So Model EU was not what I expected, but in the end, it turned out okay. The Interior Ministers didn’t really have to tackle anything controversial, so my meetings were kind of unexciting. The guy next to me spent the time making up cheesy pick-up lines with EuroSim references., most of which were funny, but I don’t remember them. (My favorite: Hey baby, can I be the minister of your interior?)

There were also a lot of stupid people at Eurosim, all of them Americans. The European students there were so well prepared and knew the material so much better (granted, most of them were law students). Unfortunately, a lot of delegations were unprepared, and were representing their own opinions, rather then the real opinion of the country, and that was screwing a lot of things up.

The Slovakian delegation was particularly annoying. After doing a 25 page paper on Slovakia in 2 days and killing myself researching it, and being in a really bitchy mood about it, my opinion of Slovakia was already quite low. Now, because their delegation was annoying, I have decided we should definitely bomb Slovakia.

But yeah. This international relations stuff…this is really what I want to do with my life. Go to law school and get a dual degree (Juris Doctorate and MA in International Affairs), spend my time arguing with people from other countries. Europeans are so much better educated than Americans – they know all about our primaries and made fun of Homeland Security and hate George Bush. What do we know about any of their governments, really? It’s kind of depressing. But I met a lot of interesting people, and had more intelligent conversations in this past week then I’ve had in the past year, or more, probably. It’s really great to met people who are interested in the same areas that I am.

In addition, I went out to dinner with a bunch of people on Sunday night, and we all had completely different opinions about so many things, and yet we managed to have a very civilized and interested discussion on a variety of topics (abortion, the Iraq war, the EU, socialism, Republicans, presidents, Jon Stewart being hot). It was wonderful to be able to disagree with people and still feel like your opinion is respected – that is certainly not something you find at Skidmore.