{"id":125348,"date":"2016-01-27T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=125348"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:54:01","slug":"this-suits-them-well-mun-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2016\/01\/27\/this-suits-them-well-mun-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"This suits them well: MUN Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll forgive our Grade 10 students if they were a bit startled as they reached the top of the escalator inside the Qatar National Convention Center: standing in the middle of the main area is a 10-meter high spider, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It includes a sac of 26 marble eggs and its ribs are made of bronze. Welcome to Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath this arachnid mingled hundreds of students, all participants in the Model United Nations conference. All told, over two thousand students are taking part; ten are ours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MUN is structured like the real UN and students were assigned to specific committees in which to debate real-world issues and develop written resolutions addressing these issues. It would be a great understatement to say that Grade 10 was a nervous bunch as we pulled up to the convention center at 7:00 this morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soon the whole thing was underway and I&#8217;m thrilled to report that our students had a fabulous day. Giving speeches, taking part in debate, contributing to resolutions; our students did the work of the UN and did it with a lot of enthusiasm. We received compliments on their performance. They represented ABIS proudly.<\/p>\n<p>The day ended with the opening ceremony, in which our ambassador, Trisha, carried in the Panamanian flag. The very nice affair was punctuated by a speech and performance by Emanuel Jal, a former child soldier from Sudan who is now a peace advocate and hip hop star. It was truly inspirational.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow students are back in the committee rooms for debate and amendments to their resolutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/KvQFb7eYxQ6DfZyf7\">album<\/a> has more photos of day. I&#8217;ll keep it up to date as the days progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll forgive our Grade 10 students if they were a bit startled as they reached the top of the escalator inside the Qatar National Convention Center: standing in the middle of the main area is a 10-meter high spider, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It includes a sac of 26 marble eggs and its ribs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page","category-heads-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}