SIMUN Blog

1. SIMUN was one of the coolest experiences I have ever had in school for an assignment. I enjoyed it greatly, but I didn’t like the fact that I had Kazakhstan as my country for this assignment because Kazakhstan isn’t involved in a lot in the world nor does it have a lot of controversy between other countries in the world. Countries such as, China and the United States had a lot of action in SIMUN because the United States wants to know everything that’s going on between every country, which makes them have an opinion and a action toward every conflict scenario that occurred in SIMUN. China was the other best country for SIMUN because about two or three of the scenarios were focused on China because they’re always doing something sneaky such as hacking or they’re in conflict with a group in their country that wants to leave China because of its religious beliefs.
2. I believe that I did great because during two of the scenarios I made statement on the speakers list about what was going to happen in the conflicts before we had the news flash put up to give us the extra information on the situation. I also made sure that if the scenario didn’t involve me I either state an opinion on the speakers list or I make a point of inquiry towards the speaker when they made a statement. I also did better because I had Dan Ketelhut in my group and since his country always supported my country and its opinions it made it easier to corporate when it came to a resolution in the conflict.
3. I mainly prepared for this assignment by looking up where Kazakhstan came from because until this assignment I’ve never heard of Kazakhstan in my lifetime. It turns out it was originally apart of the Soviet Union and once the USSR broke up it was part of Russia for a while, but eventually they split from Russia and became their own independent nation. I also prepared by looking at the timeline of the country and studied its recent conflicts with other countries so I could know its allies and foes when SIMUN began.
4. I will definitely try to get a better country, but at the same time I’m glad I got Kazakhstan because I learned about a new country that I’ve never heard about. I will definitely look up more information on my country and study that facts of its recent history so that I can bring it up in SIMUN next year.