Chadur Issue 4

ЧАДЪР EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY VELIKO TARNOVO

CHADŬR

VOL. 14 - ISSUE 04 TUESDAY JULY 29TH

The ones who stayed “home” Theme:

Break National evening specials what did you actually drink and eat?

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Contents / introduction What’s on? / weather National evening specials Question of the day But you still don’t know where we were, do you?

Dalboka Mussels Farm Easa stats Easa portraits Lost & found Humans of Krapetz Photo of the day

In this issue we explore the break. The holiday break at the Black Sea we just experienced; The break from otherwise ever-present easaians which a few people felt while staying behind in Veliko Tarnovo; The breakability and fragility of our surroundings in the encounter with easa.

I think one or two of us were a bit worried before leaving for excursion by the thought of spending two nights away and awake. Worried about the prospect of lacking 2

accommodation. And in general worried about not knowing.

In the end it turns out the beach and the woods accommodated us quite well. The bar didn’t run out of beer (as some easians were worrying about, biting their nails). And the mussels farm easily supplied around 450 people with the hangover mussels of their choice.

As one tutor noted when greeting the rest of us back from excursion, we looked surprisingly refreshed. Thinking of

the ‘doom day’ expectations people seemed to have according to the Q’ of the day in issue #3, a nice rest was probably the last thing anyone expected to get out of this trip. Exhaustion, maybe.

Sick, even. But refreshed?

Not likely.

Nonetheless I think that is what happened.

We have returned from a break - ready to dig, drill, jump, paint and assemble.

The assembly is in its second week!

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WHAT’S ON? wednesday july 30th

thursday july 31th

8:00 AM

breakfast

8:00 AM

breakfast

9:30 AM

workshops

9:30 AM

workshops

12:00 AM from the tutors

12:00 AM from the tutors

lunch

lunch

18:00 PM

NC meeting

18:00 PM

NC meeting

19:00 PM

dinner

19:00 PM

dinner

20:30 PM

workshops

20:30 PM

workshops

sangria party

23:00 PM

easa bar

23:00 PM basketball court down the stairs at Bioza

1:30 AM

TODAY:

workshops

Malta EASA 2015 presentation, lecture Kalin Yanakiev and One Architecture week 20:30PM at Chitalishte Nadejda

WEATHER wednesday

thursday

friday

saturday

sunday

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National evening specials Once again National Evening was a triumph of taste, culture and friendship. What really makes it special is the way you get to break free from your comfort zone of familiarity.

No more standard lagers and tequilas to get yourself tipsy, we are taking a jump to the unknown and you can be sure to find something new and unexpected.

Yugoslavia Drink: Rakia of all sorts. After the Rakia was finished, we had some beer.

Food: A lot of food, like sandwiches with kind of a ham inside.

Event: Dressed up in Yugoslavian outfit of the pioneers from when Tito was leading the country. A red scarf in a triangle and white clothes.

Bulgaria Drink: Boza – a brownish non-alcoholic drink.

People say you get bigger boobs from drinking it.

Also Rakia, a strong cocktail of menta with mastika (bulgarian ouzo) and watermelon with mastika.

Eat: Banitza – the 4

bread with cheece (you know it from lunch) Hungary Drink: Palinka – one was homemade with 5060% alc. Another was storebought with honey and 25-30% alc.

Event: Throwing horseshoes at a pole. Quite diffulcult but popular. Very few vere able to.

Latvia Drink: Riga Balsam.

A non-alcoholic rasberry sirup.

Eat: Black bread with either canabis butter, vegetable spread or rasberry jam. Also Different cheeces Lithuania Bobeline, a drink 35% made from berries. And Pelyno Trauktine of 47% made from herbs.

Event: A special lithuanian A-letter turned into jewlery – necklaces and bracelets – given to people as presents.

Czech Republic Drink: Spirit made from herbs called Becherovka.

Eat: Different types of spread made from plums,

apples and herbs. And different kinds of cheeses. A special spread called Watermans seamon- a peppermint spread with milk.

Event: A menucard in Czech, which meant nobody knew what they were ordering.

International team Drink: Amarula from South Africa (like baileys), bourbon from Canada, Australian melon drink.

Food: Dried fruit from Algeria.

Event: The theme was The others. A map of the countries painted on the table, and the drinks on the country of their origin.

Germany Drink: Beer and Jägermeister.

Event: A goal inside of the german flag. If you made a goal you could have either beer or Jäger or a Jägerbomb.

Sweden Event: Vasaloppet ski run, set up your skis and race forward, halfway through wax your skis to stay up to the speed and head towards the finish umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com

line.

Sport drink: Blueberry soup (which was actually vodka) Winner’s glory: a flower garland and a piece of hard bread with blueberry jam.

Norway Eat: flat bread with brown cheese, liver or moose meat.

Drink: you and three of your friends got to enjoy a ski shot of Akvavit (a liquor made out of potatoes) Greece Eat: Loukoumi with nuts Drink: Ouzo – drink with anis

Get crazy: Tsipouro – very strong drink Belgium To drinkers and patriots: Beer in the national colours BLACK: dark Leffe and Chimay, dark brown beer brewed by monks.

YELLOW: Blond Leffe and Hoegaarden RED: Kriek, cherry beer.

To your sweet tooth: Chocolate Finland Drink: Kilju – EASAbrewed drink made out of water, sugar, lemons and yeast. Lucky it didn’t kill-u.

To your sweet tooth: Be fooled – the candy is

salty.

Malta Drink: Maltese liqour from Carob tree, fig, honey, almond, pomegranate, honey Bajtra (made from Prickly pear) See: A procession of the statue of virgin mary, our lovely Sean Mayl. It’s done every weekend in most Maltese villages where they compete against each other to have the best procession.

Switzerland Drink: Eau de vie, Absinth and Appenzeller Eat: Toblerone and Cenovis butter with bread.

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Question of the day:

What’s your favourite memory from national evening?

People seem to have made it all the way till the morning hours on National Evening and Umbrella wonders how – the editor’s approach was getting too drunk to function way before the sunrise.

Elena (Romania)

memorable. I got tied up and pushed on the floor by three women and force drinked some strong stuff.

It all happened in a flash!

Inese (Latvia)

The sunrise with all the colours at the beach.

There was pink, orange, purple and everything. It was so beautiful. A little bit cold but really really cool!

Ewan (Scotland)

Amber (Netherlands)

The morning at the sea!

It was so nice meeting new people and really getting to know where they are from. Also Malta had some really nice and sweet drinks.

Roos (Netherlands)

It was definitely the sunrise I saw at the beach.

And also Belarus was 6

It must have been sleeping on the beach. I didn’t see the sunrise though, when I woke up it was already daylight. We slept there because we wanted to avoid mosquitos and the masses of people but we were confronted with thousands of couples.

The sky full of stars was my favourite memory.

Drink-wise it was the Danish fisherman’s friend drink. I didn’t play any of the National Evening games but I was watching Roos play, football with the Germans, Skiing with the Swedes and Curling with the Danes. umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com

Laura (Germany)

Maya (Norway)

Being caught by the Belarusian girls. They put me to the ground, tied my hands back and poured some drinks down my throat. I couldn’t escape, there was simply no chance.

I was marrying two guys – actually I think everyone got married. Then there were the stars, it was so clear you could see the Milky Way and the sun rise, it was huuuge! Actually, of the national evening itself I don’t seem to remember that much.

Sean (Malta) I don’t remember that much to be honest. But the entrance we - the Maltese - made was great. I remember sitting on the platform feeling like gold and looking like Jesus!

Malta had tasty food, tasty drinks and tasty people.

Remember to tune into EASA.FM, 98.0, every day from 10 AM! And if you feel like djing yourself, you can find EASA.FM broadcasters by the IT-lab.

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But you still don’t know where we were, do you?

Upon arrival, we looked like a troop of refugees dropped from a bus without any information nor a clue about where we were. Faces were turning grey at the sight of the sunlit camping grounds and everyone was in dire need of sleep. In a sort of ‘survival of the fittest’ mode we went hunting for a shady place to drop our sleeping bag and catch up on the missed sleep.

Let’s be honest, we all felt pretty miserable.

Yet not much later, we realized we had arrived in paradise. The grey world turned completely bright and colourful after some hours - or was it years? of sleep. Hammocks and washing lines appeared between trees, snoring people were scattered on colourful mattresses, people slowly found their way to the beach and the bar served mojitos and happy beach tunes. It would become difficult to leave this place again.

But do you actually know the name of our paradise?

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Krapetz! Krapec! Krapets! крапец!

Krapetz is the northernmost Bulgarian village on the Black Sea, about 90 km north of Varna.

We were basically almost in Romania, in a place known for its tranquillity, its dunes and bird life. But that was before we came.

The town is little visited, but it is said that the 6 km long beach here is one of the largest and finest beaches in Bulgaria, very authentic and wild. It’s a popular spot for celebrating the Bulgarian tradition of July Morning, when people from all over Bulgaria travel to the coast to meet the first sun rays of July. I’m pretty sure many of you saw this pretty sunrise, perhaps even combined with a skinny-dip in the Black Sea. Or you just watched the stars and fell asleep. The local food speciality is fish broth and seafood, not salty sticks and croissants.

As the local tourist website says “if you have been wanting to kiss the sun; and if you have been dreaming of hav-

ing a grand vacation in a heavenly paradise without spending that much, Krapetz is for you.” And “it would surely allow you to temporarily escape from the stress of the workplace.” True that!

When Umbrella was trying to find Krapetz on the map, we found out about a movie that was filmed in our paradise, with a rather porn-sounding plot: Three lonely women meet in Krapetz, a village on the Black Sea coast, trying to escape the arrogance and the triteness of “modern” post-communist society. The idyll continues for several days, but is soon destroyed. Crime, violence and corruption reach the three women even in this far, deserted place.

‘Krapetz / July’ (2012) directed by Kiril Stankov

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seaweed!

waves!

burned easians nude easians bar 2 with tiny fried fishes!

worst toilets we’ve ever been to

lots of impatient couples making their way to the beach

the abandoned bungalows where you found National Evening building material

symbiotic circle good showers, finally!

weddings

Belarus’ fire police vodka pussy bar 1 - heaven

overflowing toilets

drunk snoring easians

curling

dancing/crawling easians graffiti Bulgarian family on holiday

eco toi - best toilet option on Monday THE shop - water & umbrellas sold out

drunk snoring easians

bus chaos

Dalboka Mussels Farm restaurant review

Our bus ride home from the excursion was cut short by a visit to a mussels farm. It was a steep hike from the bus stop down by the farm but the thought of juicy mussels kept our legs moving despite the burning heat and the aching post-national-evening heads.

It was remarkable how well the waiters handled ten bus-loads of hungover easians. Orders were placed soon after we were seated and had glanced through the menu. Sure, it took closer to an hour to get the dishes but they all arrived simultaneously to the table, still warm and juicy.

There were mussels and fish, shark, caviar, salads and some more mussels. The only miss-order Umbrella has heard of was by our Italian gentleman, Matteo, who made the error of ordering pasta outside of Italy. Bar the pasta everything was fresh and tasty.

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As typical for EASA, the toilets experienced some serious jamming due to our tummies-gonewild and queue times soared through the roof causing some delay on the homeward journey.

seascape and beautiful people. Getting us ready for the hike back to the buses and the final leg of the excursion, a yummy 5 hour bus-drive back home to Veliko Tarnovo.

Nonetheless, on the whole, it was the perfect hangover cure. We got to enjoy good food, cold drinks, the picturesque

lunch with a view, photo by @maja_roic

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_____50l

EASA STATS

mentha jagermeister

____38l

8,4l

tequila

8,4l

wine gin mastika white rum

vodka

8,4l

8,4l 7l

8,4l

8,4l

whiskey

8,4l

10l

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Veliko deserted Personally when I was floating in the black sea listening to the sound of water in my ears and deciding whether my next move should be sleeping on the beach or buying a cocktail in the bar - I kind of felt bad for the people who stayed behind in Veliko Tarnovo.

But from the sound of it, it doesn’t seem like they want any pity.

We asked a few of them what made them stay, and what they experienced while the larger part of easa went away.

Progress in the Think Tank.

The tutors of Think Tank Differently were three of the people who decided to stay.

If you ask them how they spent their time this weekend they will probably tell you the official story of great battles with a dragon on the fortress, something with a magic sword and princesses (and this was when this reporter stopped listening) – but really guys, we all know the real story was less fantastic but equally impressive.

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Their motivation was ing to the tutors of Onion, the prospect of having all it sounded like an eventful the tools to themselves as time. To them it was strikopposed to having to en- ing how the locals of Vedure a battle with nearby liko Tarnovo suddenly beworkshops every time came visible in the streets a tool was needed. So and the shop – when the this weekend you could shops were even open, find the guys working on this is! It seems the cafe their conversion of an old and shopkeepers took bar in the bushes near the opportunity to take a the accommodation. At break from easa as well. this point the shed has With the EASA bar become more open, and closed with a chain lock, seating is in the making as Onion tutors - Egle, Justiwell as a barbeque place. nas and Vernon – found The rumour has it that the the time to go on poolmultifunctional seats will crawl. Driving around in also work as toilets, meeting the appar- “The shopkeepers took a ent wishes of the us- break from easa as well.” ers of the place.

Even if it has been cabs, eating nice meals a lot of work, the guys and visiting hotel pools seemingly found energy they were - in their own in their break from easa words - energetically raisnonetheless. As they put ing the economy of the it, it doesn’t feel like day 10 town. anymore, but rather they are now happy to see the W hether wor k ing , return of familiar faces. touring the city, guarding That is what a break and the dorms, cleaning the a good night sleep alone rooms or trying to sleep a in a room can do to you. lurking sickness away, easians skipping excursion The empty site have had the pleasure of While some were working, long showers, quiet mornothers spent their time ex- ings and a break from.. ploring and relaxing. Talk- well, EASA. umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com

EASA portraits

photography from the Spaceguide workshop Par ticipants from Spaceguide workshop are currently making photo series around the city about a topic of their choosing.

One of the participants, Julian from Malta, is portraying easians.

All photos by Julian Vassallo (Malta).

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Actual engaged couple (Mikkel & Sofia, Denmark) getting ‘married’ on national evening

LOST AND FOUND swallowed by the Black sea: Pauli’s glasses Alvaro’s underwear

borrowed: a girl’s bikini bottom

Sensymbioza

Quote of Confession the day of the day “If you don’t have so much laundry, you should combine it with other people’s clothing, make some kind of symbiosis.”

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“After National Evening, we went to the beach to see the sunset. I went in the water and took all my clothes off, for a wonderful feeling! But then a huge wave came and I lost my swimming pants. So I had to walk back with one hand on the front and one on the back. I found a girls’ bikini pants, put them on and fell asleep like that!”

Sensymbioza is preparing a sensory labyrinth in the old factory for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They need a new person every seven minutes starting at 9pm on each day for the performance.

It will be about using other senses than sight and if you participate you get to be an actor of the performance. It all sounds very interesting so don’t hesitate to sign up, you can do it by contacting Eli or Dessi, the tutors of Sensymbioza. umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com

Humans of Krapetz Johan Romme (Denmark)

A Danish guy, not from EASA and not even an architect, was camping in quiet Krapetz when a group of 400 stormed the camping.

He joined national evening, helped out at the Danish stand and liked the atmos-

phere. He sneaked in to one of the buses and is now officially a helper at EASA! “I was travelling with two other friends in Moldova but we ran out of money, so we hitchhiked and ended up in

Krapetz. Some guys from Sofia took us.”

“My two friends travelled back home and I was actually supposed to take the plane home today, but this seemed more interesting.”

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PHOTO OF THE DAY

by Alessandro (Malta)