My first thoughts of SIMUN were that it was going to be really hard and it was going to be challenging because the research that we had to do was hard. Well, that was before we started SIMUN, my thoughts changed on the first day of SIMUN when we were actually in the room. I was in Mr. Goble’s room so it was a different environment which made the experience even better. When I first started it still was a little challenging but by the second day it was better because I felt more comfortable. All in all it wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t super exciting or anything.
I was quite proud of myself after SIMUN and I thought that I did a pretty good job for being a freshman. I tried my best to ask questions a lot, but sometimes that was hard because someone would always get called on before me with the same question. I also tried even harder to give speeches about my position and what not. In that area, I thought that I did really well because I’m not the greatest at talking like that and now I feel a lot more comfortable talking in groups of people. Maybe next year I will think that I did even better because of the experience that I had this year.
I prepared in a multitude of ways, one was by researching a lot on the computer. BY doing this it helped me get a lot of old news that had to do with my situation or my county. AT first it was kind of hard good sources on the internet but then after about an hour I knew which ones were good and which ones were not so good. The second way that I prepared for SIMUN was by asking my friends that knew more about the subject what I should know or what I should research. There was only one of the situations that I got that I had a hard time involving myself due to not knowing enough information on it but I felt that I did a decent job on preparing.
There are a number of things that I will do next year to prepare and that is by one, taking it more seriously in the beginning. The second thing is, trying harder on looking for good information which I didn’t do too much of this year. Then finally the third thing is to not procrastinate for so long because when I found out about the extended due date for some of the questions I again continued to wait till Monday night. I feel that if I actually do these things next year it will be a lot easier for me to give speeches and maybe come up with questions faster so that nobody takes mine like people did this year. The last thing I want to say is that I’m looking forward to SIMUN next year.
