GHD Ubbo Emmius

Dear Ubbo Emmians, 

We are the Travel Committee of 2025-2026, also called the Flexcie. We will be organising the Big Trip to Graz and Zagreb this April and the Small Trip in November. 

I am Sander van der Veen, the chair of this committee. Here is an introduction to the other amazing members of my committee: 

Firstly, Jorien is the Vice-chair of the committee. She is always ready to assist me with any questions towards the board or problems we have. Fun fact: we only recently had a meeting at her place for the first time. The first reason for this is probably because she wanted to keep her place a bit mysterious, although that hasn’t really changed for me after being there. The second reason is most likely that we had a lot of very fun harmonie building canteen morning meetings at the start of the committee-year. Jorien does quite a bit of crocheting, which I will hopefully learn to do from her someday. She also has some other creative moments: on committee weekend, when our theme was pilots and all of us did something formal like a stewardess or a pilot’s suit, Jorien went full on Amilia Earhart! She also seems to enjoy wearing our committee shirt very much, making for some nice extra PR for the committee. 

Teun: 
Teun is our secretary and a born minutes-maker with a secret talent for acting. We are still not sure if his behaviour in the announcement video was actually acting, it all seemed so natural. The secret words that he puts into the minutes are always interesting, like ‘Quipucamayoc’, which pretty much means an Inca accountant. After moving from his coffin-like room to the big attic of his house, we have had some great meetings at his place. These meetings came with amazing food, like a potato-broccoli-vega schnitzel AVG. He even made everyone peel the potatoes so we could taste the fruits of our own hard work, which definitely made his cooking taste even better than it already was. 

Misha: 
Misha is our treasurer. He might have had to endure quite a bit of pain during the making of this year's budgets, but he made sure we always had a clear view of the money situation. Misha also has his own money-facts rubric during the meeting, during which he often tells us some interesting stuff we didn’t know yet, like when he gave a presentation about how it might be a smart option to go on the GEX by horsecarriage because it would be much cheaper amidst all of the increasing prices the last few years. We unfortunately decided to put this idea in the freezer for a bit, but perhaps next year will be the time!

Next are our two phenomenal PR’s. Firstly, David is a real creative mastermind, who has made an insane shirt design for our committee clothing. As directors, he and Dagmar filmed a great video and kept us motivated even though we did everything outside on one of the coldest days of the year. Now about Dagmar: she is to be deemed no less a creative mastermind. Editing a video that made the whole Gat pay laugh is not a small accomplishment! She can do great work on Canva as well, making beautiful insta posts for us. Right now we are very excited to have our Ubbo FM weekend at her parents’ vacation house! 

Erben: 

Lastly, we have Erben. Erben is our general member, so he can do a little bit of everything. At Erbens place, during one of our meetings, Erben showed us that he had a home gym. The only problem is now that he probably used it so much that he actually can’t fit into his committee shirt anymore. He is currently very busy preparing the pub crawl. Speaking about pubs, Erben is super fun to go out with, if he makes it. After already having brought him home once and suddenly seeing that he sent a photo of him in bed during Galant gala, every night is a real gamble, which arguably makes it even more fun. High risk, high reward. 

So as you probably can see already, this combination of people can only mean that the GEX will be an amazing and unforgettable week for everyone. We are all very excited and hope you are too! 

Greetings, 

The Flexcie