Letter of Movation

If I can have the chance to participate in the THI-MUN, it will be a very special experience for me. We have studied some skills from in MUN classes, and we had taken three in-school MUN conferences. So I have always wanted to see what a full inter-school Model United Nation Conference is like, and the difference between the two. I hope I can learn a lot from this conference in Singapore.

..Tina's

Ming Dao’s Global Citizenship Program Model United Nations classes have been preparing and waiting for a chance to participate in MUN conferences such as the THIMUN since we first started in 2008. Although we are a “young” class, we are learning and will gain more experience though participating in inter-school conferences. The most exciting thing to us about doing MUN is that we can understand more about what’s going on around the world, and have in depth understanding about global issues. That is also what the Global Citizenship Program in is preparing us for—to truly be a part of the world. To do that, we must start by understanding things that are happening around this world that we live in, and that’s how a real Global Citizen should be. We believe that we could bring our views as one into THIMUN, and we look forward to having a chance to meet other Global Citizens from various cultural backgrounds and learn theirs. As the principle in Ming Dao High School says, we are “learning to do, learning to think, learning to learn”, and most of all, we’re learning to be Global Citizens.

Motivation

Our school wishes to participate in THIMUN to learn more about MUN and is eager to join the conference. The reason why we want to join the THIMUN conference is because we hope that we could gain some experience participating in MUN. Learning MUN will benefit our knowledge on problems and issues in the world because we would need to be concerned about world issues and learn more about other countries positions. We hope THIMUN gives us a chance to join the conference and learn more from it. We wish we can participate in THIMUN so we could build up the experience on MUN. We look forward to improve our MUN skills, and hope it could improve if we could participate in THIMUN.

Letter of Motivation

Our school would be delighted to receive an opportunity to participate in the 2010 THIMUN conference. In our school, we focus on making students “global”, meaning that we should learn about what’s happening around the world and try to become more competitive in society. As global citizens, we have the responsibility to learn about worldwide situations, problems, and events happening around us. We believe that by joining this conference, we will have the chance to not only improve our MUN knowledge and skills, we would also learn about what’s happening around the world.

Singapore

If I have a chance to attend the conference in Singapore, I will be glad to attend it. I think this MUN conference is absolutely going to be pleasant and memorable and valuable. Singapore is an interesting country with various culture in it, so I really hope I can get the chance to learn a lot from the conference and from Singapore. I have some really intelligent friends there in Singapore, so I am very curious about how Singapore's education system teach them to become such nice and great people. i like Singapore!!! :)

Homework for next week (April 27th)

Ni hao,

OK. Your homework is to prepare for next weeks' mini-conference. Answer the following things about each country...

1.) How does this issue affect my country?
- google your country + climate change for a start


2.) What will my country want to do and why?

- Look at GDP: Composition by Sector for data
- Use a cost/benifit analysis based upon any solutions we might have

3.) What blocs are my country in?
- use CIA World FactBook
- Make sure you know whether or not your country is in

Military
- UN Security Council
- NATO

Regional
- CIS
- AU
- ASEAN
- WEOG

Environmental
- Kyoto Protocol (signed and ratfieid, signed but not ratified, or not signed...include the date!)
- FAO
- AOSIS

Economic
- G-20
- G-77 (+ China)
- LDC
- HIPC
- LDC
- WTO
- OPEC
- IMF

4.) If you want to be really prepared, come up with a strategy.

Next week we will have a General Debate/ Informla Caucus. Afterwards we will discuss everything.


Jia you!

Mr. Gibson

Monday, April 19th Homework Assignment

Ni hao,

OK everyone. Our homework assignment is to take a look at each of our countries and make a list of which blocs they are in. Please have some idea of what the G-20, G-77, WTO, IMF, LDC, HIPC, OPEC, NATO, CIS, AU, ASEAN, UN Security Council, WEOG, AOISIS, FAO, and Kyoto Protocol all are. Then, think about how each bloc would be affected by the issue.

Tomorrow we are going to get schizophrenic! We are going to have multiple personalities. Some of those personalities will like each other. Some won't. Either way. we are going to be very schizophrenic.

Also, I need you to do the homework from over the weekend. it's later for every single person. If you have questions, email me.

Jia you,

Mr. Gibson

P.S. Sabrina, I have switched your OPEC country from Saudi Arabia to Algeria (Algeria was also a French colony).