Visit to LAU MUN:18-Feb-12

On Saturday, February 18th, 2012, four Model United Nations Outreach Club of Champville delegates were taken to the Beirut Campus of the Lebanese American University with the official LAU MUN delegation of Champville for 2011 - 2012. Ralph, Hady, Danielle and Hanadie went to the LAU to discover the inside workings of the program - and to have some fun.

Arrival to the LAU
The lot of the delegates and advisors left Champville around 12:30. The MUN delegates sat at the back of the bus and the MUNOCC delegates at its front, each on a phone or tablet. They made it to LAU within the ten minutes before the start of the session, and then when the MUN delegates went to their classes, the MUNOCC delegates made it a point to check out as many of the classes as they could.

Monica Seif
LAU MUN SG Monica Seif was George's chair during his own final conference in 2010 - 2011. They'd kept contact, so they met in the Business Building in front of the classes. She told the delegates that she'd answer any questions they would have that George couldn't, and that they could go into the classrooms but not just stare from the windows. She also confirmed that she would not be SG again for year 2012 - 2013.

Visiting classes
The delegates took Monica's word for it and went into as many classes as they could. They visited BB level 9's classes (Tonia Khalil and Ramy Chamoun (whose trainer was Mira Mawla)), BB level 10's classes, and BB level 11's classes (BB1110's trainer was teaching the session using references to tatoos, and he asked them to participate). Unfortunately a man on BB level 12 did not allow them to take photos or to go into the classes all at once, so they did not check out the classes of that level. They did however check out the classroom (where GAII's final conference had taken place in 2010 - 2011) of Carla Gharzouzi and Mark Barbar (who hadn't got there yet as he was taking the TOEFL).

The double door of BB9
When the delegates left Tonia's classroom, Ralph was opening the double door - but, not used to the double doors at LAU, he opened the wrong panel and the door loudly got stuck. Luckily it wasn't a very serious problem and the delegates managed to open it - and to refrain from laughing until they were on the other side of it.

The chair of BB1110
When the delegates went into BB1110, they sat in the back of the classroom. Danielle had inadvertently sat onto a chair whose panel was broken, and when she did the panel went all the way off with a loud crack - to the hilarity of the MUNOCC delegates. George managed to get the panel stuck into the back of the chair before anybody else noticed, and the class went on. But when Danielle lay her back again, the chair's panel somehow got stuck in a weird position and Danielle ran before anyone noticed. The MUNOCC delegates laughed it away quietly - and it looked as though they were laughing to a joke the trainer had made.

The vending machine of the food court
Danielle was thirsty, so the delegates went to the vending machine next to the food court. Hanadie lent her some change, and she asked for a bottle of water - which fell straight up into the receptacle, blocking it from opening. All of the MUNOCC delegates tried to get it to open but it just wouldn't. They left the machine. When they went back to it, they found a lot of people trying to buy stuff from it - and a ton of stuff in the receptacle. To general hilarity.

Lunch
The MUNOCC delegates had lunch in the nearby fast-food Bliss after the MUN delegates' break (which had filled all of the places around the LAU with MUN delegates).

Mohamad and Naji
At the end of the day, the MUNOCC delegates were heading to the Business Building when George saw his 2010 - 2011 trainer, Mohamad "Mo" Hodeib and litterally jumped onto him yelling "You! You! You!". As the other delegates went back to BB1110, George and Khalil, as well as May Chalhoub and a few other ex-pink classroom delegates went to the room where Naji Ghaziri was training. "Mo" and Naji were called "The two best trainers of LAU MUN for 2010 - 2011" by Champville's 2010 - 2011 delegation, so George texted the MUNOCC delegates to go there. They were lucky enough to attend the Heart Exercise as taught by Naji - and as interfered into by Mo.

The return
Usually LAU MUN of Champville delegates stop in CBJ on the way back. This time, some stopped in Hardees, some in CBJ - but the MUNOCC delegates all went to Champville to go home (except for Danielle whose house was on the way and for Ralph whose house was closer to Aoker's Wooden Bakery than to Chamvpille).