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JOURNOBOOKA WANNABE GINGER (INTERVIEW WITH OLA KRZYWKOWSKATHE INTERNETTHE CLASH: PERSONAL DATA ON THE INTERNETFOOD CRITICS ON A MISSIONWOULD YOU RATHERSKYPE AND GODMOTHERSA LITTLE MORE SHARENITY, PLEASE!SLEEPA SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLYLOOKING GOODGALLERYCOMMITTEE TWEETS

BERNETTeambuilding is actually the only place where I do not feel embarrassed. Embarrassment goes hand in hand with lone-liness. Doing something together will never make me feel awkward; that is the power of the group. Outside of team-building 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.

KATARZYNAHave 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 danc-ing 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 sup-posed to actually do. I ended up making a complete fool out of myself. Well done...

KATERINABefore your fi rst session, did you also think that the Euro-pean Youth Parliament was an abbreviation of boring peo-ple in suits leading endless political discussions? This delu-sion has probably gone out of your mind after playing one of the fi rst teambuilding games. At fi rst you all thought: “Why in the whole world would I voluntarily embarrass myself like that?” Watching the people called ‘the offi cials’ 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 fi rst.

JOURNOBOOKTeambuilding is the root cause for my most embarrasing

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KHALIDObviously 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, defi nitely! In all seriousness, danc-ing 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 ;)

MAJAPass the orange. I still remember the huge embarrassment I felt as I played it for the fi rst 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.

NASTASSIAI 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 fi fteen 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 starfi sh.

TOBIASEven 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 awkward-ness. Especially as a journalist, the more awkward it gets, the better.

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M ost likely, you have seen a smiling redhead run-ning around the cor-

ridors during the past couple of days. This someone, Ola Krzy-wkowska, has been putting exten-sive effort into organising this ses-sion. In between giving orders she even managed to fi nd time to answer all my questions:

Why did you decide to be the Head Organiser of this session?

I decided to head-organise a ses-sion after the Regional Session in Rzeszow last year when I was an organiser for the fi rst 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 Febru-ary 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 geo-graphical approach, so people liv-ing 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 estab-lishment for freedom and peace.

What do you hope for the dele-gates?

I want the delegates to enjoy the session and that they have fun. I addition, their needs should be met and their expectations ful-fi lled.

Are you happy with the session so far?

I’m really happy to see that the del-egates are enjoying the session. It

proves to me that all the work that was put forth from the organisa-tional 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!

What is your opinion on gin-gers?

I want to be one.

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E ver since the very begin-ning, people have had a deep desire to communi-

cate, especially, over longer dis-tances. Starting from the very basic forms of communication such as language and speech, con-tinuing 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 communica-tion. Now with all these previous stages having passed it was time for the Internet, a worldwide sys-tem of interconnected networks and computers, to be invented.

Let’s move to the USA in the 1960s. It is there and then that every-thing started. The idea of creat-ing an interconnected network-ing system was implemented with the very fi rst Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPA-NET) link as a result. This link was established between the Uni-versity of California, Los Ange-les (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on the 29th of Octo-ber 1969. According to Gregory Gromov and his book “Roads and Crosswords of Internet History,”

this is how the revolution had begun.

“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?”

“Yes, we see the O.”

Then we typed the G, and the sys-tem crashed ...”

Following this fact, one might think that the origins of the Inter-net are rooted in the US only. This is not the case, although it is in the States that the TPC/IP proto-col was developed. This is one of the main foundations for the inter-net and without it, we would not

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have access to the web at all. How-ever, we must not forget that there were many other scientists work-ing on similar projects all over the world during that time. Each and every network that was created introduced something innovative, new protocols, new network infra-structures, new ways of transfer-ring and sharing data.

Since that fi rst 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 “inter-networking” 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 previ-ously existing networks into “The Internet”. The big boom began. The creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991, the fi rst mosaic internet browser with an easily understandable user inter-face, Windows port, and full text web search engines emerged on the Web available to the general public. The time of commercialisa-

tion, privatisation, and a more ver-satile access had come and revolu-tionised 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 fascinat-ing 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! Wikipe-dia, every student’s best friend, is only eleven years old, Skype and Facebook are even younger and yet they managed to infl uence, 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 Inter-net develops with every new user, with every day and every sec-ond 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.

THE ANSWER TO THE UNIVERSE, TO LIFE, TO EVERYTHING.

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I nput: visiting kindergarten websites, downloading Abba, daily usage of elove.com.

Output: approximately 40-year-old lady, mid-life crisis, single.

Predicted issues: kids and appearance. Personalised

advertisement: Nuvorin diet pills.

One of the most useful features of the Inter-net is the personalisa-tion of web space for individuals. By collect-ing personal data from

web users, compa-nies and NGOs make sure every single regular Internet vis-

itor will fi nd what they need as fast as possible.

Imagine yourself hang-ing out on Facebook.

You are trying to concen-trate on your message to

your new crush, but some-thing on the right side of the page keeps demanding your attention. An annoying pic-

ture of a lady’s bust is fl ickering 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 his-tory. Social media collects all rel-evant information about you and, instead, makes sure that you only get tailor-made advertisements.

Availability of your personal data also plays an important role in making the Internet a site of inspi-ration. Because of the eternal size of the World Wide Web, searching for the right information is like searching for the exit of an end-less maze. However, most search engines organise some info for you and, thus, ensure you fi nd the inspiring facts you look for.

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 inter-net, she now fi nds relation therapy polls scattered over her Facebook page.

THE CLASHHow data can rock your date: Availabil ity of your per-sonal data makes Internet a user-friendly environment.

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M 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 sup-posed to be limited to friends and family. While doing so, we uncon-sciously provide these companies with information that reaches well into our personal lives. By analysing this data, these corpora-tions have worked out ways to use this to their advantage. You might wonder, how do they do it? It is simple. Think about those adver-tisement pop-ups on Facebook or the results of your many searches on Google. The information gath-ered 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. How-ever, the way corporations are dealing with your private data

is not just to aid you anymore. It has turned into actual abuse of it. Recently there have been com-panies on the rise who spe-cialise in gathering and selling your per-sonal informa-tion. No won-der that each and every one of these b i l l i o n -d o l l a r c o m p a -nies, that provide for such a mar-ket to ex is t , h a v e f a c e d m i l l i o n -dollar fi nes. Next time you surf on the web and an advertise-ment pops up, you may want to consider how it got there in the fi rst place.

A marketing campaign specif ically aimed at you, a good thing or a bad? Gathering personal information behind your back , spreading that information and tricking you into buying useless goods.

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A llow us to introduce our-selves: Khalid, the owner of several Michelin

awarded restaurants, and the infa-mous Maja, the cause of many res-taurant bankruptcies. Follow us as we embark on our EYP mission, tasting some of Europe’s fi nest cui-sine… So we thought.

From Spain, through Poland, to Estonia, we entered a world out of the ordinary; colourful outfi ts and strange, yet intriguing dishes. Our journey began with the objec-tive of choosing the three best-pre-pared tables.

#3 Norway welcomed us at their stand with a rather interesting and well covered table. Although the amount of food was quite sub-stantial, there was little to no vari-ation. Their score, with 1 being the worst and 5 the best: 1 for the food and 3 for the set-up.

#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 deli-cacy was defi nitely the sausage. Score: 4 for the food and 3 for the set-up.

#1 Belgium, the undisputed win-ner, presented us with a menu consisting of hot chocolate, waf-fl es, 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.

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 exam-ple whenever they have to face this challenge again.

FOOD CRITICS ON A MISSION

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E ach day forces us to make decisions. Some of them might be like a walk in the park, others just as diffi cult as trying to fi nd 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 compli-cated, therefore, we have confronted your fellow delegates with even more decisions! How great is that?!

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OverdressedCall Me Maybe

SkiingPizza

Be a ChairNamed after a car

Have a cat WindowsBe a frog

Cheat on someoneJail for l ife

Give up friends

Underdressed JB’s BoyfriendSnowboardingHotdogsBe a Journo Named after a cityHave a dogAppleBe a snailBe cheated on Death penaltyGive up family

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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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N A S T A S S I A W I N G E

SKYPE AND GODMOTHERS

SOMETIMES, I THINK ABOUT HOW MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I WOULD NEVER

HAD JOINED EYP. THE FEELING I GET AT THAT

CERTAIN MOMENT IS A STRANGE, RATHER

WEIRD FEELING. NOT BECAUSE OF THE

FACT THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THE

JOURNEYS I HAVE MADE, IF I HAD NOT JOINED

EYP. RATHER BECAUSE OF THE FRIENDS THAT

I WOULD NOT HAVE MET AND THAT FEELING CRACKS ME UP. I WOULD

HAVE NEVER MET MY BEST BELGIAN FRIEND

AND I WOULD NOT HAVE THE EXCUSE TO GO TO SWITZERLAND TO VISIT THE FUTURE

GODMOTHER OF MY CHILDREN. I WOULD NOT HAVE THE HOUR

LONG CONVERSATIONS IN SKYPE AND,

FRANKLY, I WOULD HAVE A LOT MORE

SPARE TIME. ALTHOUGH, THEN MY LIFE WOULD

BE UNFULFILLED, IT WOULD BE EMPTY.

Memories fade, but a sweet note never will . Sign your fellow del-egates newspaper, leave them a note, make sure they never forget

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I 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 mil-lions of people a voice; a chance to make a change. Who would have thought that the use of shar-ing could one day be the momen-tum behind the Arab Spring, pav-ing the way for liberal, democratic states? A truly beautiful, even romantic story about the magic of Facebook, Twitter and its shar-ing. Of course, don’t be mistaken to think that sharing can only be used for political purposes; mil-lions 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 phe-nomenon 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 com-puter programs, multimedia, doc-uments, 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 toi-let breaks should ‘get lost’ and ‘post their uninteresting facts on

A LITTLE MORE SHARENITY ,PLEASE!

‘Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 mill ion people have a way to say

what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard. ’

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share this with my fellow Face-book users. But is it necessary to get a picture taken at every sin-gle occasion and and to instantly upload this to our Timeline? While uploading a picture of myself writ-ing this article in the kitchen, I obtained three new notifi cations: a request to join the “I Know the Difference Between Irony and Sarcasm” fan page and the “Stop Using the Word ‘Random’ Incor-rectly” group. Well, no thank you, and neither do I want to Like your

Twitter’. The question that imme-diately occurs to me is why these toilet breaks would be any more interesting when posted on Twit-ter? Does the hash tag make the Tweet more interesting? Does the ‘@’ make the 140 signs more valid, more worthy to be shared with the rest of the world? I have always seen social media as a rather effective way to talk big about all the great things hap-pening in your life. ‘On my way to the airport, Spain here I come!’ or ‘Love my new Nike high dunks!’ Being a hypocrite is not a part of my nature (as far as I know) and therefore I cannot say that I do not

pet’s Facebook page.

Incidentally, there is a sec-ond type of sharing: File shar-ing. It has probably struck you that almost every fi le on the web can be shared with just a single mouse click. For example, you could share this article on Face-book 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 arti-cle 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 incau-tious tears in the bottom of the pages. But if you are actually read-ing this online, please don’t forget to share me.

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W 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 com-plain about not being able to rest

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 depriva-tion.

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 excep-tions. People who did not even close their eyes due to various rea-sons, as well as people who, quite unbelievably, got more sleep than at home.

To my surprise, none of the del-egates 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 ses-sions, would it not ruin the beauty of EYP?

SLEEPM A J A Z A L E W S K A

The lack of sleep is an insepara-ble part of EYP.»

An activity every EYP session lacks the most.

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Attitude. Formal suits actually form your atti-tude. A tie reminds you of the offi cial role you are fulfi lling. 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 peo-ple feel that black and white is the proper way to dress, colour can inspire. If you want to be impressive, go for pur-ple: the colour of wealth in the ancient Roman Empire.

E ven the most diffi cult things in the world are not that complicated if you use a good method. As a fi rst-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 fi rst GA speech, crying my eyes out from being so nervous. Though in the end, everything always turns out fi ne.

Pay attention, be active and respect others. Here again, I admit that it can be diffi cult because of a constant lack of sleep. Fortunately, you are always provided with loads of coffee and cook-ies, 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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STRESSING THAT WE ARE THE EUROPEAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT, WE WANT OUR SPEECH-ES AND POINTS TO MAKE AN EVEN MORE INTELLIGENT IMPRES-SION BY WEARING A FORMAL SUIT. BUT WHAT WOULD BE THE DEFINITION OF A PROP-ER FORMAL SUIT? THIS

IS THE SUIT ABC:

A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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CULT ILaughing so hard that every committee turns around. Pass-ing the ball swiftly for the fi rst time. Kissing the unicorn. That all is CULT I.

AFET#RealisticOrSarcastic? ‘Well, they know that we don’t think’ If I were you, I wouldn’t worry, @AFET ;P You’ll do just fi ne

AFCOAFCO defi nitely 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.

ITRE IISomebody 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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ITRE INot having found the right way at the time this is written, they are surely more than done when you read this.

SEDEWhen rigid is too soft to express the structure, you can be sure you are within SEDE’s criminal spheres.

ECONOn fi re; “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!

CULT IIA lack of limbs during the Mon-key Bridge: Adam Borowski and Andy Daniluk created the tech-nique of rolling. It has its dizzy-ing side effects.

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