Bombs Away

We had a crsis commitee in Model UN about a week ago. We had to pretend we were NATO during the Kosovo genocide in 1999. So yeah, depressing topic, but we still managed to have absolutely hilarious moments. Some highlights:

One kid's mom called during debate, and wouldn't stop talking. Eventually he just said "Mom, people are dying!" and hung up.

The "KLA" kidnapped the delegate from Greece. As in, busting in with a paper bag and dragging him out. He ended up dying.

One of my friends, Rebecca (not the one that posts on this lovely blog), was the US. And she basically screwed over the rest of us by going behind our backs and bombing the Chinese embassy. In a totally badass way.

There were plenty of country insults. Like, "Canada is not afraid of France's army!"

We had a 20 min. break during one four hour session. And we spent the 20 min. clustered around a single laptop, looking up primary results. This is what happens when you get a bunch of MUNers together in a small room on a Saturday.

The French delegate requested 90,000 from his home bureau to invade Kosovo. When he reduced the number to 5,000, they made him a national hero. With a parade and everything.

Italy's parliament dissolved, again.

And our very last news article, the one with the results of our last attack, was from Teen People. Seriously. And it told people to recycle to help the refugee. And one of the reader letters in it said, I quote, "NATO is like, so hot! I totally want to be a diplo-whatever!"

<3 Helen