Experience a day of Colombo Modle United Nations hosted this year by OSC for the 30th session.

Earlier in the school year, I was approached by Aura the COMUN secretariat of 2023, she asked me if I wanted to be part of the tech team head of publications and media to help promote and advertise the MUN program to schools around Colombo. Of course, I said yes as I have had previous experience being in a Modle United Nations program. After completing The musical  “Little Shop Of Horrors” I dedicated all my time to MUN we spent 1 and a half months planning with the tech team on our future posts, timelines, dates, etc. Our first task as a Tech team was to get everyone “hyped” for the conference and get people signed up. As head of Publicity and Media, I set up an Instagram account as well as a Tikok account to get students from all COMIUN participating schools to sign up and be aware of follow-up events. This also made sure our sponsors, the US Embassy, Power Tech Cement, Fonterra, and Lanka IOC were mentioned on our page and were recognized. We also posted videos during the conference as a summary of the event. The first two days of COMUN were hosted at OSC then the last day was hosted at the Taj Hotel where we also held the closing ceremony.

My job as Head of Publicity and Media.

I was in charge of gathering photos and videos as well as one of the editors editing 5 videos. You can imagine this was very stressful and my team went through difficulties and stress while doing this.  One of the most major challenges was editing the videos and getting them in on time for the ending ceremony which was a bit delayed due to the secretariat.  Me and my teammate Dimath who was another person in charge of editing where put under a lot of stress as we were missing videos and the slides had changed last minute so we were cramped next to the main stage and you could tell the panic on our faces as we had realized we where missing one video completely. Luckily we had found it and had the videos repaired in no time. I was in charge of the slides for the ending ceremony as people such as the secretariat and the ambassador of the US were also there to express their gratitude for the diplomacy shown by the students there. Having had meetings and conversing with the people in charge of the live stream setup and the setup for the presentation in general for Taj was an interesting experience as I could experience what goes on behind the scenes when planning large events and presentations. To put it simply this entire experience felt like a job or an internship. I also found out that I work super well under pressure and stress as I get things done well and also look for the most efficient way to do things.

Takeaways.

I believe that this experience was one that I learned a lot from, and also learned more about my flaws and strengths that I can work on strengthening in the future. I  met new people who were significantly older than me and more experienced which also taught me a lot. Having meetings and coming up with creative ideas in the field of marketing and media is something I enjoy doing so this experience has made me realize that this could be enjoyable for me in the future as well.