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JOURNOBOOK Tea mbui l di ng i s the root cause for my m os t e m ba rras i n g moment ever. BERNET Teambuilding is actually the only place where I do not feel embarrassed. Embarrassment goes hand in hand with loneliness. Doing something together will never make me feel awkward; that is the power of the group. Outside of teambuilding I make approximately four blunders per hour. I do not even blush anymore and I am the proud owner of the hero hat since the beginning of this session. Teambuilding is the best thing that ever happened to me; being part of a group makes one feel invincible.
KATARZYNA Have you ever wondered why all the chairs enjoy games involving blindfolds so much? Probably because it is so much funnier just to watch all your delegates moving like a bunch of retards. Once, we were meant to create a dancing show, unfortunately I was the one that was blindfolded and I totally misunderstood most of the moves. At the end when they played the music I had no idea what I was supposed to actually do. I ended up making a complete fool out of myself. Well done...
KATERINA Before your first session, did you also think that the European Youth Parliament was an abbreviation of boring people in suits leading endless political discussions? This delusion has probably gone out of your mind after playing one of the first teambuilding games. At first you all thought: “Why in the whole world would I voluntarily embarrass myself like that?” Watching the people called ‘the officials’ making complete idiots of themselves yet seeming to be more than okay with that. You might have realised this is not a boring political organisation as you probably thought at first.
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KHALID Obviously not, I mean, EYP might be crazy and all, but there have been many crazy things I have done that go way beyond your wildest imagination‌ Okay, and now for an honest answer, definitely! In all seriousness, dancing around like chickens, penguins and butt-spelling your name; can it get more embarrassing than that? Of course it can, which is why you might see me acting a bit crazy every now and then ;)
MAJA Pass the orange. I still remember the huge embarrassment I felt as I played it for the first time. I was simply glad that I was standing between two girls‌ Now that I look back at it, I smile and think how silly I was. Right now, it is one of my favourite teambuilding games, apart from some EYP songs. Especially, when there are more objects to pass. The more, the better. One day you will understand it.
NASTASSIA I would say that playing the coin game while also playing suck and blow is pretty awkward to begin with. Especially, with people you met approximately fifteen minutes before. It gets a little more embarrassing when two boys fail in their attempt and have an unintended full-on, guy on guy snog. Pretty embarrassing, not necessarily for me, but, oh boy, did I feel that awkward starfish.
TOBIAS Even though teambuilding can serve as a breeding ground for many embarrassing moments, I have to disagree with the given statement. Perhaps, I have been through too many teambuilding games, but I generally enjoy all the awkwardness. Especially as a journalist, the more awkward it gets, the better.
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A WA N N A B E GINGER TOBIAS SATLOW
L ook ing b ehind the card p l ay i n g facade of Ola Krzywkows ka
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ost likely, you have seen a smiling redhead running around the corridors during the past couple of days. This someone, Ola Krzywkowska, has been putting extensive effort into organising this session. In between giving orders she even managed to find time to answer all my questions: Why did you decide to be the Head Organiser of this session?
I decided to head-organise a session after the Regional Session in Rzeszow last year when I was an organiser for the first time. I noticed that organising gives me a lot of satisfaction.
Could you give us a little insight into your EYP history and your relation to the organisation? I started EYP in 2010 at an EYP-Day in Rzeszów. Some of my friends told me very funky stories about all the things that happen here, so I really wanted to go. Since February I am in the board of EYP Poland as the National Coordinator. What does it mean to you to be “European”? Being European is a broad term. On the one hand, there is a geographical approach, so people living on the continent of Europe. On the other hand, and more impor-
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tantly, being European means being part of something bigger. Being a part of an organisation bigger than a country, an establishment for freedom and peace. What do you hope for the delegates? I want the delegates to enjoy the session and that they have fun. I addition, their needs should be met and their expectations fulfilled.
proves to me that all the work that was put forth from the organisational side is not in vain. How do you cope with sleep deprivation? I don’t really cope with it. After the session I will probably sleep for two days straight. Trees or shovels? Shovels, they are awesome!
Are you happy with the session so far?
What is your opinion on gingers?
I’m really happy to see that the delegates are enjoying the session. It
I want to be one.
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INTERNET MAJA ZALEWSKA
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ver since the very beginning, people have had a deep desire to communicate, especially, over longer distances. Starting from the very basic forms of communication such as language and speech, continuing through pigeons, smoke signals, letters, then telegraphs and telephones to television and electronic computers people have been searching for better, faster and easier means of communication. Now with all these previous stages having passed it was time for the Internet, a worldwide system of interconnected networks and computers, to be invented.
this is how the revolution had begun.
Let’s move to the USA in the 1960s. It is there and then that everything started. The idea of creating an interconnected networking system was implemented with the very first Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) link as a result. This link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on the 29th of October 1969. According to Gregory Gromov and his book “Roads and Crosswords of Internet History,”
“Yes, we see the O.”
“We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ...” Kleinrock from the UCLA said in an interview. “We typed the L and we asked on the phone: “Do you see the L?” “Yes, we see the L,” came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, “Do you see the O?”
Then we typed the G, and the system crashed ...”
Following this fact, one might think that the origins of the Internet are rooted in the US only. This is not the case, although it is in the States that the TPC/IP protocol was developed. This is one of the main foundations for the internet and without it, we would not
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have access to the web at all. However, we must not forget that there were many other scientists working on similar projects all over the world during that time. Each and every network that was created introduced something innovative, new protocols, new network infrastructures, new ways of transferring and sharing data. Since that first link in the USA, the numbers of networks have been growing larger and larger. Back in the 1970s the term “internet” was used as an abbreviation of “internetworking” which described any network using the aforementioned TPC/IP protocol. It was ten years later that this term was used as the name for a large and global TPC/ IP network that merged all previously existing networks into “The Internet”. The big boom began. The creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991, the first mosaic internet browser with an easily understandable user interface, Windows port, and full text web search engines emerged on the Web available to the general public. The time of commercialisa-
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tion, privatisation, and a more versatile access had come and revolutionised the Internet into the way we know it these days. The 1990s marked a period of extremely fast development of the Internet. Increasingly more services were created. Services that, back then, were perceived as something strange, yet fascinating and services that are now an inseparable part of our daily lives. Could you imagine a world without e.g. Google Search? It did not exist until fourteen years ago! Wikipedia, every student’s best friend, is only eleven years old, Skype and Facebook are even younger and yet they managed to influence, in some cases even overwhelm, your life. YouTube, Twitter, Dropbox, it was all introduced during the last seven years. It is hard to imagine what will happen next. The Internet develops with every new user, with every day and every second and it is changing the world together with itself. The future is indeed unknown, but it is certain that it will be a challenging one.
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THE CLASH BERNET MEIJER
H ow data can rock your date: Avail a bi l i t y of you r p e rs o n al data m akes Internet a user-f rie n d ly e nvi ron m e nt .
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nput: visiting kindergarten websites, downloading Abba, daily usage of elove.com.
Output: approximately 40-yearold lady, mid-life crisis, single. Predicted issues: kids and appearance. Personalised advertisement: Nuvorin diet pills.
ture of a lady’s bust is flickering with bright letters: ‘Romanian girls are waiting for you’. It is a pity that you are only seventeen and in love with your classmate. Fortunately, these inappropriate advertisements are almost history. Social media collects all relevant information about you and, instead, makes sure that you only get tailor-made advertisements.
One of the most useful features of the Internet is the personalisation of web space for individuals. By collecting personal data from web users, companies and NGOs make sure every single regular Internet visitor will find what they need as fast as possible.
Availability of your personal data also plays an important role in making the Internet a site of inspiration. Because of the eternal size of the World Wide Web, searching for the right information is like searching for the exit of an endless maze. However, most search engines organise some info for you and, thus, ensure you find the inspiring facts you look for.
Imagine yourself hanging out on Facebook. You are trying to concentrate on your message to your new crush, but something on the right side of the page keeps demanding your attention. An annoying pic-
Jenny, indeed a 42-years-old single mother, could not be happier with her Nuvorin diet pills that made her feel irresistible on her blind date. Thanks to the speed of internet, she now finds relation therapy polls scattered over her Facebook page.
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KHALID EL GHOUL
A m arketi ng campaign specif ically a i m e d at you , a good th i n g o r a bad? G athering personal i n form at i on be h i n d yo u r back , sp r e ading that informati on a n d t ri cki n g you i nto buyi ng useless goods.
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icrosoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter; all names which we have come to encounter on a daily basis. As we surf these websites we tend to look for things that may be of interest to us or post personal information that is supposed to be limited to friends and family. While doing so, we unconsciously provide these companies with information that reaches well into our personal lives. By analysing this data, these corporations have worked out ways to use this to their advantage. You might wonder, how do they do it? It is simple. Think about those advertisement pop-ups on Facebook or the results of your many searches on Google. The information gathered from their users is used to set up a personal marketing strategy aimed only at you. Now, there might be some who may say that being presented with such personal advertisements can be very useful. Sure it can. However, the way corporations are dealing with your private data
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is not just to aid you anymore. It has turned into actual abuse of it. Recently there have been companies on the rise who specialise in gathering and selling your personal information. No wonder that each and every one of these billiond o l l a r companies, that provide for such a market to exist, have faced milliondollar fines. Next time you surf on the web and an advertisement pops up, you may want to consider how it got there in the first place.
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FOOD CRITICS ON A MISSION KHALID EL GHOUL, MAJA ZALEWSKA
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llow us to introduce ourselves: Khalid, the owner of several Michelin awarded restaurants, and the infamous Maja, the cause of many restaurant bankruptcies. Follow us as we embark on our EYP mission, tasting some of Europe’s finest cuisine‌ So we thought.
#2 Poland, the host of the session, did not disappoint us with their splendid assortment of dishes. From pickles to bread and juice accompanied by a small range of fruits. Though the absolute delicacy was definitely the sausage. Score: 4 for the food and 3 for the set-up.
From Spain, through Poland, to Estonia, we entered a world out of the ordinary; colourful outfits and strange, yet intriguing dishes. Our journey began with the objective of choosing the three best-prepared tables.
#1 Belgium, the undisputed winner, presented us with a menu consisting of hot chocolate, waffles, pralines, cookies, beer and last, but most certainly not least, whipped cream. Score: 4 for the food, 3 for the set-up and 5 extra points for the entertaining whipped cream.
#3 Norway welcomed us at their stand with a rather interesting and well covered table. Although the amount of food was quite substantial, there was little to no variation. Their score, with 1 being the worst and 5 the best: 1 for the food and 3 for the set-up.
Even though we would like to stay positive, we have to say that not every country showed their true potential. These should take the top three countries as a nice example whenever they have to face this challenge again.
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WO U L D YO U RAT H E R KATARZYNA SOKOLOWSKA NASTASSIA WINGE
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ach day forces us to make decisions. Some of them might be like a walk in the park, others just as difficult as trying to find a needle in a haystack…The older we get the harder the choices become. Not long ago one of our biggest problems was whether we wanted our parents to buy us a chocolate bar or a pack of candies. Nowadays we are grown-ups and able to decide upon our future studies, relationships and careers. As you might have noticed so far, we journalists like to make your life more complicated, therefore, we have confronted your fellow delegates with even more decisions! How great is that?!
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As you can see, the 9th National Selection Conference of 2012 in Rzeszów is full of strangers and weirdoes. What can you do? Just deal with it.
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SKYPE AND GODMOTHERS NASTASSIA WINGE
Memories f ad e , bu t a swe e t n ote never will. Si g n you r fe l l ow de l egates newspa p e r, l e ave t h e m a note, make sure t h ey n eve r forge t you .
SOME TIME S, I TH I NK AB OUT H OW MY L IF E WOUL D H AVE BE E N IF I WO UL D NE VER HAD J OI NE D E YP. TH E FEELING I GE T AT TH AT C ERTAIN MO ME NT IS A STRANGE , RATH ER W EIRD FE E L I NG. NOT B E CAUSE OF TH E FAC T TH AT I WOUL D NOT H AVE MADE T H E JOU R NE YS I H AVE MA D E, IF I HAD NOT J OI NED EYP. RATH E R BE CAUSE OF TH E FRI E NDS TH AT I WOUL D NOT H AV E M ET AND TH AT FE E LING C RAC K S ME UP. I WO U LD HAV E NE VE R ME T M Y B EST BE L GIAN FRIE ND AND I WO UL D NOT HAV E TH E E XCUSE T O G O TO SWITZE RL AND T O VISIT TH E FUTU R E G ODMOTH E R O F MY C HIL DRE N. I WOULD NOT H AVE TH E H OU R LONG CO NVE RSATIO NS IN SK YP E AND, F RANK L Y, I WO ULD HAVE A L OT MORE S PAR E TI ME . ALTH OUG H , T HEN MY L I FE WO U LD BE UNFUL FIL L E D, IT WO UL D BE E MP TY.
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A LITTLE MORE SHARENITY, PLEASE! NASTASSIA WINGE
‘ Ri g ht now, wi th social network s an d ot h e r tool s on t h e I nter net, al l of these 500 million peo p l e h ave a wa y to s a y wh at they ’r e t hinking and have the i r voi ce be h e a rd .’
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could not agree more with my dear friend and founder of world’s primary social media site also known as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. It has given millions of people a voice; a chance to make a change. Who would have thought that the use of sharing could one day be the momentum behind the Arab Spring, paving the way for liberal, democratic states? A truly beautiful, even romantic story about the magic of Facebook, Twitter and its sharing. Of course, don’t be mistaken to think that sharing can only be used for political purposes; millions of people use sharing as a means to share with their beloveds what intrigues them and what is currently on their minds. Oh, who am I kidding? Like I would need to explain the use of Facebook to you, to us: the ‘wired’ generation. The problem I am trying to tackle now is the increasing ease of this phenomenon called sharing. Everything, literally everything gets shared nowadays. There are two different types of sharing:
The ‘grabbing some chips, going to make a quick pee and then watching a movie-sharing’, about which, honestly, we do not care. And, as Wikipedia puts it: File sharing, the practice of distribut-
ing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia, documents, or electronic books. Both of them have gotten extremely out of hand over the past few years. Am I the only one who is getting sick and tired of people sharing their entire, over-detailed life on social media such as Facebook? According to many of my so-called ‘friends’, people sharing their toilet breaks should ‘get lost’ and ‘post their uninteresting facts on
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share this with my fellow Facebook users. But is it necessary to get a picture taken at every single occasion and and to instantly upload this to our Timeline? While uploading a picture of myself writing this article in the kitchen, I obtained three new notifications: a request to join the “I Know the Difference Between Irony and Sarcasm” fan page and the “Stop Using the Word ‘Random’ Incorrectly” group. Well, no thank you, and neither do I want to Like your
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pet’s Facebook page. Incidentally, there is a second type of sharing: File sharing. It has probably struck you that almost every file on the web can be shared with just a single mouse click. For example, you could share this article on Facebook or on Twitter, adding some sort of comment along the lines of, “A little long, but worth checking out!’ You see, that is how sharing works, all you need is an article to be self-referentially about any technology we all use and the article will replicate like the virus in the movie “Contagion”. Now this article could even be shared to the “Contagion” Facebook page. This rapid sharing could mean the death of bookstores and print media. Why would I even bother to buy the newspaper when I can see all important current affairs immediately on my newsfeed the instant I open my laptop? Why would I buy that gossip magazine with the exposed naked pictures of Prince Harry when a good friend of mine already shared them to my timeline? Now, I cannot help but wonder if you are reading this online or on actual paper, where I hope you are sitting on your bed with your fellow friends holding a nice piece of paper making incautious tears in the bottom of the pages. But if you are actually reading this online, please don’t forget to share me.
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SLEEP MAJA ZALEWSKA
A n activi t y ever y EYP session l acks t h e m os t .
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e all struggle with the same problem every day during the session: to go to sleep and miss the fun or to stay up and enjoy ourselves? Sleep is an essential part of our existence, but so is the joy of life. Hence, even though during EYP sessions the hours of sleep that we get is reduced by half, most of the interviewed delegates, do not complain about not being able to rest
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enough. They said that they were prepared for it. After all, the lack of sleep is an inseparable part of EYP. So, I asked the delegates, how
they cope with their sleep deprivation. Apparently, most delegates had to cut back on their daily rest, going from an average of seven hours to only three or four hours per night. There are, of course, also exceptions. People who did not even close their eyes due to various reasons, as well as people who, quite unbelievably, got more sleep than at home. To my surprise, none of the delegates appear tired. To keep the high spirit they mostly reach for that good old friend of humankind - COFFEE! The saviour and hero of the day. Although it could be nice to get more sleep during the sessions, would it not ruin the beauty of EYP?
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A S U RV I VA L GUIDE FOR T H E G E N E RA L ASSEMBLY
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ven the most difficult things in the world are not that complicated if you use a good method. As a first-time delegate, you probably have never experienced a General Assembly (GA) before. Hopefully, the following tips will help you cope with this fundamental part of EYP. First of all, relax. That might sound pretty logical but stress is surely the last thing you need in GA. I remember my first GA speech, crying my eyes out from being so nervous. Though in the end, everything always turns out fine. Pay attention, be active and respect others. Here again, I admit that it can be difficult because of a constant lack of sleep. Fortunately, you are always provided with loads of coffee and cookies, with which you can increase your energy levels. Lastly, use the post-its that your chair will give you. Write down some random things and pass them around so you can have a laugh with your fellow committee members. Follow these tips and your GA will become an enjoyable experience, even if you feel lost or if you are scared of speaking in public. Just remember, that a serious approach and having fun can always be combined, so go for it!
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LOOKING S M A RT BERNET MEIJER ST R E S S I N G T H AT W E ARE THE E U RO P E A N YO U T H PA R L I A ME N T, W E WA N T O U R S P E E C H ES AND POINTS TO MA KE A N E V E N MO R E I N T E L L I G E N T I MP R E S S I O N BY W E A R I N G A FO R MA L S U I T. BU T W H AT WO U L D BE T H E D E FI N I T I O N O F A P RO P E R FO R MA L S U I T ? T H I S I S T H E S U I T A BC :
Attitude. Formal suits actually form your attitude. A tie reminds you of the official role you are fulfilling. Moreover, though a jacket might not feel as comfortable as your pyjamas, a suit guides your body in the right active posture. Basics. Keep it simple. Colour. While most people feel that black and white is the proper way to dress, colour can inspire. If you want to be impressive, go for purple: the colour of wealth in the ancient Roman Empire.
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Laughing so hard that every committee turns around. Passing the ball swiftly for the first time. Kissing the unicorn. That all is CULT I.
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#RealisticOrSarcastic? ‘Well, they know that we don’t think’ If I were you, I wouldn’t worry, @AFET ;P You’ll do just fine
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AFCO definitely knows how to get intimate and boy do they show us. Counting has never been so good! It actually made them come, oh my god.
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Somebody seems not to have eaten breakfast today because of some disturbing belly noises coming out of ITRE II’s room during committee work.
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Not having found the right way at the time this is written, they are surely more than done when you read this.
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When rigid is too soft to express the structure, you can be sure you are within SEDE’s criminal spheres.
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On fire; “We can’t seem to agree”, “What’s the problem?” “I don’t know..” “Maybe we can’t agree because there’s no problem?”. That’s right!
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A lack of limbs during the Monkey Bridge: Adam Borowski and Andy Daniluk created the technique of rolling. It has its dizzying side effects.
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