high school

I alluded to the fact I met some crazy people throughout my life and was therefore put in many awkward situations. But perhaps I deserved it because I wasn't the 'best' student, especially senior year. You see, somehow I managed to finagle a spot onto the Model United Nations Team at our school. It was through a brilliant combination of acting, begging, and the ultimate need for something good on my college application that got me in. Every year the team got to travel to the main conference in Amsterdam, why take many 18yr olds to Amsterdam, I don't know. (I know you think this is going to be a drug story but believe me it is not) We all were assigned to go up, in front of about 2500 people and give a speech on a disease or crisis affecting the world. While my colleagues reported on things like the crisis in Darfur, AIDS, Tsunami, etc, mine was on...Diarrhea. Yes, Diarrhea. You see I'm so immature, I'm laughing to death at even writing the word. I went up in front of those 2500 people and proceeded to talk about the impending threat of diarrhea across the globe, I  had pictures of the people from the movie THE RING, and put those up on the big screen, claiming them to be victims of diarrhea. I also did a number of other things like pass around a cup of brown water to the front row. Needless to say...I actually got the resolution passed. I kid you not, perhaps through my 30 minute speech I had made everyone in this auditorium (composed of some future harvard students, oxford/cambridge graduates, prominent teachers and business men) dumber than when they had entered. Or maybe they just went along with the joke. It may have been the greatest practical joke I've ever played, and now you have all lost a little respect for me but that's not too surprising.