Sort of talking and walking

Surprisingly, I am not much exhausted these past few days despite of continuos reading and talking activities at school. However, I am not quite sure if this would persist for the coming weeks. Finals is fast approaching and professors are actually starting to count the meetings left. And finals, as we all know, entails projects, completions etc. 

• UN Simulation

After Midterm Exams, we (the class of IR-356) immediately proceed to our UN General Assembly simulation activity in our International Organizations I class. Such simulation activity goes like this, each of us must took a country to represent, act as a delegate from that specific state then must make position/policy papers to be delivered in the session. Our simulation activity started last February 21 and until now, we still haven't reach the final adjournment.

The agenda our professor chose was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and perhaps the question of Palestine's bid for UN full membership. The country assigned to me was the Republic of Japan. I wouldn't go much into details on how the session is going, nonetheless i should say that we are doing good, not just according to me but according to our Dean also :) (at least all efforts was appreciated) Also, I would like to again commend my classmate and seatmate  Ate Joan Narciso, she was acting as the delegate of Israel and she was able to portray and represent it too well. *clapclap

Me and Ate Joan :) plus our dear professor/dean :)

And this is me while delivering my speech. Not really a good shot. Haha.

And this is a better picture of me, I guess :)

• That Stranded Night

I would also like to share our experience last February 28 when the INC had their sort of a gathering. We got stranded. That's all. Haha. We walked/ran from Intramuros to somewhere near FEU because of heavy traffic and because jeepneys were all loaded. I decided to spent the night on my friend's house at Sampaloc, Manila and some of my classmates also did sleep overs. T'was such a tiring day!

And this was how we looked like that night. Worried but smiling :)

• Logos Hope 

Logos Hope is said to be the world's biggest floating book fair  and from that I guess I am lucky enough to be able to visit it. I was really excited to see it and very much looking forward to buy a new book, however, I was a bit disappointed. I am not saying it was bad, I just expected much more. Nevertheless and despite of the long walk at South Harbor which caused my feet to ache, it was still worth while. Though I wasn't able to find a good fictional book I was able to buy an informative and helpful book for my course. :)

Logos Hope Valletta

Us-French Gang as I call it :)

The book I bought. Yes, it's comparative politics! :P

That's all :)
With few exceptions, it was a happy week for me :)

PS. Credits for Ate Joan for some of the pictures :)