MUN in Bangkok, Thailand

By Debby Zunta

Part 1 - Preparation for the MUN
Model United Nation (MUN), for those who don’t know,  is an event about simulation of  the united nation meeting commitee. This was my first MUN participation. For sure, I knew nothing about MUN. I came to know about this from my classmate who had become the brand ambasador. There are so many kinds of MUN. If you are  interested, please check it on Youtube.
My goal for this event was simple. I wanted to find out for myself about my English proficiency. I didn’t have any ambition to become a delegate of any country. Yes, of course, all I want is to be a dentist. Politic is not my cup of tea. Participants had many purposes joining this event. Some of them wanted the vacation,  and others were really focus to become delegates. But yes, who didn’t want vacation?
How did I register for this? It was very easy. I only needed to go to the MUN website, filled up the form and then paid the registration fee. How to transfer the money? The registration fee was in USD. I could pay it by Paypal, credit card, bank transfer, and Western Union. I chose Western Union.  I didn’t have any credit card nor paypal account. Actually I could pay by bank transfer but I couldn’t cause it was evening and I wished to enjoy the 10% discount. Fyi, there was a tax imposed to remit money by Western Union.
After finishing the registration, I got my country and council allotment. I became the delegate of Barbados in UNESCO council. Barbados? I sought all information about Barbados from the internet and I knew Rihana came from that Island. Who doesn’t know Rihana? An R &B singer. It is literally so small an island. Barbados, like Indonesia, is a tropical country.
As a newbie I didn’t want to really look like one. I started to learn the MUN from Youtube and the most important thing I had to do was to read the guide book carefully. I learned all the vocabulary that were being used. I read all the information on instagram. I had to know all of that.
The most important thing beyond all that, was my passport. I made the passport in Jember which is not the city of my origin. So to get it, I had to ask for a referral letter from my faculty, to   certify that I was their student.
It was a big hassle to get permission from my faculty to attend this event. You know, it was really hard for dentistry sudents to join an event outside the academic studies. Surely, it was hard. The first reason was my tight schedule. I needed to make all the calculations so as not to miss too many lectures.
After all of that bla bla bla administration things done, the last thing was to buy the flight tickets.  You could buy them everywhere. Because I am a lazy one, I bought them online using traveloka. Simple and then I was ready to fly to Bangkok, Thailand.

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