MUN

We got our payment schedule for MUN. We have it more split up this year so we don't have to pay one large amount at once, which I find helpful, especially around the holiday season. We're having some scheduling conflicts as well because lots of clubs meet throughout the week. Prom committee and SOI interfere with our Thursday meeting date at lunch but it still seems like the most convenient right now.

MUN 11/13

I should have blogged about this before but we have good news for MUN. We've been assigned 3 countries this year: Turkey, Syria, and Macedonia. Turkey is on security council, allowing only 2 open spots. I decided to take Syria with the Special Political (Specpol) committee. I chose this because while we've studied a bit about both Syria and Turkey in history, a lot of our focus was on Syria. I'm on the committee with Marjorie Palmeri, who has been on MUN since her freshman year. She helped me a lot when I was a sophomore. Last year as a junior I knew what I was doing more but this year I plan on making a point of participating in debate and discussion more than usual since it is my last year at Sturgis and I know have everything works with the conference now.

EFA

We made plans to raise money for EFA over the upcoming months. First off, we're going to be doing pennies for peace, where students can put change into water jugs to raise money for donations. We're also going to be doing bake sales before Thanksgiving, selling pies in particular since it goes with the holiday. We're also thinking of doing a much bigger bake sale during or after midterms. I want to increase my own awareness on this topic because I didn't participate in this activity last year when a lot of the information was being given out. I have some general ideas but I haven't had a lot of time to look into it more because of my busy IB schedule.