Wesley proves itself again, but this time in India

By Adrian Marcus

When they left Sri Lanka they never knew that they were going to bring back such great achievements. The members of the United Nations club of Wesley College attended the Model United Nations (MUN) conference organized by the Sishya School held in India on August 23, 24 and 25. They had once again shown their capacity in public speaking, but this time in India by winning numerous awards at this competition. Now the word MUN might have made your mind wonder as to what it is? Well here's the answer: The MUN is a duplication of the actual UNO which is organized by students in which other students from various schools represent themselves as diplomats from member nations of the UNO in order to bring up solutions to global problems. SISHMUN is one such conference organized by the students of Sishya School, India. These 12 students from Wesley College namely Sithira Gunasekara(Security Council), Shehan Pushparaja (ECOSOC), Jeremy De Zilwa (1st Commission), Aswin Pushparaja (2nd Commission), Thanuja Meegahawatta (1st Committee), Akeel Majeed (2nd Committee), Praveen Jayarathna (3rd Committee) representing Russia and Adrian Marcus (1st Commission), Shafeek Shuail (2nd Commission), Imal Kumarage (1st Committee), Riffeth Rauff (2nd Committee), Abdullah Nyzar (3rd Committee) representing Greece attended the 3 day contest held at the Sishya School campus in Chennai. Jeremy DeZilwa the delegate of Russia in the Human Rights Commission and Abdullah Nyzar from the Social, Humanitarian & Cultural commitee won the Best Delegate award with an exceptional performance. On the overall the delegates from Russia consisting 7 delegates won the best delegation award which is given to the delegates representing the same country with the most outstanding representation of their country, overthrowing the delegates representing the countries of USA, Uganda, Sri Lanka and China. The other delegates also helped in achieving The Best School award which is given to the school with the overall best performance. The delegates returned to Sri Lanka after a 5 day expedition bringing home the glory and pride achieved after a month of sleepless nights' preparation for this intense