Wednesday, 7. June 2006
Meet the ENTIRE AUSTRIAN GROUP: Tamara Liptay, Philipp Pecnik, Julia Romauch, Veronica Lion, Miriam Kremshuber, Michael Klejna, Cathrine Zaknun, Samira Schirpf

1. TAMARA LIPTAY
Hello everybody! My name is TAMARA LIPTAY.I am 16 years old.I live in Vienna. My hobbies are sport, meeting friends, go dancing and shopping,... I am very happy, that I can come to Peacecamp. I am sure that we will have a lot of fun.

2. PHILIPP PECNIK
Hi everybody! My name is PHILIPP PECNIK, but everyone calls me Phil. Ich come from Austria and I am 17 years old. At the moment I'm attending a bilingual school. I am looking forward to spend a nice time in lower Austria with all the participants!!! See you soon! Phil

3. JULIA ROMAUCH
Where can I start? I was born in Vienna on the 20th of March. I was my parents' first child and they named me JULIA. During my childhood I moved around very often and switched schools four times. When I was five years old my parents divorced. My father had two more daughters who are now nine and five years old. I see my half-sisters very often and we have a good relationship with eath other. I go to school at Parhamerplatz, which is very close to the apartement where I live together with my mother. I have too many hobbies but I'll try to list the most important ones. I enjoy reading, listening to musik, drawing, singing, dancing, taking pictures with my camera and most of all talking and laughing!!!!! I love to be spend time with my friends and they are really important to me.

4. VERONIcA LION
Hello!
I am VERONIcA. I live in Vienna and go to school at Parhamerplatz, where I attend
the bilingual class (english/german). My parents come from Prague, which means that
I can speak Czech as well.
At the moment I am 16 years old, but as my birthdate falls into july, I will be 17
in the peacecamp.
I have one younger brother called David, who sometimes really gets on my nerves, but
all in all he is very cute.
In my freetime, which doesn't occur very often, as I have to work for school very
much, I love to draw, read, play the piano, dance or simply relax doing nothing.
With my friends I like to go to the cinema (watching psycho thrillers) or hang
around chatting and having fun.
I also like rain very much and the forest near where I live.
I participate in this peacecamp, because my paternal side of my family is jewish and
I want to find out more about my roots. Since my early childhood I was confronted
with the cruelties of the Second World War, as it has always been a big topic in our
family as well as for our friends. I am still searching for an explanation that can
tell me why something that horrible could ever happen, and I hope to be able to find
more about it.
However I am really excited about the camp, what we will do and what kind of people
I will meet.
Bye for now...

5. MIRIAM KREMSHUBER
Hallo, my name is MIRIAM KREMSHUBER. I'm seventeen years old and live in Vienna. My parents are divorced ,so I and my younger sister live with our father. I'm studying at Parhamerplatz, a Gymnasium, and I'm going to the english-german bilingual class. I enjoy reading all kinds of books, going to the cinema, drawing and meeting friends. I also enjoy to takt a walk in the nature and to travel. This year I travelled with my class to Gambia, a westafrican country. My favourite sports are riding a bycicleand swimming, especially in the Lobau, a vienisse natural park near my home.

6. MICHAEL KLEJNA

Hi there!
I am Michael but most of my friends call me Michi. I live in Vienna and go to school at Parhamerplatz. I am 18 years old. My hobbies are skiing and other sports, meeting friends and go out and have fun with my friends. I ‘m looking forward to have much fun at the peacecamp together.

7. SAMIRA SCHIRPF



Über mich...

Mein Name ist Samira oder samy.
Ich bin ein ziemlich fröhlicher und hilfsbereiter Mensch.
Ich bin Musik und Party süchtig.
Ich bin in Wien geboren mein Vater kommt aus Amerika und meine Mutter aus Vorarlberg.
Ich bin mit Musik aufgewachsen.
Ich singe, tanze, spiele Cello und Gitarre...
naja...was gibt es noch über mich zu sagen...
meine ganzen Freunde meinen ich währe ziemlich verrückt;)
meine Freunde und meine Familie sind mir sehr wichtig denn ohne ihnen währe ich nicht die samy die ich jetzt bin


8. CATHRINE ZAKNUN
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Curriculum vitae
My name is Cathrine Zaknun, I am 16 years old and I live in Vienna.
I was born on the 30th of august in 1989 in Innsbruck, there I spent the
first years of my life before at the age of 3 me and my family moved to
Boston Massachusetts.
There I attended kindergarden and Pre-school.
At the age of 6 we came back to Austria and I started school in a public
primary school in Innsbruck. Two years later we moved to Vienna and I
completed My Primary Period at the Vienna International School. After
Primary-school I left VIS to start at my secondary career at The Kollegium
Kalksburg, a private catholic secondary school. At the moment I am grade 10
of secondary school.

My Personality:

I am a very open minded and universally interested and educated person who
laves to have fun and is always open for a joke as long as they is inside
the tolerated boarder.
I love to cook, do sports, read, and as all youngsters I love to go out with
friends.
My little deficits are: I only keep tidy if its absolutely required, I am
very forgetfully and slightly undisciplined with getting my work done on
time, but usually pricks get me to do everything that needs to be done.

9. RAFI KROPIUNIGG
Über mich
Hello campers! I'm going to be joining you for a couple of days to help out with the research program. Currently I'm undertaking an internship at the ‘Austrian Foundation for World Population & International Cooperation.' During my stay I'm going to do some stalking a.k.a. documenting the process of the camp - investigating relationships between groups and so on and so forth. Some of you'll be interviewed by me. I'm very keen on meeting you! I recently graduated from the Vienna International School. As I've read in some of your statements, a few of you survived the IB. I suppose we have something in common there. Now that I graduated I am fluctuating between two options; either staying in Vienna to study law or go to SOAS/King's College London to study Politics/Geo. The pic above portrays a typical winter's day in Austria - on the right hand side you can see me next to my friend Bob. That leads us straight to my hobbies. Most passionate about Snowboarding and Rugby’s also one of my favourite, however my last game left me unconcious, so I think my rugby career is over for now. Traveling is another big priority of mine. That's all really. Enjoy this camp and see you there! Cheerio!

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