Yesterday (Monday for those reading it now in the US) marked the opening of the conference. It was your typical first day of a MUN. Opening ceremonies and basic house keeping rules for each committee. All in all the conference is going pretty smoothly. There were little delays but that is any first day when you dealing with over 300 people.
Opening Ceremony was decent. They played some epic music that belonged in the Highlander. It seemed they had pre-written opening statements for each the speeches because they were the same for every single person. So by the third speaker you could mouth the words along with him as he or she said it. I personally began to doze off during the keynote speaker but snapped out of it when he took a minor shot at the US. It was nothing compared to last year in London when we were pointed out and booed at by the crowd.
Committee this year seems to be easy. There are a lot of new people (noobs haha) in my committee which is strange because there was an application process. We set the agenda and are now talking about the conflict in Karabahk which is located in Azerbaijan. I personally wanted to talk about cyber-terrorism and thought I gave a passionate speech to sway the votes that way but in the end this was the topic that prevailed. With so many new people I think I can do well in this committee but I have to be careful of not burning myself out as this is a 5 day conference. Well its 8 am here in Turkey, committees start in a hour and a half. Time to get dressed, listen to some music and get in the zone for day 2. I will try and post later tonight pending how tired I am but if I don't tonight I will be posting every morning before the start of the first committee.
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