Photo bomb from EYP

All pictures are taken by our wonderful journalist Valtteri "Hector" Valtanen

Classy pizza on the first day!

Teambuilding

Committee work

Brainstorming

Presenting ideas

Working for solutions

More energy!

General Assembly and my bad (crazy) hairday

Stating opinions!

One of the best spend weekends in my life

I have been now home for little more than one day. And it has been weird. It is a whole new world in EYP sessions... I don't need to say, but it was AWESOME. I'm now hoping good news from the selection results.

First day was a lot of new people and definitely alot of new experiences! Right from the beginning the Session was really formal and the opening ceremony followed official protocols, which was kind of fun since it made me feel so important. First day mostly was only about getting to know each other and teambuilding, which was great since the topics on the next days were so hard to handle that you really needed to know the people around to so that you know how to work together to tackle those huge globally influencing issues.So it was all about Fred the Moose and Drunken Bottles and being silly and crazy on the first days.

The secong day of our EYP session we got into really working and discussing. Our committee of 11 people and chairman and journalist talked about climate change: From Durban to Doha: international climate talks have so far been a series of high-profile failures. With no conclusive agreement in sight and the goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature below 2 degrees becoming impossible to achieve, where should the EU lie in climate policy?

Engaging myself to talk about such an important issue as climate change wasn't hard. Brainstroming the problems and facts about climate change on the otherhand increased my comprehension of the wideness of the issue at hand. There was so much to talk about and everyone in our committee wanted to emphasize completely different kinds of matters. Some of us thought more globaly, some of us wanted to focus on the individuals. The more we got into the topic, the more my head got confused and I really realized how big the issue was. And I wrote about page long report about that on my CAS reflection... And that tells a lot! :D

General Assembly on next day was A LOT of discussing. At some point it felt like it would never end. But I loved it. Even tho I stood up and said my opinion only twice (and after that once to give a speech), because of my terrible stage fright, I enjoyed every minute of seeing and listening everyone else talk. It gave me so much new to think about.

All in all, the experience was eye-opening and life changing, and left me want more. I miss sleeping on the floor and being with the people are in some ways so much like I am. And even thought the resolutions were hard to make, it feeled like doing something great, something bigger than myself. Especially when I walked to the lectern and spoke all more than 100 pairs of ears and addressed our point.

My fellow delegate from my school, and my dear new(ish) friend!

I will add more photos, when I got them from our journalist and if he lets me to post them :)

Masquerade

© Jontte

© Jontte

I'm back, slowly but still back. I will apologize all ready now that I won't be able to post maybe as much as I want to and I'm holding on with my phone's camera, because I'm fed up with my systems camera, which I think is broken or something. Anyway I'm collecting money for new one and hopefully will get it after Christmas!

And to the topic!
I should add to my list of thinks I love this on: theme party! It is just something I really really like. Getting dressed for different kind of themes is actually quite fun! And with not much money to spend it is even more fun! You really have to think about how could you create an outfit from what you already have or could you do something cheap yourself. This time, to your IB's masquerade Halloween party I gladly already had a dress and I found pretty comely mask for only less than 3,5 euros! So this problem wasn't really even a problem.

But I already have next theme party coming up! Oh no! This time it will be at the European Youth Parliament's regional session's Farewell party next Saturday! And the theme is awful for me (and my wallet): Disco Inferno. Anyone having any great tips what should I wear or something to loan me perhaps?

Hitaasti olen täällä taas. Pyydän anteeks nytjo etten tuu postaamaan yhtä paljon ku eilen ja joudun pärjäämään kännykän kameran kanssa, koska oon ärsyyntyny oikeeseen järkkäriini, joka on rikki tai jtn vastaavaa. Mutta kuitenkin, kerään rahaa uuteen ja toivottavasti saan hankittua uuden heti joulu jälkee!

Ja aiheeseen!
Mun pitäis lisätä mun rakastamien asioiden listaan seuraava: teemajuhlat! Jotain mistä tykkään tosi tosi paljon! Tykkään laittautuu ja miettii asuja erilaisiin teemoihin sopiviksi ja se on oikeasti tosi hauskaa! Ja kun ei ole erityisen paljon rahaa, se voi olal viel hauskempaa. Täytyy miettii et miten teeman voin toteuttaa jostain mitä omistaa jo tai miten vois ostaa/tehdä jotain halvasti itse! Tällä kertaa, meijän IB:n Halloween naamiaisiin mulla onneksi oli jo mekko ja sain ostettua tosi halvalla Punanaamiosta itelleni kivan maskinkin! Joten tää ongelma ei oikeestaan ollu täl kertaa ees ongelma.

Mutta mulla on jo seuraavan teemajuhlat tiedossa! Voi ei! Tällä kertaa ne on European Youth Parliamen (Euroopan parlamentti nuorille) aluesession (miten nää kuuluu suomentaa?) läksiäisjuhlat! Ja teema mulle tulee olemaan älyttömän vaikea: Disco Inferno. Kenelläkään mitään vinkkejä tai jotain mitä voisin lainata ehkä?

Baptism!

Showing some respect

Look at those tails!

Viking/Shaman (shawoman? :D )

Viking gang!

YEAH! They are finally (almost) IBers!
Baptism is the tradition we have in our school's IB side. It is supposed to take the newbies officially in. This year theme was kind of marine. PreIBers were supposed to be mermaid/man and crossdress. We (1st year IB) were vikings and pirates and 2nd year students were some kind of royals.

This year we were little later. And some things did not go as we planned. Usually we start with a "humiliating" the preIBers at our town's market square. Some worshipping towards us and tasks to do. Tasks are something like crawling at the market square, dancing like crazy people, asking for random peoples mobile phone number etc. After that they will be covered with water, eggs, soda, etc, which are used as a punishment if you don't do what you were supposed.

And then the fun begins! Or it should begin. There is a secret party place which is used every year to have fun, dance and bond with the newbies. But not this year. The owner had double booked it and yeah... No party for us.

I feel soooo bad for the preIBers, because I remember from my Baptism that the after party was awesome and I really looked forward to it. So damn. Other time then. Dressing up was fun tho. And I hope somebody else enjoyed it too.

Yeah! Ne on vihdoin (melkein) IBeitä!
Baptismi (eli siis ihan kunnon suomella kastajaiset) on meijän koulussa perinne IB-puolella. Sen tarkotuksena on ottaa uudet ykköset mukaan virallisesti IB:lle. Tänävuonna meijän teema oli aika merellinen. PreIB:t oli merenneitoja/-miehiä ja pukeutua omaa sukupuolta vastakkaiseksi sukupuoleksi. Me (ekan oikean vuoden IB:t) oltiin viikinkejä ja merirosvoja ja toisen vuoden IB:t jonkinlaisia kuninkaallisia.

Tänä vuonna oltiin ehkä vähän myöhään liikkeellä. Ja kaikki ei menny iha käsikirjan mukaan. Yleensä me alotetaan "nöyryyttämättä" preeppareita (preIB) kauppatorilla. Vähän palvontamenoja ja tehtäviä. Tehtävät on esim. kauppatorilla ryömimistä ja tanssimista sekä randomeilta monenlaisten asioiden pyytäminen. Sen jälkeen ollaankin iha kananmunien, veden ja limsan peidossa, koska niitä käytetään rankaisuna jossei annettuja tehtäviä suoriteta tarpeeksi hyvin. 

Ja sitten alkaa huvi! Tai sen pitäis. Meillä on salainen juhlapaikka, jota käytetään hauskanpitoo, tanssimiseen ja ryhmittäytymiseen. Mutta ei tänävuonna. Omistaja oli tuplabuukannu sen ja no nii... Ei juhlia sitten tänä vuonna meille.

Tuntuu iha kamalalta preeppareitten puolesta, koska muistan et omasta baptismistani että se oli se mitä odotin eniten ja siel oli iha mahtavaa. Joten hitto. Toinen kerta sitten. Pukeutuminen oli kyllä ihan kivaa silti. Ja toivottavasti joku muukin innostu siit samalla tavalla ku mä.

Love flea markets!

I have fallen in love with flea markets in past 2 years. I wasn't really a flea market shopper before I went to high school (IB-lukio) and met the girl who I think has an awesome style, and who knows the best flea markets at least around Turku. I miss her and shopping (and window shopping) with her.

Last weekend was the first time I went to sell my stuff at flea market! I really need all the money I can get (saving for new camera) and I really had a lot of old useless stuff and still have. Planning to go again some time maybe soon with H.

But to the pics! The whole outfit has costed 3 euros for me! And I love it! The white dress costed all of that, so 3euros. Boots I had for free from the nice ladies beside us at flea market! And the belt I found from our storeroom.

Oon rakastunut kirpputoreihin tässä kahden viimesen vuoden sisällä! En oikeestaan ollu kirppis-shoppailija ennenku menin lukioon ja tapasin tytön jolla on musta ihan mahtava tyyli, ja joka tietää parhaat kirpparit ainakin Turun alueelta. Kauhea ikävä häntä ja shoppailua (ja ikkunashoppailua) hänen kanssa.

Viime viikonloppuna olin ekaa kertaa myymässä tavaraa kirppiksella! Mä todellakin tarviin kaiken rahan minkä voin saada (säästän uuteen kameraan) ja mulla tosiaan olikin kaikkea turhaa kamaa ja vielkäkin on. Suunnitteilla on mennä uudestaan piakoin mahdollisesti H:n kanssa.

Mut nyt kuvista! Koko asu mikä mulla on päällä makso vaivasen 3euroa! Ja rakastan sitä! Valkonen mekko oikeestaan makso sen kaiken eli 3euroa. Bootsit sain ihanilta naisilta jotka oli meidän vieressä kirppiksella! Ja vyön löysin varastosta.

With Lotta at around seven freezing our butts off! The parking lot is yet little empty but did fill up with people!
Lotan kanssa suunnilleen 7aikaan jäätymässä kuoliaaks! Parkkipaikka on vielä tyhmä mutta täytty ihmisistä myöhemmin!

Lady Freaking Gaga

Crazy, funny, talented, lenient, beautiful, scary, crazy, touching, amazing, warm, tolerant, cold, horrible, lovely, crazy, wonderful.
That's Mother Monster!
And this is my picture puke from the most amazing Born This Way Ball.

Lady Starlight

The Darkness

Gagaa!

Black Jesus

"Last song"! Love this pic, even tho it isn't sharp

My accessories

One Government Hooker (as the wristband says).
There are Lady Gaga lunch box, thermostat mug and Little Monster Pride socks in my bag (came with the Government Hooker Package)

Jontte! Best Gaga fan I know!

Sore throat, cold and headache, still worth every penny and sickness.