The chair recognizes the honorable hoser…
Good day -eh? What a fun conference — those UBC MUN people really know how to put on a good conference. The event housed many different international committee simulations, including:
- UNSC
- GA1: DISEC
- several International Criminal Court trials
- GA3: SOCHUM
- HSNET
- USNSC
- NAC (NATO)
- and an EU council
Maybe it’s just me, but perhaps these groups spend a bit too much time developing acronyms.
I was assigned to represent Luxembourg on the EU council, where Luxembourg currently holds the presidency. We debated Turkey’s accention to the EU, and the streamlining of EU immigration and asylum policy all day, and partied well into the following morning. We met many fun and interesting people, had an especially good time with some excellent Americans from Western Oregon University, also participating in the conference.
On the way home from UBC, the driver of our car didn’t feel comfortable driving at night, or through the moutain passes, but she trusted me to take us safely home. It wasn’t the most fun driving experience I’ve ever had — the roads were layered with ice (no bare spots), and the car only had all-season tires (that badly need to be replaced). Early into the drive, the drivers side wiper snapped, but hung on enough for us to stop and zap-strap it in place — no service stations for 110 km, and you have to have wipers in those conditions. We thought that would be the worst of it, but after coming around a corner, 20 km South of Merrit, the car fishtailed. Since full control was lost, I did my best to maneuver the car to the right-shoulder (a solid snowbank) by turning into the spin. The car spun 180 and landed the driver side flatly against the snow, allowing the semi-truck behind us to pass safely by. Everyone was fine, and so was the car.
Our friends in another car (thankfully following behind us since the wiper incident), along with some kind fellows who stopped to help, pushed the car out of the snow-bank, and I re-oriented the car to face the correct direction. We turned the heat on to defrost the window and it promptly cracked &mdash twice! — only moments later. The rest of the journey was without further incident.