Pilates twice a week in order to keep fit.

Battle of the Bands performances!

Battle of the Bands performances!