Mariana’s tags about her school’s lack of model U.N. reminded me of a story that I’ve been meaning to post in here a while! Here goes:
When I was a junior in high school, I was in our version of model U.N.; it was a virtual U.N., between a bunch of a different schools across the country connected via the Internet. My group—four or five guys—was assigned Nigeria. As we delved into the simulation, we decided to create an OPEC-styled economic alliance. So far, so good.
However, in an ingeniously adolescent move (despite our “honors” student status), we named it P.E.N.I.S.: the Petroleum Exporting National Interest Syndicate. We fired that email out in the morning, and by the early afternoon our teacher was already giving us hell. The proposition was axed (one member of our group had to leave his math class to go up to the computer lab to rescind it), and we were reported to the Vice Principal, which was terrifying. We were all going to be suspended. In the meantime, a couple of copycats, included one named T.W.I.N.K.L.E. (I’m not making this up, I swear), emerged from other classrooms around the country. Ultimately, we got off scot-free, thanks to our teacher coming around and supporting us.
It’s the only prank that I’ve ever really been involved with. I think it was a pretty good one.
(via backshootingford)