By Sekheena, Mont’ Kiara International School
In addition to debates on monetary funding, analogies bordering on inappropriate permeated the debates of General Assembly 5 (GA5). The President of GA5, Thammatat Vorawandthanachai (Rumrudee International School), said that the committee members used a lot of entertaining metaphors in their speeches, the best being: “This resolution is like Kim Kardashian’s relationship: it isn’t going to work out in the end.”
Deputy Chairs Look Woon Wei (Hwa Chong Institution) and Yvonne Yi-Fan Hsiao (Shanghai American School Puxi) agreed that the delegates were entertaining themselves with myriad innuendos. “Someone said ‘this resolution is like a Justin Bieber song: the more you listen to it, the more stupid it gets,’” remembered Hsiao. Other analogies included “This resolution is like a juicy sausage but without the juice,” and “This resolution is like a doughnut: it goes round and round but has a big hole in the middle.”
But just because they use analogies doesn’t mean the debates are any less serious. Krrish Kothari (Dhirubhai Ambani International School), the delegate of France, gave a heated speech against a resolution on the issue of Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. “I only pointed out the flaws clause by clause. They were really offended, but I don’t think that I was being offensive at all!”
Overall GA5 is filled with intense debate that is as entertaining as it is substantial. As Regan Plekenpol, of Munity Press said, “GA5 is like Jersey Shore: they are always dealing with ‘the Situation.’”
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