Hi everyone! As the Dies Committee, we have the task of making the introduction week and introduction camp for first year students the most memorable. Let’s be honest, the best memory we have of the first year, is in fact Diesweek! All of us are very excited and eager to be able to make Dies fun! On Monday nights you can probably find us at Melle’s place having our meeting, followed by drinking games, laughs, and snacks before we take over Peperstraat ;) 

Let’s first introduce you to Francisco, actually who even calls him that, also known as Kiko! He is a second year student and is very happy to be the Chair 🪑 for this year. He is known as our game master (specifically for drinking games) as he brings a new drinking games to every committee night. Good thing he’s good at balancing leadership with fun, or we would get nowhere! Besides drinking games or knowing everyone in Groningen, you will probably always find him cooking or at the beach with either an aperol spritz or sangria. Fun fact: kiko promised the rest of the committee, he would take them to his home in the south of Portugal ;) Now he’s not the biggest fan of beer, so we heard someone is scared for all the atjes this year, so I guess we’ll see….

Our amazing secretary for this year is Melle who is also a second year student. A little fun fact about her is that she’s moved around countries multiple times and therefore when someone asks her where she’s from she always has to give a quick life story. Now Melle is not only known as Melle, as we love to call her exotic! Due to her long story about where’s she from, someone ended up calling her exotic, and from that day onwards it stuck. She’s very excited to organise the dies week and camp this year!!!

Our treasurer comes from a place not to far away from here, all the way from Leeuwarden. Known to us as Pytrik, it’s her first year in Groningen as a first year student. You will most likely find her in her spare time either in the hockey rink playing some hockey or going out friends! She’s looking forward to being this years treasurer and making sure we stick to the budget!!

This year Maik decided to change his usual function, as he will be the External Affairs for our committee! He is our coffee expert, who can’t go a day without his oat milk cappuccino. Besides coffee, running, and music, Maik also loves a good glass of wine and with some convincing (and more wine), he enjoys going out! So the goal of our committee is to have Maik going out with us every Monday and getting him to be our party animal!! He’s really looking forward to having a great time organizing an unforgettable diesweek and camp!

Moving on to our acquisition team, we have our very own local guide, its Ilpha!!! As one of our acquisition she promises we will always have enough funds to get the party going, which we know she’ll be a boss at, just like she is in her hockey team (or so she says…) She’s also a first year, who enjoys partying and being with her friends, and we were told she is always the last one to leave so we’ll see about that… Ilpha also plays the saxophone, but no one is allowed to hear her play. Maybe next year we’ll see her performing at Zwemfest ;)

Our second acquisition comes from quite far compared to Ilpha, our Indy comes from the beautiful village De Rijp! Besides kicking ass at acquisition, you can also find her shaking ass and slamming beers at De Negende Cirkel ;) When asked about what she’s most excited about for this year, she says its all the nights we will be drinking wine as a committee! I don’t know if you can tell but we’re all most definitely excited for this!!! We know that with Indy and Ilpha we will definitely meet our acquisition goals 

Finally, I want to introduce you to Sofia. Sofia is our overly creative promotions this year from Naarden! It is also her first year in Groningen, as well as studying psychology. In her free time Sofia is either working out (emphasis on the sometimes) or meeting up with friends. Her favorite hobby is cooking and making cocktails, so the committee is very excited to have her!! She’s very excited and looking forward to being part of the dies committee and VIP!!!