23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

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23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

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Hustla advice of the day

Diva is a female version of a hustla

The goodies we prepared for you:

Your predictions about the ses-sion pg. 2

EYP Caffe report pg. 2

Teambuilding reports..... pgs. 3-5

Crovillage report pg. 6

Meet the Orgas p. 7

Officials Teambuilding pg. 8

Random cute content pgs. 9 &10.

EDITORIAL

It’s only day twoAnd everybody is already a big

happy crewContinue making love and not war

And don’t lock your doorThe orgas are very persistent about

the wake up callsThey could go crazy and break the

wallsIf you see Hrvoje around

Kiss that spot on the groundYesterday we had a blast

But the juicy details should stay in the past

See you all again tonightStay lovely, friendly and bright

Eds

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Breaking newsAs soon as our dearest delegates arrived a short survey which reveals delegates expectations of the session was made.

• “EYP?Neverheardaboutit!”(Ivana,LIBEll)• “We’llhaveloooooootsoffun!”(Antonija,EMPL)• “Ihopewe’llmanagetoworkasateam!”(Michael,EMPL)• “Themostexcitingthingisfindingthepropersolutionstoourproblems.”(Ivan,DEVE)• “Ourlanguageskillswillbeimprovedbytheendofthesession”(Ante,DEVE)• “Iwanttolearnabitmoreaboutpolitical,economicalandsocialsituationinEurope.”(Renata,ECON)• “Ourresolutionswilleventuallychangeatleastsomethingintheworld.”(Vedran,LIBEl)• “Canweridethosegorgeoushorses?”(Mislav,AFCO) Vodka

EYPCAFFE-Sayhellotomylittlefriend!After a day of teambuilding and an early night of CRO – village, time has come for some EYP caffe. Actually three of them for a while. In my free interpretation of the situation, we had the red room, the blue room and the lavender room or the ¨bad smell¨ room. The venue is actually capable of hosting a mid-size Mate Mišo Kovač concert, but more about It later. It took some time, but the three parties couldn’t kill the strong EYP spirit, which makes you dance crazier, jump higher, scream louder and search for new ways of communication. There where no national or regional borders in our delegates hearts. The ¨united in diversity¨ motto was successfully implemented. The number of sparkling gazes and ¨mrching¨ people grew as the timepassedevolvingtothepeekofthenightinthetypicalBalcancyrcle.Withwellknownlyricsforeveryone,¨Akomeostaviš¨ruledthedanceflooralloveragain.Wemade our way to Višnjica resident in early morning hours not leaving anyone be-hind.We’velearnedourlesson.

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No rest for the wickedGetting poeple to go ino the woods with strangers is hard. To separate them, even more difficult. Making them kiss the bunny: exhausting. The result: priceless. A group of lovely twelve set out to explore the paths bestoven(?)uponthembytheirlovelyduoofchairs.CONST is cool , that’s all I’m going to say. Enthusias-tic about the idea of spending time together, proud of the atmosphere they’ve managed to create. If you see them, make them tell you a ¨that’s what she said joke¨. Neverfacethemonthebattlefieldof¨Giants,dwarfsand wizards¨ and get them to untangle your ¨human knots¨ because they kick ass when it comes to that stuff. I believe CONST is the place to be on the session and as a wise man once said: ¨The one who plays with thebatat,bybatat,batat,batat!¨Baby Monkey

Social buildingThe teambuilding of committee on Social Affairs started like a silent mass. Our gorgeous chair forbid (!!)delegatestotalkandputtheminaline.Theywere probably expecting from us to start shoot-ing but no. She only wanted to know the colour of their undies. The usual stuff. After that she wanted to get to know their names. I could call this com-mittee pretty good at games which involve a lot of touching,themostatdoublepenetration.Whenall the cookies were gone it was obvious that we all crossedtotheevilside.Wesupportdiversitysowehave found a loud 6 year old girl, horny pregnant women like mr Ivo Sanader, Paris Hilton, the Pope, Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus. Nevertheless everyone connectedjustbeautifully.Wepouredalotofpas-sion in them so they rocked as giants and dwarves. After all the talking they got on some more touch-ing on the party. But no one except a few cameras saw anything. In the end I’m thinking of starting a sport team, maybe something like lacrosse, or jedis. I believe they can take everything what lies before them.Flake

Teambuildingwhere you do the things you never thought you would with the people you never thought you’d meet

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Money ,Money, Money Spy Unit(MMMSU)Location:SomewhereinsunnyCroatia.Estimated time: Constantly late.Agents: Nine astonishing energetic enthusiasts. Two wise and experienced sensejs.Mission: Team building.Description: Agent were obliged to pass several EXTRA-complicated,SUPEReffcient and HYPERexhausting tasks settled by wise sensejs.Frameswerebroken,severaltypesofobstacleswereovercomed.Fearofextremelystrange(fishy)officials’behavior disappeared and the whole unit almost man-aged to get used to EYP weirdness.Skills:• Emulationduring“Findyouranimal”game.• Gainingtopsecretinformationduringthespeeddating.• InternalGPSnavigatorduring“Labyrinth”.

Importantinformation:MartinawantstomarryanyCroatianguybytheendofthesession.Beaware!Conclusion:Missionsuccessfullycompleted.!Unitcode:Bright,Imaginative.Confident,Dreamers,Naughty,Amuzing,Rrrrrrrrr!,Deviaut,MagnificantBy Vodka

LIBE1TBApproach towards minorities: positive or negative actions are tobetakeninordertoensuretheirequaltreatment?ThisisthedilemmatheCommitteeonCivilLiberties1willbeaskedtodealwith.Butthefirststepinordertoreachsuchanim-portant is to get to know each other and ease the future work. Surely there isn’t a better way of getting to know each other than by having fun in the meanwhile. At the very beginning everybody was guffawing at each other when asked to add the nameoftheirfavouritemovietothephrase“Betweenmylegs,Ihavea…”.“IhavePearlHarbourbetweenmylegs”wasthemosthilariousone,but“TheHangover”or“HarryPotter”alsodid the trick. After all the laughter it was really easy for them tosolvethe“HumanKnot”ortoputthe“MagicStick”onthefloor. Also, I'm pretty sure the proactive chair Danijel will notblameyouforthebadperformancein“Giants,DwarvesandWizards”;hewillratherblamefate,afterall,defeatmakesyou stronger and this is what you'll be asked to prove the next fewdays.I'mprettyconfidentyou'llsucceedinitandDanijeland I will be proud of having led you to victory. Actually we already are...So,Ivan,Petar,Vedran,Tea,Josipa,Gabrijela,Lucija,Mirela,Iwish you all the best and not to fall short of expectations.

By The Mimic

LIBEIITeambuildingReportTheCommitteeonCivilLibertiesIIisagroupof12ran-dom people: girls Gabriela, Valentina, Mia, Ivana, Stela, Korina,PetraandLucijaandguysAntoniotwotimes,PetarandFilip,youngenthusiaticpeoplewhocametotheirfirstEYP session to create friendship, learn something new, have fun and learn how to work in a group of strangers who will becometheirbestfriendsuntiltheendofsession.Wonder-full chairs Anna and Manuel are taking care of young EY-Pers who have just involved in something that, like Nokia, connects people.FromthefirstminuteofTeambuildingManuelconqueredthe hearts of the delegates with his famous ‘’Gorilla’’ shoes. PlayingStreetFightergamewithCommitteeoffereduslotoffun,really.Loudandhilariousfun.But,guys,don’tbeafraidofscreamingnexttime.Letthewholeworldhearyou.Fromalmostcompletestrangerstheystartedtoletloveloosetroughwholecommittee.Thiswastheirfirstdayandon the end of Teambuilding they are already full of impres-sions - they all agreed with the fact – they’ve started to work asaTEAM.Keepupthegoodwork!

Lamb

DEVE’s Teambuilding Somewhere in the beautiful countryside of a town called Virovitica, between a straw-made horse statue and a hot, hot fireplace,theCommitteeonDevelopment(DEVE)tookitsfirstbabysteps.Theicewasbrokenbywideningthebordersofour beloved English language: 12 delegates had to think of the wordthatisrecognizableANDthatstartswiththefirstletteroftheirname.Pieceofcake,huh?Maybe,buttrydoingitwith5 people who have the same starting vowel: an I.We’vemadesomeinterestingresults:wehavediscoveredma-jorfootbalfansinMarkoandFilip,sleepyheads,bookloversand music addicts as Ivona, Iris and Marija and even the open supportersofthegaycommunities(goforit,Ante!).Therewere some discusions over art: Tvrtko likes writing poetry and Michael and Patrik argued a bit over the difference be-tweenheavyanddeathmetal(Youdon’twanttomesswiththepros.Seriously.)Someshowedtheirloveforthehomecoun-tryinthehugginggame(Štepan<3CzechRepublic).We’vealso expressed our opinions on serious questions like school, chemistryandLordoftheRings(Ivanthegiraffeshownasthegreatest fan. The fellowship of DEVE united with ECON in a Streetfightgame,resultingwithanew,moreinterestingwayof communicatingUntil the next Sonic Boom,LotsofkissesandhugsfromyourJournoTinkerbell

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Crovillage“ThebestoneI’vebeentosofar”

2d of December, 20102:15 pm Dear diary I was just listening to Neven talking to the delegates in the lobby about how we are a bit offthescheduleandthoughtyikes!God I’m so hungry and really looking forward to Crovillage.

4:00 pmStill hungry

6:00 pm...Still hungry

7:30 pmCROVILLAGE!

Whenwecametothebreathtakingmuseumeverythingwasalreadyarranged. Delegates, you did an excellent job with table decorations. couldn’t move my eyes away from all the food.Thank YOU for your short and outstanding presentations. TheywereveryniceandSHORT!Ireallylikedthatyoudidin’ttalkaboutthepast(expectthefa-mousdeadpeoplefromyourschool)butyoufocusedonwhat’simportantandthat’sthepresent.Afterthepresentations,NevensaidthathehasafewwordstosayandIfeltlikeLeonardointheTitanic.Andthanhemademyday:„Let’seat.“Iwashappylikeathree-year-oldchildinacandyshop(Iwasn’ttheonlyoneright,right?).ItriedalmosteverythingandallIcansayis:Damn!Youguysarethebest!Thatfoodwassentfromheaven,madebylittleangels.Aspecialtouchwasdonebyananonimusdelegate(callthepressroomifyourecognizeyourself)whoplayedthepianoandmadeusformacircleoncemoreandsingalltogether.11 pm: I just hope you will be little devils tonight on the party so I’ll have something to write about tomor-row.

Iron girl

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23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

Whoarethey?They are the main reason we are in this beautiful hotel , having fun and meeting new people. TheyarethemosthardworkingorgateamIhaveeverseen,ifindmostofthemattractive(:).Theyareprobalygoingtobecranky,late,nervous,funny,spontaneousandsexyashell(becausethisisthewayEYPCroatiasometimesworks),loud,hipsterandsinful,thosearethemainrea-sons I do and you will love them.Because you won't be able to see some of them during the session, I'm going to introduce them to you.LadiesandgentlemenIpresentYou:

Chocolate chip Kukič

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23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

Officials TeambuildingOnce upon a time...

Confuciusoncestated:“Successdependsuponpre-viouspreparation”.Withoutsuchpreparationthereis sure to be failure. This is the motto of every EYP session and this one’s as well. It’s really unbelievable how much time organisers spent in order to make sure that everything would run as smoothly as pos-sible. Not only did the organisers give their contri-bution but delegates’ work was easier because of the alliance with other officials, chairs and journos. Do youwanttoknowwhatthisallianceconsistsof?Firstly,inordertomakecohesionrise,wedidsomeicebreakinggames;imaginethosepeopleyouarenowseeingcoordinatingyourwork,fixingschedules or taking pictures everywhere involved in those funny and embarrassing activities you all experienced yesterday and you’ll keep on experi-encing. This is the context where you could have seen THE ball being thrown many times in order to know each other’s names, their creativity at work while describing ourselves in a single word, a tan-gleofourarms,legsandevenmore(TWSS?)beingshapedforthe“StickyToffee”,testingtheflexibilityof our bodies and our resistance to sexual harass-mentduringthe“COINgame”.

Furthermore,oncetheteamwasformed,timid-ity was just a distant problem and nothing could avoid them from having party altogether. Having party meant not only playing pool, chatting freely and listening to loud music, but also making fun ofeachother(ofItaliansespecially:))Also,whynot sharing the drinks someone brought very gen-erouslytothesession?!Weallhopeyouareappreciatingandaregoingtoappreciate even more what we did and will keep doing;afterall,rememberthateverythingwedidthat night, we did it for you.

Mimic

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23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

Whatpeoplehaveincommonexceptfrombeinganimals(oristhatjustme)After a really long and demanding reaserch we found out that 5 people on this session have blue toothbrush-es and apperently green increasing as a trend.

Whenitcomestoshampoolorealhasaprettylargelobby,butgarnierisrightbehindthecornerandthestrongeddandrufffighterisholdingthethirdplace..

People are faithfull to 3 things, their insurance company, girlfriends cars, and parfumes. A lot of them love to smell of armani, then naomi and then the boss, hugo boss.

Flake

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23rd National Session of EYP Croatia in Virovitica. 2.-5. December 2010.

Weatherreport for todayEYP weather reportOverview: Sunny all day long with possibility of rain and snow. Temeperature:HOT,HOT,HOT!!!Humidity, visibility and pressure:high, rising and on minimum(after2am.)Sea tempertature: squids are enjoying it why couldn’t you :DMany officials could be seen with nothing but their t-shirts and boxers on, however this is due to the alumni socializing with pineapple trees. Its been sunny outside all day baby but the issue of the visibility has occurred since some of the delegates were seen consuming illegal substances during the coffee breaks. Vegeterian pizza was made illegal in these parts of Croatia since 1192. and uncarnivoare delegates’ vision was blurred. I can’t wait for it to storm. There will be occasional journalists coming down hard from the clouds, eating squid after the Virovitica annual pig circumsion day. Any delegate found soaking wet after the Crovil-lage should feel free to join party held at midnight in the stables. Partyallnightlongbaby,allnightlong.Let’sjusthopewewillmanage to survive it.

BabyMonkeyandIron(wo)man(let’sjusthopeIdon’trust)

QUOTES rudely and provocatively taken out of context

I’m a volunteer at Noah’s Arc. That means I clean s*it” (Antonio, LIBE I)“I have a problem with my camera. It doesn’t work. All my photos are black.” (Ivana, Journo, with cap on camera)“All is well when there’s no hole” (Stefan, Chair)DEVE during the Blind Animals game:Ivan; “I cannot do a giraffe.”Stefan: “You can’t? It’s easy!”(Stefan mumbling)random person: “Why does an animal chew a bubble gum?”

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