Gobble, gobble!The sound of Turkey

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The Much AwaitedIssue

PED

is out...Indeed it is,my dear!

Four days after the session, the organisers have gathered to write a letter for the PED Is-sue...

All of the organisers agreed on the beginning of the letter, which is “Lovely participants of IYF’08” as you can see above.. But each organiser had their own creative ideas for the rest of the letter...

When the tempered discussions about what should be written began, Anıl decided to leave, because he claimed that his EYPness was too big to fit in the room... But no, the organisers needed his EYPness, and they could not let it go… So Barbaros ran after Anıl, caught him from his EYPness, and pulled him back into the room.

Right after that, Necle, for some unknown reason, started singing the octopus song with a vengeful glow in her eyes.

And then, when the orgas were trying to focus on the letter again, Ece brought some really important and comforting news from the hospital. She came in and announced: “Danger Ob-stracted! Derin had his vasectomy surgery today... We will all have nice healthy kids.” Hearing the great news, Kübra stood up, and began doing the Funky Chicken… “Let me see your Derin Emre” … followed by Burcu and Cansu’s “What did you say?”s…

After learning about Derin’s surgery, Selin thought that the organisers could finally focus on writing the letter, with no worries in their heads. But no, that was not the case.

This time, Fikret was the one to spoil the letter. He jumped into the middle and said that the organisers should be playing the coin game. Although many people were innocent enough to think that, the reason why Fikret wanted to play the coin game was just because he never managed to do teambuilding during the session, RahmiOrhonPak knew all about his real inten-tions, and was sharing the same thoughts with Fikret.

However, the organisers decided to play the coin game anyways. The only problem with that was, no one had a coin, so the game had to be played without one.

Later on, when some of the organisers started to think that they had enough of the coin game, Furkan, who was only now getting into the mood, decided that it should be taken a step further and continued with the suck and blow game. There were no papers present either, so this suck and blow game was really a very interesting one.. But that is another story, so don’t ask…

After all those adventurous hours of teambuilding, the gang felt like this was the time to actually write the letter.

But, as you can imagine, there was again something to prevent the letter from being writ-ten… Bunch of police officers brake the door and came in to the room, with their guns pointed at three particular people… The three head organisers, Aysu, Ogulcan, and Rafet were arrested and taken away without any explanations… It was later on found out that the reason for the imprisonment was the disappearing of the money which had been earned by the sales of the tshirts during the session, and which belonged to EYP Turkey. While all the fuss was going on, on the other side of the world, Ceren, who built a great mansion with the tshirt money, was enjoying the sea, sand, sun, and her mojito in Hawaii.

Organisers Team of IYF’08

Lovely participants of IYF’08

Note from the editors: Orgas, who do you think is supposed to read such a long article?

Test your knowledge! Whose are these shoes? a) Nehir’s b) Ogulcan’s c) Velimic’s

The Company a.k.a. The Fellowship of the Ring (of Fire)

Tuesday night, room 109 at the Taslik Hotel. The party did not end after the pub, instead The Company decided to play the game Ring of Fire. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the game, listen very carefully…

In order to play this game there are a few things you need in advance: a deck of cards, (alcoholic) drinks and group of crazy people.

If that has been taken care of we go to phase two, the actual game. The system is pretty easy, each player draws a card and performs the action allocated to the card and then the next player is up. Here however, comes the hardest part – remembering what to do when which card is drawn, a thing that is especially hard the days after having played the game. Our journo team was the living proof that these rules are most likely designed to be forgotten as we had major difficulty reproducing them.

Note that there are many variations to this game, this is just the version The Company played. Also, the penalty for making a mistake is taking a sip from a drink, therefore it is easiest if each player is equipped with his or her own glass, can or bottle of alcohol.

We distinguish two kinds of cards, number cards and special cards.

Number cardsThe cards with numbers from two (2) to eight (8) are worth their face value in sips. Now there are two options a player has when drawing a number card: is it a black card, the player takes the according number of sips himself, however if it is a red card the player can “give” the sips to any other player in the group.

[1] Nine: “Gesture”The player demonstrates a gesture or movement to the group. Later during the game the same player can randomly start doing this gesture/movement, the last player to copy will have to take a sip.

[2] Ten: “Category”Start with making the We Will Rock You rhythm. The player calls out a random category (e.g. cigarette brands) followed by an item within this category, then the next player has to mention something within the aforementioned category. This has to be done on the rhythm of the clapping, so when a player fails to do so he/she has to take a penalty of 1 sip.

[3] Jack: “I have never ever”The player says “I have never ever…” and thinks of an action. All the players (this also applies for the player who drew the card) who have not done what the statement claims, have to take a sip. So for example if the player calls “I have never ever drank beer” all the players who have drank beer before, take a sip.

[4] Queen: “Suck & Blow”Starting with the player who drew the card, either the card itself or any other piece of paper is passed on from mouth to mouth. When the card or paper is dropped the two players who messed up take a sip.

[5] King: “Waterfall”All players start drinking at the same time, when the player who drew the card stops the next player is allowed to stop drinking too, this goes clockwise. The last player to stop drinking will be the person sitting on the right of the player who drew the card.

[6] Ace: “Rule”The Aces are what make the game interesting. When it is drawn the player is allowed to impose a rule for the rest of the game. Examples of common rules are: - Players are not allowed to use any verbs from now on- No personal pronouns anymore (me, her, I, him, etc)- No names (start using nicknames!)- Instead of 1 sip the penalty for messing up is 5 sips

The game might seem a little complicated at first, but it is an absolute blast once you’re into it! We guarantee it.

But where does the name “the Company” come from?

Well, the clever Chair Drinkos (of course the handsome Greek Chair of EMPL, Nikos) came up with the idea of referring to the members of the Fellowship of the Ring as “the Company” because he saw that everyone suffered from the penalty because of saying “You” all the time while referring to the everyone.

About the night itself, the game started with 13 people (as we had some help by counting the ones from the picture plus Alca who took the picture itself), 8 boys and 5 girls. We were all so fine with the game since we had no penalties and no rules to obey. But after a while, we remember drinking 8 sips and then the Waterfall, then Suck and Blow and sips again. Then came the rules and we couldn’t say each others names anymore. We had to come up with some nicknames! Some nicknames as far as we can remember are “Ukrainian girl” for Katya (journo), “Sleepy girl” for Alca (journo), “Turkish girl” for Irem (Chair, AFCO), and of course “Drinkos” for Nikos (Chair, EMPL). Then we could no longer say “I, We, You, They, He, She, It” so the Company was our savior. But then, we couldn’t even say the verbs! Therefore we had to think but we were under the influence of alcohol and of course the time wasn’t the best time for thinking… So after 5 minutes everyone started talking as “Drinkos, hmmm…” or we had to refer to “Suck and Blow” as “Hmm and Hmm”… After 4:00 in the morning though, some were already sleeping (a.k.a Drinkos and Sleepy Girl) and had to wake up as it was their turn or someone had picked one of the special cards.

But of course, at 4:30, or nearly 5:00 in the morning, we had to split. Because we had to get our 1-hour beauty sleep (a.k.a packing up) before our flights. Although we learnt that some slept till late afternoon (Harm and Leonie) and some woke up 5 minutes before their check out time to make it in time (Alca and Irem). Still, with the risks taken, it was probably the night the Company had the most fun during the conference. Hence the new goal of the Company is to make sure that they meet again in another summer session with more booze and this time, FINISH THE VODKA!

Therefore we’d like to thank all members of the Company for making this perfect conference even more fun and unforgettable, especially the last night (despite all the booze we had). We want to see all of you again preferably at a summer session and continue from where we left. We love you all…

Leonie and Alca

RANDOM BOX

YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO

READ THIS

And a task for you: count all the beers on this outrageous picture:

The lovely pair of shoes made the papers on the previ-ous issue of Gobble, Gobble – The Sound of Turkey and were looking for a pair of feet for a lovely first date… Apparently they found “the One”s [as Katya (Poland – IMCO)’s feet ]. Rumor has it that they went to Poland together and had their happy ending there… Alca

SCANDAL! IMCO Chair Bribed! And we saw it!

Random Stores of the DayAlc

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Lost and (Literally) Found

One does all the work, ten find it entertaining… It’s just the Gobble Gobble way of life!

Session has officially ended, but that didn’t keep a few of us from staying some extra nights and exploring Istan-bul. On Wednesday, Begum took Martin and me to see Sultanahmet and the Grand Bazaar. On our way there, we couldn’t help but notice how things work and what the people are like. One of the most memorable scenes was the one on the picture. It seems that being the guy who does road construction stuff is quite popular.

Caught Sleeping....

Lovely Martin sleeping with his thumb in

his mouth during committee work…

Handsome Chair of AFET, yes of course it’s Tony, sleeping on the last day of committee work.

Probably one of the most tired people during the session, Ogul-can sleeping during GA, although he was seen with the Fellowship of the Ring afterwards!

Our beautiful editress Ipek sleeping in the Computer Lab, they prohibit us from eating and also from drink-ing but who said sleeping?!

Barbaros, sleeping during the GA3 of the Orgas sleeping on the couch during GA, yes people they DID work hard!!

Neven, our clever hard-working editor caught sleeping during Teambuilding…

prepared by Alca

Velimic

Fashion Police on job!The conference came to an end… Therefore we’re publishing the worst fashion days of the officials! Yes, the ones that you’ve never seen before! And still, they were proud to show them!

One and only handsome Swedish journo Jakob was wearing 2 socks (right) with different colors on the last day of the session! We have 2 guesses on such a mistake… The first is that he really was nervous about the GA, or the second one that he didn’t get much sleep from the night before and couldn’t see the differ-ence between the 2 socks! However, we believe that it was the 2nd one as he was also sleeping during the GA, and is likely to believe!Anyways, he was still proud and extremely happy although we told him he was making the newspaper! That’s the EYP spirit we’re looking for, people!!!!

Our lovely Chair (left) that wore nothing but Vans and only VANS throughout the conference (that’s right, it’s Harm!) again wore his Vans, what a surprise, and his bright red socks! Then again, the combination looked perfect and he showed his fun personality through his choice in clothes! Go Harm! Go!

The first day of Committee work, it rained like it never did and never would, and IMCO’s funny and also proud-of-his-shoe Chair Derin had his shoes with a huge hole! We got to talking about rain and he said he had his raincoat luckily but then he said I’d be shocked when I saw his shoe… I did, and I still can’t tell it with words, you have to see the picture yourselves! I still feel so sorry for him!! Al-though I’m glad it stopped raining after some time and it had stopped for some time when we left the building…

Orgas’ room was the room of fun throughout the conference… That’s for sure but some even polished their nails in there! Yes, it was Seda (journo) and Selin (Orga). And they didn’t stop with that, they had to step out because of an interview with the chairs with their wet nails so they had to blow and jump to fasten the process!

We might be done with the underwear issue but we still have some others who keep their underwear interesting… Yes we’re talking about Jakob (journo) again, and of course Sebastian (IMCO Chair) and Mert (IMCO delegate)…

On the second day of Committee work, we saw that Sebastian (IMCO Chair) was wearing different shoes under his jeans than his famous white Converse pair! He was wearing his shoes he wore with his tux! First, we thought he found them comfortable then it turns out he wore them for the dinner that evening, and yes we’re talking about the Red Carpet night!

Alca

Gobble Gobble’s

irregular

supplement: Good Night Stories!

A Gobble Goodbye

Dear readers, I, your wonderful journo VelimiC Ilic decided to share something with you. As some of you might know, during the session, I have shared a room with Mr. Anthony Abladey Abladey, the chair of the one and only AFET.

Now, just a few minutes ago, I was talking to Tony and he told me an amazing story from his last night (morning) at the hotel which I have no memory of. So the story goes…

On the night of the 8th, when I got back to our room, Tony was already asleep. He was supposed to wake up around half past 3 so that he and Sebastian could make it in time for their flight. I have also told Tony to wake me up before they leave in order to say one last goodbye. And so he did…

It was around 3:50, the two of them were about to leave, so Tony tapped me on the shoulder, trying to wake me up. I didn’t. He stopped trying and went into the bathroom in order to brush his teeth. All of a sudden, he hears me wake up. I stand up and I say: “Oooooh f***… I need to print that article for Neven!” after which I went back to bed again. Tony has packed everything and really needed to get going so he de-cided to tap me again. 1st time, no reaction. 2nd time, I just turned around. And finally the 3rd time, I once again wake up and said: “Ahhh, let’s sing ‘Allez les’ “.

I do not know what song that is, nor do I remember this hap-pening. Tony has told me the whole thing and I just thought you might enjoy reading it. Hopefully, you all did. Lots of love from Belgrade,

VelimiC

Wojtek, admit it!

It seems as if we all had some funny incidents during the last night. I’ll share what I and Velimic were put through.

On the last night (April 9) Velimic and I were sitting with a bunch of Croatians listening to an interesting discussion between Martin and Wojtek about the meaning of EYP and its future – it was quite a reasonable way how to spend two hours in the lobby before they had to leave for the airport. The discussion was shortly interrupted only by Wojtek going up to our room to prepare and take his luggage.

As is the case quite often during discussions, we forgot to check the time. Then sud-denly someone realised that it’s time to go. Martin and Wojtek rushed out of the hotel, took the first cab and were heading for Taksim in just a second. When I and Velimic got back to the hotel, we noticed that our key was missing. “What the f*ck (‘all I need is u’) are we going to do?” we thought. It was nowhere in the lobby, nor at the reception, so we, too, rushed out of the hotel and took a taksi to Taksim. The two of them were already sitting in the Havas bus, waiting for departure. When we asked them about the key, they just laughed and were very unwilling to check their luggage. In the end, we persuaded them to at least check their hand luggage. The key wasn’t there. We lost our hope. We walked all the way back to the hotel. It was raining. (The real course of events was slightly changed here to add to the atmosphere.) We felt so lost. No one was going to help us. We asked Murat the Technician to open our room door with his special key. Oh, if he knew that the original key wasn’t there. We lied to him...

The next morning, we wanted to run away from the hotel unnoticed. Unfortunately, the reception guy was there. When he started talking to us, our hearts plunged. “Guys, do you have your passports?” – “Sure we do.” – “OK, that’s good. ‘Cause I don’t want to see you here again.”

Goodbye Istanbul! We are forbidden to ever come back. It was nice meeting you! We’ll never forget! And Wojtek, admit it! You were the one who stole the key!

Adam :)

Istanbul-Belgrade, 2008

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTIONBY THE COMMITTEE ON POST EYP AFFAIRS

“With the constant increase of the PED syndrome, what mea-sures need to be taken in order to help young EYPers over-come this terrible disease?”

Submitted by: VelimiC IliC, NehiC AydeniC

The European Youth Parliament;

A. Acknowledging the high impact of PED on our fellow EYPers,B. Deeply alarmed by the lack of after-session gobble-gobbling and niff-niffingandalsofurthersoundsofthecountries,C. Bearing in mind that not all of us have enough chest hair to keep us company,D. recognizingthefactthatSloveniahastwofishingshipswhiletherearethreefishermeninKi kinda and one is a woman,

1. Suggests that the European Parliament raises money and open a PED rehabilitation centre,2. Strongly encourages all the participants of the forum to “Drink my dear,”3. UrgesthedelegatesandtheofficialstovisitIstanbulandfeelthecozynessofthemassivechest hair the organizers provide,4. Further invites everybody to make their journo fantasies come to life such as:

a) Call Neven in the middle of the night and ask him what he’s wearing without forgetting to check with him that Neven is his name,b) Tell Adam the editorial assistant that he’ll be drunk soon and enjoy his worries about his drunken things,c) Ask Adam what great idea about EYPness popped up in his mind after midnight,d) Catchupthefive–Neven,VelimiC,NehiC,Thanos,Adam-andplayBOKwiththemifnot play BOOM with Thanos,5. Insistantly requests that the Slovenian accordion players hold a passport while playing the instrument,6. Demands that no one to read any of the issues shall forget VelimiC & NehiC and the C Com pany.

Good Night and....

a) Call Neven in the middle of the night and ask him what he’s wearing without forgetting to check with him that Neven is his name,b) Tell Adam the editorial assistant that he’ll be drunk soon and enjoy his worries about his drunken things,c) Ask Adam what great idea about EYPness popped up in his mind after midnight,d)Catchupthefive–Neven,VelimiC,NehiC,Thanos,Adam-andplayBOKwiththemif not play BOOM with Thanos,

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