Showing posts with label united nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label united nations. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

MarsMun !

Hi Charlie,

Hope the lock-down has helped you to rest a bit.

MarsMun 2020’s edition happened last weekend, on May 30 ! Even if the experience was a bit changed by the coronavirus crisis, it was still incredible.
We were planning on doing it in a great place, with more than 120 people, but in the end, it’s on a Cned class that we had to it in the end.


I have to admit I was feeling a bit stressed before D-Day, and even before T-Time, because I didn’t know whether if people would be talking a lot or not, because they’d only be alone in front of their computer.

2pm : after having waited for everyone to arrive, it’s now time to start. Amandine and I are a very solid team and I think we really enjoy being and working together. We tried to divide the work so that it would be more efficient. And at the beginning motivating people could look a bit complicated.

We soon moved on to the lobbying phase in which everyone was in a smaller group and so it helped the discussions to go on. There were three groups and each of them submitted a resolution. That was great !


We then moved on to debates on the resolutions. They were all very interesting and very fruitful ! We sometimes had a few connection issues which made the thing a bit more complicated but in the end it was still very fun !

I would like to thank everyone involved in this event : teachers and students from our section, and teachers and students from other schools : Vauvenargues, Victor Hugo, Georges Duby, Marseilleveyre…
It was great having you all guys !

I’m really looking forward to seeing all of you in real life next year for MarsMun’s 2021 live edition !

Well Charlie I’ll come back soon because I need to talk to you about a book I’ve not finished yet but that I really loved… but for the moment, you can find the introductory video of MarsMun here, if you wish to take a look at it.

T

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

MarsMun 2019

MarsMun 2019 

Hello Charlie !


Today I wanted to talk to you about something that happened at school : our first MarsMun !!
It was a really great experience and we all enjoyed it a lot !
In that article, I’m going to explain you a bit more what it consisted in.


What’s a MUN actually ?

Basically, MarsMun was a MUN in our school, so a big MUN actually.
A MUN is a Model United Nations so everyone is to embody a country and then to represent it taking into account its ideas.
In Saint-Charles, we did it with two committees which were the Humans rights committee and the Security council.
In the afternoon, I was chairing the Human rights committee with Malka. It was very fun even if it was tiring…
What’s nice is that we learnt a lot from this year and we’ve already begun to organize next year’s MarsMun !
We’re planning on doing it way bigger, with more people, more countries (and perhaps with more cakes in the end because I didn’t get any… the joices of cleaning !)
What was nice is that many people actually volunteered even if they were not really comfortable with English, and we helped them to translate...
To see many people commit in such a great projet was extremely nice for me, especially because we all spent a lot of time organizing it !
So thanks to all the people who organized it with us, pupils and adults (big up to Mr Bishop) !


Charlie, here are some photos so that you can see better what happened :
(And, by the way, be ready for next year, because it will happen veryyyy quickly !)

Oh, and, again, many thanks to our photographers, Clara and Iska, for all these great photos !
Many of the people who were there (chairs, admins and delegates)


Our Canadian guests




 The Chairs


 and... 
 The Chairs doing the chairs ! isn't that a great idea from Silène ?

And the speech at the beginning of the day :

Mrs C. (who came on a very special day, thanks again !)
Mr Lévêque (our MUN leader !)


M. Mongrand, the headmaster
And then it was Malka and I but the photo does not seem to be working...

Well, Charlie, I guess everything was said ! Remember that MarsMun's team will come back next year !
OOOH, and here, if you have free time and you want to check out the complete list of photos of the vent, just click here !
See you soon then !

Toàn