Reflection on MUN club

I joined MUN club this year, because I enjoyed attending HAIS MUN in Korea. I aimed to learn about basic rules of MUN and to practice thinking critically about current issues happening around the world. I was assigned as the delegate of China, and the club has gone two meetings already. The agenda was US airstrike in Middle East.

           Actually I did not fully know what was going on in Middle East. I knew the Israel-Palestine war, but did not know about situations arousing in Iraq and Syria. The only thing that I could do was to research, research and research again. Then I figured out about all those conflicts between ISIS and Middle Eastern countries and about the intervention of the US. As the delegate of China, I then researched about China’s stance about the agenda. Unlike what I expected, China had negative opinions towards US intervention. This brought the research more complex. However, with the help of other delegates of China and my own research, I was able to fully know about China’s stance and what to say during the conference.

            However, it wasn’t so easy. While others were talking fluently about their countries’ stances, I could not speak very eloquently about the stance of my country. I think it was because of my nervousness. I thought it would be easier to talk in front of the people who I know than talking in front of other people who I do not know (just like in Korean MUN conference). Nonetheless, it was much harder to talk and share my opinion in front of the ones that I am close to. When I went in front of them, I was so nervous that I did not fully share what I meant to say.

I hope I can improve my skills of sharing thoughts in front of other people through the sessions that are left. Also, I thought that I needed to research some more about not only my country’s stance, but also other conflicting countries’ stances in order to debate against them. I think MUN club is slowly opening the way I view the world’s current ongoing situations.