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24/student experience International Solutions in Istanbul! by Bristol Lewis (Grade 7) Last month, 19 members of the Middle School Model United Nations club embarked on a four day trip to Istanbul, Turkey. These students would represent The United Kingdom and Turkey, at the 5 th annual JMUN conference at Hisar school in Istanbul. The theme of the conference was “Protecting the Right of the Child”. Altogether, over 400 students from Turkey, Egypt, Greece, the Netherlands and France attended the conference. Despite the rainy weather, the group spent their first day touring around Istanbul. They visited the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofya, and went shopping at the Grand bazaar! They also took a boat cruise to Asia, where they visited a local mosque. As is tradition, they enjoyed lunch at Burger King (where everyone did eat like a King), and a delicious dinner at a local Turkish restaurant. After dinner, everyone went on a night walk around the Blue Mosque and the surrounding historical district. The next three days were spent in simulation settings where students tried to find solutions to keep children away from harm and injustices. Some topics that members debated included: children in war zones, child abuse, children in natural disasters, child trafficking and more. Every delegate put effort into coming up with solutions and debating what their country believed in. Every student also made sure to get their views out through empowering speeches and questions that were thought through and clever. It was fun and interesting to work with other students from different schools all around the world, to see what their points were on the issues. We are very proud of what our school put into this conference and were very impressed by all the delegates, but especially the brand new members to MUN, who caught onto the process very fast. After a full day of debating, the school who hosted the conference put on a dance to celebrate what every committee had done to help solve the many hardships that children have to face around the world today. Everyone on the plane ride back to Paris could not believe that our trip was already done and wished that it went on longer. We had a great time in Istanbul, but now we are looking forward to all of the upcoming conferences, especially the one we will be hosting in March, so we can all try our best to solve our world’s problems, one step at a time. The Aspect - November 2010
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