GEMUN COUNTRIES: Sri Lanka, Colombia, Philippines, and Mexico

We have been assigned our countries for the conference in Dallas! Now we need to decide who wants to be in which committee based on the topics. Check out the different topics to see which ones interest you the most:

General Assembly (Topics in GA: 1. Measures to combat international terrorism, 2. Alternative energy sources, 3. Biotechnology and genetic engineering, 4. Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, 5. Poverty eradication and 6. Open agenda)

Economic and Social Council (Topics in ECOSOC: 1. Sustainable Development, 2. Human Settlements, 3. Extreme Poverty and Hunger, 4. Globalization and 5. Open Agenda)

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP Topics: 1. Global warming, 2. Biodiversity, 3. Deforestation, 4. Sustainable Agriculture/Consumption, 5. Freshwater Quality, 6. Persistant Pollutants/Chemicals in the Environment and 7. Open Agenda)

World Health Organization (WHO Topics: 1. World Hunger, 2. Water Sanitation, 3. HIV/AIDS, 4. Immunization, 5. Tobacco and Drug Abuse, 6. International Spread of Disease, 7. Health Education and 8. Open Agenda)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF Topics: 1. Child Soldiers, 2. Children in Darfur, 3. Children of the Natural Disasters, 4. Achieving Universal Primary Education and 5. Open Agenda)

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW Topics: 1. Education and training of women, 2. Violence against women, 3. Women's literacy and development, 4. Discrimination against women, 5. Empowerment of women and 6. Open Agenda)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA Topics: 1. Disposal of radioactive wastes, 2. Management of live radioactive materials, 3. Water resources, 4. Nuclear technology and 5. Open agenda)

You can find more information at http://www.gemun.org/gemun/topics.html

Child Soldiers Debate

How did you all feel about our debate today? Did you enjoy it? Was the debating language difficult? This is a place to post ideas/questions/suggestions about our debate. Don't forget we will continue the debate during our next MUN meeting the Thursday after Thanksgiving break!

Other Opportunities

Central Texas Model United NationsJanuary 11-12, 2008"A Climate of Peace"
http://www.ctmun.org/

The Central Texas MUN is a high school conference that happens in Austin. They have invited us to take part as either associate delegates (we would be partners with a high school student in the debate) OR as a scribe (we would deliver messages to delegates and the president of the committee- we wouldn't take part in the debate but we would get to see what a real debate looks and sounds like!).

We can try to organize and go as a group or small amounts of students can go. Please let me know if you are interested.

Global Elementary Conference in Dallas

I HAVE GREAT NEWS ABOUT THE CONFERENCE... they can offer us housing! We will be able to stay with local delegates who live in Dallas. This will save us a lot of money! Now we will only have to fund raise for the price of the bus! I am so excited. I hope this will allow for more of you to be able to attend.

http://www.unol.org/gemun/

** We need to decide SOON if we want to go to the GEMUN conference in Dallas. If you would like to go, please bring a check for $27 made out to GEMUN.

Fund Raising Ideas

hola! (hello!) this is alex (the fundraiser) sharing my ideas for different ways to raise money for the upcoming dallas stimulation
all of these are first draft ideas, this is your club, not mine, so if you utterly detest all of these ideas, we can think of some new ones, any way, here we go
- before we get to deep into anything i think it would be good thing to know if there is any kind of food packaging rules. i think it would be bad if we were shut down/fined by the health department
- it might be cool to sell crystal light and water bottles, we could get all of that at sam's for very very cheap
- school supplies would be a pretty cool thing to sell, i think it makes sense selling school stuff, in a school
-i know a lot of kids don't eat breakfast so we could have some kind of breakfast deal
- and as we are so rapidly coming up on the winter season we could have some kind of secret santa deal were you purchase a card, write on it, and we could deliver it to the correct GSG the cards could also have candy canes and make them look really sweet
again, you make think that these are the worst fundraising ideas in the world and if so we can think of some more or modify these so they better serve our club in the way we need them to. i'm really sorry i can't be at MUN today, if you have any questions please fill my inbox ruthlessly at alexlonghorn@sbcglobal.net i'd love to hear your imput

Happy Pictures

I remeber someone asking me to do this so I'm going to put some cute pictures up just to make everyone feel good and have a happy day!!!! ^_^

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Click the links to make your day happier!

Bloggalicous Blog

Hello everybody!! I was just wonderin gif you liked the current layout of the blog. If you do plz tell me and if you don't... well ummm.... tell me too!! If you would like us to add anything (pics, problem posts, etc.) just ask! This is a blog totally up to you and if you don't like it, were not happy. Also if you are not reciving ANY emails from me or Mrs.Terry, post it and we'll add you.

P.S. I'm sorry I haven't sent out this weeks email, but we did the same stuff as last week and all the forms are on this blog.

Have a totally tubular week!

Weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION!!!

Hi everybody! This is the offical post 2 tlk about weapons of mass destruction! Yay Enjoy!!

Global Classrooms: Houston Model United Nations Conference

Would you like to participate in the MUN conference here in Houston this spring? Check it out and let me know!
http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=1284763

There is also a conference in Dallas on May 9&10. Please check it out and let me know if you would like to participate. It will take a lot of planning and fund-raising so we should start the prep now!
http://www.unol.org/gemun/
** We need to decide SOON if we want to go to the GEMUN conference in Dallas. If you would like to go, please bring a check for $27 made out to GEMUN and the signed permission slip from you parents to next Thursday's meeting.
***We also need to start fundraising to be able to afford the bus and hotel. The sooner we start making money, the less you will have to pay in May!