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Summer SymposiumSS or Sunny Saturday... Not!Sports.com - Peteris CiematnieksIt all began in 14th august when I had a walkless members had to merge to reach thewith campsite “Vecupe” administrationrequired number of 16 members. I believe somearound the territory. It was a nice and sunnyof the teams even gained a lot from this,day and it gave a hope that after less than aespecially Banga-Dienas Piedavajums, whichmonth it will also be the same. I also heardended up in overall second place. Ok, the smallsome stories about our fellow course matesinsight is getting too large, thus I will just finalizeand graduates who have managed to burnwith a lame saying – what does not kill youdoorsteps for the sake of getting hot meal inmakes you stronger.the evening. Nevertheless they were prettyWhatsoever I have some nice episodes left inhappy to host SSE sport games once againmy mind. I would really like to mentionand the deal was made. Signing the contractcheerleaders’ dance in the rain and car lights,was fairly easy, however, that was only thewhich was quite impressive. Furthermore, somebeginning of the preparation for SS and realhigh passion was seen and heard from theexamination came later.supporters, especially in the finals of basketball.The first job to be done was the creation ofFinally, of course I have to mention the overallthe concept of SS 2007! Of course somethingresults:new should be implemented; hence, sumowas brought up! However, girls felt really1.Bottomline (nice that there are someunhappy about taking away their treasureteams with history)“Tautas bumba” (apparently in English it iscalled Dodge ball). Thus, Tautas bumba was2.Banga – Dienas Piedavajumsback in the schedule and now the only(merging can be beneficial not onlyheadache was to carry out everything ontime and finish five main team sports eventsfrom the economics point of view)before the dark. Previous year’s schedule was3.Võõrtöölistest härjapõlvlased Väänatakenas a base (thanks to ex-Sports.com) and Jõesuust (first time so high –it looked that basketball and volleyball finalscongratulations with that and sorry forwill not be a night competition anymore,however, it ended up like “ghetto” finals! (carnot pronouncing the name of yourlights, rain and a screaming crowd, especiallyteam, it was not because of disrespect)Lithuanian part :) ) It wasn’t so bad after all.To sum up, SS 2007 could have gone better, but it also wasFurthermore, the rain washed away the long-awaited ropenotso bad either, could be worse. Some people even saidpulling and Sumo which were actually planned to happen atthat the event was great, but then I wonder why do you wantnight. Let’s hope that next year this tradition will be broken.to get rid of me by making me jump out of a plane?! ?I think that one small paragraph should be devoted for aAnyway thanks to everybody who helped me and thanks forsmall insight into some problems that took place. First of all it the best birthday present I have ever had. And of course seewas about music and the DJ; this was especially hard because you next year in SS 2008, which they say is going to be betterSSE students are notorious for their ability to complain about than this year.music at parties. Secondly, there were too many teamsapplying for the SS (in total - 22), hence some teams having16|INSIDER 18|INSIDER June September 2007 2007
Summer SymposiumSS– a view of Year1 studentby Aurimas Balsiukas6:00. WTF? Stupid alarm clock! It’s so early. I haven’t woken symposium place myself since I have seen only the beginningup so early since I moved out of dormitories. Damn, it’s soand ending of this superb trip with a bus.good that I moved out (sympathy for those who didn’t).~ 9 o’clock. We came, at last. I began to do some unfinishedAnyway, the thing is that the next summer symposium shouldbusiness: ate a sausage that I brought (I said I was hungry?)start at least 3 hours later… :)and tried to raze some cigarettes (thanks for my friends (E.6:20. “Why TF are you still in bed?” – I asked myself. I was Mažulytė & V. Lašas) – I succeed). Thus, everything wasthinking about nothing important (a.k.a. bullsh*t) for aboutalmost perfect. Except that the room we got was suddenlytwenty minutes. I do that always. It’s like my hobby. I always took over by Russians with breasts on their T-shirts. This isdo this in Mathematics for instance. Here it is one more some kind of a rule that the older students (especially –minute of… nothing.Russians) have priority in taking rooms. Anyway we think thisrule suck – we were 16 and we got a room with 3 beds (and6:25-6:45. Standing in the queue for the shower. This is a littleno room on the ground). Just like in Singapore. (The chairmanproblem when you live with more people. Maybe, when I’llof SA Business committee suck too – he was the leading guybe in Year2, this problem will be solved somehow. And maybewith the breasts, who initiated the takeover)Lithuania will beat Brazil in football somehow…~10 o’clock. The competition started. Personally, as a Year16:55. I’m ready – I have washed up, dressed and feel hungry.student, I was really surprised by the preparation of teams forHungry is not about only consumption of food (however, thisthe symposium. Almost all teams had their t-shirts made justwas true by 110%). Hungry also means anxiety for sport andfor symposium (especially those with a member name). Eachmuch more of common student activity – partying.team’s spirit was easy to feel. But there was a team called7:05. I’m (I mean: we are) waiting for the bus. Suddenly we (I Spamaa, which spirit was a bit different than of others. Whilemean: I) understood that I have nothing to smoke at thisothers were competing, this team just looked like havinggreat event. It was too late to do something because the bus loads of fun. And by the way, what they consider as funalready came. So, I need to come up with an idea (this will be probably wouldn’t look like fun for most of the hetero-sexualrevealed later). At that time I was calming myself saying: “This guys. Anyway teams like that put more colors in a usual lifeis sports event ant there is no need for smoking. Moreover, I (mostly – the light blue color).have enough alcohol to keep in shape”.~13 o’clock. All kind of leaders were obvious to see: some ofThe journey in a bus was very invisible. This was because ofthem in basketball, some in football, and some just inlots of sleep during it. I would probably never find the way to drinking. As I understood, drinking in the summer symposium2007 September INSIDER|19
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