Photo courtesy of Audrey Yael Smith
By AUDREY YAEL SMITH | Junior Reporter
One of my highlights of 2022 was taking a Model United Nations course at UCLA over the summer.
Before the course started, I researched Joseph Stalin and wrote a position paper describing what I would do at a crisis committee meeting following his death. All of the delegates in the Stalin crisis committee took on different roles, and I was assigned the role of Mikhail Pervukhin, a Soviet engineer who worked on making an atomic bomb for Stalin.
The committee sessions were replete with passionate debates and negotiations; some delegates formed alliances, while others betrayed and backstabbed one another.
I bonded with the other students as we learned our way around campus and made late night boba runs. That amazing experience inspired me to join the Model United Nations Club at Pali High, and I’m hoping to go back to UCLA this summer to do it all over again.
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