So yesterday morning I returned to Brookings at 3AM from the Arrowhead Model United Nations Conference in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan. It was roughly a 15 hour ride there and back in a fleet of vans which carried the 72 of us. I'd never been to Michigan before but it really was beautiful country. It's nice to drive around on roads with more things to see than flat nothingness. South Dakota is pretty in the seasons, but right now its dirty and brown, seeing as we're stuck in between the white and the green. On Friday night myself and 11 others put our passports to use when we crossed the bridge into Canada. I had never been out of the country so I was pretty excited to head over the border. It took us an hour to get through customs on our way into Canada, but once we were through, we made our way downtown.
Sault Saint Marie, Ontario is about 3 times the size of it's Michigan counterpart, and we started at a pool-hall bar where I had my first legal drink, which was pretty cool. We bar-hopped for the next couple hours before returning across the border, this time crossing in 5 minutes!
The convention continued and I had a lot of fun, I even managed to stop a fight from breaking out between a ridiculously cocky representative of Honduras who couldn't seem to understand that everyone was playing a part in their representation of their countries. North Korea needed a friend, and a big bearded Ireland representative fit the bill. The last night in Michigan, our commencement speaker was the former President of Ireland. Because we were the delegation from Ireland, we got to meet her and I even shook her hand! We chatted briefly, and she told us that Ireland's main focus in the UN is peacekeeping forces, which is what my resolution was all about! On our way home, I got to see Lake Michigan, we dodged a Tornado warning, and I even tried my first KFC double down, which wasn't all that good in my opinion. Many hilarious stories and jokes told later, as well as dealing with the shocking antics by crazy Bill, the driver of the second van in our little caravan until we eventually arrived home. It was a great trip, and I have a lot of fun spending time with some good friends. And now, I'm glad to be home!
Sault Saint Marie, Ontario is about 3 times the size of it's Michigan counterpart, and we started at a pool-hall bar where I had my first legal drink, which was pretty cool. We bar-hopped for the next couple hours before returning across the border, this time crossing in 5 minutes!
The convention continued and I had a lot of fun, I even managed to stop a fight from breaking out between a ridiculously cocky representative of Honduras who couldn't seem to understand that everyone was playing a part in their representation of their countries. North Korea needed a friend, and a big bearded Ireland representative fit the bill. The last night in Michigan, our commencement speaker was the former President of Ireland. Because we were the delegation from Ireland, we got to meet her and I even shook her hand! We chatted briefly, and she told us that Ireland's main focus in the UN is peacekeeping forces, which is what my resolution was all about! On our way home, I got to see Lake Michigan, we dodged a Tornado warning, and I even tried my first KFC double down, which wasn't all that good in my opinion. Many hilarious stories and jokes told later, as well as dealing with the shocking antics by crazy Bill, the driver of the second van in our little caravan until we eventually arrived home. It was a great trip, and I have a lot of fun spending time with some good friends. And now, I'm glad to be home!
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