GISS Preparation (Sustainability Teams/Service Day)

As the GISS is coming up very soon, (it's happening from February 21st to 23rd), the student leadership team that is comprised of 24 students including myself, has been meeting every wednesday after school to prepare for the conference. We have been preparing for the sustainability teams, for which I paired team members up, by practicing certain energisers and icebreaker activities that we will do with our team during the conference. The sustainability team has 20 students and 2 to 3 teachers in it, all from different schools in Africa, and their goal is to create a project that will be presented to the rest of the conference during the closing ceremony on the third and final day. This year, we decided that we would use children's storybooks taken from the library and turn them into skits.Each Sustainability Team is led by 2 student leaders, and my group is being led by Tan and myself. Tan will also be my partner for the Service Day, or the third day of the conference, where we lead a different group of students and teachers to a service project in Nairobi.I find that having the same partner for both of these events is reassuring, as it gives me a sense of continuity in my actions, and I know that I can rely on my partner, as I now know her very well.