Country leading. Only very few get to become a president or a prime minister. You most likely will not become one of these elite politicians, however if you still want to experience what it feels like to be a country leader, Model U.N. is the club for you.

Model UN is all about being your country’s leader. You get to make decisions for your country, go to conferences, and act like your country’s president or prime minister. There are around 15-20 students currently in model U.N. so you have a more realistic experience, because the closer you are to the amount of actual presidents or prime ministers, the more realistic it gets.

The Model U.N. club leaders host conferences every 2 weeks in hotels in busy downtown Vancouver. You do need to pay for it, but they are trying to get grants so the members on the poor side can also go. You only need to go to a couple of them. The members of the club spend their entire weekend at these hotels, holding conferences about their next moves and talking about them, and doing more country running related things. They can spend as long as Friday afterschool to Monday, a little past school starting time. This is how long it can go, but it is variable. When you go to these conferences, you get no free time for exploring Vancouver or weekend activities or catching up on homework or even exploring. At least you can use the conference as an excuse. You are taken to the hotel by the school bus.

The club is hosted by David Li, Samantha Li, and Bana Anabtawi. Regular school meetings are held in Mr. Poka’s room, number 123. The meetings were originally supposed to happen on Monday at lunch, for 20 minutes, but now it is Monday after school, since the students voted to have it set that way. The meetings are now from 3:25 to 4:30, giving students 5 minutes to get there like any other class, and they go on for an hour and 5 minutes, giving them enough time to cover anything they need to talk about or do and to do some work for the club after.

I asked a model U.N. member why they joined.
Nash Ward said: “I joined because I like things related to United Nations”
Then I asked 2 people that are not apart of the group about what their opinion was on the club. these were their responses.

Teacher, Miss Erlendson said “The benefits are countless to join something like this, and it is a great idea to understand more about the United Nations.”
Student Anthony Zof said ” Its a good idea and I think that it will be a success.”

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U.N. flag in the sky
United nations meeting picture
Gleneagle entrance (used in feature image)
Flag and pole (also used in feature image)