WorldMUN 2013

Our WorldMUN Media and Design 2013 Team

Including Rao, Johnny, Harim, Malahat, Larissa, Melissa, Carrie and Merry.

Watch our DISEC committee shake it at the WorldMUN 2013!

  Bianca and Jess from Youth Opinionated are completing a portrait series that aims to capture what is on the minds of youth today.  WorldMUN conference participant Oliver Shen participated in the initial project which has been published on the net in Paris and New York.

Monash University student Alexandra Bathman joins in one of the Millennium Development Goal(MDG) committee sessions and shares with us about their goals in her latest blog article.

Read here: http://alexandrabathman.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/ngos-and-nfps-come-to-support-mdg-delegates/#more-287

Read other articles contributed by our student journalists here:

UNESCO: http://melbourne2013.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/UNESCOCommittee.pdf

DISEC:  http://melbourne2013.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/UNESCOCommittee.pdf

International Population and Development: http://melbourne2013.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Intl.Conf_.onPop_.Dev_.Article.pdf

Meet our lovely student delegates!

Day 2-Security Council session

URGENT: Dear Delegates, please book your accommodation IMMEDIATELY as rooms at Crown Promenade & Crown Metropol at the special WorldMUN discount rate are fast RUNNING OUT! We remind delegates that ALL Melbourne hotels will be heavily booked during the WorldMUN period due to several major international events occurring simultaneously. You will MISS OUT on our heavily discounted WorldMUN prices if you delay any further. Book your accommodation with our Official Partner Hotel before Tuesday, 12 February to avoid disappointment!

Get in on the action during your visit to Melbourne for WorldMUN! Purchase your WorldMUN Social Events Tickets now and maximise your WorldMUN experience. Network with delegates from all around the world whilst having fun!

The six Social Events of the conference to be hosted by the Melbourne Host Directorate are: Night Zero, Global Village, Melbourne Spring Carnival, Cabaret, Into the Wild, and Hooroo: Farewell Party.

Each event is unique in its own way and promises to be just as spectacular as the other. If you want to experience Melbourne's pulsating night life and gain easy and affordable access to the Social Events, we recommend you purchase our Social Events Package!

Get your tickets by logging onto your myMUN account now. Do take note that Early Bird Prices for All-Access Social Events Packages apply before 15 February 2013. Further sales are subject to availability and prices may increase thereafter.

Ollie, the website developer, taking selfies on the set of Project C

Flashback Friday -

Taken by Mel the photographer at the very first Volunteers Training session! 

If you see any of these enthusiastic volunteers, feel free to stop and have a chat! Whether it's asking for directions or debating the finer points of your latest proposal, we'd love to meet you all!

  Worst experience? (WorldMUN)

It will have to be a toss up between making another delegate cry during committee (to be fair it was unintentional, she was not sticking to her countrys foreign policy and she was heckling me) or being placed in ECOFIN when I did not know a thing about economics!

Best experience?

All of it! But especially meeting the love of my life in ECOFIN! Seriously I did. We are still together a year later and I am moving to Canada at the end of the year to be with him after going to and fro doing the long distance thing. Also just meeting awesome people from all different corners of the world. It truly is a great experience.

Favourite place in the world

Melbourne.

I have been to most major cities, around the world ( the iconic- Paris, London New York, Rome, Berlin, Cairo, Oslo, Vancouver ect) and live aboard for nearly 4 years and I can honestly say Melbourne is the most dynamic, beautiful city in the world. I am very lucky to be able to call it home.

You’re stuck on an island. You can take 5 things. What are they?

My boyfriend My ukulele My ipod A copy of Foreign Policy A box of mangoes (if there is a mango tree on said island then I would take Vector cereal)

Favourite hangout place in Melbourne

The Wesley Ann, Northcote

You can eat one thing for the rest of your life. What is it?

Aside from the two food items above I would say ice cream. Cookies and Cream to be exact.

How do you spend your free time?

I like yoga, playing ukulele and listening to records. I love hanging out with my family and friends, going to the beach and seeing gigs. Also trying to stay sane from the craziness of WorldMUN prep and studying International Relations by indulging in the occasional trashy mag!

Tattoos or Piercings?

Yes, I have tattoos and had piercings but took them out to look more “professional”

: P

Your favourite physical feature

My hair

Song you’re listening to.

Boom Boom- John Lee Hooker

One thing on your bucket list

Attend Austin City Limits Music Festival

   Night-time hangouts in Melbourne you should know about are…..Cherry Bar, Yah Yahs, Ding Dong Lounge. For something a little more chill The Standard, Rooftop Bar and Wesley Ann

My party trick is

Eugene, Merry, Pierce, Irene and Sam Loni