I just finished summarize the big event which we spied. They have good sponsors,and particular information in brochure.(I will bring it tomorrw to our class)
Their theme is : United in diversity In the beginning,they have some clothes racks beside the reception table. So people can put their clothes on it by themselves and get one number.Then they sign in and get a paster with their logo.
In the programme: 17:00-17:20 coffee time with slide show They show some pictures about different countries in EU, and no explication.It's just like a background. They used small round table which just can stand. They serve some cakes(but I think it is to much cream because I saw many plates just left them)and cookies.The drinks just warm milk, coffee and (Dutch)tea,they used tea china(it looks good, but not convenient to use in that small room)
17:20-17:30 Introduction(the student from their class)
17:30-18:00 Lecture on Unity by Shradha Bhatnagar(speaker) They have one whole page to introduce her in the brochure. But the lecture was very short. They finished about 17:50.
18:05-18:25 1st workshop "European cocktail" They didn't allowed us to join the work shop,But I ask one second year chinese student,they just had one man to teach them how to concoct cocktail and let them use their imagination to make it. Then they present it in a special name.Then every students who presented can have a gift.(USB disk)
18:30-19:45 United in Deversity dinner We didn't taste the food but we got the menue in the brochure. Starter: potato salad with baked serrano ham,Turkish bread and French tapenade. (They have some kinds of wine but I thnik we can not have alcohol drinks in our event) Main course: 3variations of Italian penne with tomato,baked salmon or pork,chive creamy sauce(vegetaian:instead of salmon-vegetables) Dessert: fruity pleasure(it was beautiful)
19:50-20:05 movie on deversity They made by themselves. It's about ideas of the theme. They visited some students from our school.
After these they have 20:05-20:35 2nd workshop "European rapper" 20:35-20:55 closing with prize giving 10:55-21:00 dancing but we just left because we can't join them and see how it is going.
Well, what can I say after this.. The lecture was boring, but it's difficult to make a funny one. The speaker was a (young, enthusiastic, blablabla) lobbyist in the European Parliament. She studied in Den Haag and Maastricht (as the brochure says), but then she said she studied in Leiden after Den Haag. ¿? She had 30 minutes but she only spent 20, ending the lecture with some subject left. Nothing interesting... Then they had that cocktail thing. Right, could be funny but...cocktails and rap for workshops? After that I picked up my ears again (remember I'm Bender and I have an antenna...or two?) and I hear some comments: "Boooooring" "I wanna go home" "They should be careful with the alcohol because the other day one guy got drunk in my event" Finally we decided to go home. A friend of mine told me that they (today's event organisers) have spent €1700 in catering. I don't know whether I heard right, but she said that they receive €1200 from university. Then could be possible. And if they have 11 sponsors... Oh! Dinner looked good, with wine, beers, coke and juices. They were in the HEBO cantine. Big tables in a U form, with teacher in the middle. There was music, the only song I heard was one by "Portishead", but I don't remember the name (it's a group from Bristol, the kind of music is trip-hop...if you still don't know what kind of music is, just download one song). That's all, more o less. I didn't like the event. Fuck them! (If they got so much money as I guess, they didn't use it well, or at least they could have made a better use of its).