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The wonder of UWC blows me

away. No, not just the huge

castle, or the view of the sea, but

encountering so much intellect

and diversity daily, that its almost

difcult to take it all in.emmll olf

Having to return my wetsuit after

four terms of Lifeguard Service

made me realise how many

things that seem natural to me

now will soon just be surrealmemories of the past; tucked

away somewhere in my brain.

Thinking this hurts. Yet some

things I learnt here will stay with

me for the rest of my life just

because they are too important

to be forgotten about. And that is

nice. Ml

I have managed to tangle myself

in a ball of the most precious

memories.The experience of

living in a castle by the sea,

surrounded by people from just

about everywhere is second tonone. Z

I nish my rst year at UWC

with more knowledge about

the world than the best formal

education could ever provide.

The experiences gained by livingin an international community are

incomparable. J h

Coming to UWC from Budapest,

Hungary has been the dening

experience of my life. It opened

up my view on the world from

huge issues like Palestine/Israel

and Tibet/China to more trivialthings like talking to openly

homosexual people. I have learnt

a lot in terms of academics, but

especially about understanding

people who are so different,

yet so similar to me. I will never

forget these years. dl pz

As an environmental campaigner

whos fascinated by politics and

international communication, this

place and its students are as

close to perfect as I think I can

get. Cl

Where else can one nd

international exposure,

exceedingly intelligent students

and a castle in such close

proximity? hv

The UWC colleges are

institutions through which society

has invested its resources and

faith in us, on the condition

that we shall someday invest

ourselves in society. May I

someday manage to do as muchas has been done for me.

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Coming to UWC Atlantic College

opened new horizons for me and

taught me to see the world from

more than one perspective. This

experience is something that will

always stay with me and mademe ever more aware of things

happening in the world. Gl

I have learnt that people arent

that different when it comes

down to the very basics, although

what that level is can be hard toascertain to be frank does it

even matter? The vast majority

of good people drink tea and the

ones who dont learn to. h

We break our boundaries, and

move with ideas. Our intercultural

understanding is one of the core

values of the UWC movement.

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A place full of weird but inspiring

people; somewhere to know

yourself and the others better

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When I came to UWC Atlantic

College the delicate jar I brought

from back home holding all

objective truths shattered and

revealed to me all the different

perspectives and ideologies, thedifferences that make our world

beautiful. Gl

UWC is opportunities served

for you at breakfast, lunch and

dinner. Whether you seize these

opportunities or not is your

choice. L

I have never imagined working

with half a school on producing a

show to raise money for children

in Haiti, or that, I would be able

to give service on a boat, being

a weak swimmer. UWC Atlantic

College has been beyond myexpectations. I am just proud to

be a part of it.

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UWC changes me. Every

moment at UWC I am learning

something important. Now I can

realize how much I have learnt

when I look at my diary which I

have been writing since I came

here. The diary is going to be full

of important lessons I will have

learnt in these two years. So

The people at UWC AtlanticCollege have opened my eyes

and my mind; Ive never

realized before how small and

huge the world can be in the

same time, and how in the

midst of the chaos there is

always a little hope, for you arenever really alone

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Chemistry Practical at 3 a.m.

In the sea at midnight.

Discussions in the dayroom until 4 oclock in the morning.

Acceptance.

Lifeguarding in the Bristol Channel with 7 Degrees Water temperature.

Amnesty International Street Theatre in Cardiff.

Bonfre.

Painting in the Art Department after Check-in.Community.

Identity crisis.

Being a child.

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Singing in a retirement home.

Colliding of different ideas on morality.

Hail at the seafront.Protest.

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80 different nationalities.

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Cooking 101 in Chinese

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Fighting against money-eating washing machines.

Language barrier.

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University application stress.

Fear of the future.

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Emergency meeting in the drying room.Pumpkin Weight Competition.

Getting thrown into the outdoor pool on your birthday.

Archery with primary school children.

Disappointment.

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The rst thing any Chilean will tell you

upon arriving in their country is to watch

out for Chileans. According to Chileans,

Chileans are very dangerous. They will

- they say - rob you blind and leave you

to die in the gutter without a moments

hesitation. Indeed, it might have been

as dangerous as they said, only every

Chilean I met was so busy trying to look

out for me that they hardly had time to

do me bodily harm. I had never been

warned so heftily about the dangers of

a country, and yet I had never felt so

safe in any metropolis as I did in the

dirty, polluted streets and shantytowns

of Santiago, swept along with the tide of

its seven million inhabitants as I tried to

do my little bit for humanity. Whatever

Chile lessonsDylan Hitchcock-Lopezfound that he learnt a lot

about himself and about

western culture from

his time in the SouthAmerican country



I might have had to give the people of

Chile when I stumbled onto their soil

after 48 hours, three continents, and an

oceans worth of travel, it was nothing

next to what I took back with me on the

return trip.

We arrived in Chile as a group of eight

optimistic, worldly, and intrepid UWC

Atlantic College students (or so we

thought), with little idea of what exactly

we were going to do. Theoretically,

we were meant to be assisting the

organization with its work helping to

support the poor through educational

development and health infrastructure.The main model involved employees

of the organization training community

volunteers from the impoverished areas

of Santiago to work in various caregiver

roles. The idea, or so it seemed to me,

was that this was supposed to inspire

a ripple affect, by which jobs and

improvements would spread from the

initial corps of volunteers outwards tothe rest of the community.

On the rst real day of work we were

told to arrive at nine oclock. We arrived

within the acceptably late range of

about ve minutes, to nd that no one

at organization headquarters was there

yet to open the door for us. Employees

began to arrive at around 10, though

one would assume that they had all

eaten breakfast before leaving home,

they seemed to feel the need to settle

into the small kitchen and catch up on

whatever had happened in each others

lives since the previous afternoon.

Our day began around noon, when

our would be managers arrived. We

spent the rest of the day touring various

ofces around Santiago, a protracted

six hour inspection of the municipal



transit network that felt decidedly

useless, attempting to nd something

productive for us to do when the

reality was they had no need of eight

foreigners.

We returned home at the end of thatday thoroughly deated. We had

expected to be met with hardships,

never anticipating that the work would

be easy, yet what was more difcult to

accept was that there might perhaps be

no work for us to do at all. The thought

that we might have traveled half way

around the world to spend countless

intimate hours on the Santiago Metrowas, I admit, disheartening. The next

morning we again arrived early at the

organizations headquarters, only to

nd out that the staff had been hit by

an outbreak of swine u and were

quarantined at home.Thankfully,

salvation came to our little odyssey in

the form of a man named Felipe. He

represented an organization called UnTecho Para Chile (A Roof For Chile).

Un Techo Para Chile is, incidentally,

the largest most inuential and most

successful humanitarian organization in

Chile. Its aim is the eventual eradication

of homelessnes- especially within the

rural and suburban campamentos,

haphazard slum communities in which

people live far below the poverty

line. By mixing volunteers with poor

families in the campamentos they

manage to merge the varying classes

of Chilean society. Thanks to Felipe,

we became one of their very rst group

of volunteers from outside the Spanish

speaking world to join the ranks of the

intrepid architects of Chiles future. In

the space of a few days we had shifted

our allegiance from the old to the new

non-prot agent for change and were on



a dilapidated bus heading for the hills.

We joined a group of secondary school

students from a Santiago high school,

volunteering in a small community

called Cajon Del Maipo about an hour

into the mountains outside of Santiago.

We spent the three days building two

houses, though we connected them to

form one larger dwelling. After Cajon

Del Maipo we were deemed t to serve

with the real volunteers, and were thus

deployed nearly eight hours south to

a far more remote location for an eight

day building extravaganza with a large

corps of university student volunteers.They were a much better organized and

disciplined group, all having done at

least one- and most more -previous stint

with Un Techo.

We worked in teams of 12, under

the supervision of one experienced

volunteer acting as leader, and were

tasked with nishing two homes in eightdays. Ten hour days of construction,

frequently in the pouring rain. The

foundation pilings refused to stand

up straight and were continually

washed away in the morass of red,

ferric mud that covered everything we

did. We revealed all sorts of relics as

we worked. Old cooking pots, bits of

rubbish, cast off clothing, and the bones

of, what we at least thought-or hoped-

were dogs. I felt like an archeologist,

except for the fact that I didnt need

to dig to see how the people lived, for

I was in their very midst. I could see

for my own eyes the contradictions of

their existence. The cardboard walls

and unheated rooms and clotheslines

of barbed wire and, glaringly out of

place, the television satellites and

brand new mobile phones which,

I learned later, people sometimes

went without eating in order to afford.

People possessed strangely skewed

priorities, the product of insufcient

education, a lack of opportunity, and

a saddening apathy. Yet, these were

the true things that Un Techo wasattempting to eradicate. They thought

that, by encouraging people to become

involved in their communities, by

sending young excited students to poor

rural areas, that they could turn the tide

of disenfranchisement and resignation.

And, despite all odds, it seemed to be

working. Their secret did not seem to

be in their organizational genius, norin their delicate strategy, but rather in

the blind, indomitable optimism of their

volunteers.

Until I travelled to Chile I had never

really thought of myself as jaded,

never considered that I might be a

cynic. I was always a happily self

prescribed realist, one of many would-be intellectuals who consider a certain

degree of skepticism the sign of a

healthy world view. Sadly, I think that

for many of us the line between healthy

skepticism and damning cynicism

becomes blurred over time, leaving

us disturbingly disenchanted with the

general ineffectual nature of the world

without even realizing that we, in our

pessimism, make it so. It was not until

I saw the volunteers of Un Techo who,

as I thought, exhibited optimism to

the point of idiocy, accomplish things

I would have simply written off as

impossible, that I began to realize the

error of my views. There is, I have come

to rmly believe, an amazing capacity

for the incredible among those who

simply refuse to accept the existence of

limitations.



Chile refuses to extinguish the ame of

its enterprise, and instead goes bravely

where we, in our bitterness, fail even

to look. They do not, in reality need

our help, yet we are desperate of the

lessons of their vision. It is to us now, to

learn the secrets of the veracity of their

belief. For honestly, if they can, why

cant we?

Dylan

Hitchcock-

Lopez

(USA, 08-10)



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cllgs. W mll cgz

f u g musc, u g s f

g, u lcus fs, u

are we only made of those supercial

scs? bck m, u scu skg scl ls,

w cu l ugu

s v ug vlm

g. alug fw mg j

cmfl lf, m m, mlls,

suffer from the lack of fullment of their

sc s, mssl f

mkg u vs culull c

cus mv. bu l

that ght everyday for these factors to

cg, w w f .

bg slc cm s

l u cmmu , u

u g, w v c gv

smg ck wl. tug

sg wss cllgs,

slsg ccs w gss

fm ll lvls f sc ll s

f wl, vlg smll

lg-scl jcs u cmmus,

w vl mc,

lvl, cfg mvm ws

us s mv uc lf

cs L amc, s

UWC cls w v l

cllg. t mvm sms fmUWC alc Cllg, u s

ll UWC sus s u j u

cus, wc s mk ffc

u cmmus. n m f s ,

u us w j us, w

w mk ls lv . W

v c, s w w f

cg w w s u

Latin America.

Fll, f s ws ws, i

scl u j

fcus wk s muc s w j

gzg i k s u

m u u m

v j, f u v

cc l, l S ds

Castle lled with peaceful eaters and

fs sks; f L gu s

s ms w .


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w) u m 200 s.

1492: f scv (w

mss qus) f

amc c. t vs

ssss g kwlg

sm, mc, gg

muc m u f mgs Ss gu w,

cqus ls ug w m

c vuss w u

m lf f vs. eslv,

fc cv Cs, kll,

ml ll js, gs

s cc gs

eus. ts ws mg f

w culus; ws mssc f ssf sl ug

f ul sucs f .

ou c fm S ws

ls fv us, wl sml

xcg s ms mus

ws ms u l s

ws s Sm blv, l

f Vzul, Clm, ecu,pu, blv fg USa

fsg w wul cm.

USas cls clsm s u

mls ul sucs

f s. L amcs

uvlm s fs wl

clsm.

Vzul s lws fcus

m sc, sllg w ml

lw cs vl -ug

m f mufcu

cus muc g

c, lvg gv lc

cu llwg c

g c u g

i u ufvl cmc

sc, Vzul s v

u mcc; c cv s

c 1810 ml ls

ul cu css

until 1958 when the rst democratic

gvm ws sls, ul

1999 lcl sc ws ccu

w s. dug s s

cu slwl vl u us

w cu l s



personal benet; the veil of apparent

prot blinded them from realizing the

u f mssl mg

ug USas cl cls ssm.

i 1999 hug Cvz ws

lc s f Vzul,

mg lcl c f

c mcc, sclsm

L amc C

c. h s ls cc f -

llsm, U Ss fg

policy. Chavez is the rst president to

s l gv

m vc.

M mg su mguus; su f m cu s v

mguus. i cm

ss f Cvzs ul su

u i cs mslf mm f

s. i vw mslf w

sml cus i fus sl w

i kw l g kll

v , m cu s f m

v v s , fls s f w g ul

w w u.

W w fm 40 s f gg

lw clss, 11 s f gg

g clss. W s fuu f

m cu? i c sw

qus, i lv cg

mus cm, Cvz cm u m lg cu

w cus f w s

fuml f mcc, i lv

w w f gvm f clus

wu xclus, i lv sg

ml clss, u cu

sssss u s wllg

s k c, l fm

u msks wk g

c fuu f Vzul.

Gabriel

Burgazzi,

Venezuela,

(09-11)



CubaHannah Smithies

ss

s l f

cg

C sl

Cu s sg sg fs s. W oms lcccg w Css cl, s l f g cg s

controversial island. Although ofciallyFl Cs s sll w, s s ulc f sm m s wm w m s, hsg l. Fls ug ,rul Cs sms v k vposition of leading gure.

t Cu Gvms f

Gg W. bus ws u s scs Ms ls . bllsf bus s l-suckg vm s ul v cl an unattering caricature of him in the

Musum f rvlu, hv sc w c k u fkg s f vlu sg.hwv oms cs ull uf Gum s Cu s wll cv. i s ug wll cl l usm.

tusm ug s s wss.t w cucs Cu: ps f us Cvl ps CUC (

cuc w US$) fuss us. Mmum wg s 225ss $9. W x cgs w ck csgmore than that it is not difcult to see

w m Cus u usus f c. ts s sul lck f cs fssls. ev ssusl qul sc sllgus f vs v-s.o s f



callingCus s cv, sg mssl mss. t s lculu f sg fss, u lv lk w cc wll

gs c-kg s. ts s mxw uvsl f-lvg, scl muscl mks Cu lfv lg fg s s s l mus fc. isll s fg u cuw fm f sc s sussand there are jails lled to the brim with

lcl ss.

as us (scll wus g gs Ss s swould like) it was difcult to actually

us w gvmw g wl w w . ifl lk w w g k lssfulgc, wc f cus, w w.t ms l ms f s,lls g slgs f hs lvc sm! s w; g ulg

scms wc llg lcs fSv russs vlvm.

hw c u kw w m s s f cu suc s s? ev Cus mslvs sm kw m w ll us m fl cul. bu x fw s k. ts s mk k mm f s s f wl wcg w .



Standing upHarvey Koo s

ss fm

UWC sus

h quk

a s m f wg, ll fm quks h s s gfm 180,000 230,000, wl um lf mlss l vcf 2,000,000. rglss f w cul um ls s scum,s quks sul lgm ss. t fm? a

sc cumls, s f wl s m wc slmwss, lf lg s s.

S wl l s nGosscml v ll cul mus, sml cmg wsluc UWCs ll v wl.Smgl wl w UWC alc

Cllg f xml, s vsus gz ll lgscs fus. i, w w wksof the rst earthquake I found myself

cg lg ss f cmmu sg m. evwi lk; sus lcllg clg f s, fsws jcks cginto uorescent yellow security vests in

s f cg m . i sls m smlc

wc u vsul s w m c fm cus ww vcg; fc mksfs smll fcs ml sm ls u s.

Cmss s cgus. tsw i l. ov cus f

, ws l s u ffsw sl mc lusmf lcl cmmu. i lgf , ws l s mstudents nally saw our community as

smg g sulsf s, sm svg k us, fc w czs f wl, cug

UWC ls w w.nlss s, sg m f hws susgl s. i sc, i xc s vmslf, i wul v mss gusf l g cs s smgl wu s ll. all ll ug, g s ums f m mus v sg mmm mg s szl cw.nv m fc s wll wk u mg l



s Wl Lu, s ws,ys, s u mw, u w i smg ls. ts u s f m xmls xl vlg i f fl g fUWC alc Cllg.

F sus s v 2,000

. yu sul lws ws u w cu, v f s ll. s igvll a, w susw gz v, s i cugu w m fws. ev , sthe outcome showed, the nal amount

ws g u ll. ts smlmvms w ls c u UWCs. i UWC Cs rc, sUWC h, sus fm lgs mll Cs rc sk fs. Sus Sm blv

UWC f agculu w sw sk f s c s.t s v 40 xs f cls, 4xs f mc mcl suls,30 xs f f, 500 ls f w 1500 USd cs. LpC UWC hg Kgls s v 1600 USd cmus.

nvlss, ws g i ws suck su wv.h w w, cl g vgw cul mk ffc, lss l sm u. bu u ffs m fs w v cs c wgf wl?

o fc vlu, scs msg: $100 mll s-fl ws g h g-



prole emergency conference held in

Ml gu f gvm

ofcials calling themselves the Friendsf h. y, uck lms qul s fc ls ls wgls. o, s ugs fm gzs u wl, sm cus w g l w ls s m fusl ccl f vushs $900 mll l. Sm m

s s s usl, usg smw ck u vuslsll vl f l s.hwv, s s m w wllg c cus vsof signicant aid because the issue

csss l ss? ev ,m svs v suggs ul h, g lss $10ll wul qu. hc w cs v sum s gsslinsufcient.

bu s ms slg gws m fw s l

U Ss c $85 ug xc sss l u suc cm aiG. as ul Gu, i s scm , wl f gllcl, sss sss sll mvlu sss l. Mk 8.5 ms m vlul. pss s jus smll m

s wk , l h,u u wl.

Harvey Koo

(China, 09-11)



Sonnet 001

PovertyCars at a standstill, the perfect conditionI grab Toks by the hand,hes only ve

The angry suns rays blur myseven year old vision

He clings to me tightly,into the trafc we dive.

Toks jerks my arm,toward a shiny black car

We stare into itsolemnly, ready

to beg andbless

My bare feetscream in painfrom the burning hot tar

The rich lady waves us away,like shes under some stress.

Toks stumbles and falls, I roughly pick him up

I didnt mean to - but the road is unsafe for a child

Moving to another car, my tattered wrapper begins to drop

A girl sits in there, beautiful, could be my age,

I stare in and almost cry, emotions running wild

Wishing I could own a dress, like her,my heart lls with rage.

Emmanuella Onyilofor (Nigeria, 09-11)



Rina Kuusipalo s

UWC alc

Cllg rw

Summ pjc

rw. Ggl imgs ucs

cus f g css, sm

f ls 800,000 rws

w w kll 1994 Gc

gs tuss m huus,

wc lf wl wl sck,qusg w v g

c . y s suc ws

w vsl lgu rw f

2009. t ws sml cu, f

y-ridden children suffering in the heat,

cu mus mulus f

sc. b sslsm

ls l rw, cu

f us lls , smll,

us ss: sm fgl s

ones, but many more incredibly hope-

fsg s.

This ofcial Heart of Africa was where

u alc Cllg Summ pjc

l Ju. dug u

m , u ws ws c

f uslvs l

ll s m ls,

lv smg f us.

Rwandaof a 1,000stories



ds ll scls rws

w, w susl ul

sucs ll l, w rw

s mg w w s s

ssg. Kgl, cl, u

u wl kw s f

sfs cls afc w lcm wm, smms m

with ries, emerging at every street

c s usk sc.

evw u lk, w

ulg ss sc Kgls fsucu

ws fumll us s sul

f gc. Cs w

v fuu skscs clusss sc, ll gusl

mvs uqus ss

l ss swlg ug

c. t v culu wlcm

us. W c jc sg

lcl cg su, uc

do-it-yourself way, to meet the needs of

sg l musc cs.

W cuc svc

Sundays with our Christian-Muslim-

s cw, j w

cmmu wlcm us

scml sg us,

w s w sl f us s

sermon and notications on the church

mg cusllg. W c

sls clus l fll

w cl f ll gs, w l

f w lls mufcu fm

lsc gs. t lws uzzl m,

g f s lsc gs. as s

, rw c

lsc gs, l sul

s ss, cm llu

clm cg.

W ls m mssv uc

f lcl sls. t ws



21-year-old Rwandan Muslim girl,

w cm smw f

cl cmg sssw w gmm, wl

smulusl sug uvs.

t ws s w

fm lcl ls

sw wul v lv s m

cu v f fg c lls

offered nancially better deals. There

ws ls v cll gu f fs

high-school graduates, who had

fu w u mgz,

blk, m g

culu mgs u f

cu.

t m ll l

, fw mgzs. W

ls w m l egls

ug s, s vl ws.

t u mks u wll v

lf f rws ul. t

mgz fu cls u

people like Martin Luther King, to set

xml f ug, swg s ssl, u fs

lss, u ucmg

lcs, l w w

cmg afc.

yu c jus v fg ls

f u. yu k

uc l, ss,

u, wg s . yu v

gv l w g gs

cg f ; u mgz ws

gv m ulc cg.

yu ls v sw w muc

sv culu w v .

W s m s sml

f rw sl f m,

of small-scale social cohesive

vlm f w i v

s lsw, ws cmmu

clean-up that we tried to attend one



day, only to nd out in embarrassment

w w l f cul

clean-up part. However, they still invited

us cmmu gg

fllw, w ll mms

of that district, from university-educated

lws v s s,s u s f fw s

f , lc

cmmu ls g lkg.

t sk Kw, s i

cul us muc m

uc f w ufg

w l, u u jc

l sl sm f . Ws scuss, lsg f us,

cmss, mgs gs,

ws lc f w cmmu

l, mgm f lcl

w sul f wc ul

wk, cguls

c cmmu

succssful ll jc,

wc gu mmum cm v s

cmmu mms. osvg

s, i ws m f g u

the ancient hill-by-hill administration

sucu rw.

Our input to that ow was miniscule. Still,

ws muc c l

w wk w. W c cv

s fm cw f u

rws cuc ws lk

scl w w wk. W

ulgs, s

told us we had fullled a prophecy by

cmg gvg m gf f wk.

ovusl, fl xgg sc

ws slu ls w cul ff,

u s umlss ll mss

m. bf gs

s wkg s , w

scl cuc w w w

v c kw

s cml sc, w fg s

popping in for visits in the early 1990s.

Many of the children, they told us, were

uc f s. i , w wk

c c, wc ls s g, w w lvll

ll gu, cu, c u

g glss, ul w fll

cs vllll c. as w

w lggg fs, clss w

cm g w c

ck sm mms f gu;

u s ws sl lcl m.

W ls cul v v w

w ws f cs

support of Love to Love Ministry, a

lcl nGo, u jc l,

ic, mslf su, l

us jc m scl,

gs vg f us vc.

W ls lv ff gwll f

executive director of Love to LoveMinistry, as he provided us with his

m kc ck v

g, wul smms ck

l f f us . all ll,

i k wl jc gu ll

j m, l s m

gs u ff scs f

rw wll k cmg ck

us s cs fm w. S,

jus k u v vlv w

jc, , ms f ll, k u

rw.

Rina

Kuusipalo,

Finland

(08-10)



Assi Askala

s

vml

fcus wk UWC

alc Cllg

as ll UWC alc Cllgs full

f cv glll cc ug

l, s s UWC alc Cllg. W

f v lg um cvs, v sgl wk fcus

m. W ll kw clm cg

s cucl ssu, s s w

vml fcus wk ws

g v. t wl wk ws full

f vus cvs cc

environment. There was bike-xing, a

capture-the-ag game, tours around

cmus, k u w ll lgs u, umk cm mvs

shown every day. We had experienced

sks clm cvss fm ll

v UK gvg ss. t

m f wk ws gv sus

ssl g kw m u

ff scs f clm cg

mk m m fml w

suugs susl lvg

UWC alc Cllg.

The climax of the week was the climate

cfc Su. i s

10m w tm hlwg-Lss

s u scc

lcs f clm cg,

cu w smll ks ul 6m

w L Mu, uc f Wk

u fk u f cs f

the lm Age of Stupid, gave us a talk

u cvsm. h l v us

ls gv s. h s

w w w v cc w

sul ll c; g smllgs lk kg sws mu

s m, u ug.

dug cfc, w ls

sg c clm cg

fm cmc f vw. ou

-s ssm ws lm f

gvg ssl vs

wl g ssms. bulg

w w ss wu fms gvs u ck fs, s

u c ck ss fs.

W u cu cmc ssm s

s w m sv .

dug ks f cfc,

ws k sl mm

l juc f v. o Su

g, ws cusc Ss

( cllg sc), l wg

cmg bck om

svl gvs m mss.

ovll, wk w susgl

wll msl v ws m

w . W g sm w

mms aCe, cllg clm

cv, w l cfc

ll wk m u. M sus

s f wk u c sl

There can be no delay


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International Show



Yuho Fuji

s

ul v

Ls , sus f UWC alc

Cllg cm g s

culus ul il

Sw. t gmm css f 21

fmcs clug usg

cs fm ll v wl, flk

sg fm russ, s fm US, m fm afc, nwg

skc (cv w wm lug

ummg fm S L) -

m u fw.

t s f wk ff wll;

c fmc cv g

lus fm uc. amgs

ulc w lk fmls, cucmms sff, ll g s

ls f su . iv s

g m il Sws, u

s ws f s, s lk

f. i ll j tklg

dc Fsm dc. yu

v l f g!

t sw cm cls w cusm Flg Cm. t

sus cm fw

ckgu musc W

Wl Mcl Jcks. t sg

soon lled with a swirl of colours from

different ags some waving vigorously,

sm glsg vs

cmmu UWC alc Cllg.

t v ws gs sus

fm Cls Cs cv

w gus f a C.

Ss w u u us

m Sv Cl

mvm, su gus

sl c ms m f gm.

t w l s csl

sum f m, ll f wc wll g

ws cl ffc

h equk.



Lin Alexandra

Mortensgaard lks

UWC alc Cllg

Su is V w

al s gg f

f cmmusm

bg s-cmmus cu,al s m lms l w.

hwv, cu ls sssss

uful lscs fl

welcoming people. Having a rst-hand

suc UWC alc Cllg

su, is V fm al, U

Ws s sk f vw

m v sl

scv cu, u ls

scv w s al

UWC alc Cllg.

UWC Atlantic College: If you should

describe the scenery of Albania in a

few sentences what would you say?

Iris Vrioni: al s smll cu,

s v lg uful

cs-l. 70% f lsc s

cv mus, wc mks

lsc lk ug wl. t

Best

footforward

m smll vllgs v fwg cs.

UWC: How would you describe the

Albanian mentality or the people of

Albania?

Iris Vrioni: t al l

v csvv ms

l-fs smms.

a xml f s s s f

wm al. rcl lw

s ss, wc ss

40% f wkfc su

sul fml. t gvm s

denitely trying to alter the role and

sus f wm sc, u s

difcult to change old family patterns

u ws s ssu.

Gll wm lv m ll

g m. ts f ms

fs s ugs s



ssss ls ul u 18,wc i lv s g lm. i k

al wm mslvs sul

smg l s, wv

s ls ssl f

gvm k usg ws

mz f fml l

al.

UWC: Which other areas do you

think could be improved in Albania?

Iris Vrioni: Wll, sm s f al

v scll

g. ts f cu s

uvl m ws. i s

ucmm sll us s f l

vg f mm f u fml

s u kll. Fum, m

fms mg w v u

ms suc s lugg w ss.

t fsucu g

s cucl lm, wc ms c vllgs v sl

ug w lws

get sufcient supplies of food and

csss. t ls ccl g i w

m s lm f cu.

t wgs al v lw

s s w sm

x m s ug cu. i

k cs wgs gl

wul slv ms f s ssu. a s

lm wll v slv f w

g ccc eu

U.

UWC: But is the government not

infuenced by corruption as well?

Iris Vrioni: n x. t

gvm s ll g lm

cu w s w ws.

numus mss v s



s cus f cu. Mv,

w v m, wc ll s

wk ss f fm f sc.

i fucs v wll lks ccll

u gvm.

UWC: You have mentioned a lot ofnegative sides about your country.

Can you tell us about some of the

positive aspects of Albania?

Iris Vrioni: Wll, cl, t, s

v m vl. i gl

g cs v vl. i ls

lv f s cs f Gk,

tuks il f. W gs

suc s Mussk klv ll m. hwv, w ls v u w

l f. W i lv u

al l s wllgss

s vg. t v

sgs gl v lful.

t ls v k lg,

cus s s s w u

f v al cl

ug s k sus v susl. W v

l w lk cl

sg. W v l f s

vlv cmmu l

ug. Fll, als v

s l ulls

m ss. t v

fk s wu

cclg fc ws.

UWC: So how do you represent your

country at Atlantic College and

have you encountered prejudices

against your culture or country since

leaving Albania?

Iris Vrioni: i k

s c s cu.

There are currently ve Albanians at the

cllg s i guss gvs

sus f al l.

i lv u ff cusms

ws f vg v

wu sug glzg, i

k, i c llw mslf s

als qu s w

g g, u i ls k

w ccz g l f

gs flss. Sm f

jucs i v cu

l u cmc sklls. W

kw s hg Lvl m sus

ls xc v g

sccs suc s Cms,



pscs blg. M s

sm u s juc. Ms f

al sus, cs g

alc Cllg, g m. ts

s l cus u ucl

ssm s sc. hwv, w

v sklls s l

m scc. a xml wul

w ll sk il. ts s u

to the enormous Italian inuence on

al culu.

UWC: Do you feel like you have

developed a lot since coming to UWC

Atlantic College?

Iris Vrioni: ys, i . i s w

u c. alc Cllg s v

ff fm vg i kw

i lv i sk f mj

f sus w i s alc Cllg s v ff

fm g kws. i s

smll uvs slf. t mj

ffcs i v sll m

xs w w sus

sclz. M s s w i fl

i v cm m -m

sc lvg m. t vs

f sus s ug m s mslf s f l

cmmu, wc s sm x

lz m, u

c ls m m m c

ss i l sg vlus

f m cu culu.

ts vlm s l u

fc i m f w fm m.i mss al v lz w

sguss us fm cus.

Mv, i k s ul cm

w f u culu s vlus

wv u cus

u cf w w ws f

lvg kg. ts wss wll

cus u mss c s

u m cu sssss us

u wll c m m u

m. ts, i lv, wll c

c x f sm m

v lsm w u.

Lin Alexandra

Mortensgaard

(Denmark,09-11)



Sus UWC cm

fm ss f w

Ml es

f g cc

slus

Jonathan Hadad (Israel, UWC

Atlantic College 09-11), Dani Goral(Israel, UWC-USA 09-11), Astar

Goldberg (Israel, Red Cross Nordic

UWC 09-11)

The Israeli-Palestinian conict in the

Ml es s f fm cg

lg-m slu. t isl m

sll s cl v l ms

f pls cu fuu.t llgl slms, su

isl gvm, w

u lf mll isls lvg.

h f v s

f cs ss, lg w

csm, lgus g gc.

i ff cllgs f UWC,

this conict has had a much stronger

sc isl sus lvs.

Lvg sm us w u

ms g u

c f lvg vls f

um gs sg ug

u u su u w cu.

ts s v s, s pls vcs

v isl. W ls ll

v , lw, g ck isl f

we nish our UWC experience and

g cu m. isls u

Israeli-Palestinian

g wul mll g fc

ug u w sv mc

f m s u cu, isl,

wc s Jws s sus

u l suvv wl.

ts s c

scl, m m

isl. tugu u lvs w

ug isls ml cs

w lws fsv, cm

cus w v ms



Dani Goral from the UWC-USA wrote

this letter to his friends in Israel after

operation Solid Lead in the Gaza

strip:

bf v g cllg u

pls sc s us ml u v cllg

u l su Gz. h

w w m l

cls su s clms. of

cus wg i ws

f wl c s. i gg

ws qu g u i us

w w m. a ml ws s

out to the entire school from the conictslu c v wv

ws s cm us

lk u ssu.

M m isl sc g

us wg u w wll

. t lc ws cmll full,

l w l fm Ml

es. t pls sc s skg u w m w

mu, w lf s l, ks

g kll, g wm, msqus

sls m. h

sg 70% f l w

w kll w c cvls. ts

fu m u l s,

because how could I explain that

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hiding explosives in their houses?

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g l i cul sk.

i ws jus g w isl

gls w w w m smg

g s fs. t m ws

qu. t pls c

s lkg. of cus su

what was said before and explained

w muc suffg fm

isl ccu cks.

confict

um ml fc, gg

complete oxymoron. We are never

sus w isl s ccz

ck f s cs, u smms

cczg isls cs s

m isls s ug Jws

peoples right to exist, bringing back

mms f s lsss u

lcus. t ls lw w

gll w hw isl

sus fs ck m.



He explained that the Hamas was not

s gz u ,

ghting for freedom of the Palestinian

l. h sw w isl ws

s, ccug Gz wu

s, ug mlls f lvs.

a s f cus i cul s

g. ts vusl

side to this conict but I just couldnt

sk f f ll s l

explain the inaccuracies. Then the

Israeli rst year started talking. She

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w l jg w

. n cul g su fIsrael, houses exploding, people killed

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su sk w m isls w

kll. S s s fm

ll s m

fsv s fc .S

said she doesnt know exactly and that

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kll u s m cus s .

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f ccuss w w isl

gls pls c

sus. i sll cul s g

because I didnt feel like I could explain

isls cs wll ug. i s

skg mslf- isl cmm

make a mistake by sending me here?

i ws s mslf. af

wl, l s lkg

skg lv quss. bu

afc-amc gl s skg:

This is not the rst time a group of

l ws ss. blck l

w slvs f us f s.

t k u cl, u gs,

us, us, s us, w

w w afc-amc

s. hv u v f

African-American blowing up a bus?

t ws f slvg gs.

af hlcus, Jws ul

w cu w wk

m. is sc

Jws l v scu v

suff, u lk afc l,

s u k cg f

w fuu. t Jws v

to explode in German restaurants.

ts cks w l g.

ts m m fl muc . i

ls cs s m cus s scll cll

plss ss. bu g,

jus fw mus g, c! a

c l scl

ms c usg

cll isl s! t wm w

v ll f us m s

w w ug g s u

ugs flgs m cmu w smg w cul

u s ssu.

S sk m w lv

cul c Ml

es. t ws pls

with a hand up! The other Israeli rst

u l

w w fm . i ug

ws lss qus, s i

s m . t s sk w

lv cul c

ll plss c

s u! bu jus mm

ago the teacher explained to us that

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ls ll g ls.

a f f ll pls

sus, s 11--l s,

s s .



i cul s s gs u lu,

u i lz smg, i

s skg- im lsg s

horric stories by my fellow students,

m fs fm m cus,

f v gum ws s,

i l s gum

m, scl, m fml, m

cu. i cul mk pls

side look wrong, but what for? I didnt

cm jusf w m cu

s g. i v kw f s u. i

us ll f u w kw

ws gg , u s i! i

kw, s. i s m

cus i lv c

slv scuss. i k

w cul l , u w c g

cu c w s g wg.

Sg w m pls fs,

i k s lss. W c

lv g c, lvg

conict behind us.

im su w i m f s, w m

cu s, f w i l scl ws

g, f w ll jus k v

l fm gg. hw cul

hate us so much for nothing? Was there

ll mmu s msqus

were bombed by us? Or is that just what

they want us to believe?



Astar Goldberg from Red Cross

Nordic UWC was shocked by a

conversation with a fellow student

from Palestine. She wrote about her

thoughts in her blog:

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ffl. ts ffc w

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g isl.

i ws ug u k

plss suffg cms fm

c m fml mslf. ilws ug i wul l j

m vg i cul

c m cu. i kw isl s

vl mcc cu sks

c s vg cv .

i c s i lz s ws

cull sgus s slc

us f pls l. i kw su s m ful, u i sll

fl sm. i lws w ws

f f m, plss suffg.

af lg u s

Jws w ug pl, i

us w wul j

su smg lk ccu.

isl s sg, f s make the rst step for peace. We must

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s us.

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me. I have a difcult time accepting

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m f isl u i fu mslf

sg m pls f

ss cmll g i v

g s.



Smw s w w

began to ght, we forgot that there were

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l w kll w

to play in world politics. We forgot that

lcs w u w w ls

homes. And so no, I dont understand

s w xc s k

pks i gw u

u l w cs

desolation run rife.

As I watch the numbers of those dead,

of those injured and of those displaced

rise I do so in disbelief because a life

of fear, bomb attacks and protest is not

one that I know of. These images are

hard for me to picture because this was

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easy to call it a failed state, to caution

people from venturing down there

in fear that its not secure. But these

cautionary remarks leave me mournful

Memories of PakistanZainab Syed

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because the memories of my childhood

in Pakistan are coloured without fear.

i mm cul Jul w

beads of sweat would break out on my

forehead as I played hopscotch under

sccg su w m cuss.

I remember when it used to rain,

the monsoons would be a cause of

jubilation as the dust would be washed

away from the owers and trees and

all that was left would be an array of

v clus glsg u

sulg.

i mm w xcg wul eat mangoes, and how they would leave

ss m cls.

i mm g s l

cck ss us

occasional breaking of a glass when the

ball would have ventured too far into

sms us.

I remember family gatherings where the

smell of spice would drown the sweet

scent of roses in my grandmothers

spacious lawns where, as a child I

would sit in awe of all the grown ups.

i mm w e- (Muslm l)

us ws mks

wul uzz w ss lkg

for the right clothes. I remember how,

the night before wed sit in front of

gs s c

designs of the henna on our hands.

I remember Fridays, when wed get off

early from school so that no one would

mss F s. t ss wul

l w cs. i mm wcg

people, from all walks of life, standing

shoulder to shoulder, humbled before God.

i mm gg u mus.

Wed watch the snowfall from inside my

gs mu us s w

s sg .

i mm wg sss-

gorgeous hand embroidered dresses,elaborate jewellery sets, reworks and

cg.

But most of all I remember how Id walk

out on the streets, sit in a restaurant or

pray in the mosque and I feel secure.

ts ws pks i gw u .

My memories of home are bathed inhoney-coated nostalgia. So no, I dont

us w s w wk

in the shop I bought a packet of crisps

at, the waiter who served me at my

favourite restaurant or the muezzin who

called us to prayer could be capable of

kllg m. i us w

l i gw u w; m l cul

be capable of such hate on their owncc.

Smg w wg smw

and it wasnt only our fault. But I dont

even understand all of that. All I know

s m cu s lm

over and over again, my people have

suffered, and my sense of security has

k w s w w

ghting- globally.

i us s w m

shirking away from responsibility- but I

have watched too many of my people-

innocent people suffer. And though I

have the option of living abroad in a

safer place. They have nowhere to go.

i kw w

Pakistan I grew up in, I just know that I

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tkg MUWCis ecu

i gm s mus

opportunity for me as I have never been

outside Europe before. That means that

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Wl vlg cu. t

name Third World seems to be justied

insofar as India seems to belong to an

entirely different world, though one nds

giveaways of an increasing connection

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wlkg us wu

oor from a street that is nothing else

but mud, we see TVs, DVD-players,

fridges inside. Though clean drinking

water is still lacking, we can buy Coca-

Cola and Sprite in the small shops of

vllgs.

Encounter

rural India

Daniel Prinz

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In fact, I have never spent more than

wk ul cu

if not for hiking in the Tatra, so even

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new for me. The outlook of people

on life, the reality of their everyday

lives, their dreams if they exist arefundamentally different but at the same

time resembling of those of the urban

is i v m wl cu.

t c u i s c

m mus ml clss

Ws.

The rich urban Indian often goes to

xsv l scls amc cllg wc

us s scl sg.

The Indian living in the village often

drops out from school after fourth

g slm cus s

uc g scl. bu

the same time, they all seem to value

education, only they do not have equal

us .

Some of the initiatives I have seen in

ul i ul wl-clss. W

c w l w ml

sls ml llsss w

live in a home created by the NGO

S. t c cv

cvs sll lckg

lcs m vl.

Gomukh, an NGO involved in growing

gc vgls sllg

cl l lvg c

does something highly sought after in

Europe. To buy organic food directly

from the producer is longed after by

populations of cities in Europe just

s muc s s i. ts

gzs v lk u

w g cus

operate in circumstances of poverty.

These things form a part of the real

i s muc s v

desperate need for development do.

We should by no means talk of India

s smg s

lcks vs ussm. a

maybe we should not talk of India assmg w v s s

. a s i m

we have only seen a tiny part of a vast

cu u xc w

s g w xcs

of the people living here. How could it,

when we go to the villages by car, stay

there for a short while than get back

u cs v w. W tasty food four times a day, and in the

vgs w s w u cmus

and go on Facebook. Like this, we are

g m uss. W

wllg cmms w w

have a right to. We will not sit for three

us gul i us cmm

with people or if we will, only for the hell

of it.

Most probably, however, in three weeks

we cannot go further than this, but even

this sort of experience as a complete

us s vlul. i v l l

about different human reactions when

pushed outside ones comfort zone. I

have seen how one gets from the point

where one says it is so disgusting in

the mud, let me wash my feet to the

point where one says I will be the hero

to walk for half an hour barefoot in the

mu s w vllgs g

water from. I have seen how one loudly

speaks about the real experience

but is then unwilling to get out for the

briefest from the comfort of the private

car and the seven people on seven

seats. India has a long way to go. So

w.



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actually nd a reason to convince

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qualied judge.

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ofcials, travel and demonstrate in

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msus wks ll wll ucu, u cl C s

ms l, v s w g

suss, lv mcc

wul wk s cu, cu

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power-wielding ofcials. Simply talk to

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ccl s, w c mk m

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Japanese whalingSo Nakayama gus wlg s c g

mountains in Japan. These ancients

then turned to whales as a form of

food and as a resource. Our ancients

respected whales very much.

There are festivals about whales

and temples for them as a form of

respect. It seems like Japanese

ancients were in great harmony with

whales.

Nowadays, whaling is regarded

as a problem by some countries

around the world. I dont want to

say which opinion is

Do you know Japanese culture?

Manga, games, animation,

technology, cars are probably

famous. But do you know about

Japanese shing? Japanese eat

sh very often, for example sushi.

We also eat whales.

Our traditional Whale Fishing, orWhaling, started around 8,000 years

ago. Whales have always been big

parts of our lives. Ancient Japanese

started catching whales because of

their valuable parts. We use all parts

of whales; meat for eating, bones

for making houses or harpoons, oil

for fuel, skin for clothes and

other parts for makingshing lines. Ancient

Japanese did

not have many

domestic

animals

because

of the

many



person who isnt as smart as us. It

doesnt make sense. On the other

hand, countries against whaling do

have their reasons.

I believe respecting animals is

the most important part. Whalingcountries recommend catching

whales when their amount is

increasing. But other countries

believe that as whale reproduction

isnt at its optimum, there is not

enough support for catching them.

Too many whales lead to a lack of

other sh in the sea. Still, too little

numbers of whales brings aboutthe danger of their extinction. It

seems that humans endless theme

is managing a good harmony with

nature. We have destroyed many

kinds of animals.

I had never thought about these

international problems before

coming to UWC Atlantic College,but experiences here have

changed my mind. I am proud of

my culture, but at the same time

I think it is very important to

understand the opinions of

other countries. We also

need to consider our

shared earth. First off,

lets start talking

with our friends

in the UWC

community.

correct. I just want to say each side

has every reason to believe the way

it does. This problem has so many

different points, from the aspect

of resources, food, culture, the

protection of nature, whale watching

and so on. There are differencesbetween how each country regards

whales. Some countries accuse

other countries that eat whales.

But I think this is the culture that

the whaling country has. I wouldnt

want countries to accuse others

simply because whaling culture is

too strange for them to understand.

Others say that as whales aresmarter than other animals, it is not

right to kill them. But according to

this theory, it is alright to kill the



Human

rights inVietnam

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UWC alc Cllg. nlss

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sss, cu s g

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slg f l ss.

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f Sm. M 350

bus mks us v

v u f b n ms,sls Z-ms u,

tc n h. t s

s mg fm sl

n h m ps t s

summ; ls s cl f

religion. However, ofcial spokesmen

s. t suc s

ccu s sck fm 2005, f

n h ws llw u cu f 30 s xl.

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fm f sc f ulc

xss s; fm f ss

s m; k

msus ls cl usm;

ls ss f cscc,

fm f lg s s

cll.

hw s Scl rulc

countrys ofcial name justify the

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gs s ml Ws lg,

ls ll czs f wl. a

nation is not ourishing while the people

u ss, cus s

s g fm cg g

v.


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