~:[CH8 - Day 26]:~ No Burritos from Chinatown

~:[CH8 - Day 26]:~ No Burritos from Chinatown

I'm sure that someone can prove me wrong, but you don't travel to Chinatown to get a burrito, well at least not in Vancouver. This post has nothing to do with burritos and nothing to do with Chinatown aside from our experience today, but has everything to do with the decisions we make. In reality, we don't know that Chinatown won't have good burritos, but most people won't go there searching for it (normally). In Model UN, we face that same challenge where some people come seeking the wrong thing, not knowing what they are getting into. Most committees end up being good learning experiences, but with the wrong mix of students, sometimes the committees can be frustrating and exhausting, as some of the delegates have no clue what they're getting into. The students were summoned past the stroke of midnight as they had emergency crisis topics and the once rambunctious students looked exhausted (as they should have). Of course, with our students, they knew what they were getting for the most part and tried their best to stay on task and take the topic seriously. I hate hearing people complain, but don't mind it as much when they are complaining about how others aren't taking this process seriously enough. While there will be grown and people will better learn how to approach conferences, I do wonder sometimes while people even spend the hours that they do at a conference. For today, it was about 15 hours worth of it. The burrito was not good and many of the delegates who seemed disinterested from the start, seemed to be even more so at the end, but I was proud to see our students engaged all throughout the day. It was a fun day that lasted forever and all the students were exhausted when they came back up. I was so happy to see how focused our students were and regardless how things turn out recognition wise, as an educator, I couldn't be more proud.