Day One as Delegates

Day 1: As delegates of the Model UN it was sort of intimidating. But Kara and I managed to pull ourselves together. Without any problems we made new friends and we made sure that people knew that we knew exactly what we were talking about. Despite the fact that the program started late, we placed our best foot foward and we manged to discuss our first topic which was centered around malaria. We even learned from our research that 90% of malaria cases occur in Africa. In fact 3,000 people are affected by malaria each day.
After the role was called people tried to make us change our minds about the topics that should be discussed. But as diplomatic Italians, we made it clear that we would rather discuss the disease that is harming so many individuals. Day one was a long, but we learned a lot as displayed the characteristics of Columbia College Women.

- General Assembly Plenary
Kara Simmons and Brittany Davis