{"id":25476,"date":"2014-12-05T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=25476"},"modified":"2014-12-01T06:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T04:15:25","slug":"the-story-of-zaragozas-su-kingdom-of-dragon-vol-3-art-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/12\/05\/the-story-of-zaragozas-su-kingdom-of-dragon-vol-3-art-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Zaragoza’s SU – Kingdom of Dragon vol.3: ART – ATTACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/em>\u201cWhen I came to Spain and I saw people partying, I thought to myself: \u2018What the f***?!\u2019\u201d The lyrics of the song by Sak Noel, also often called \u2018the most annoying song of all time,\u2019 are a very precise description of the first feelings of many of the participants of AEGEE-Zaragoza\u2019s Kingdom of Dragon vol.3: ART \u2013 ATTACK. Thanks to our amazing organizers, we were able to see the beauties of Aragon at the same time as experiencing the real Spanish lifestyle with everything that it includes \u2013 Spanish timing (for once in my life I wasn\u2019t late!), Spanish food and the never dying urge to party \u2013 all day, all night.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOk guuuuys, come on, wake up, we\u2019re leaving in five minutes! Come oooon, AEGEE peopeeel!\u201d <\/em>The voice of one of my beloved \u2018smart organizers\u2019 wakes me up at 8 am. We\u2019ve been going to bed after 4 am and waking up at 8 for over a week now and every day, the locals would be the last to go bed and the first to wake up. I am frankly jealous of their energy as at this moment, I wish I could sleep until dusk but the leaders stay faithful to their SU description: \u201cOur perfect participant is that one who goes last to sleep and next morning is the first to wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n

As soon as we finally get ready (luckily, five Spanish minutes are about an hour on my Swiss watch which I consider an authority on the topic), we leave our flawless accommodation to explore the neighboring area. I will be honest. When applying, I had no idea the region of Aragon could possibly be as gorgeous as it is. As a regular European citizen and a new AEGEE member, my knowledge of Spain was limited to Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and the words used in the lyrics of the song \u201cSalsa, tequila\u201d \u2013 taco, Shakira, nachos, sombrero, mojito and above all, Antonio Banderas. But the less I knew about the region, the more I found it astounding.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Our TSU started in Zaragoza, the capital of the region, and a city which was formed by a mix of Christian and Arabic culture. As a result, it nowadays boasts a cathedral with a stunning combination of the original colorful Muslim architecture with the later Christian towers, as well as Aljafer\u00eda \u2013 originally a palace for the city ruler which is now the official headquarters of the Aragonese parliament. Zaragoza also has a great party-friendly city center where you can get very cool shots for just one Euro, but I don\u2019t even know why I\u2019m telling you this; of course you\u2019re way more interested in analyzing the architectonic styles of Zaragoza than spending your time in a bar!<\/p>\n

The next stop on our trip was the great city of Jaca \u2013 the gate to the Pyrenees, the mountains dividing France and Spain (and Andorra, of course, I would never forget that!). Our trip to the actual Pyrenees was unforgettable, with our SU splitting into two sub-groups \u2013 officially the \u2018slow\u2019 group and the \u2018fast\u2019 group, factually the \u2018hangover\u2019 and the \u2018not-so-much-hangover\u2019 \u2013 and enjoying the green flowery fields all around us, that magically transformed into rocks at the end of the horizon. Walking through the canyon with a crystal-clear river floating next to you, just waiting for you to soak your tired feet in, so as to let the cold water flow give you a refreshing boost, felt like walking through paradise and let us all forget about the alcohol our bodies were fighting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Lastly, once in Spain, you have to enjoy something connected to the Catholic Church. During our last stop, the beautiful village of Albarracin with its red brick houses, marvelously matching the scarlet hills on which it was built, we were staying at a priest\u2019s house who granted us with his visit one day and decided to play us some songs to cheer up weary souls. This idea was really sweet but at the same time, the situation somehow became so comical that one of the participants (the BEST participant, actually!) almost suffocated suppressing his laugh. And that is the spirit, that is AEGEE! You may travel on your own and enjoy the beauties of any given region but there are memories of your SU which will clearly make it prevail over your other trips.<\/p>\n

It is when you team up with your Slavic friends trying to prove to the world that the Slavs can drink the most while desperately attempting to understand each other speaking their native languages (because all Slavic languages are alike) or when you scream \u201cContigo no, bicho!\u201d with your favorite organizer in a random Spanish club in the middle of the night just for the fun of it, when you feel truly happy to be a part of the European family, and above all, a part of AEGEE.<\/p>\n

Traveling is always nice and exciting but with the right people, it becomes a whole new experience. And this summer, the Kingdom of Dragon had the best people it could possibly get.<\/p>\n

Written by Ji\u0159\u00ed Jirka Lhotka, AEGEE-Praha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen I came to Spain and I saw people partying, I thought to myself: \u2018What the f***?!\u2019\u201d The lyrics of the song by Sak Noel, also often called \u2018the most annoying song of all time,\u2019 are a very precise description of the first feelings of many of the participants of AEGEE-Zaragoza\u2019s Kingdom of Dragon vol.3: ART \u2013 ATTACK. Thanks to… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":25480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[604,38,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25484,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476\/revisions\/25484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}