Hellooooo Guys!!

I'm Sophia a 20 years old crazy girl from Hungary.;)
I'm studying economics and history in Budapest. I'm really looking for this journey, this will be my first AEGEE event, but I was several times in Italy...on this week in Bibione, and I just loved it!!

I like sailing, swimming, smiling and all kind of beach activities:D
Interested in history, dancing and making good parties, so I'm sure we will have a good time togeather!!:)

I'm in a total delay now of course, so have to go...see you tomorrow than!!!
Kisses

Peppe Prez

Hello to everybody! My name is Peppe Prezzavento i'm 24 years old and i study at university at the Economy faculty.
I am a new member in Catania AEGEE and it's my first time i take part in a team organizing Summer University.
I have a lot of hobbies, i love travelling ,i love music and i am a disc-jockey play in clubs and private party
During this summer univerity we have the chance to have a very good time attending the best parties in catania.
i am looking forward to meet you all and spending wonderful days with all of you!
my msn contact: juniorj@hotmail.it

Sicilian lessons

Following you can learn the hands signs and their meanings, used in Sicily...

The model is Giovanni, one of the Catania SU organizers...

If you are under 18 you have to leave this blog... :P

"What are you fucking saying? what are you fucking doing?"

"Chi spacchiu sta ricennu? Chi spacchiu sta facennu?" (Sicilian language)

"It's very good" (used especially for foods and drinks)"

"'Inchia cioppu bonu!" (Sicilian language)

"I will cut your face!" (is it for joke?)

"Ti tagghi'a facci!" (Sicilian language)

"I will make your ass so big, kicking it!" (It's not for joke...!)

"Ti fazzu u culu accussì!" (Sicilian language)

"Are you crazy or what?"

"Acchissi malatu?" (Sicilian language)

Catania(video)

hy to all, this is a little introduction to do you an idea of catania.... see you soon!!!

Hello everybody !

Once upon a time, in a land, where the heaven touches the earth, there lived a slightly crazy, charming girl called Ewa, who was a member of AEGEE –Kraków, and whose goal in life was to meet a lot of people from all around the world, to learn about their cultures and to break stereotypes…
HELLO !!!

As You already know my name is Ewa , and I’ll be turning 21 this year. I’m a happy student of two faculties- law and political science at Jagiellonian University in Krakow J As You can guess I’m interested in international affairs and political issues especially from european perspective. Thanks to aegge (in which I’m a member of IPWG) I have many opportunities to analyze the current, political events and initiate projects focused on up-to-date issues in international affairs like for example Model European Union J. I am also deeply fascinated by the culture and traditions of the Far East like japanese or chinese. Visiting those places are my greatest dream, and as a traveller I’m sure that one day it will finally come true. What is more I used to be a dancer( for 15 years )so I loooove to dance, and additionally I have graduated a music schoole playing the piano, but You should know that when it comes to singing I have no talent at all! xD Even though I really like to do that ;p
As a law student I decided to became a The European Law’s Students’ Association member , in which, at the moment, I’m a Director- local practics responsible.

I have never been to Sicily ,and actually I have never been to Itally as well. I know this is one of the most beautiful places in Europe so I found it perfect for my first SU. I can’t wait to meet all of You, to have fun, to dance all nights long, to swim and to just live our lifes in a deepest way it’s possible. See Ya all in Catania J

Kisses

Rosa Maria

Hellooooooo everyone!
I´m Rosa from Barcelona! I study English Pedagogy for kids so as you can assume I love languages, kids and of course teaching, but above all, I love travelling, getting to know new places and cultures and having definitely a good laugh. I also adore music, dancing and going out clubbing and, besides that, I love starting up new adventures and sharing them with a positive attitude. I adore beaches, the sun and the waves ;) so this SU will make my summer! I feel so excited about it that I´ll try to fulfill this experience with all my energy, enthusiasm and joy :) I must confess I feel completely delighted with the idea of coming to Sicily and enjoying this SU with you all.
Starts the countdown!!!
Baci per tutti…
Rosa Maria

Hi all,

I'm Peppe (don't confuse me and the other Peppe, called PeppeGianni),

I'm 26 (but I feel like 8 years old) and I study Engineering and Architecture and in the while I work like Autocad Graphic Designer and like University Tutor for Technical Graphic.

Usually I travel a lot, I dance every time I can do it (caribbean dance is my favourite), I play many kind of sports (of course soccer like all italians :D but fencing is my favourite one and when there is the occasion many other sports). I'm the President of this crazy and funny Aegee antenna since 2 years.

I want to make you sure that Aegee-Catania Team is working hard to make this Summer the best of your life, I want to inform you that the people of Aegee-Catania Team are organizers but participants too, I hope that it will be a great summer for you and for us, dancing, drinking, PARTYING!

See you very soon in Catania

short notes to know Southern Italy:

> NO, nobody is going to shoot you on the streets...

> I SWEAR, nobody is going to shoot you on the streets...

> OK, maybe, but it is so peculiar! ; )

> WE don't use knives to eat spaghetti and you will not be allowed to do it

> WE are NEVER on time and you will not be allowed to do it

> WE are NEVER sad and you will not be allowed to do it

> WE are NEVER bored and you will not be allowed to do it

> Italy: LAND OF FREEDOM!!!

short dictionary:

Beer > Birra

Wine > Vino

Water > Vino

Coke > Vino

Fanta > Vino

Maccheroni > Spaghetti

Hamburger > Maccheroni

Mafia > ?

I am tired > posso avere ancora vino?

Simon

Survive in Catania SU :

TEST

When you eat spaghetti, you usually:

1. Cut them
2. Roll them
3. put them in the mixer and drink as pasta juice

When you go to the beach your sunlotion is:

1. Beer
2. Wine
3. that same pasta juice you had last night
What do you know about Sicily:

1. A lot of things
2. Only nice things
3. Sicily? what is this? Are you talking to me?

What do you expect from this TSU:

1. To meet new friends and bla bla bla...
2. To find a job as a pizza delivery guy
3. To enter The Connection and become the new Godfather
(if you chose option 3. I pay you a lot of respect)

Which Nation won FIFA World Championship in 2oo6?

1. I T A L Y
2. Nobody
3. I will not answer because I know it was Italy, but I won't give you any satisfaction!
waiting for your answer to tell you how many points you gained

Simon

about me

hello,

i am steff, from austria, but not really, because i now live in germany. which makes it difficult for me to decide which country i can represent at the european night :)
i was on a SU two years ago, in turkey, and it was just perfect, and i would never want to miss the opportunity to go again, so this year, catania is waiting, and i really look forward. ah, the warm weather, (man, it's raining here, and it's cold, even in july!!), italian people, aegee people and spirit, what could be better?
anyway, very soon i will see all of you, so i will not bother you with long stories about myself, just ask me when we're there, on the spot. i really prefer face to face communication to this blogging. we'll have two weeks time for getting to know each other.
is there anybody else from germany? HALLO? Hört mich jemand?

ex Erasmus missing Italy

Hello blog :) and party ppl
I`m Ruxandra, the only Romanian participant in this SU. I`m 22 years old and recently graduated in Communication and Public Relations ( so now I cand start doing some PR for myself) :)
I am counting the days until my departure for Catania as summer here in my city is not very fun, all students are gone and I still working ...grrrrr....
With this SU I have the hope to relive for 2 weeks the kind of life that I had in my Erasmus stage ( or make it even better ) They were 6 incredible months in Italy, in a small city not far from the Adriatic coast called Teramo. I had the time of my life, but, unfortunately I realised that only after returning when I didn`t find my place in my hometown and between family and friends. Since then my only thought is to return in Italy, to find university there and to start over.
Regarding Sicily I have good and bad memories...although i`ve never been there :) (it`s all about few persons) But when I saw this SU for Catania I felt this is the right moment to be there ( consider that i`ve said no to IBIZA for this :P )
Meet u all in 20 days in sunny Sicily and we`ll talk more there during drinking, visiting, partying and having loooooots of fun :)
Meenwhile, you can contact me at
ruxybarbu@yahoo.com
ruxandra-dana@hotmail.com
on facebook and on HI5

Baci e abbracci,
Ruxi

Ciao Catania!!!

Hello to everyone!
I'm Ioanna from Greece, Athens. I'm 20 years old. I'm studying to become a teacher and I'm very enthousiastic with this! :-)) This would be my first SU.... and I'm growing impatient! (I count 3 months as an Aegee member!!). Everyone have told me that summer universities are the best way to experience aegee spirit, so I can't wait to live an experience like this in Catania!!!! I've never been in Italy before so I considered it as a great opportunity to get to know it better! I think 15days are quite enough to take a general idea of Sicily! Maybe after that experience I will come back like a different person... maybe I will have made some new good friends... maybe I won't come back! (..who knows?). Also it's a nice way for me to learn and practice in some basic things of the italian language as I'm going to start lessons in September- and boast in my class that I know more than them! ;-)
I love traveling, meeting new people, I really love music (and dance of course!!!) and I'm a quite easy-going person open to new experiences. It's unbelivable... one more summer full of activities!!! Tommorow I'm leaving for a week in a mountain camp for children as an executive volunteer member. Then I participate in a 2weeks programme for creative pastime in schools. And after a crazy SU... beautiful greek islands will be waiting me to give them some of my aegee experience.. ;-) But the most important thing now is to get prepared for the European night's competition!!!
Good preparation to all the PARTYcipants and the organisers!!!! :-))
Good luck to the participants who still have exams!

Can't wait to meet all of you in Catania!!! :-)
My e-mail is: joanfous@yahoo.gr and
my msn is: joanfous@hotmail.com

Kisses, Ioanna!

Just Few Words

Hello PARTY PEOPLE!!!

I am Maciej from Poland and I’m 22.
I study Medicine at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences.
At the beginning I’d like to say that I am really sorry because of my "silence" but, in the matter of fact, I was really busy lately:( I've just passed last exams. Unfortunately the worst part of third year - (fu..ing) pharmacology – left to cope with... If only my university were less f….d up I could be partying with the rest of my colleagues from other academies... As you can see I can’t do it, cause some dick from noble deanary or faculty board decided that it would be better to smash my brain with few thousands of drugs names, use, side effects etc. included in Mutshler Pharmacology “Handbook” (3kg waight) right now on JULY…
But you know what??? I am not as mad and pissed as it seems, Cause I know (I’m even sure) that all my efforts will be repayed by two HOT, SUNNY and really CRAZY weeks in CATANIA:D:D:D Till 9th of July I’m gonna feed my hunger of partying and dancing here in Poznań with my friends. Next I’m gonna spend few days for really hardcore preparations of my liver enzymes (specially for european night;) ) in Świętokrzyskie Mountains and when the time will come I’ll be ready to HAVE AUTHENTIC FUN (with no brakes) IN SICILIAN atmosphere WITH YOU:D:D:D (In these words I just wanted to say that I can’t wait to meet you Guys , and I really hope that SU Catania will be unforgettable experience for all of us )…

Ok, now few words about me: I think that it will be much easier to tell you who I am not than describing myself feature after feature so… If you expect medicine student to be very calm and reasonable person who loves drinking tea every evening, after long day of intensive (and intresting) study, by the sound of classical music then I have some bad news for ya. I am not that type who loves books (there’s nothing wrong about it though) doesn’t like loud music, and think that drugs, sex and specially rock&roll are evil combination sent on earth by Lucipher himself. Budda says that suffering is the sense of life – I’m probably complete opposition to this freakin’ idea… That would be it in shortcut…

See Ya In Catania!!!!!!

Saluti from Porto :)

Ciao everybody!!!

I'm Mariana, from Porto (in the North of Portugal) and I'm a 21 year-old medical student.
I've been an AEGEE-Porto member for a year and this will be my second SU.
Last year, I attended Palermo LC and it was so great, that I decided to go back to Sicilia :D And it seems that Tijana, Carlos and Victor share my opinion ;)

I love travelling, going to new places and meeting new people.
I can't wait to be in the sunny Catania with all of you!

And I'm excited about the European night. It'll be a nice opportunity to get to know more about our countries.
I wonder... Is there another Portuguese participant to share the huge task of showing you all the fabulous things Portugal has to offer? :P

Concerning my travel plans, I'm intending to spend a few days in Paris, before going to Catania :) Does any of you know some kind of nice and cheap hostel for me to stay there?

Meanwhile, I'd love to keep in touch with all of you.
My e-mail address is mariana_ferreira_leite@hotmail.com. You can add me on Messenger, Facebook, Skype and/or hi5.

Hugs***

P.S.: I can't find the group of the SU on Facebook. What's its name?

Introduction

Hello everybody,

My name is Szilárd, I’m 21 years old from Budapest.
Last year I tried to pay some attention to business and management lectures, but soon I noticed I can’t so I thought I’d better deal with practical things, so now „work” at AEGEE-Budapest as a treasurer and of course try to concentrate on studies simultaneously.
Apart from my business-focused side I like different kinds of sports like swimming, basketball, pool and as an active aegee member of course going out with my friends and dancing till the sun rises or sometimes a bit longer...
There is one more thing the passion to explore new things continuously. I’m really keen on trying new things out e.g. new travel destiny, new culture and people or just simply think about cooking from a new recipe.

To sum it up I’m really waiting for this SU, not just because of the excellent organizers and the spirit of Sicily, the parties and I just can’t wait to get to know the other crazy participants :-). Hope to see you all soon!

Cheers,
Szilárd

EUROPEAN NIGHT

European night....

If you are an 'old' AEGEE member, you remind “European night” as the craziest night in every AEGEE-event....
If you are a new AEGEE member, you're thinking: 'What is Peppe talking about??'

Anyway I want to use one of the last definition of Aegee Culture Working Group:'It's the night of your life...Where you meet your love, where you dance strange dances, where you eat a looooot of things and have a good drink'

Aegee Catania believes that European night is perfect to enjoy with alot of typical drink and typical food…but it’s also the best way to know something about other cultures…

What do we ask to you to make this night unforgettable?

- Bring special music from your country in your language(it can be both traditional and modern)

- Bring some wonderful traditional drink and food that everyone talks about

- Prepare a digital presentation/movie to see how beautiful your city and your country is

- Prepare ALSO an interactive presentation…for example you can teach us a typical dance or game or original choreographies(theatral, funny or serious)

- Bring the flag to show the colors of your country

- Dress yourself in the typical clothes of your country….

- Anything more? Don’t ask us, just take them with you!! Creativity and originality are welcome :)

- But most importantly, bring your AEGEE spirit to create the perfect European Culture Night!

Isn’t it enough ?

This summer there will be the 1° European Night Competition. After Summer University all the pics, movie and presentations will be sent to Aegee Europe and evaluated…so why don’t be part of the BEST European night in Europe?

Notes:
1)As you can see there's something that have to be done in group! So don't be shy and let's start to work together!
2) If you need something special to show us your 'culture', advise us on time and we will provide what you need...
3)I've just upload pics of last year European night on facebook group to show you some examples!

SU 08

Hi to all,
i’m Daniele Storaci, 25 years old and I’m an official organizer of this Summer University. I study automation engineer and I hope to finish my study next year, but other the study I have some hobbies: Basket, books, girls and dance…dance…dance. I adore revel, and for this reason I have chosen the aegee-life!!!!
I hope that this summer will be the best for all of you!!!

See you soon… Bye ;)


P.S:
I’m preparing a video to give you an idea of Catania…. I hope to put it on-line soon!!!

(my msn contact: inginfoct@hotmail.it)

PEPPE GIANNI

CIAO to all of you!!
I spoke with most of you on facebook in these days but now partecipants list is completed so we're ready to start with "official" presentation!
I'm Peppe Gianni, 22 y.o. and I'm vice president of Aegee-Catania and Coordinator of this Summer University!
I study electronic engineering (I’m not the “tipical” boring geek-engineer :p).

I used to travel, dance and have party every minute of my life and AEGEE is the best way to do it!

I hope that this summer will be the best for all of you and that the event could be the best one in your aegee-life!!

I’m looking forward to meet you in catania…but we have to wait for another month…so here is my MSN messenger contact: peppegianni@msn.com You can add me just to talk or if you need info about SU ;)

See you soon!! Bye

Georgios

Come va??? Another crazy Greek is in the house!

That s me,Georgios(George if you will). I 'm 24 and I study medicine in Athens. But that s enough with my long bio.

Now let's focus on the 2008 SU of CATANIA. It is going to be THE COOLEST SUMMER UNIVERSITY ever!!! I m pretty confident for this because that s what the maths say,check it;
Catania+Summer University+Italian organizers+Participants from the greatest part of the world(that is Europe!)= AWESOME HOLIDAYS

abbracci for everyone,
keep in touch

Anna

Ciao!:)
I'm Anna from Barcelona(Spain). I'm 21 and I'm studying Computer Science, but I hope you don't think I'm a computer geek! xD

I like going clubbing, shopping, travelling and going for a walk to the downtown, especially when it’s a nice weather. I also love football. I'm an unconditional F.C. Barcelona fan!

This is my first SC, so I’m looking forward to the activities and parties AEGEE-Catania has prepared and spending a good time there!!!

See you soon,
Anna**

Marina

Ciao!
Hej!!!
I`m Marina from L`viv (Ukraine),
Now listening to Classics and wrighting my diploma on the European Law. Such music helps to create good sentences!
When I`will be ready with diploma, so my life continues.... bicycle freeways, having fun with friends, learning Italian. What can be better!!!
Can`t wait until we are together:))***

Costas

Ciao a tutti,
I'm Costas from Athens Greece and like another zombie I'm sitting in front of my computer at 3:30 in the morning and writing this post... I'm 23 and I'm doing a Master in Classics. Besides this "intellectual" side I have an another side, which is active. I like cycling especially in the mountains, swimming (and who doesn't?), tennis and skiing! But above all that I think I'm quite an easy-going person, I like off-schedule spontaneus things and to party till the last drop of sweat! ;-)) So, I'm eager to go to Katania, since Sicily is one of the few regions of Italia I've never visited. I also perfectly know how crazy company are AEGEE-Catania and I'm sure we 'll have a great time! Bevilo bevilo bevilo! :-)))

Com'on people..... dont' be shy ;)

Hi all, so...... some of you are already authors of this blog..... that means you can post something about you..... what are you waintin' for?? For the others.... just accept the invitation..... if you have any problem with it, just tell us (you can contact me through email/msn: mrgibber82@hotmail.com, or Simon).
BTW, i tell you something about me hoping that it'll help you to be more active :D

I'm Daniele, i'm 25, and i'm member of aegee-catania since September 2005, when i did my first exchange in Hamburg. I definitely loved it and i decided to be an active member, since then i've partecipated @ 2 agoras & 2 SU, first as partecipant, then as organizer.

In "real life" i'm a master student in Computer Science in Catania and i hope to finish it in one year.

I've been an erasmus students in the spring semester of 2004 in Aalborg (Denmark). I love to travel, but no as a turist.... it's far better to dive into a new culture, only in that way you have the opportunity to take a sauna in the best sauna bar in Helsinki or having a private party in Budapest ;)

I have a mission this summer: i'll work with others to help you to find your way to feel good and have fun!

find us on facebook!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14547428817

Now the account numbers FOR THE FEE PAYMENT:

account number > 140679
ABI > 03019
CAB > 26110
BANK > CREDITO SICILIANO S.P.A.
LOCATION > DIPENDENZA DI CANNIZZARO
SUBJECT > AEGEE CATANIA
BIC SWIFT > RSAN IT 3P

hello people!
give us a short description of you!!!!

let's start