The magazine of FrankNational Session of EYPUkraine 5th March 2011 Issue #1 O m n o m n o m n o m n o m . . . . . . .C i s fo r C o o k i e. . .
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Editorial There are the two ladies that you won’t see that much around during the session but….yes, we are here! We take care of your lovely journos, teach them good manners and how to behave at different events of the session (just kidding, there are doing a great job by themselves). Editresses… You’ll most probably hear their voices for the first time during the closing ceremony and find out that they are surviving by drinking Vanilla Cola. Sometimes you love them and sometimes you don’t. However, the most important thing is to talk about them. What is hot: • We choose the pictures so that we are the ones that can boost your popularity. • We are truly committed to leaving you the best memories ever. • We oversee the content of the newspaper and we can manipulate things as we want • We can allow our journos to stay with you more time than they actually can. What is not: • we can wake up later and we are free to organise our work as we want. • we can skip all the boring events with the excuse of the newspaper. Most of you wonder why you haven’t recieved this issue earlier. Well, this is what happens when Murphy’s law decides to mercilessly attack the pressroom. Sometimes you find yourself wondering what other obstacles it’s possible to meet in your way and why luck has suddenly turned her back on you. It’s those moments that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Laptop breakdown, a virus which attacked the basic editing software and a day which refuses to gain more than 24 hours despite all magic tricks, prayers and bribes we tried out. However, finally we can say that we are here and we hope to see your smiley faces after reading “the Daily Omnomnom”. And remember: C is for cookie, D for Delegates and F for fun!
Lavrentia Christodoulou (Greece))
Oksana Korchak (Ukraine)
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Content
Contributors This paper was brought to you by: Emilia Florczak (PL) Jorge Simelio (ES) Uche Egbete (UA) Luca Wartna (NL) Louis Aerts (BE) Oleksandra Gipsh (UA) Paul Zaleski (PL) Noah Adhonyo (UA) Editresses: Lavrentia Christodoulou (GR) Oksana Korchak (UA)
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Meet your Chairs
JURI
Name: Evheniia Melekhovets
Name: Jindrich Russin
Your VERY first memory
Nationality: Czech, although he currently thinks he
connected with EYP: My chair has left our commit-
is
Cypriot
Nationality: Ukrainian
tee for the whole committee work due to the fact that Why is EYP better than
his girlfriend was in the city at that time. He was back pizza? Because in EYP you can do things that make only for the farewell party.
cheese on a pizza melt…
ster: We’re not wearing suit, we both have ‘n’ in our
monster: We both like COOKIES and we have big
Things you have in common with the cookie mon- Things you have in common with the cookie
names, we both like singing
mouth
Fortune cookie of the day When it comes to your resolution, it’s not about the size, it’s what you do with it. Many committees fall into the trap of making their resolution extremely long. The result is a text that is hard to manage and understand. Remember to consider quality over quantity.
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REGI Viсtoria Pustynnikova: Vika, as her friends call her, studies German and English
in her native town Kyiv. At the age of 16, Vika spent a year
studying in the United States. The time she spent in Louisiana accounts both for her amazing English and her love of R&B and hip-hop music. Roshan de Jong: “Hi, I’m Roshan!”
“Me, I’m from Spain. I hear Moscow is lovely this time of year though!”
Nothing annoys this session’s president more than having his name confused with his nationality. Roshan is in fact not Russian, but Dutch instead. Get it?
Name: Roksana Piech Nationality: Polish
LIBE
Favorite EYP experience: Batumi forum
What annoys her: Mispronouncing her last
name; people outside Poland tend to do that a lot.
Name: Anya Suprunenko
Nationality: Ukrainian
Status quo: Has
recently returned from an Erasmus semester in Austria.
Besides EYP: She has also worked as a kindergarten teacher.
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ITRE I
Name: Maria Pashi/Veronika Osmikhovska Nationality: Cypriot/Ukrainian
Status quo: Economics at University of Manchester/Interna-
tional Economics at Kyiv National Economics University
Greatest Sacrifice for EYP:Lying to my parents that I was at
the University after paying my tuition fee while I was at a session/ Breaking up with my boyfriend to attend a session in France
Craziest thing I have in EYP: -/Back in 2009, I was in a session
in Kiev and I was assigned to sleep in a room with female roommates. However, I woke up in another room with guys sleeping around me.
Name: Magdalena Ĺšwider Nationality: Polish
Biggest love: Travelling and meeting new people, making friends all around the world and experiencing different cultures.
Personal moto: You should derive as much positive en-
ergy as possible from people Name: Maksym Nikolaichuk
you meet.
Nationality: Ukrainian
He loves EYP because: Life wouldn’t be the same without it.
Funniest EYP experience: Water sledging on a quite wild river.
CULT 6
EMPL Name: Krzysztof Ignaciuk
Nationality: Polish Interesting hobbies: Playing the
guitar, correcting
Name: Dariia Popelnukh
grammatical mis-
Nationality: Ukrainian
takes when others talk.
Interesting EYP story: Room 440 (Warsaw Regional Session 2010)
Why is EYP better than 8 hours of sleep? Boys, girls, parties, EYP gossips, EYP-spirit
Name: Valeria Cherednichenko
An extraordinary EYP experience: Being stuck in an
elevator with nine, while the elevator was designed only for 5.
INTA
Nationality: Ukrainian
Best EYP experience: Iberian Forum 2009. I believe that I’ve found some life lasting friendship there.
Biggest love outside EYP: My love for dancing rivals even the one I have for round glasses.
Name: Michal Rejman Nationality: Polish
Greatest adventure: Michael is one of the most adventurous men
in this session. Even after his success in parachuting, he still feels that EYP is one of the greatest adventures in his life.
Describe EYP in few words: A place where every little thing can be succeeded, as long as there is tea provided in the accommodation for free *wink*.
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ITRE II Caleb Morell is a funny, good-acting
Swedish guy. He lives in Stockholm, were he attends High School. This isn’t the
first time Caleb is in Ukraine, he actually
participated in the International Session in Lviv. According to his own words it was “Whoa! Crazy awesome!”.
The strangest thing Caleb ever experienced in EYP was “being in an official
position with an official before he was an official”. What this exactly means? We don’t know, his lips are sealed…
His co-chair is a smart and always-smiling girl named Uliana Rusetska. At the moment she lives in Kiev, where she studies management.
Once at a session in Belgium, she got questioned by the Belgian police. At first Uliana didn’t tell us why,
but after some more questioning we finally figured it out: she was walking on the street at 3 o’clock in the morning, in a cowgirl outfit, playing with a lasso. Suddenly we understand the Belgian police a lot better.
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Criss-cross puzzle: Find the Internet password! > Louis Aerts challenges your mind and reveals the secret password of the day. As you might already know, there is a WiFi connection in our accommodation venue. However, it requires a username and password. Every day, this paper will include a different puzzle. Solve it and you’ll find the password. The letters in the are part of the password. The numbers in the top left of the squares refer to the hints lower on this page. Today’s username is: 1299279542.
Across 1. The theme of the second party Solution (and password): 3. The country of the FrankNational session _ 5 8 9_ 6 _ _ _ _ 4. The name of the hotel we’re staying in 6. The city we’re in is called ...-Frankivsk 1 2 3 456 8. The theme of the session is ... responsibility 10. European Youth Parliament 11. The amount of committees there are 12. First name of the President of the FrankNational session Down 2. At this session you will all make new ... 5. The most important people in an EYP session 7. The first party was a ... ball 9. C is for ...
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Sherlock FRANK! > Uchenna Egbete and Paul Zaleski invite you to a different invastigation. England has ingenious Sherlock Holmes, America is proud of their pet detective – unpredictable Ace Ventura, and do not forget always original Hercule Poirot from Belgium. Now we are offering you a chance to become unique and unforgettable detective of EYP Ukraine. As you probably know, everybody has some secrets within they do not want anyone else to know about. And this is exactly why your lovely PRESS Team is challenging you, delegates, to join in the fun. As we are trying to find out some of your little secrets we invite you to do the same and match some of our embarrassing moments to the members of the Frank Press Team. Game rules are quite simple and we are going to give you a head start. Down below you will find ten embarrassing moments of each Press Team member. Your task is simple - figure out the way to find out which secret belongs to which Journo. To achieve that, you are allowed to do everything apart from directly asking any of us about the very secret you investigate ( i. e. “Is your secret this or that?” you get the idea, don’t ya?). We have a surprise for a delegate who will manage to get the most secrets correctly. So boys and girls! Get your magnifying glasses and INVESTIGATE! All good luck 1. I am secretly a dwarf 2. I am still sleeping with my teddy bear. 3. I have fake teeth. 4. I love to watch a Cinderella
shower. 9. I secretly use a chair to reach the freezer. 10. I am in love with the session President.
Story. 5. 6. ime. 7. ter. 8.
I talk naughty when I sleep. I love to watch Japanese AnI am dead scared of the waI sing very badly when I
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EYP® Patient Information Leaflet
> Jorge Simelio and Luca Wartna drug deep into the files of European Youth Laboratories.
Dear readers, As you all may by now imagine, EYP® is a drug. Self-medication is a very serious issue, and one should not go for attending sessions without knowing all the implications. Luckily, your lovely journos Luca and Jorge dug deep into the files of European Youth Laboratories® and found a Patient Information Leaflet that is perfectly suited to this occasion. Please read this now, as the implications for your health may be serious. Yours sincerely, Luca and Jorge EYP® Patient Information Leaflet: Read this leaflet carefully in its entirety, as it contains very important information. What is EYP® / Why take EYP®?: EYP® is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation established in 1987. It’s a platform for political debate and intercultural exchange among youngsters from various European countries. The treatment consists of attending ‘sessions’ with the aim to raise awareness of European issues and promote diversity of ideas and traditions. EYP® fights the symptoms of political apathy by elevating patients’ awareness of the overall social climate. Its use is appropriate in cases of uncontrollable urge of coming in contact with points of view different to one’s own. How is EYP® used: As a preparation for treatment or delegates’ research on a given topic. They then attend a session where the above mentioned topic is discussed and a resolution is finally drafted. Composition: Physical composition per 118 participants (based on the FrankNational session): Delegates: 80 Chairpersons: 16 including: - President 1 - Vice-President 2 Organisers: 12 Journalists: 8 Editresses: 2 What forms does EYP® come in?: Regional Session Syrup: national regulations vary. National Session Caplets: to be administered once or twice a year. 100-150 users per time. International Session Cream: to be taken three times a year in spring, summer and autumn. 300 users per time.
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Side effects of EYP®: 20,000/20,000 estimated participants have experienced PED after every session they attended. 90/100 learnt words in a foreign language. 1/1000 EYP®ers were scarred for life and ended in using operative clauses in their daily lives. 5,000/10,000 participants reported Facebook addiction triggered by trying to keep in touch with the international friends made in various sessions. 500/1000 participants no longer find it embarrassing to dance and sing in public areas. In a survey recently conducted in the FRANKnational, 100 participants were seen practising Western Ukranian wedding rituals. Benefits of EYP®: Acquiring of language skills: non-native English speakers improve their skills and raise their confidence when speaking English in daily life. Improvement of problem-solving skills: Teambuilding games and activities trigger communication among committee members and multiply their ability to work towards a common goal. Negotiation: participants learn to listen to others’ opinions while defending their own, becoming more tolerant toward other cultures and opinions. How to conserve an EYP® session: Special moments, committee jokes, cheers, and other session memorabilia are stored in the session newspapers, blogs and photos posted online. Session newspapers should be stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight. General notes: Treatment is to be intensive and can range from 3 to 10 days in duration. Do NOT interrupt treatment before the conclusion of a session. There is no maximum recommended number of sessions to attend. Contact details: European Youth Laboratories® www.eypej.org Questions, comments and requests should be forwarded to: Electronic mail: frank.pressteam@gmail.com Physical mail: Room 237, Nadia Hotel, Ivano-Frankivsk
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Pictures of the DAY FRANK Gallery
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FRANK tasting or A delicious bite from Ukraine > Emilia Florczak and Paul Jeremy Zaleski investigate on what the Regional-Village is all about. Are you interested in displaying and tasting regional cuisines and beverages, exchanging cultural facts and recipes, presenting your region in a very special and original way? Then Regional-Village is the right place for you! As we usually say in EYP, one of the main aims of the evening events is to connect people. We are here to get to know each other, our customs, traditions and cultural backgrounds. Who can think of a better way to understand and appreciate different types of food and drinks than enjoying a delicious piece of deruny with a glass of kvas? Can you come up with a better to experience Ukraine than taking part in a traditional wedding game or watching an energetic Cossack’s dance? If one country can have such variety of different confectionery, folklore and sense of humor, then imagine how many remarkable customs will a Regional- Village allow you to see and experience! Can you picture tables full of Greek olives , German Haribo Gummy Bears and Polish bigos? Now add some Turkish belly dancers or Spanish flamenco performers with a French national flag in the background. However, despite the wide variety of products offered, the aim of the Regional-Village is always to bring different people together and provide them with an extraordinary opportunity to actively understand one another’s lifestyle. Even though this RegionalVillage was mainly focused on Ukraine, there was also a small hint of international accent. Song performed by the polish crew called ‘Duet of Two Hearts’ (Dumka na dwa serca) was not chosen by accident. It told the story of a Ukrainian Cossack and his lover polish noble woman. After all it’s all about food and fun, don’t you agree?
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