between the Dutch cows.

Then she organized the

gala dinner. This will be in

one of Leiden’s top loca-

tions: The Olo Rosso, a

Mediterranean restaurant

where you will get a real

exclusive dinner. Then the

dean of the LUMC will

welcome you to say good-

bye to everyone in style.

She organised the EMSA

lustrum party at the last

evening. On the next page

she will tell about this

great party herself.

To meet this enthusiastic

sweet girl, you really

should come to Leiden in

September!

I’ll present to

you: Judith

van den Bes-

selaar. She is

our secretary.

A very hard worker. She

always creates this beau-

tiful newsletter and

makes de clearest meet-

ing-notes ever. She is

also always filled with

ideas, a real idea ma-

chine. Just like this mor-

ning: out of nothing she

made up the running din-

ner. Another talent of her

is fundraising. In compari-

son with other OC mem-

bers, she has sent the

most letters to compa-

nies. She finds suitable

companies, writes the

letters, sends them and

makes sure that she

stays in touch with the

company. Besides this,

she encourages the rest

of the OC to do the same

for the fundraising. In a

few months you can have

the possibility to meet

this nice girl. Already

excited?

And do not forget Lisette

Wiltink! She created the

perfect social program!

Because of her, you will

eat in the best student

restaurants of Leiden. On

Thursday you can join the

farmer’s golf: you will use

a wooden shoe and play

Meet the OC: Lisette & Judith

The Tulip Inn Hotel Leiden Centre

The accomodation for the EMSA GA is the Tulip Inn Hotel. The hotel is only five minutes away from both the train station and the hospital, by foot. You can see them from your room! Every morning we will have

breakfast from seven till eight thirty.

Breakfast will

include several kinds of bread and

other warm products. You will share

your room with four other partici-

pants. A wake-up call will be provided by

the hotel. During breakfast, one of the

OC members will be there to answer all

of your questions and to help you to

arrange everything you need.

Please don't forget, there will be other

guests at the hotel too, so we cannot be

too loud in the halls. For that, we have

the parties! :D

21-05-2011 Update 2

EMSA GA Update

In this issue:

Meet the OC

Jeroen-o-meter

The Tulip Inn Hotel

EMSA lustrum party

EMSCon update:

Starting Sunday

Dutch word of the month

Jeroen-o-meter:

Keep our treasurer warm, and pay your fee as soon as possible! We reseived the first payments, so he’s already feeling better!

Judith

Lisette

ga2011@ifmsa.nl

www.ifmsa.nl/ga2011

Leiden, The Netherlands

Dutch word of the month:

“Lekker!”

Another problem is that we are

used to eating a lot of meat. To

produce 1 kilo meat, 3-7 kilo of

cereals are needed. These ce-

reals could be fine food for

humans, so this means a great

spoil of products! Meat produc-

tion also needs a lot of energy

and causes a disbalance be-

tween production and use of

animal manure, both having a

negative influence on the envi-

ronment.

Of course you’re wondering

what you can do yourself. The

next things are a good start:

use locale (no transport) and

seasonal (no greenhouses)

products, eat a little less meat

and try to purchase your food

more efficiently, so you’ll waste

much less!

EMSCon will have a delicious

start with a fair dinner! This is

not just a meal, but a complete

meal that would be available

every day for every person in

the world with current food

production.

This moment still 790 million

people are chronically mal-

nourished. Of course the world

population is growing, but food

production has been growing

at the same rate and the earth

could produce food for even

two times the world popula-

tion. So the problem must be

an unfair distribution.

Of course an obvious reason

for this unfair distribution is

poverty. But this is not the only

reason. The more developed

countries are protecting their

own economy by high import

rates, and they have grants for

farmers in their own countries

so that they can sell at a lower

price and thus will have a bet-

ter position on the world mar-

ket. These reasons make that

the developing countries have

almost no export opportunities.

Of course they can sell their

products in their own coun-

tries. Unfortunately this is not

as easy as it sounds either.

The reason for this is that the

overproduction from developed

countries is sold in developing

countries at a very low price.

To compete with this, farmers

in developing counties would

have to sell at rates that are so

low that they would not even

level the costs.

EMSCon Update: Starting Sunday—Fair Dinner

You are very lucky to read this newsletter if

you did not attend the NCM, because we will

tell you the theme of the best party of the

year in this particular part. The party takes

place on the last night of the GA. It is the

twentieth b-day party of EMSA! So it cer-

tainly deserves a perfect theme with peo-

ple dressed all like the theme. So do not

forget your orange stuff,

because the theme is: THE PARTY WHERE YOU WEAR

ORANGE AND WE DON’T. Be as creative as possible; color

your hair, paint your face, make yourself as much orange

as you can. We’re looking forward to see the orange

you!!!

The EMSA lustrum party