Day 3

Today we had our first formal interaction with other Model UN students. We participated in a training for the international schools. Roughly ½ of the 21 delegations are from schools outside of South Africa. In addition to schools from the USA there is a school from the UK and several from other countries in Africa. Some of the students from Kenya extended an unofficial invitation to the East African Model UN…hmmm. As you would expect, our students have done a wonderful job representing themselves as well as all of you back home. I am truly proud of them. They are socializing and networking constantly. After the training we joined with the South African students as well for a private tour of the Two Oceans Aquarium and dinner. Dinner was a wide range of typical South African dishes – which are anything but. So many cultures have come together here that there is no single dish or type of food that can be considered quintessentially South African. So we had to try some of everythingJ I had hoped that the students would take turns blogging but they have been busy preparing for debates and keeping up with their school work. No joke, they are being very responsible and self-motivated. They do enjoy your comments on the blog so thanks for those and keep them coming. Tomorrow we will have our first UN session on the security issues associated with Global Warming – apparently the rest of the world thinks it might happen.