RECEPTaCLERECEPTaCLE

editorial

Dear reader,

have you done some-thing memorable today? There is a saying that we have to do one thing every day, that scares us. Have you been close to that threshold today?

Some of us are in Istan-bul only for a couple of days. Coming here for a week from a culturally different background has some benefi ts. Every day I can hear the chants of muez-zins and I can only be grateful for that. Why, you might ask? Because that works as an excel-lent reminder.

It works as a reminder, that my time here is ticking out and that I need to use the most of it. Unfortunately, on a day-to-day basis we have no such reminders. We have to do it ourselves.

And yet again I come to the part in the editorial, where I ask you to do something. I am in no position to ask you to write a resolution or to play a teambuilding game. However.. I can ask you to challenge your-self to a level that you actually bring yourself to the limits. We can only expand our comfort zone, by surpassing it.

The same goes for fear. And this is where we come back to the idea of doing something every day that scares us.

Here, in Istanbul, you are going home, to hotels, hos-tels or otherwise. But can you rise to the occasion and rip this bubble apart? Can you surpass your own expectations just in order to go further in life and in EYP as a part of it?

I came here to challenge yourselves on all levels. I came here to anihilate my under-standing of 'comfort zones'. Are you willing to join me?

Yours truly - K.C.

Tuna Dökmeci(Turkey)

Cem Horasan(Turkey)

Ecem Aydoğan(Turkey)

Manar Youssef(Sweden)

Berk Manav(Turkey)

Hugo Dürr(Sweden)

Şayen Tokyay(Turkey)

Can Şehirlioğlu (Turkey)

journo/video editor

Tua Malmberg(Sweden)

Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds

(Switzerland)

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losing my

Our lovely delegates had teambuilding yesterday... and some loved it more than others! Those who could play their favourite EYP games defi nitely had the greater smile on their faces. So now we dive into the inner conscious of the delegates, as they confess why they love these games. So I present to you, the favourite and the worst teambuilding games:

I asked the delegates, as the true lovers - or haters - of the games. Also why would they feel that way.

We start with Jülide Erdem of AFCO

Jülide says she loved the perverts and virgins. As the virgins run screaming and perverts chase shouting with lust, it becomes an enjoyable cat-and-mice game. Some games are just too hard. They can’t be enjoyed states Jülide, as she hates the line games. Getting into order without speaking at all, and getting a punishment for failure... That is just not too hard on them!

The smiley Gamze Evirgen (FEMM)

Loves ninja! As active as a game can be, ninja is just for her. Loving the action and tension of the game you can see her truly smile. Hates love train, however, as it makes no sense to her at all. Not as active as the nin-ja, it becomes boring, she says.

We continue with Yağmur of my lovely committee AFET

She may describe herself as rather open-minded and loves the coin game. What honesty I see there. Then came the other confessions of loving suck and blow, by İrem Gürsesli. Other than those, my committee shared the joy of playing human knot, as it is seen as a common favourite.

Our fun guy Kaan Göksal of JURI takes the chance to exclaim

He loved pass the orange. He can get really close to pretty girls, and loves it, as he admitted, and enjoyed playing it today. Hated, however, create your own pic-ture, as he didn’t like posing as a team to cre-ate a scene.

We all have our favourites. Berk Manav takes a look at everyone’s most loved and hated games.

favourite game

The great friend Dilara Yozgatli of EMPL

Loved the fruit game, as you can see everybody embarrass themselves spraying out water. Primitive and hilarious, it is a true bonding-game of a new team. And no games hated by her!

Bircem Özekici of LIBE

Enjoys suck and blow, as it is a close and sincere game and it can truly build the trust for your teammates. Hates the slow games, or the lack of energy put into street fi ghter. As if it is not played loud enough, it isn’t enjoyable, and I agree with her, don’t miss out the fun!

Cool boy Mert Esencan from INTA declared

He had never lost ninja, so it is still his favourite game. And doesn’t like memorising nor the name memorising games.

Trustworthy and always ready, Arda Meriçthe orga of FEMM,

Loves the vampire game because of an epic experience. Having guessed the vampire and killed it from the fi rst round, three times in a row, his committee won the game legendary. On the contrary, never having won peel the snake against other committees, he never could like that game!

My kind chair, Henriikka Hannula of AFET

Still loves the chicken pilot, as she en-joyed another game of it yesterday. Full of laughter and sincerity, it can break all the limits! However, still fears the sticky toffee, as anytime she makes her delegates play it, she is worried they could get hurt. Thank you for your thoughtfulness Henriikka!

Our special guest, the President Tiago

He has no favourite game, but loves the unoffi cial session themes. Appreciat-ing creativity, he loves to adjust the classic games and turn them into new, innovative thematic games. Big fat pony, however, has been over-done he says. Innovation but not repetition, Tiago enjoyed having the chance to play the new innovative game of our pocket session!

İrem – AFET1. 2 months;2. I’m bored and tired of relationships;3. I think so;4. Fun, fun and fun.

Nedim – EMPL1. 6 months;2. I think love is about waiting, not searching;3. I don’t think so;4. Respect and maturity.

Semih – ENVI1. 6 months;2. I fall in love too quickly;3. Yes, defi nitely;4. We should have interest in the same stuff.

Gamze – FEMM1. A long, long time;2. I don’t want to be attached to someone;3. No, impossible;4. Effort, completing of each other, maturity.

Berkok – LIBE1. 1,5 years;2. Girls are mean and I am just too perfect;3. Yes probably because my ex had also broken up with me during a session and life is a funny thing…4. Lots and lots of love and energy.

all my

Ecem Aydoğan found the lonely souls of the session. Find them, get to know them, maybe even take them across the bridge to Asia.

1. How long have you been single?2. Why do you think you’re single?3. Is there a possibility that you might fi nd your love in this session?4. What do you think is the key to a healthy relationship?

single pockets

Yiğit – LIBE1. 5 months;2. It’s totally because of her and being single is being the “sultan”;3. Maybe;4. Respect.

Kevin – LIBE1. 7,5 months;2. My ex broke my trust,no one can repair it. (reaches for handkerchief in pocket.);3. Maybe, hopefully;4. People should fi rst understand themselves and trust each other.

Deniz – AFCO1. 1 year2. I’m just too busy to have one;3. Defi nitely;4. Caring and being able to talk to each other about everything

Ege – INTA1. 5 months;2. They’re all after me and I just can’t choose;3. I hope so;4. Fun and understanding of each other.

Can – AFCO1. 3,5 months;2. I can’t fi nd a proper girl;3. Yes;4. Honesty.

Evin – EMPL1. 3 months;2. One does not simply fi nd an attractive, nice, gentle, sensitive, good looking, fi t, funny and a single guy;3. Who knows…4. Loyalty, fun, giving, passion.

Interested in foreign foods? Tua Malmberg cares to introduce you to the Swedish chocolate cake.

Dear delicious Delegates. Turkish treats. I love your country. I love the sun, the sea and the scents. I love the color and the cuisine. Turkish food is so amazing

it makes me happy. I was invited here, to your beautiful country, and I am being hosted here fed your wonderful, mouth-watering food. Now, I want to give something back. And I, privileged as I am with my own space in the paper, will now do so. I give you: Swedish Chocolate Cake.

Swedish Chocolate Cake does not have a name in English. In Swedish, it is called “Klad-dkaka”. Powdered with icing sugar Kladdkaka is the most delicious Swedish treat there is (even more delicious than pickled herring). There are about a thousand different recipes for Kladdka-ka, and here and now I will give you the very best one: My own.

Recipe:100 grams of Butter (real butter, not margarine);2,5 deciliters of Sugar;2 deciliters of wheat fl our;2 medium sized eggs;4 table spoons of cocoa powder;2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar;0,5 teaspoons of salt.

Turn on your oven. Set the tem-perature to 175 degrees Celcius.Melt the butter.Mix all of the ingredients in a big bowl.Put them in a round tin.Put the tin in the oven for 25 minutes.Let the cake cool.Powder the cake with icing sugar.Enjoy the cake warm with va-nilla ice cream and/or whipped cream or put it in the fridge overnight and eat it in choco-laty chunks the next day.

KLADDKAKA

A. Tiny pocket on the left-boob side of a t-shirt

Ahh, the dear tiny pocket... The tiny pocket doesn’t really func-tion as a pocket but merely an accessory that adds to a look. Nevertheless, they shall not be underestimated! Tiny t-shirt pockets are the essential to eve-ry stylista, every hipster, every-one that is someone. It’s inspi-ration, it’s substance, it’s sexy.

B. Inner jacket pocket

The smart, logical one. The in-ner jacket pocket is the one who can always somehow balance fun and seriousness. This per-son is the “go-to” person who overcomes any hurdle using the simplicity of logic.

C. Back pocket of jeans

As a continuation of the pocket analogy, back pocket people don’t mind taking risks and generally don’t have plans B. They might keep their most valuable belongings in their back pockets – unguarded - not because of naivete but out of sheer jocularity.

1. Which would be the most desirable trait?a. Attractiveness;b. Practicality;c. Funniness.

2. What’s the best part of a cupcake?a. The packaging and colors; b. Overall aftertaste;c. Frosting. 3. Which would be the most unacceptable crime?a. Pick-pocketing;b. Peeing in public;c. Spending a night in jail and getting harassed.

4.Which would be most likely to be watched?a. Harry Potter;b. Inception;c. The Mask.

5. Which sounds more fun to do on a Sunday afternoon?a. Going to a spa;b. Catching up on some reading;c. Bungee jumping.

6. Which color would be most suitible to wear during General Assembly?a. Red; b. Beige;c. Orange.

Kabataş: the Latvian pocket thingy. Has been catching on hasn’t it? Berk Manav & Ecem Aydoğan tell where you belong in this

whole “pocket universe”?

POCKET TYPE

Do you like the view from the window? Tuna Dökmeci & Hugo Dürr snoop around the most popular destinations for EYP’ers.

globetrotters

With EYP, you will meet so many people from so many

backgrounds, and you will have the opportunity to travel to countries you would nev-er have imagined going to.

Even here, at the 11th National Selection Conference of the European Youth Parlia-ment Turkey, the delegates have already covered 1/5 of the globe. The countries trav-elled to include no less than 40 countries; England, the Nether-lands, Greece, Canada, Russia, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Bel-gium, Bulgaria, USA, Spain, Luxembourg, Singapore, Ma-laysia, Austria, Tunisia, Cyprus, France, Poland, Scotland, Iraq, Maldives, South Africa, Thai-land, Finland, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Argenti-na, Belarus, Macedonia, Turkey, Hungary and Australia.

You’d hope that the trav-els would have run smoothly, however they did not all go as planned. Here are some exam-ples from the adventurous del-egates;

One of the delegates was innocent enough to believe that things would go smoothly in Romania when he attended an EYP session there. Yet, he suc-cumbed completely to chaos when trying to get to the train station for departure. He fi rst took a taxi to the city centre, but then he got out immediately when he realised that the fares were going way faster than usu-al, so he decided that the best thing to do was to ask someone for directions and then walk. He was a little shocked when he understood that no one spoke English. After 3.5 hours of walking and trying to under-stand people, he fi nally found his way to the train station.

Another one of the dele-gates, wishing to remain anony-mous, divulged the tale of a visit to summer camp in the summer of his 12th year of life. The sum-mer camp was held in journey, and lasted just over one week. Unfortunately for this delegate, he was struck with a violent case of diarrhoea, which stayed with him the whole week. To make matters worse, on a short excursion into the town, while queuing for some food, he was hit by some French-Canadians for no apparent reason.

As we can see, with all the travelling, come some memories that the delegates most likely would like to re-press. There is no way to really avoid these tiny disasters, how-ever we can encourage you all to use be safe, and use protec-tion. Insure your pockets.

Not all travels run smoothly!

Don’t be a damsel in distress! Manar Youssef & Şayen Tokyay know the latest tips and tricks in EYP fashion.

Fashionistas

What defi nes an EYP pocket? Is it solely the inside that counts, how it looks or how it presents itself? While wandering around during coffee breaks, we identifi ed the most outstanding pockets of the day. Some were styl-ish, while others were absolute disasters. We ranked them out of 11, see-

ing as this is the 11th National Selection Conference of European Youth Parliament of Turkey.

Thus, we would like to present what’s hot and what’s not in session fashion.

1) Very colourful and stylish choice, pocket, we loved it. A purple skirt with a colourful jacket matches with your beautiful and el-egant look. This pock-et knows how to catch the attention during the opening ceremo-ny. We would prefer a high heel though, you would seem more professional. Yet, 8 out of 11.

2) With the Bosporus in the background, this lovely pocket chose to combine vin-tage with modernity. A cute grey skirt with a brownish orange shirt made a perfect look for the OC. This fashionable pocket impressed every oth-er pocket with her style and smile. Noth-ing much to say, 10 out of 11.

3) A lot of handsome pockets lined up. With a cool look on their faces, three of them match. Origi-nal, yet classy. We like! The others stand out, with earthly col-ours that would have made Mother Nature delighted.

4) Flip-fl ops, shirt and shorts, wait what? What is worse, he seems really proud of his so-called sense of fashion. Can, EYP journalism requires honesty, so, your point is 0.3 out of 11. Oh sorry, we just noticed that you are holding a t-shirt over your head. Seriously. We take all our points back. Zero.

Erdem Topçu; Head Organıser, corner-stone of masculinity, vision of virility, experienced professional and fear-less guardian, architect of the 11th

National Selection Conference of the Europe-an Youth Parliament of Turkey. Here is what the great man had to say about the session:

Q: Why did you decide to such a responsibility by organising a session?A: I had always been very interested in organis-ing, I organised other things than EYP such as our school’s festival. Also, organising an EYP session seemed very challenging to me which is something that I like. Challenges including mak-ing people happy, a good example being the cof-fee breaks.

Q: What has been the biggest challenge up ‘till the session?A: As you know, putting together the officials’ team was quite a challenge. The fact that 5 ses-sions are happening at the same time, plus the fact that EYP Turkey hosted the International Session and will host the Istanbul Youth Forum in May resulted in low number of applications. Q: What was the biggest fear for you while pre-paring the session and what is it now? A: I was worried about having the Teambuild-ing in the Yıldız Parkı, because so far no one had tried to try to have the Teambuilding in a public park, it was always in schools. But fortunately, it all worked out fine. As for now, I can say that

some unexpected happenings scare me, but I don’t think that it will be a problem, we can deal with it. I just feel calm and happy now.

Q: What is the thing you’re most proud of? A: I’m so proud of my orga team. They are all so intelligent, practical, speedy guys. I’m so lucky to have them in my team.Session history

Q:After 386 days of organising, you must be quiet tired and fed up with organising. What happens next?A: Actually, I just got accepted as a chair for IYF. I’m now looking forward to it. And as for what happens next outside EYP, I really want to study now, I truly wish to finish next year without fail-ing.

Q: What did organising a session bring to you personally? What have you gained?A: I improved my leadership skills; and maybe it’s going to be too obvious, but my organisation-al skills have developed a lot.

Q: What would you like to tell the delegates? What should they take from the session?A: EYP is a great opportunity. They have to at-tend more sessions, they should participate to EYP Turkey’s activities, alumni dinners, week-ends. I recommend them not to leave EYP. I met so many great people during the last years and a half. I advise them to stick around and not leave the EYP community.

Mr^.Mas^culinity^

Hugo Dürr &Tuna Dökmeci had a talk with a very special man. More special than you could have ever imagined.

Q:What do you think about the chairs?A: They’re fantastic. No more can be said.

Q: And what about the press team?A: While I was imagining the session, I was al-ways thinking about videos, a lot of photos, a Flickr page, a lot of memories and now every-thing I had imagined is happening thanks to the press team so I’m really happy.

Q: How was and is to work with Tiago?B: For me, it is a true honour and an amazing experience to work with Tiago. He is by far the best President I have ever seen. He has been very helpful at every stage of the session; we had to overcome a lot of challenges and now every-thing is going very well.

Q: Who and what were the things that facilitat-ed your task as a head-organiser?A: I was so lucky as an head-organiser: I had to opportunity to become an organiser at the 10th NSC of EYP Turkey and then at the 69th Inter-national Session of the European Youth parlia-ment. Especially the latter provided me with the opportunity to work with two amazing head-organisers, Oğulcan and Ezgi and it taught me a lot. And I have to mention Furkan’s name too, who was always there to motivate me. As you can see, the great man has quite a lot to say about the session, and bears with him an immense amount of wisdom, almost unnatural for someone of his age. If you get the opportunıty, stop him in the corridor, and indulge him with all your curiosities of EYP.

How did you feel

when the session started

How do you feel

now?

How will you feel

when the session is

over?

making an

Hugo Dürr knows how to leave an impression. Now, he is ready to reveal his secrets to everyone.

Everyone makes their own fortune in life. There is very little that comes to you for free,

without any effort (apart from the pockets in your trouser, of course). This rule is also true for the amount of attention paid to you. You yourself are completely in control of how much people pay attention to you, both posi-tively and negatively. Knowing the secrets and truths of why and how you draw attention to yourself is invaluable knowl-edge to have in your pockets.

This can of course be applied to any situation in life, but now let us focus on EYP and the 11th National Selection Conference of the European Youth Parliament Turkey. There are various ways in which you can be successful in drawing at-tention to yourself here, such as: wearing big, frivolous, col-ourful clothes, like a grand red overcoat, or mastering an ec-centric and curious hairstyle. The physical appearance of you is the very fi rst impression people a will usually get of you, though that is certainly not to

say that you must dress some-thing out of the ordinary to be recognised, but it is usually what will initially draw eyes to you.

During your teambuild-ing and committee work, there are several aspects that you should consider pocketing. These include being the fi rst to volunteer at any and all oppor-tunities and never being afraid of speaking your mind and stat-ing your opinion, even if no one agrees. The fact that you are willing to fi ght your corner for your argument is impressive. With you displaying willingness and enthusiasm at all times will not only show that you are engaged with what you are doing, but it will also en-courage and motivate the rest of your committee. Above this, you’ll portray your hyperactive persona, which will, without a doubt, attract attention. Moreo-

ver, one of the absolute most vital aspects of these days is, quite obviously, working as a team (hence the conveniently named “teambuilding” activi-ties). If you as a committee do not succeed as a unifi ed entity, then you don’t stand a chance of making it individually!

Involve everyone in dis-cussions, let everyone fi nish what they are saying without being interrupted, and, almost most importantly, have fun. This is not so much to do with making an impression, but it is important to remember that this is a chance for you to net-work and get to know new people who you never would have had a chance to meet oth-erwise. Make an impression on people who also make an im-

And, almost most impor-tantly, have fun!

impression

pression on you, and by this form of effective networking, you will have massive matrix of networkers in your pockets. They are priceless and essential contacts for you to have for fu-ture undertakings and endeav-ours.

With all that being said, there are two more concepts I urge you to enforce upon your-selves. Firstly, don’t be afraid of testing boundaries or trying something new. There will be times when you may feel un-comfortable with what you are assigned to do, and that is per-fectly fi ne. There is very little in this world that you will try for the fi rst time and be com-pletely relaxed with. The only way for you to learn anything new, or develop your current capabilities, is by pushing past

your own boundaries. There is no other path to improve-ment. And secondly, something that will make or break your session; you should trust your chair. Trust them with your life throughout the whole session. They have been in your shoes, they know what it’s like, and they know how to make the best out of it. Do not underesti-mate their power.

Obviously, you all shouldn’t aim to be seen and noticed just for the sake of do-ing it. That makes you seem ostentatious and pretentious (which we know you aren’t!), and it will cast looks of clouds in your direction instead of sun-shine. So, you should keep your hands in your pockets, in an-ticipation of your excellent and unforgettable entrance, and

then continued performance. Remember, stick out visually, volunteer, speak your mind, work as a team, listen, have fun, push past boundaries and trust your chairs. There you go, the essence of the whole arti-cle pocketed down to one and a half line. Follow these guide-lines, and I can personally bet my pockets that you will not be the slightest bit disappointed with the session.

The most confi dent pickup lines - Hugo Dürr’s top three

Do you believe in love at fi rst sight, or should I walk by again?

Where did your smile go? (checks back pocket) Here it is!

Tell me about yourself! Your dreams, your ambitions, your phone number.

dear diary,

Tuna Dökmeci found some ancient scrolls. Though, not from the times of Constantinople, but the content is

more than questionable.13. 11. 2011

Sunday

Dear Diary,I couldn’t write yesterday because I was so tired. Not tired, but bored to hell to tell you the truth. Both yesterday and today we did something called the committee work, which was so horrible, even teambuilding was better than this.

We had to discuss something about the climate change and what the EU can do about it, while still being a competitive market or something like that. I literally had no idea, and I’m glad that I don’t because it is simply the most boring thing in the world.

Although there were a few times when I wanted to say something about the taxes, but they sounded really stupid in my head, so I didn’t. But then, this one girl proposed the exact same thing I was going to say, and the whole committee thought that it was just brilliant. That drove me crazy, really. After that happened, I simply did not want to participate, it made me feel so bad. Plus, I once wanted to clarify something that I hadn’t understood, and I asked it in Turkish, which was the natural thing to do, since we are all Turkish. And my chair snapped back, “Oh, you can’t speak in Turkish, the working language of the EYP is English.” She said it quite nicely and all, but it still, it makes no sense to me to speak in English like a bunch of snobs.

Ah, the most annoying thing was that, when the chair sees that we are bored, she makes us play those stupid games. I didn’t want to play, so I didn’t. First of all, they are pointless, and second I feel extremely embarrassed acting like a 5 year old.

Finally we managed to write a resolution, or at least I thought that we had, but just that second, a guy pro-posed another solution. I thought it was stupid, so I told him. I might have been harsh, and I might have screamed a bit but he didn’t have to react like he did… he seemed very sorry and demotivated afterwards. I don’t know why he took it so seriously anyway.

Tomorrow is the General Assembly, so I need to fi nd some fancy clothes now. I will need to answer to points of information too, but I can do the research after I’m done choosing what to wear.

EYP sucks

14.11.2011

Monday

Dear Diary, Finally, it’s over! I think I’m the only one thinking like that, because everyone seems to be so sad that the session had ended. But personally, I will never, ever, be going back to another session. Never.

Today was the last day, the day of the General Assembly. Just as I was thinking that this thing called EYP couldn’t get any duller than it already was… Basically, everyone assembles, pretends that they are actual parliamentarians, discuss all of the resolutions and then decide whether the resolution should pass or not. As if it was a big deal.

I didn’t speak at all at the GA, so it was quite boring. The whole thing lasted for nine hours, for God’s sake. There was a resolution about the situation in Somali and I’m generally quite interested in that topic, but that was the only one. I found a lot of points to make and questions to ask, but I couldn’t be bothered to say them. God was I bored…

I am going to sleep now. Never ever I am going back to another session.

As I was going through the top secret EYP archieves, I found the diary of a delegate who participated to the 10th National Selection Conference of the European Youth Parliamnet Turkey. As your journalist, I see it as my duty to share the experiences of a fellow delegate, who will surely teach you a lot on what not to be at an EYP session.

Can you imagine 'Imagine' being imaginated in a diff erent way? Cem Horasan & Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds use their

imagination at its best.

imagine?

As the unoffi cial theme of this session is pockets, we thought we would take the most EYP song of all and turn it into our own unoffi cial ses-sion anthem. You can see that we put a lot of pockets and EYP-relat-ed things into the song. We hope you like it and are open to singing it.

Imagine there are no pocketsIt’s hard to try

No place to put stuffIt’s hard not to cry

Imagine all the pockets never to exist

Imagine there are no chairsIt’s quite hard to do

No one to help or soothe youAnd no journos too

Imagine all the delis bored to death

You, you will say I’m an EYPer, and I’m not the only one

I hope some day you’ll join usAnd Europe will be as one

Imagine no more sessionsI wonder if you can

No place for fun or laughterPeople from every land

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you will say I’m an EYPer, and I’m not the only one

I hope some day you’ll join usAnd Europe will be as one

The song wasn’t enough? How about a poem done by Tua Malmberg & Can Şehirlioğlu? I suggest you start liking these!

our pocket

Dearest , darling, lovely, wonderful, fantastic, enthusiastic, amazing, awesome, funny, serious, cheerful, sad, happy, angry, tired and hungry delegates. We are journos. We are tired journos. And tired journos drink a lot of energy drinks. Tired journos high on energy drinks are funny journos. And because we are so funny, especially funny this evening, we thought we would

entertain you a little. Or entertain you a lot. Give you a treat. Use our creative, energy drinking, and re-ally tired brains. Make something really special for you. Something unique. Something pretty. Some-thing rhymey. Yes. We just made up that word ourselves. We adore you. And we want you to adore us. We want you to adore us a lot. Therefore, we have written a poem for you. It is called: Our pocket

We want to put you delis in our pocketinstead of in a rocket

because a pocketis much closer than a rocket

In Swedish cricket is krocketAnd in our pocket

You delis are way more welcome Than cricket/krocket

We want to put our chargers in a socketAnd what would be practical to have in a pocket

Is a socketThat way we could charge stuff in our pockets

Inside all of our locketsWe would put pictures of some pockets

Pockets full of locketsFilled with pictures of more pockets

Yes, we would put you, the delis, in our pocketsClose to our hearts in our locketsMemories in space inside rockets

And remembered during Swedish rounds of crocket(s)

Loved it right? You adore us now. Right? Yes, we know. You want to kiss us. Unfortunately you are not al-lowed to do that. But you are more than welcome to give us a hug! We adore you. You are amazing delegates. You inspire us. Inspire us to write poems.

Berk Manav has encountered some cultural exchange throghout these days. Now, he would like to exchange with that information.

EYP is where everybody represents their coun-try and their culture. It is where we have the

chance to meet with all these new people. It is the joy of in-ternational interaction. In other words, go and meet with our guests! And take the chance to truly know our offi cials, coming from other countries.

This chance is rarely pre-sented to us. Only when we travel and meet people in that country, do we get to truly learn about their lives. Forget mu-seums and forget tour guides. Instead of being overwhelmed with all the saturated, memo-rized information… Be curious! The best place for that is EYP, even though we may not be aware of it most of the time.

So let’s not take this op-portunity for granted, and have the courage as delegates, to go up to Magdalena or Sebastian, or Hugo, for example, and ask about what they like, where they come from, and how they live. Then we can see how our

lives, tastes and cultures could be very different and special.

Maybe not as visual as actually going and visiting Swe-den, I’m sure our journo Manar would be much more fun to lis-ten to, than those tour guides.

Today we realized we both loved singing out loud, sponta-neously dancing when we feel like and just acting freely. (Just ask for the legendary Mamma Mia performance of Manar) Let’s be ourselves, hospitable, and live up to our reputation as Turkish, shall we? Break the stereotypes (not the good ones like hospitality by the way) by getting to know their cultures and countries. Then by being here at Kabataş, sharing the conference with our guests, vis-it all the places they come from by listening to their stories!

Luckily, I am the journo of the lovely AFET. (Commit-

tee of Foreign Affairs, how co-incidental or… ironic?) So my chair is Henriikka. Here comes an interesting story. She looked kind of overwhelmed, when our excited and very talkative committee started playing the teambuilding games. Non-stop talking and never ending en-ergy, our committee gave her a hard time. “Cultural differenc-es” she said.

Apparently, almost all the Finnish delegates she had before were very calm and easy-going. She even needed energizers to pump them up and get them to talk sometimes. Just like our Turkish delegates... Or not. I was amazed to hear this, and the contrast created here is over nine thousand!

Apparently Finns are very calm.

culture pockets

Cem Horasan trusts people. Can you do the same? Yes? No? Cor-rect answer? Read this and it’ll guide you!

Would you trust me? It’s fairly a simple question from a stranger

who you only saw through-out the session. The answer would often be no. Although I won’t ask to be trusted, trusting someone or some people would be in everybody’s benefi t.

Trust is an essential part of our social lives. Trust makes lots of things go smoothly. Im-agine that you are in a group of people who you newly met and you’re having hard time trust-ing them. Moreover this group of people has a task to com-plete. It is clear that they will fail the task.

I have heard that there were some people in this ses-sion who told that they have problem trusting people. Actu-ally they aren’t the only ones and anyone who’s having trou-ble trusting can not make the best of an EYP session.

People don’t change in the blink of an eye. Although when someone tries trusting people, that person comes to realise that even trusting peo-

ple on a smaller scale can make himself feel good. Trusting your committee does the same and it makes you succeed as a group.

Trust isn’t just about be-ing led, it is at the same time about leading and sometimes it is about walking side to side on the same path or being lifted by your friends. Trust is a must to walk safely on that road. So what can you do in order to trust people?

Be open minded. Good people still do exist. Do not let your past negative experienc-es get in between your newly formed relationships.

Trust in people’s good intentions and be forgiving. So that when someone makes a mistake you’ll be thinking about the positive side instead of the negative side of the situa-tion.

Try volunteering and be-ing honest so that you can in-teract more with people on a more intimate scale.

These are actually ad-vices which should be applied in your everyday life. Although it’s your decision to apply them or not, I believe for someone to make the best of an EYP session involves trusting. These were the ideas I came up in order to be of some help to you del-egates. You can add or amend them but they are good starting points.

Even after trying all of the above and everything that comes to mind if you still don’t feel like trusting, you can al-ways try checking people’s pockets to trust them. After all pockets still are the best way to describe someone.

Trust issues

Trust is an essential part of our social lives.

Tua Malmberg can leave you speechless. How? Read and learn!

1. Itellectio/analysis

Analyse. Who is your audience? Are you speaking to a group of house-wives? Or a group of lumberjacks? Perhaps, you will speak at a General Assembly. Where will you speak? When will you speak? At what time will you speak? What it the pur-pose of your speech? These are things that might seem obvious. It may be so. But that does not make them any less important. Analyse, analyse and analyse.

2. Inventio/material

Brainstorm. During brain-storming you can come up with amazing, groundbreaking ide-as. Write down all of your ideas. Do not edit from the beginning. Keep everything. Your best idea might actually be your most random.

3. Disputio/structure

It is very, very important to have a well-structured speech. Every good speech needs four parts:

• The IntroductionIn your introduction you should:1: Excite your audience2: Make the audience feel rec-

ognised3: Introduce your topic

• The NarratioIn your Narratio you:1: Give the audience back-ground info2: Explain diffi cult words3: Make them understand and believe that you an expert

• The BodyYour body should always be divided into three body para-graphs. Each paragraph should start with a linking-word. Prac-tical linking-words to use in the beginning of a paragraph are: At fi rst, then, fi nally or fi rstly, secondly and thirdly.

• The ConclusionEvery conclusion should be structured according to the fol-lowing pattern:1: Repeat paragraphs one, two and three.

2: Come full circle with your in-troduction.

3: Go out in a bang with…a. … a quote!b. … appealing to your audi-ence!c. … a prophecy!d. … a question!

4. Elocutio/style

The style in which you deliv-er your speech is important. Very important. Use your lan-guage. Use fancy words. Use your knowledge. Impress with quotes and sources. There are endless possibilities.

5. Memoria/study

Study. Facts improve your cred-ibility in the eyes of the listen-ers. If you know what you are talking about, it is easier to talk.

6. Actio/deliveryMake your speech come alive. Make your speech interesting. Make your speech exciting. Make sure it comes across, just how passionate you are, about what you are saying.

speechless?

Şayen Tokyay thinks that the crisis is inevitable. She has some ad-vice to spare, though.

Possible pockety crisis and how to handle them? Well you can’t.

From those situations that cause little daily crises in your day. You dropped your laptop to the freezing cold of bosphorus while dancing on the Bosphorus Bridge with your laptop on your head, let’s assume. Now that’s an example of such a daily crisis. It cause panic and is absolutely distract-ing.

In sessions, you do expe-rience plenty of daily crises`, in the middle each and every day of the crazy-scheduled and su-per busy session days. Here are 4 of those crisis scenarios and tips to handle them.

1 It’s just a little (celebrity) crush: Not like you faint every time you touch. Of course things change if

you touch your celebrity crush. Being in the same EYP session with the actor you’ve been ad-miring for long time is indeed an example of a daily crisis. It is hazardous since it can distract you during these very precious

days, cause lack of concentra-tion during your committee work. The only way I can sug-gest for you to deal with this crisis is to play the cool cat with him. Just don’t be the groupie girl, all right?

2 Cocroach invasion in your pocket: Especially after the words of the President advicing eve-

ryone to leave this session with full pockets, pockets, the rando-mest theme ever, became even popular. Yet, you misunder-stood the process of fattening your pockets and cause a crisis in your day. No biggie advice but, do not invite cockroaches to our lovely NSC, oh please don’t.

3 “We help frogs go pu la lo ha la”: While singing one of the most amazing EYP songs with your commit-

tee, you may not remember the lyrics of frog song. Going sha la la la improperly may cause stress, disappointment, lack of

confi dence, thus a crisis. My ad-vice is... Wait for it... To let go. Frog song rocks as it rhymes, no matter how.

4 Fear of losing: Go ahead - despise everyone who still play The Game in 2012. The key factor here

is the addiction. You simply can-not give up playing the game and these four days are not safe days, dears. Guess why: There are cruel EYPers all around you who want you to lose the game which is a terrible daily crisis. I would really be glad to give an advice to you and make you feel relaxed but sorry guys... You just lost the game. Kisses from press room.

Pocket crisis

Just don’t be a groupie, Ok’?