Travel to UBCMUN. Getting around Vancouver. Posted on: December 14, 2009
Getting to the Coast Plaza Hotel from the airport using the SkyTrain Canada Line:
1) Take the train from YVR-Airport Station.
2) Get off at Vancouver City Centre Station.
3) Walk one block south to the intersection of Granville and Robson Streets, and board the #5 Robson Trolley Bus. Present the fare transfer ticket to the bus driver (same ticket you used to get onto the Canada Line).
4) The bus ride should only be about 8-minutes long. Get off the bus at Southbound Denman and Comox. The Coast Plaza Hotel is located here.
Getting to the Coast Plaza Hotel from Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal:
1) Take the 620 Bridgeport Station bus from the ferry terminal.
2) Get off at the terminus stop, and get on a Waterfront bound train on the SkyTrain Canada Line.
3) Get off at Vancouver City Centre Station.
4) Walk one block south to the intersection of Granville and Robson Streets, and board the #5 Robson Trolley Bus. Present the fare transfer ticket to the bus driver (same ticket you used to get onto the Canada Line).
5) The bus ride should only be about 8-minutes long. Get off the bus at Southbound Denman and Comox. The Coast Plaza Hotel is located here.
Wanted: Experienced MUN delegates to mentor high school students Posted on: November 23, 2009
Dear UBC MUN delegates,
An awesome opportunity has come up and we need your help! We have been contacted by Killarney Secondary in East Vancouver. They have recently formed a MUN club and are interested in gaining experience. However, they do not feel prepared enough at this time to attend UBC MUN. Instead they would like to shadow a delegate throughout the conference.
This is how it would work:
1. A high school student is paired with a university student.
2. The university student assigns simple research tasks to the high school student to assist in preparing their platform.
3. The university student decides whether or not he/she will invite the high school student to "shadow" them during the UBC Model UN conference for a session or sessions. This will depend on whether or not the high school student demonstrated responsibility in the research tasks assigned.
4. The high school students that have completed their research successfully and have been invited by their mentors to the Model UN Conference will observe the sessions.
What's in it for you?
A letter of reference from the groups sponsor teacher detailing your leadership, mentoring, delegating, organizing, debating and research skills. Plus an awesome opportunity to help someone with similar interests to yours and share all that you have learned.
Interested?
Email usg@ubcmun.org for more information!
The domino effect at Berlin Wall celebration Posted on: November 12, 2009
Scores of celebrants assembled in Berlin in the pouring rain Monday night to watch nearly a mile of giant dominoes drop as a stand-in for the Berlin Wall. One thousand giant domino pieces fell in a little less than a minute, stretching from the site formerly known as Checkpoint Charlie to the Reichstag building. The Goethe Institute distributed the oversized Styrofoam dominoes around the world so they could be decorated by children before the "Festival of Freedom."
