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Be My Lover

We own the JBPedia Shirt.
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We own the JBPedia Shirt.

JB Argentina says: HOLAAAA, WE LOVE YOU JB WORLD!

We thought it would be nice to share our news and activities with you.
Thoughts?
Ideas?
Questions?
Visiting?
Flowers?

Send them our way:
njr@ar.cisv.org to reach our two NJRs
jb.board@ar.cisv.org to reach the whole JB Board


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Meet our 2008 - 2009 Board

For the first time ever we have elected not only one NJR, but two! And that's not all - also we have a new JB Board, with three members appointed by consensus who work side by side with the NJRs.

Check out their JBPedia pages. They are all so cool, you'll wish they were your best friends!

Jose Villegas (NJR 2008-2009)
Matute San Miguel (NJR 2008-2010)
Cande Lucero
Coni Rava
Ale Pfund


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Coming up!

SEP 07
It's that time of the year again: CISV Argentina's Selection Day, for 2009-2010 programmes!
SEP 21
Great Peace Day activity you'll hear more about soon!

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Past News

Our brains are on fire.
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Our brains are on fire.

Read what we were up to in 2007!


AUG 22 - 24
We organised our first NJBM - ever! We had around 20 JBers attending, who worked super hard throughout the whole weekend. Maru stepped down from her NJR term, the JBers made her cry and also gave her a goodbye/thankyou video. We appointed a brand new JB Board to work along with our new NJRs as well. They are Jose Villegas (NJR for one year), Matute San Miguel (NJR for two years), Cande Lucero, Coni Rava and Ale Pfund. They're all too awesome. Watch a video about this.

JUL 26 - AUG 09
Two of our JBers are attended ARMM 2008, IJBC 2008 and AIM in Florence! They are Cande Lucero and Maru Ayam. Cande joined the ARM Team and the IJB Committee in the Growth & Development are, and Maru got elected IJR!

JUN 22
CISV Day and Farewell to those who travel to programmes/activities. We had about 150 people of all ages coming to the different activities - and this time parents joined us again! Such cool CISVers!

JUN 16
We had an evaluation of 2008 so far. Actually, it was our "end of year evaluation" because we're switching our southern-hemisphere JB calendar for a northern-hemisphere one, as of August.

JUN 07 - JUN 08
Our Mosaic Trainers, who attended the TTMT held in São Paulo in March 2008 carried out our first Mosaic WS ever! It was really good and there was a mysterious introduction to this year's first Mosaic Project for 2008-2009.

JUN 06
Burger!

MAY 24 - MAY 25
Our JB is proud to announce we had a very successful minicamp: "El Código da JB". It translates to "The JB Code", as in "The Da Vinci Code", for those slow ones that didn't get it. We worked on this year's IJB Theme and on our representations of reality.

MAY 09 - MAY 11
All of us who are involved in any training within CISV Argentina: Leaders, JCs, Seminar and JB, attended the Leadership Training Weekend 2008. The LTC (Leadership Training Committee), that consists of the trainers of each of these programmes, ran some super sessions and cool topics in store. Real good times.

MAY 02
Burger!

APR 13
We had a super successful activity called Copate 08. The name sort of means "get involved" or "get into it" (quoting our friend Mr. Brown). It was a day to kick off the year positively, with activities for participants of village age, summer camp age, JC age, leaders and - yes! Parents! It rocked.

APR 04
Burger!

MAR 19-24
Maru participated in EJBM, the European Junior Branch Meeting.

MAR 09
And so our JB year began - first meeting at Caro's! We meet once every 15 days, that is, every other Sunday. We worked on defining our three strategic priorities for the first half of this year. And also, we intend on changing our JB calendar to one that works as a Northern Hemisphere calendar, in order to be better coordinated with the majority of the JB world.

MAR 07
First Burger of the year! We have dinner at Burger King with CISVers of all times, every first Friday of the month.

FEB 15-18
With a lot of pride and enthusiasm we announce that we're an active member JB of JB South, one of the Nuclei of Development within the ARM Region. We have four amazing and dedicated JBers who have just home staffed the first JB South Workshop ever: Cande Lucero, Ale Pfund, Jose Villegas and Joaquín Zapater. The WS was a great success, bringing together 62 juniors from 14 chapters in 6 countries. Our trainers were Chris Settle (JB Geelong), Kel Garcia (JB Belo Horizonte) and Maru Ayam (JB Buenos Aires). It was actually the largest workshop ever held in our Region!


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Reflecting and Acting towards IJBC 2008

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Reflect

If you were in a karaoke, and had to pick a song that describes your JB - which one would it be?

Definitely Here We Go, by N*Sync. This is so for a number of reasons: firstly, because we're very fond of 90s pop music; secondly, because it mentions the "skills to keep this party pumpin' baby", it has an overall attitude that fits us well, and the knowledge of how to throw a hell of a party.

What things you do to make sure your JB keeps improving?

We work with educational content, because we believe that by doing this we will make a change in the juniors who attend our activities and at the same time we improve ourselves and our work! We also bear in mind the JB Goals at all times (ie putting up posters on the walls with the JB Goals on each meeting - yeah, JB geeks).

If your JB was a boat, who would be the captain? And why is that? a.) Jack Sparrow b.) Captain Hook c.) the one from titanic (not Celine Dion) d.) none of the above, loser.

Ummm probably none of the above. Quite puzzled by the sight of this question, haha. Our captain would look like Captain Crunch, actually! Because he's cool and has a good nutritional content. Hell yes! It makes you grow in a very healthy way.
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Act

Which was the last revolution your JB has seen?

We're currently experiencing one! We are proud to announce that our JB is going democratic and we'll finally hold NJR elections this year (something that never really happened in the past decade or so, due to big ups and downs in our JB). Also, we'll elect two NJRs, so we're going to make the transition to the two-NJR system. The election will be held at our very first NJBM ever! Democratic times!

Which movie you think would push your JB forward?

We watched The Truman Show last month and had a really good discussion about to what extent we're the ones making decisions in our lives, about how we reflect (according to what the very biased media show us) and how we act (do we really want what we think we want?).

If your JB would pick a cause to protest about, which would it be?

Today we're feeling quite antsy about the political situation in Argentina. We protest a lot indeed, among ourselves (we usually have talks about this when we meet), and we're exchanging some ideas about creating projects and doing something about it. We'd like to start engaging with education projects at schools and programmes to reinforce "citizenship" (rights and obligations).
Also, some of us get together with a group of CISVers every third Wednesday of the month. This space is called Vino de Miércoles (Wednesdays' wine would be an awful translation for it, it's sort of a pun), and we often discuss hot topics that we want to act upon.


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Our Chapter

For now, our only chapter is JB Buenos Aires. However, we are wanting to help set up a chapter in another city! Are you reading this and happen to be with Rosario, Córdoba or Mendoza? Are you interested? Please write to us!


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People pages

Preparing the 25th Anniversary party.
Preparing the 25th Anniversary party.

Who's part of this amazing Junior Branch? Get to meet them here:


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The Faces behind JB Argentina

Argentinian NJRs, all girls until Matute came along! Jose, Maru, Ceci, Maru and Sofi.
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Argentinian NJRs, all girls until Matute came along! Jose, Maru, Ceci, Maru and Sofi.

These are juniors (or not-so-juniors) that served as NJRs, ReCos and IJRs.

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EJBM Questions

Questions to Answer for Circle of JBs

At the EJBM there will be an activity where every country is able to update the rest of the Region on how they are doing!! Below are the questions that the EJB Team would like us to answer. This needs to be done a week before the EJBM (March 12th) so the EJB Team can take the information and put it into a presentation. Please, Argentine JBers, fill this in and (if you want to sign your entry) write (~~~~) at the end!

1) What were the best things that happened in your JB in the last 12 months?

In the last 12 months JB Buenos Aires show everyone who we were and where did we went. We organized some great events, as, for example, a costume party or an amazing minicamp called "suMATE", and were able to experienced responsability and leadership. Throughout the year, we grew inside and outside the JB and had a lot of enthusiasm to improve and get stronger every day. In a way, a more solid JB was formed and participants were determined to finish an outstanding 2007 and begin a memorable 2008. (Cande)

We hosted an international workshop: the first JB South WS in history. It was very successful, we had the pleasure of receiving 62 juniors from 14 local JBs (6 countries)! (Maru)

I would say something that is less "tangible" in the sense of, for example, JB activities. In my opinion, last year's training was a key aspect in our JB. I'm proud to say we have very well trained juniors, with awareness of why they are in the JB and what they are doing. (Ceci)


2) What were the biggest challenges for your JB in the last 12 months?

As JB Buenos Aires is still in develop everything was a challenge for us. Some of us were new and some others had some or a lot of experience. We had to learn to work as a group and be aware that what we did brought consequences to everyone. Cooperation and commitment were – and still are – essential ingredients to learn and get experience so we had to work a lot in them. Every step we did was a knew lesson for us and sometimes it wasn't so easy. (Cande)

We had a hard time dealing with the Senior Board - reaching agreements with them was a challenge we had to face permanently. We would like to find ways to cooperate and understand each other! A super challenge was hosting the JB South WS (...with no financial help, or any other support, from our chapter). (Maru)

The distance between saying and actually doing. In one word: commitment. (Ceci)


3) How have you used the theme of cooperation and communication within your JB? Has this had an impact?

We have hosted a workshop with many different JBs and this experience triggered a wave of cooperation projects within our Nucleus of Development. We are looking for ways to communicate better with each other - and we are connecting with the JB World through JBPedia, ARMlist and by being active readers and contributors to IJB Thinks. (Maru)


4) Which key events have helped to make your Junior Branch this year?

The outstanding minicamp, I think, was a key event from were we nurture our JB. As it was the first minicamp we organized it was a big challenge for us but, 2 cups of enthusiasm, 3 cups of dedication and tones of commitment gave result to what we are proud to call "suMATE" Minicamp. (Cande).

JB South WS. Not only the fact of participating with other 60 participants in an international workshop is a very good motivational start, but also, it made us all realize we know much more than we think we do, and we have great skills to make the best out of our JB. (Ceci)


5) Which song lyric would represent your Junior Branch year?

Ace of Base: All that she wants? (Maru)


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