Newstrition

From the EDITOR

3…2…1…

BE ON AIR! We started our adventure taking with us heavy luggage, big smiles and open minds .

Now is the moment when every idea becomes real.

When every word becomes wri en.

When every thought is brought to life.

Every time you travel you can never image what you will learn. In our intercultural surrounding is even be er: it's just like you are travelling around 10 countries, just being in the same place. Our report comes from all our surprises and astonishment during these amazing days. We asked to all the participants What is unusual or particular for you since you are in Greece? e answers were so funny that we couldn't stop our report like this.

So for a few days our journalists went to the streets asking Greek people to give the reasons why they are so.

Whether you are a foreigner or a native, here you will nd the answers to all of your questions or almost all!

contents 7-17 March

3. Greekness how foreign countries see Greece

4. Eleven shades of food join the intercultural night

5. Being on air training course for young workers

6. Everybody counts our statistics among countries

7. Just for fun funny stories from us

8. Tell me what you draw artworks from your notebooks

9. Tell it in 7 words...

10. Contact us

Directors: Sabina, Andrey Patraman Journalists : Marina, Papuna, Ivetta, Katarina, Tamara Corrector: Valentyna Graphic designer: Andrey Patraman

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Greekness : how foreign countries see Greece

1. Why do you have so long siesta?

- We enjoy our lifes. F 23.

- e law doesn't permit us to be open in the a ernoon. M 30.

- at's agaisnst the law to have open stores in the a ernoon.

F 26.

- Many years ago people worked in the eld and had siesta to get some rest from hard work, and now it became a tradition.

M 33.

- We don't have siesta from the beginning of April till the beginning of October because we have a lot of tourists in that period and we work hard. If you are open from 1 p.m to 5 p.m, nobody will come to your shop and you will just waste electricity. F 70.

2. Why do you lead such a relaxing lifestyle?

- Mediterranean way of life. F 33.

- Because of the sun! M 30.

- is is our mentality. F 26.

- Not all the people, if you live in Athens you can see that there are more depressed people. M 44.

- Not all of them are like this, for example, I work 9 hours a day.

F 32.

3. Why do you smoke in some public places despite the fact that it is forbidden?

- We were born to be independent without alternative ways of thinking. F 33.

- It can cause the protest of regular citizens if the law implements strictly. Greek have the highest percentage of smokers in Europe.

- It's a part of our culture. M 30.

- Against the law! F 26.

- We will loose a smoking part of our population with this law and the quantity of smokers is growing daily. M 44.

- We stopped smoking in public places, but it happens o en if I go to a co eeshop, they ll allow me to smoke because they have

a fear that customers won t come here again. F 32.

4. People don't use a helmet and a belt while driving moto or car, can you explain it?

- We are good drivers and we don't need them. M 28.

- For a small distance we don't wear it. M 30.

- Unconsciously, but not all the people. F 26.

- Everybody has to be responsible for its own life. M 44.

5. Why do you always eat salads at meals?

- Scientists say that we have the best nutrition. F 33.

- Mediterranian nutrition. F 23.

- Salad is a part of Mediterranian cuisine. M 30.

6. Why do you use shu ers even in shadow streets?

- For security, to keep the house warmer and sometimes to hide from the sun. M 28.

- We have a lot sun of like nobody else. M 30.

- I think to protect from thieves. M 33.

7. Why do most of the Greeks speak English, at least basic words?

- Touristic place. F 26.

- Because we have to learn it at school. English is the second language and very important subject. F 32.

- English is tought from primary school. For the last years parents send their kids to private schools to learn English be er and they understand that it's necessary. M 52.

8. Why don't you throw a toilet paper into the WC, but into the basket?

- Tubes of toilet system are not large. M 28.

- Toilet system has a problem. F 26.

- You are the strange ones who throw the paper inside the toilet.

- I have visited many countries and I haven't heard this before from anyone. M 44.

- I don t know (funny surprized face :) F 26. continue on the next page...

- In the big cities like Athens, we like to dance, but not here.

Because we live in a small community mostly we know each other and feel a li le bit shy. If you start to dance, people will stare on you. We have special dance for men. All people should make a circle and just one man should go inside of the circle and start improvisation dance other people in the circle should clap their hands. Now this kind of dance isn't so popular, but many many years ago you could be killed if you were disturbing man in the circle, it was very very serious . M 33.

- ere is not enough space in clubs for dancing. F 23.

14. Why drivers are so crazy?

- They have learned it this way , we are aggressive drivers. M 33.

- is is our mentality. F 26.

15. Why don't you have tea a er the meal?

- Tea is not a tradition to us. M 28.

- Our culture is to drink more co ee. M 30.

- We have tea only when we are sick, mostly green tea. F 32.

- Greeks go to sleep and rest a er a meal. We drink tea when we are sick.

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9. We have noticed that children stay up late till 10 pm, why?

- Le ada is a safe place, but the majority of parents try to put them early to bed. M 28.

- In Le ada the crime rate is very low.

- Children live so free! F 26.

- ere's no need to to be afraid to stay out. We don't want our kids to be nerds like other Europeans! M 44.

- Kids are too free because of their parents. Most of them are in bars and their parents are ok with this because they know everybody. F 32.

- Our way of living. M 52.

11. Why don't you put your working hours on the shop windows, maybe people need to know?

- It's not obligatory. M 28.

- All big shopping centres have it , it would be good if there is a sign with working hours everywhere. F 26.

- I have never seen it in Greece, maybe, because shop owners think nobody needs it because we are small community. F 32.

- ey should put them. M 52.

13. Why don't you dance in clubs ?

- e most of us prefer to observe, maybe we have complexes.

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Eleven shades of food

join the intercultural night

Everybody knows, when you meet foreign people you meet their language, their clothes and especially their food. Be on Air gave us an opportunity to discover what is good in every culture. Some dishes were just like hot pies and not everybody could taste it. anks to us you will see what you had missed!

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“Be On Air�

Training Course for youth workers from 11 countries

Be active!

Aims of our Training Course

Nowadays young people are the most a ected by media.

Information from TV, radio, Internet and newspaper can in uence their daily social life. Considering the important role that media play in young people lives, media education is a priority to educate and inform them about the right use of these tools. At the same time, young people are now becoming active makers in information and communication.

In this context, 16 youth organizations from Europe, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, will spend a 10-days training course in Le as, Greece, in order to allow youngsters to use media for their educational projects, to encourage them to produce their tools of communication, to nd objectively their sources of information, and involve them to advance understanding between the cultures of partners countries and to promote the mutual respect, cultural diversity and the values of peace, solidarity and sustainable development among young people of our countries.

1- To exchange experiences between youth workers and youth leaders from Europe and from Caucasus on the media of young people, and share di erent strategies and types of expression related of this topic.

2 - To enable participants to acquire new skills, in order to educate young people to be more a entive to the various elements of media, and to be able to decipher, interpret, analyze, evaluate the information, and evaluate its sources.

3 - To Allow participants to develop their knowledge and skills on media technology, in order to transfer this knowledge to the youngsters in their communities.

4 - Allow participants to take more active role for the development of their communities through youth media.

5 - Create together a pedagogical tool, in order to help young people from partner's countries to create their media outlet through which they will promote intercultural dialogue, solidarity, and peace.

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ese future media will strengthen the links and encourage cooperation between young Europeans and young people Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

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Everybody counts our statistics among countries

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Media freedom Media freedom is an urgent issue to discuss nowadays. Di erent countries have di erent political situations, so each journalist has di erent rights to express his/her thoughts and ideas. For this reason, we have made a small statistic research among participants from Be on Air . Twelve countries gave their point of view about this problem.

We asked our participants to answer these questions about freedom in media.

1. Answer with a YES or NO If you were a journalist or a radio speaker in your country, could you write or say a sentence like this one? Our government is wrong and they totally forgot about our Constitution. is is a scandal!

Romania Ukraine Moldova Gagauzia Georgia Armenia Bulgaria Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Latvia

Hungary

Greece

Italy

Spain

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Latvia

Hungary

Greece

Italy

Spain

7.5

7

5

7.5

7

2. Answer for this question with a number from 1 to 10.

What is in your opinion the level of the freedom for what concerning o cial media?

Romania Ukraine Moldova Gagauzia Georgia Armenia Bulgaria 6.5

5

6

6

7

6.6

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Statistics show us who we are !

How old are we?

Average age of BOA par cipants 27.2 years old.

So we are 27.2 years old and during the project "Be on air" go to sleep mostly at 23-24 p.m.

You can see other data about BOA participant s preference in my li le report about media and some kind of funny information about you. anks members for the help!

1.How many hours do you use Internet per day?

Less than 2 h 2-3 h 4-5 h 6-8 h More than 8 h

17% 37% 18% 6% 22%

5. What is the most popular media for you?

Internet Social media Radio Web pages TV Intermedia People

47% 11% 16% 11% 5% 5% 5%

2. What is Internet for you?

Way to communicate Place to make new friends Way to exposure yourself Time was ng It's my work

23% 10% 4% 7% 56%

6. What are you afraid of?

3. The most favorite source of ge ng informa on for you?

Google News web pages Printed newspapers Books Internet

52% 8% 12% 7% 21%

7. How o en do you a end par es?

4. Which media is less eec ve?

Newspapers 28% Radio 32% Magazines 17% TV 11% Blogs 6% All of them are equally eec ve 6%

8. At what do you usually go to bed during BOA?

Snakes

25% Once a week

45%

Darkness

17% Few mes per week

13%

Nothing

17% Once per month

19%

Other

41% Less than once per month

23%

At 10 p.m. 8% 11-12 p.m. 57% 12 p.m.-2 a.m. 14% 3 a.m.-4 a.m. 14% 5 a.m.-6 a.m. 7%

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Just for fun : funny stories from us 7

Simple question Greek lesson

1

Marina goes to shop and asks: “Is it 20 euro ?”

The shop assistant answers “Ne”. Marina replies: “Why not? There is s cker with price!”

“Greek Lesson number one!

“Ne” is Yes!

Sabina was asking few ques ons to all par cipants wri ng their na onality.

Was Moldovian's turn and she asked a par cipant “Are you Moldowian?”

“Yes” “So you can answer to this simple ques on” “Even a difficult one if you want.

I am Moldowian not stupid”

Magic seeds Greek minute We wanted to rent bikes but the owner told us that we should come tomorrow.

At 13 we came exactly at that me but he said that he've forgo en and we should do it in a half an hour . We came, and he said that we should wait for a minute and Valen na asked: “Is it an ordinary minute or a Greek one?”

I heard this funny story from Moldovian guys. Two Spanish girls were in Moldova as volunteers. Their mission was to contribute in agricultural development. They had to cul vate some kind of plants in specific fields. They put seeds of “weed” and they grew up. They wanted to have some weed to smoke. When their coordinator discovered what they did, she got mad.

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Tell me what you draw...

Artworks from your notebooks

I have found out, that "Be on air" participants are not only very smart, but also very creative persons.

What do you think they do during BOA activities? They cannot only learn, but also make art! Let's peek at their notebooks!

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Bright moments

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Tell it in 7 words...

9 Glossary

Spain Yes

English

Italian

Hungarian

Armenian

Georgian

Romanian

Bolgarian

Chao

Szia

Barev

Gamarjoba

Salut

Zdras

Come stai?

Hodi vadi?

Inchpes es?

Rogor khar?

Cum esh ?

Kak si?

3. Fine/good

Bene

Yol

Lav

Kargad

Bine

Dobre

4. Thank you

Gratsie

Kosonom

Shnorhakalu un

Madloba

Multsumesc

Blagodaria

5. Please

Prego

Kerem

Khadrum em

Gtkhovt

Te rog

Molia

6. I love you

Ti amo

Seretlek

Sirum em qez

Me shen mikvarkhar

Te iubesc

Obicham te

7. Good bye

Arrivederchi

Vislat

Hayoghutyun

Nakhvamdis

La revedere

Dovijdane

1. Hello 2. How are you

English

Latvian

Gagauzian

Moldavian

Spain

Greek

Ukranian

Labdien

Meraba

Salut

Hola

Yia su

Privit

Ka jums klajas?

Nasilsin?

Cum esh ?

Que tal?

Ti kanis?

Yak cia mayesh?

3. Fine/good

Labs

Islea

Bine

Buenos/bien

Kala

Dobre/chudovo

4. Thank you

Paldies

Te shukyur ederim

Multsumesc

Gracias

E aristo

Diakuiu

5. Please

Ludzu

Buiurunuz

Te rog

Por favor

Parakalo

Bud' laska

6. I love you

Es tevi milu

Bean seni severim

Te iubesc

Te amo/ te quiero

Sagapo

Ya tebe kohayu

7. Good bye

Uzredzesanos

Hoshcha kal

La revedere

Hasta lavista/adios

Yia su

Buvay

1. Hello 2. How are you

*In our glossary we used phonetic transcription, not real languages letters

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COOPERATION FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE B U L G A R I A

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https://www.facebook.com/beonairlefkas?fref=ts http://beonairlefkas.wordpress.com This has been done during Be On Air training course organized by Solidarity Tracks organization trough the Youth in Action Program (3.1.2) with financial support from the European Commission trough the Hellenic Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.