The Last Socially Acceptable Role-Playing Game

Okay, so I just got back from a four-day trip to the Palmerhouse Hilton in downtown Chicago for a gigantic Model United Nations conference. It was pretty fun, but also pretty exhausting. For those of you who do not know what Model United Nations (henceforth referred to as MUN) is, it's like debate team, except that you are assigned a country, such as El Salvador, and a topic, such as transnational organized crime, and must debate the assigned topic from the assigned country's viewpoint. Kids from other schools and whatnot make up all the other countries in the makeshift UN. After long hours of debate, you join up with other countries to write a resolution to solve the problem. Like I said, it was pretty fun but quite tiring.
The best part was that on Saturday night, there was a 'delegate dance.' It was fun because it was time to relax and chill and forget about the duel between Panama and Saudi Arabia. Here's a quick description of the dance: take the nerdiest, smartest kids in America, as well as some crazy partygoers, shove them in a ballroom and turn on techno remixes of pop music. Then you might come close to envisioning this spectacle.
The only downside to this trip was that although I missed school on Friday, I also missed the first three meetings of Menagerie as a result. Hopefully I'll still be able to participate. A sophomore who was in it last year (and who was my partner in MUN) said I should be fine, but we'll see...