Reflection: HAISMUN

During summer, I joined Hais (High school Association of International Studies) MUN, as a delegate of South Africa in economic and social council. I planned to join HAIS MUN in order to experience MUN in Korea. Though I did not experience or learn anything about MUN before, I just wanted to try out how it goes and to check if I am brave enough to enroll as one of the delegates and present my country's stance in front of many other Korean students. I was very nervous because it was my first time to join the model UN, and I did not know any of it. Also, I was worried about the Korean students, who are well known to be very smart and logical. To join them, I researched about the agenda over and over, and prepared for the conference as if it was a real UN conference.

When the conference started, I delivered my opening speech to the students, but I was so nervous that I did not fully presented what I prepared. It was first experience in my life, to go in front of the students whom I've never met, and speak through the microphone about my opinion. Though I did not perfect it, it was still a thrilling experience. Then, when writing a resolution, I went to the country that had the closest stance, and suggested to write the resolution together. As a group, 7 of us successfully wrote the resolution that had contained all solutions that we drew out, and were able to submit it to the chair. Although I was not the leading one, I still spoke out and tried my best to help the group.

It is true that I did not stand up as the delegate who participated a lot during the conference, still, I tried to join the group and shared my opinion. I learned the format of MUN and thought that I would do better if I had researched more about the agenda, and wrote the resolution before coming to the conference. Also, I learned that in order to deliver my stance to the others, I need to speak out clearly and thoroughly, which had been my weak parts in speaking English. Through the experience of attending Hais MUN, I think I somewhat gained confidence. This conference allowed me to experience something new, that I haven't even thought to try out before.

Reflection: GIN Dialysis Center 2nd visit

Last week, I had second visit to the dialysis center. At first meeting, I went to a place where they have the filter and the dialysis machine for the dialysis patients. There, I learned about what 'dialysis' is about, and how patients in Baguio suffer from this disease due to lack of finance. I learned the costs for the filters and the machine, and our group discussed about the ways that we can give help, as much as possible. From the discussion, we figured out that of course financial problem is something that should be solved first, but what is also important is being aware of the disease and the people by ourselves, and spread out about this to the people, so that they can get help from others too.

Then, next meeting, we went to the dialysis center in Kisad road to meet the patients and spend time with them. I talked with a guy, who got dialysis just 2 weeks ago. He told us that he needs to spend 4 hours per a session of blood filtering. He said that he really likes our project because he was very bored to stay for 4 hours just getting the blood filtered, and wanted someone beside him to entertain him. Listening to what he said, I thought that this project, though seems simple, is still significant to some people.

Since we were not prepared to do anything, we just talked, but it was not easy to continuously talk with him because he was getting his blood filtered. We basically shared our names, ages and he shared us about his experience as a dialysis patient. It was a meaningful time that I was able to share thoughts and make them to not feel bored about it. I learned that dialysis patient, not only needs financial support, but also needs attention from other people, and thought that I could help them through visiting the dialysis center regularly, and entertaining the patients while getting their blood filtered