Honourable chair, fellow delegates, the eyes are on us today as we face this unenviable problem of how to have a gangstalicious time in the ugliest city in the world. But Rwanda has the solution, in the form of a three point plan, hence forth to be known as the Rwanda Plan
1. Get on the plane, regardless of how murderously tired you are, and make sure you’ve packed your Delancy.
2. When at the conference, operate under the understanding that your fellow delegates and chairs sometimes speak out of their proverbials, and as such treat them as placards (get their vote, shut them up)
3. When at socials, sing Scottish songs and remember your key: if you forget your key, be wary of Italian men who try to tempt you back to their beds.....
Looking back im suprised they even let us all on the plane at edinburgh.....

WORLD-MUN 2009: With great awareness of the task ahead we commandeered ourselves a lothian bus, which we quickly transformed into the EdMun-mobile, with Riz co-ordinating the construction of an obstacle course of hand-luggage, with which we successfully used to confound the subsequent incursion of drunks.

This WTO delegate has nothing much to say concerning the flight over to Amsterdam, although his 'friends' inform him there was an on-flight meal.....

At Schippol, our baggage was out of the plane before we were, although the Monitor seemed both confused and slightly dyslexic in it's firm, blinking assertion that all our bags were 'glost'. But we were finally there - 30 minutes later, after many burger king meals had been guiltily digested we jumped on the train to the Hague.
(This is the last time this delegate can officially vouch for the where-abouts of Delancy).

The train journey was the moment we truly began to shine as a delegation, with comments on local architectural delights (paraphrasing: Mike: "look at the houses, theyre so small" - Phili: "where, wow....what?") and there was something about someone having the power or something like that....

With the confidence and solidarity of a true UN-delegation, but with the sense of direction of a blind walnut, we set out with the intention of 'registering'. Any future proposal of a 'Rwandan Roadmap to peace' would forever evoke giggles: as Laars put it we had literally trotted right off the map (hiding somewhere under the 'legend' if i remember it correctly). Although i did learn the word for 'way/passage': spoor....i think.... In the end it all came down to our head delegate's words of wisdom: "Look for Orange Flags, they've always got orange flags...."

The first night was amazing! Although we were supposed to be mixing with the other delegations, i learnt so much about our group that night: We all secretly think we're Scottish - barring Moshe Dayan, who is of course actually Scottish, but we ALL seem to like freedom quite alot. All that having been said, the night also confirmed my existing belief that Ms.O'hara is perhaps the funniest person once having had a bit to drink: "michael....michael....michael....MICHAEL! ........FREEEDDDOMMMMM".

World-MUN withdrawal is definitely beginning to peak now though. I just had a little look up and realised how much i had written, so finally i'm going to condense down the remainder of the trip into a top ten list (in no particular order):

1. Me "AAAAHHH there's a monster, a monster chasing me, a monster!"
Mel/duvet-monster: *GRIN*
2. "I got fired" Moshe Dayan on his experience in Camp David
3. Me "Yataa!".....Naomi: "Dammit!"
4. Everything that happened Tuesday night in room 103. Someone with a better memory has to fill me in on what happened, it was all golden.
5. The prostitute/international law student in Amsterdam
6. Lord Mike's Pub Palace
7. That brilliant feeling when Christine and Delancy got the award! Well done again guys!
8. Peng’s theories on life, economics, and how you can win a nobel prize with bullshit
9. Spending and amazing time with 16 fantastic people – miss you guys
10. The smushiness reading those blog entries – gota love the G16
Mike

7 random trains of thought on World MUN 2009!!

1. The words Freedom and Yatah! take on a whole new significance. Be warned, should you utter them at an appropriate volume you will be met with a chorus of responses. As regards the former, it is often indulged in alongside broken choruses of Flower of Scotland, Auld Lang Syne and Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond. As regards the latter, Hiro Nakamura has gleefully declared your triumphant loss.

2. I'd like to report a missing person. One Delancy Johannson. If you see her tell her the Rwandan government are looking to go one better than Harvard's recognition of them and recommend both her and Christin for the Nobel Prize for their work on the SocHum council. No but seriously well done to you guys, plus the pirate deserves a treasue chest of medallions for strutting his stuff over at Camp David.

3. The petulant monkey sends love to the Italian, his S.A.G.A was truly something to behold. Plus never forget the Equatorial Guinea medal of honour. Love you Phil.

4. The week proved that 20 hours of sleep spread out over a week, all hours obtained in a roomful of 8 people sharing 1 shower can, despite what might be believed, be awesome

5. We know how to rock the house, no matter whether its painted in orange or in white.

6. Note to all those visiting expensive continental European countries: spend the extra euro to get pizza, soup and coffee over the food-poisoning kebab. Also observe the presence of smoked salmon in a chippy shop.

7. Thanks to everybody for an absolutely raving week, sorry I took so long to post, I have had no internet. Good luck all you fourth-years going out into the big ole world, you've left us in charge of a pretty awesome society. The duvet monster curls back into the closet with a warm fuzzy feeling. XxXxXx

WHERE'S DELANCY?!?!

Firstly, Naomi just clearly lost the game. Secondly, WorldMUN was absolutely awesome and here's why...

So on Day 1 it turned out I lost my superpower (my sense of direction) and dragged a very tired bunch of EdMUNers around the most hideous soul-destroying district of Den Haag for over an hour. But we recovered the Scottish way... with much drinking, debauchery and debating - the 3 magical Ds of EdMUN.

There was much missing of the Becki, and hating of the Becki, but to make her happy I changed the photo in the header... we all missed you lady!

We nearly lost Shay to those Berkeley types, but he came back over to the dark side, the best side! We did literally lose Ye Ji for several hours on the last day amidst the Tartan Army in Amsterdam!! But Lars worked his 'future Conferences Officer' thang and all was well. We lost Delancy every single day... where is Delancy?! Delancy you Lej!

The Legal Committee was full of kids who should have been in DiSEC, or high school, but heyyy, Hugo and I strutted our Rwandan stuff and teamed up with Derrick 'n' Eric of Colombia to win all 360 of them!! Gah, most stressful committee ever, couldn't have done it without Hugo's tailcoat.

Head Delegate meetings were hilarious... some extremely upset girl banging on about how "the chair addressed everyone 'hi guys' and then TOOK HIS JACKET OFF and rolled up his sleeves, it was utterly unacceptable"... haha that's what we were up against all week!

Following Shay and Phil here's my soggy bit...
I'm so ridiculously proud, you were all on FIRE all week. Couldn't have asked for a better last-conference-ever. And as an EdMUN Alumni I will incessantly be bugging Michael ("MICHAEL, MICHAEL, MICHAEL, MICHAEL, MICHAEL, MICHAEL.... MICHAEL!!!") for news, and I can't wait to hear about how you all steal the show at next year's conferences.

Former Madam President,
Marie

O ye'll tae the high road and I'll tae the high road!!

Honored Chair, Fellow Delagates.....

Well after months of waiting, a week of crazy intenseness, a new found sense of Scottish nationalism, the Game (i lost) and just in general good, good good times, i want to say that i could not have hoped for a better group of people to be with at WorldMUN.

From Mike with YITAHHHH, Mel and the duvet Monster, and Lars wanting to kill people so hard they die the year before, we all acted like fucking nutters and i loved every second.

I know that most of us feel that the committee sessions were kinda crappy and that we wos robbed from awards, but looking back, we ALL made big impacts in the sessions and have spread the word about EdMUN and ScotMUN and shown the MUN comminity that we are a force to reckoned with and you guys should all be so so so so happy with how much effort you put in.

To Shay, Christin & Delancy again, congratulations for winning awards, you guys were amazing and considering we had to contend against a massive, loud and cocky Venezualan group and veterns from West Point, Lahore & Belgium makes your awards all the more impressive.

But just spending time with each of you guys in groups or just one on one was awesome. In particular, Mel, you were a total legend, with infinate energy and patience, telling me to calm down when i was stressed in committee to actually going around to EVERY SINGLE DELGATION lobbying little Rwandas points and writing a staggering about of notes! Thank you.

Anwyay im ranting (as an self respecting italian shall) so i will just again say that if couldnt have asked for a better group of friends to spend a week with and only wish that we could do it all over again.

In true ScotMUN fashion, you guys are DOUBLE DOUBLE NICE!!!!!!

have a great easter and all the very best with your exams and work over the next few weeks

Phil

The Secret Diary of Moshe Dayan, Aged 63 1/4

Hi guys, I thought I'd get the ball rolling here, by putting up a short post. 

[ed: now seems to be rather longer than expected...]

This conference was for me, vying with the ScotMUN committee a couple of weeks ago, the most fun committee I've ever been on - being on a small committee is like a completely different game from being on a large committee, so those of you who've only tried one of the possible types of committees, I'd urge you to try all the different types before you leave MUN.

And yes, I did just say 'completely different game'. Like the game you just lost.

A couple of things that spring to mind immediately:

• After 5 days of intense debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and feeling like I've learned so much about international relations, I went down for breakfast on Saturday morning. One of the hotel staff greeted me with
  • "You must be one of the last to leave the Boy Scouts event, right?"
  • "Excuse me?!"
  • "You know, the Boy Scouts event that you have all been attending across the road."
  Gutted.
  
  
• Another thing I learned this week is that the Dutch word for bagpipes is 'doodle sack'. Doodle sack?! Ouch...

Finally, you'll have to bear with me whilst I get a bit mushy here (those of a cold-hearted disposition look away now...)

\BEGIN{MUSHINESS}

This is my first, but sadly also last year at EdMUN, and when I came back to Edinburgh from the States I never really thought I'd get into Model UN back here. But the way that we debate a different topic each week is absolutely brilliant, and I found myself getting sucked in. Even though I had to represent UC Berkeley in order to get on the committee that I wanted, I hope that the amount of time I spent with you guys outside of committee shows where I think the credit for the award goes :-) I only wish I could be on the EdMUN committee next year, but you've got an amazing committee lined up and Hugo, though you've got big shoes to fill, I'm sure you'll take EdMUN even further forward. You had ALL better keep in touch with me...

\END{MUSHINESS}

Shay

Open for business

This is the first post of Anonymous Diplomats.

Get your WorldMUN on, on paper, online.

(Its not meant to be anonymous by the way, if you haven't heard of it I suggest you go look up Anonymous Lawyer.)

See you all in a few hours.

H.