Model UN

So today the Hammond Model UN delegation got back from the Duke Model UN Conference. I am so tired. I had a pretty good time. We were debating issues and junk until like eleven every night. We had movie night during which Emma dragged me into the room showing the Mary-Kate and Ashley movie "Winning London."  It was cheesy of course but kind of exciting because the cute British guy from "House" was in it. He is very attractive. There was also a delegate dance. Yeah... people got crazy (not me), but it was fun, I guess. Emma and I talked some in our committee, the EU, but most of the time we didn't. I probably have five pages filled with awesome doodles. There was this one guy in our committee that Emma and I were in that was representing Lithuania that kept taking his shirt off... That was perfectly fine with me. I thought he was cute, but Emma did not. There was also another guy who represented Ireland in the EU who was very attractive (but not as attractive as the dude from "House"). In our committee, we had this thing called a "snap cup" where people would write funny things and then they would be read aloud. This was one of the best parts of the whole trip. On the last day in committee,  our committee had a runway show (during which both Lithuania and Ireland tried to take their shirts off), we abducted another committee's chair and we invaded and took over two other committees. I had a pretty good time. The only award that Hammond got was that Jonathan Friedman got recognized verbally for doing a good job at the awards ceremony. I have no idea why Hammond didn't win the "best school" award... It's crazy. Overall, I had a good time.  I will probably be doing Model UN next year, but then I will have done most of my homework before we leave rather than after, seeing as how I have a lot of homework to do now. Bye! :)

"Get with the Program"

Something happened today at school that really peeved me. It wasn't a big thing, but it hit me. As I was sitting outside at the lunch table with some of my friends, the seventh graders (I think) walked by on their way to class. As one of them passed, one of the girls at my table made a comment about one of her seventh grade teammates' skirt length. She said something like, "[so and so], your skirt is too long. You need to get with the program," to our table, pretending to be talking to the girl. Seeing as how we weren't sitting near where the seventh graders were walking by, the girl couldn't hear the person sitting at my table. That comment was really... I don't know if "mean" is the right word for it but it wasn't nice. That really made me want to call my friend out and say, "That wasn't nice. Just because you and most of the rest of the girls in the school get your skirts hemmed doesn't mean everybody else has to." Now, I wish that I had said something. I just don't understand how someone could be so insensitive, even if they claim that it was "just a joke." (Not that this person did, but they would have if I had confronted them.) It's like this person thinks that all that matters at school is how short your skirt is, and if it even touches your knee then it is "too long." What world does this person live in? We go to Hammond to learn, not to have a contest on who skirt is the shortest. In the long run, your education will get you farther than your appearance. I think that this person needs to "get with the program" and figure this out.