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teambuilding: day 1

ScandinaviaHitchhiker’s guide through Europe

Lviv | 24TH Oct 2010 | Issue 1

Katya & Oksanathe Head organisers exposed

Drink of the TsarsVodka: The DIY Guide

ukrainian special

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Keep calm and Carey on!Jonáš Jančařík & Martin Hoffmann on behalf of the media team

Whenever we use our memories to dive back into experiences longer time ago we again realise how remembrance is constructed. Whilst our logical synapses do try to rationalise memories it is mainly those hard to categorise parameters that do construct our memories: colours, smells, sounds. Especially music does help us to construct moments of remembrance, kicking our brains directly into time travel to the place we‘ve heard that sound beforehand.

Building up memories is what is hap-pening with you right now. Your presence here, your acquaintance with other people and the common  construction  of visions and resolutions are giving you concrete mental imprints. But also the parties at night might brand into your brain, by giv-ing you music you will further on associate with your experiences in Lviv. The sound-track of my EYP life… will exactly feature that aspect of EYP, and also how  Music Makes You Lose Control will be discussed in this issue. The driving question: what is THE EYP song that will make your stay more long lasting? We have started a poll online to see what the outside EYP world thinks about it.

A man surely full of memories is our president Seamus. In „A Cinderella Sto-ry“ he will share them with you and explain his reasoning of how to approach Lviv. Furthermore you experienced memorable events the last days, such as the egg-drop  that will be featured as well. How the organisers experience Lviv is more than special and unique as well...follow them for 24 hours in „Fighting Crime, One Phonecall at a Time“.

One of the claims of the session is cooperation, especially among the delegates. In this issue we will try to contribute by initiating the Topic Cross Check with AFETs and ENVIs. As well a topic will be discussed that does matter for all of you, the question of the influ-ence and importance your work does actually have. The question whether something like an EUtopia does exist is discussed with pros and contras.

As well you will find out more about your fellow delegates. Thanks to deep investigative research work we will answer the ques-tion „Available or not?“ - Check it out! Furthermore our Hitchhiker who started his journey around Europe in the last issue does con-tinue his trip down from the north through more Eastern realms and discovers many places worth visiting in future. However, which awk-

ward situations you can expect there will be discussed in „The weirdest custom in my country is…“

In the end we also won‘t leave you alone if you are in need for more practicality. 3+2 = European spaghetti? will try to explain you the European Education Scheme and the struggles that it faces - surely  relevant  for anybody who plans to study in future. The Napping Guide For Dummies will teach you one of the most essential skills to sur-vive the next days at the session, and if you get tired or need some change you will find a cutout for a Marshrutka. Have fun with that.

Last but not least we have a small ad-dition to the last issue. Due to late at night editing we forgot to mention the contribu-tion of Andreas Heyerick and Tom Palinic to the articles about the Drink of the Tsars and the DIY Vodka. Lilian contributed to the last Ukrainian Special with her article about

the Marshrutka and the lesson in Ukrainian. Furthermore we want to thank the whole team, especially Katarina and Jasmin, for putting so much effort in the iSpeak project that gives you the possibility to have your say here in ink. Unfortunately due to loss of a camera we can‘t provide you with a guide around your hotel - we hope to get that in the next time.

Enjoy your day!

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The soundtrack of my EYP life…Theresa Kleih, Ezgi Ince and Tom Palinic

Music plays an important role in most peoples’ lives. It has the ability to arouse emotions and to bring back memories.

Sometimes a song can beam you back to the time and the place that it reminds you of and you live through your feelings and memories one again. Especially in EYP, songs can mean a lot to you. If their EYP experience was a movie, this would be the soundtrack some of the members of the press team would hear in the background…

Tea Vulić, Journalist

Don’t look back in anger by Oasis

Shine on by The Kooks

Those songs remind me of my first IS in Dublin in 2007. I shared a house

with four English delegates and we used to talk a lot about music. But when I out on those two songs, they were very annoyed – they actually found them too cheesy!

Master plan by Oasis

This song reminds me of my IS in Liverpool in 2008 because my chair and I used to sing it all the time. This time at least it wasn’t me who started it!

Theresa Kleih, Journalist

Despair in the departure lounge by The Arctic Mon-keys

I am an airport cryer. Right after a session, com-pletely tired and exhausted, you usually don’t re-alise how much you will miss the session and the people. But at some point PED just breaks in, no matter how hard you try.

Rape me by Nirvana

In Istanbul, more than 20 the officials stayed in a house built for four people. It is quite obvious that sleep was not an easily accessible resource. This song put on as wake up call was the best way of providing us with the necessary energy for the day.

Disco Pogo by Die Atzen

I would never ever listen to this song in Germany. But here… Storozhenka, dingelingeling, dingelinge-ling, dvaciat odin – what more can I say?

Andreas Heyerick, Journalist

These are the days of our lives by Queen

This is just one of the most amazing songs I know and even more memorable since it is the last video Queen ever produced. It describes the way you look back at your positive memories in such a good way and even describes EYP in some way for me.

Everybody hurts by REM

This song means a lot to me. If you listen to it, it just makes you feel better, no matter how down you are. It re-minds you that there is no sense in being sad and alone all the time and that you just have to hold on…

Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel

Saying goodbye is a thing we have to do quite of-ten in life and even more often in EYP. Jacques Brel just has the ability to say the right things at the right time.

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Find more memories online and have your say on what THE EYP song is!

Music Makes You Lose ControlEzgi Ince

Music is an important part of our life. But what would be the perfect EYP song?

There are some things that we cannot live without. Music is one of them and most people need it in every step of their lives. Be it writing an article, taking a shower or having dinner, you always feel as if you have to have some music playing in the background. Much like your own soundtrack. Another thing about music is that it can change which mood you are in, put a smile on your face, make you shout your lungs out, cry, go crazy. We wanted to find out which songs make you feel different emotions and how we can com-pare them with the situations we face in EYP.

Whilst playing Coin Game, you could go for:Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Niks, LV)The Outsider – Marina and the Diamonds (Lau-ran, IE)During Chicken Pilot:Mungo Jerry - In The Summer Time (Julia, SE)MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This (Jasmin, AT)When you are overwhelmed by the committee work:Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (Julien, AT)Daniel Powter - Bad Day (Deniz, TR)When you finish writing your resolution:Walt Disney Songs (Martina, CH)Queen – We Are the Champions (Ezgi, TR)At the parties:Any David Guetta Song (Megan, UK & Martina, CR)Storozenka – Lviv Press Team (Lviv Press Team)

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“Life is tough”, these were the first words that were uttered by Séamus Carey, the President of the 65th International Session in Lviv, when we meet him for a short interview during lunch. On the first day of the session, Séamus told us that his dream for Lviv2010 is to talk with every single participant, which we notice is indeed a busy task.

In his speech during the Opening Ceremony, Séamus mentioned that in Lviv2010 we will create our story. So we asked what his story is all about. Séamus started EYP when he was a shy 16 year old. It was a turning point when he realised that older students actually listened to him and valued his opinion. “EYP was the first place where I felt I belonged, where I could be completely me.” EYP has taught him a lot and clearly shaped his life, therefore he now wants to inspire every single participant in the same way he has been inspired.

Séamus is indeed very passionate about EYP, but he is also passionate about musical activities. Whenever he did not perform at Euroconcerts, he sang in a gospel choir and also did musical thea-tre. In fact it is not surprising that he has played the role of Prince Charming in Cinderella. Being a charming prince himself, he wants to make it as magical as possible before we turn into pumpkins and go back home. Not only does he want us to break ice and get closer, he also attempts to break a world record. An application has already been made to Guinness World Records. What record is to be broken is still unknown but it will most

probably require the help of you, the people of Lviv2010.

After eleven years in EYP, Séamus has attend-ed many sessions. Naturally we are curious how he will make Lviv2010 different from other confer-ences. “I want to be a president of the delegates, not just the officials. I wish to be an approachable president.” Not only does he want to connect

with the delegates, he also wants them to con-nect with each other. We can easily see that this was achieved during the eggdrop two days ago. In other sessions where this game was played, many of the eggs were broken. In Lviv, only one did not survive. Séamus believes that this is thanks to the team spirit within and between the committees, which made the delegates want every committee to succeed. “It’s because they share their secrets

with each other”, he adds in a metaphorical way. EYP is a much appreciated concept, however Séa-mus still believes that some things can change and maybe need to change. This is why the com-mittees in Lviv will cooperate more, feedback and support each other through different methods, such as conciliation sessions.

Yes, Prince Charming wants to connect with each and every one of us yet he also wants this session to be about depth. “Often in EYP you par-ty and have fun, but it is mostly on the surface”, he admits. He hopes that this time, we will have con-nected on a deeper level as well before we leave the Cinderella ball.

A Cinderella StoryEzgi Ince & Lilian Liu

Being a charming prince himself, he wants to make it as magical as possible before we turn into pumpkins and go back home.

Egg-drop record brokenPia Spiesmacher (98 %), Floris Lauwers (the rest)

Being armed with only two paper cups, two balloons, 20 straws, a length of string, five rub-ber bands, one used blackboard eraser, ten pieces of paper, a length of tape and five toothpicks the members of the 15 committees were challenged by the following task: construct flying objects that were meant to absorb the shocks of a, rather robust, Ukrainian egg falling out of the 3rd floor (what equals approximately 15m).

Following a long EYP-tradition the egg-drop was both: an exercise on ‘lifesaving of eggs’ and the challenge of breaking last session’s record. Af-ter a short presentation of the intention of all im-plemented items and strategies, the pilots of the

flight objects marched to the launch pad. While ‘Pocket Rocket’ and the ‘Columbia Space Shuttle’ “rocked” the place also other ‘Eggcellent Eggsam-ples’ and ‘Eggcellent Droppers’ cut the air of Lviv’s afterglow.

Taking into consideration that after playing Egg-drop in EYP for more than ten years now, the outstanding result of 14 surviving eggs out of 15 (that’s a success-rate of more than 93%) dropped eggs is a record, as anything comparable to this was never achieved.

All present EYPers were deeply impressed by this outcome that might also have been influ-enced by the huge cheer of the crowd while one

egg after the other was dropped out of the win-dow of the 3rd floor. They were not only amazed by the flight performance, but also of the design of the various artworks amongst which a few para-chutes and various bouncy objects.

A lot of consideration lay behind the 15 com-mittees consisting of young Europeans. During the preparation time of 60 minutes there was the pos-sibility to exchange thoughts with each other about the functionality and design of the devices. This gave all ‘egg-ineers’ the benefit to adapt suitable changes to their constructions.

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Mission Log04:00 Preparing the programme for the next

day. Call each other. Hopefully sleep.

Call all.

05:00 Most orgas are in bed. Some are still

busy with printing. Call all.

06:00 Waking up. Being excited about the day.

Doing wake up call for 300 people. Call

all.

07:00 Having fast breakfast, with our eyes

closed. Gathering committees. Making

sure everyone is present. Call all.

08:00 Moving chairs and other stuff. Meeting

guests. Finding 150 popular couples for

the “You are not alone“ party. Call

all.

09:00 Start preparing lunch. Ordering food

and picking it up, then setting up tables.

Call all.

10:00 Cleaning and returning back to the

gymnasium. Printing, cutting and handing

out 300 party invitations. Call all.

11:00 Making-up a lunch menu for 300 people.

Finding a restaurant that is fast and

willing enough to prepare it. Call all.

12:00 Starting dinner preparations. Charging

mobile phones. Call all.

13:00 Lunch time. Asking 300 times whether

somebody“s a vegetarian. Problems

occur: somebody missing a fork,

somebody tripped and spilled his lunch

all over the floor, people are late“

Call all.

14:00 Cleaning up the cafeteria. Shopping for

coffee break and committee work. Call

all.

15:00 Preparing coffee break. Taking water

and cookies to the committee work. Call

all.

16:00 Making sure everything is organized

for the EYP caf“. Worrying about the

cancellation of the party venue. Max

arranging cabs for the journo team.

Call all.

17:00 Short meeting. Discussing. Messing up

the orga room. Call all.

18:00 Fingers crossed that dinner will arrive.

Call all.

19:00 Party preparation. Cleaning up dinner.

Transferring delegates to hotel. Call

all.

20:00 Delivering beer. Carry heavy boxes for

party. Call all.

21:00 Bringing Journos to party. Party hard.

Being the DJ. Call all.

22:00 Giving dance instructions. Having the

groove. Call all.

23:00 Enjoying party. Dancing like a maniac.

Making up cool competitions. Entertain

delegates. Call all.

24:00 Transferring delegates, again. Cleaning

up. Call all.

01:00 Reaching the hotel. Call all.

02:00 Orga meeting. (No call all.)

02:00 preparing wake-up call. Call all.“““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““““

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“““““““““““““““““““DANGER OF COLLAPSE““““““

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““““OVERSLEEP DETECTED“““““““““““““““““““““

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““““““““HARD REBOOT ATTEMPTED““““““““““““““

““““““GENERAL FAILURE ACCESSING MEMORY““““““““

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““““FDALJVEW FDLAKJVWQO JKFLD““““““““““““““

““““ERROR CODE: 771““““““““““““““““““““““““

““““REPORT TO ADMINS:““OKSANA/KATYA““““““““

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Mission Briefing: # 300 session participants from all over Europe arrived and are present in Lviv

# EYP cafE scheduled to start at 8 pm

# Venue cancelled

Primary Mission Objectives:

# Find new venue for EYP cafE within the next three hours

# Make one hell of a memorable party

A ticking time bomb. “Who will be able to successfully complete such an impossible mission?!”, we hear you ask, your shocked facial expression looking at the paper while your grip on the freshly printed pages tightens.The answer: an elite interdisciplinary team of organisers able to tackle even the most hard-boiled messes of sessions. Need an extra marker or flip chart? Want to order a taxi to drive you back to the hotel? Has the session president been kidnapped? All you need to do is call the Lviv orga-team.They may not be looking at the barrel-ends of loaded guns or dodging bullets in the literal sense like ‘24’-star Jack Bauer does, but that doesn’t make them any less badass. Organising an international session isn’t an easy task, so just to give you a taste of what happens behind the scenes we’re going to give you the overview of 24 consecutive hours in the life of a Lviv orga.

Mostly they are the overlooked ones. Buzzing bees, moving like phantoms. The Session in Lviv with its 300 people is a challenge itself already. A

cancellation for the night’s venue doesn’t make it easier. 24 hours in the life of an orga that even would have pushed Jack Bauer to his limits.

Fighting Crime, One Phonecall at a Time

The weirdest custom in my country is…They say every country has its own, and boy oh boy, they couldn’t be more right this time. I’ve talked to delegates and officials to find out under what kinds of unconventional customs they turned out to be so wonderfully different. The results are fascinating.Norway (Mikkel): Itchy business. When gradu-ating, you are supposed to wear your graduation pants for 17 consecutive days without washing them.Ukraine (Anastasia): A salty welcome. Our won-derful hosts welcome foreigners with bread and salt in order to honour their arrival. A piece of bread should be torn, dipped in salt and eaten.Cyprus (Andreas): Fun activity, gloomy name. At Kataklysmos, a holiday around 50 days after Eastern, people gather around and start throwing water balloons at each other. Eventually everyone gets wet.Ireland (Patrick): On Arthur's Day, which cel-ebrates Arthur Guinness, founder of the Guinness brewery business, pubs give up free pints of beer from 17:59 to 18:00, which ends up with people smashing bottles on the ground running around as fast as they can.Serbia (Tajana & Stefan): Windy times. ‘Promaja’ occurs when the wind creates a strong airflow throughout the house, passing through open win-dows and doors. Older people, especially women, go out of their minds when they feel even the slightest breeze, fearing they’ll catch a cold.World-renowned ‘rakija’, a strong spirit with more than 50% of alcohol, cures every existing disease,

according to Serbs. And there is a strong belief greasy food is actually very healthy as well.

Ukraine (Slava): Going somewhere? When trav-elling somewhere far, you should sit on your lug-gage for three seconds before you leave.The Netherlands (Stefan, Isabelle): Sausage Fest. On the 1st of January thousands (most of them men) meet up on the beautiful seaside on the North sea, take their clothes off, put silly orange hats (sponsored by some sausage company, re-ally), do the countdown and at the zero mark run to the sea. Hypothermia – unavoidable.Czech Republic (Aňa, George, Martin): Oh yeah, that’s the spot! On Easter Monday men use wood-en whips to whip women. They go from house to house and ask for candy and easter eggs (younger ones) and alcohol shots (more experienced ones). After 12 o' clock women are allowed to throw wa-ter on men.

Estonians enjoy whipping themselves while sit-ting in the sauna, just like their neighbours in Fin-land (Erik).

Georgia (Giorgi, Irakli): MC Tomada. A 'toast master' called Tomada is regarded as the king of the table or ceremony and everyone is obliged to listen to him and do exactly what he says. Num-ber of toasts per night orchestrated by the master: 30+Latvia: How about some smokin’ toes? A celebra-tion of the shortest day of the year, where people jump over fire to scare off mosquitoes.Greece (Giorgina): Encouraging growth of plate industry. Greek people just love smashing plates. Accompanied by music, they have managed to turn Greek plate industry into the largest one on the world.

The Media Team of Lviv IS is eager to know how many single and occupied people there are at the session. The reason of the survey is pretty simple – to get to know you better. Therefore, we appreciate your participation and are really looking forward to your involvement further as well.

In total there were 81 participants asked. The graph clearly shows what the current situation is in your private life! We have approximately 30% youngsters who are in a serious and beautiful relationship. Single (avail-able) ones are a bit more than 60%. Be wise - don’t miss any EYP Cafes and other evening activities. The One may be just around the corner or even in your committee. We also got some very honest answers. Approxi-

mately 3% of the polled ones are in a complicated relationship. The rest are either in an open relationship or actually don’t know whether they are in a relationship at all or not. One of the most amusing answers was from Dutch delegate (I heard his name is Jeroen, but you did not hear it from us). Pretty simple – he is involved in several relationships. If you don’t mind that, go look for him! Stay tuned for up-coming surveys too!

Available or not?Katrina Šuvajeva

knowledge

society

The sausage fest in the Netherlands. A life-changing experience.

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Digging into new mediaMartin Hoffmann

If you are following recent discourses on media theory one of the claims in modern times is ‘crossmedia’. The concept implies the overcoming of traditional boundaries and opening several possibilities to work with content, to consume it, to re-produce it and to participate in the production itself. Catchy words like ‘web 2.0’ and ‘user-generated content’ are part of that concept.

For the media concept here in Lviv the press team is trying the same. Here and there you might have encountered different connection we are of-fering you to enjoy the Lviv media experience both offline and online.

1) The blog itself

Most of you already had a glance at this mag-nificent piece of coding that you can reach at http://lviv2010.com.ua/blog/

Besides the mini-sites that each committee was able to use before the session to share knowl-edge and to get to know each other, you will now also find every single article that is printed here. So if you find a journalistic masterpiece inked here you can directly share it with your friends online using the embedded facebook function or tweed it.

2) Additional online content

Whilst most of the articles are ‘mirrored’ on the blog, we will also provide you with additional material. Online you can already find around 700 photos taken throughout the last days. As well

videos do await you to add some extra spice. How do you get there?

Most probably you have already seen these fine squares around that looked a bit misplaced and techy. These are QR-Codes. They are ad-vanced barcodes as you know them from your super markt shopping when the cashier scans your food. And simple as that you can use them as well. If you own a mobile phone of the newer generation that has a camera you are most prob-ably able to scan these QR-Codes and it will direct you to the content linked online, internet access preconditioned.

Additionally you can use the link that comes with the code. It is a shorten one you can simply type into your browser and it gets you directly to the additional footage.

The advantage of all this cross medial con-nection might not appear for you right now in Lviv. However, when you get online in the hotel, you can directly watch the additional material, com-ment on the articles (we all love feedback!) and you can share the links among each other or with you friends back home. The EYP world out there is already posting intensively, have your say too.

As soon as you will come home that will give you the possibility to directly dive into memories. Everything is already there, you don’t need to wait for anything to make your Post EYP Depression (PED) kick in.

We hope this will help you to make Lviv even more enjoyable for you. If you want to contact us, feel free to facebook us or to send us an eMail to is.lviv.pressteam@gmail.com - or talk to one of the journos at hand, oldschool baby!

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