Last weekend, I participated in my first Model UN conference at Wenzao! Nora and I woke up early on Saturday and made our way over to one of the basement classrooms at Wenzao for a day in committee. Because we had a smaller group, the chair encouraged all of the delegates to participate, and it was pretty interesting to see the Taiwanese students participate in MUn in English. As Nora and I have AWESOME English skills, we were sort of the rock stars of the conference. Our first session, we drew slips of paper with animal names on them and then pretended to being a group of animals discussing how to decide who would get a spot on Noah's ark for the next two hours (6 spots, 9 animals). Nora and I introduced a resolution to hijack a boat from the humans from Kaohsiung Harbor, so everyone could survive. In the post-lunch session, we moved onto a more serious topic of how to deal with "the human rights of refugees under warfare and armed conflict." I was Nigeria; Nora was the United Kingdom. Pretty much all of my delegation's research was done during the lunch break, but it didn't seem to affect our ability to participate that much.
American Delegates plus Americans
Taiwanese boy sees hot American girls. Taiwanese boy takes picture with hot girls. He then uploads it to Facebook.
On Sunday, we achieved a goal we've wanted for a long time: Get a Taiwanese wedding shoot. A few months back, Nora and I were at 議大 World when we saw a booth advertising for these photographs, something unique to Taiwan. Here, when couples get married, they spend a day taking pictures in various outfits that will then be displaced in a book at their wedding. The photos tend to be ridiculous and sassy, so Nora decided that our NSLI-Y scholarship group should take some. Instead of going traveling in May, we took a Taiwanese wedding shoot. We got to the store at 10 am and left at 7:30 pm. Here's a breakdown of the day.
10ish- arrival, put Nora and I in front of a mirror while two Taiwanese women do our make-up and hair, Ben and Brandon sit around for a while, then go upstairs to pick out tuxedos. I realize the US government is paying for my fake eyelashes.
10-12- We notice this building has four floors, and the upstairs are filled with wedding dresses, party dresses, tuxedos, and traditional Asian wedding clothing. We don our first of four outfits, and a photographer takes us to the fourth floor for lots of individual and group shots. She gives us instructions in Chinese and tells us to look sexy and occasionally says "No smile!"
12- Lunch
12-1:30- Finish picking our outfits, change into an outfit, and then load up into a car
1:30-3- Go to Kaohsiung 85, take lots of pictures
2:30-5ish- Drive to the Dragon/Tiger Towers by Lotus Lake, change into Taiwanese wedding outfits, take pictures, feel like a celebrity as tons of Japanese and Mainland China tourist take pictures on their smart phones of the white people in Chinese wedding garb. Then move to the Confucius Temple and take more pictures on a bridge and a in front of a giant door.
5- 6ish- Take pictures on a playground after changing into our formal dresses. Nora and I look hot. Scare small children who were playing on the playground until we got there. Then take more pictures in a field by the playground.
6-7:30- Get back in the car and go to 西子灣. Take lots of pictures as we barely make the sunset. See lots of Taiwanese couples also taking beach pics. Our photographers think Ben and Nora are getting married, as Ben told one lady they're dating, and she told all her co-workers. Drive back to the store and immediately wash the make-up off my face. Fake eyelashes make my eyes hurt.
Overall, it was a great weekend. We'll get to see the professional's photographs (the one's above are from Abby) sometime next week.
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