A Special Blitz Featuring AUBG Daily Members Vol. 3

The time has come for a warm goodbye with the executive team of AUBG Daily for the 2015/2016 academic year. What do they share in the last Senior Blitz for the year? [caption id="attachment_32224" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Zora Gouhary. Credits: Anastasiia Hryshchenko[/caption] Meet Zora Gouhary (Zuzi), half-Bulgarian, half-Afghan. She majors in political science and international relations and is going to be the first student graduating with a self-designed major, Cross-Cultural and Political Communication. She has been a resident assistant in Skaptopara I Residence Hall as well as a reporter and later editor as well as president of AUBG Daily. Gouhary enjoys watching good movies, reading, travelling, and most of all, taking it easy.

• Tell us your best and your worst memory at AUBG.

My best memories are all connected to the amazing people I have met here at AUBG – friends, RAs, Daily members – who turned the last four years into a wonderful and unforgettable experience full of positive emotions. The worst memories involve writing and submitting long and boring class papers.

• What were you before? What are you now?

I was a kid. Now I am a kid with a diploma.

• If you were 18 years old, what would you do?

Nothing different. I will just go with the flow like last time and see where it takes me.

• What word defines you best?

Kind.

• What is the meaning of life?

Enjoy the little things in life.

• You are awesome because…?

We all are!

• How do you imagine life after AUBG?

Unfamiliar, yet exciting.

• What is Daily for you?

An awesome adventure; a family; a major challenge; a wonderful opportunity to develop my personality and skills; a rewarding experience; a venue for meeting fascinating people.

• Your last words to Daily.

These won’t be my last words to Daily, as I hold it very dear to my heart. However, I would like to thank you, Owls, for your tireless and amazing work, to wish you good luck and to tell you to make your Daily experience count! [caption id="attachment_32219" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Martin Georgiev. Photo: Anastasiia Hryshchenko for the Broadway Performance Club[/caption]   Meet Martin Georgiev from Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. He majors in journalism and mass communication and is a member of the Broadway Performance Club as well as a senior editor for AUBG Daily.

• Tell us your best and your worst memory at AUBG.

The best memories are all the times spent with friends, whether in the theater, on a lawn on campus, or downstairs in Underground. The worst was in a Skapto III lobby in September 2014 when something horrible happened.

• What were you before? What are you now?

Before I was a confused 19-year-old who didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do with his life. Today, nothing has changed much, I only know some more stuff (nothing about the future, though, more like trivia question answers).

• If you were 18 years old, what would you do?

I wouldn’t change much, I think I turned out alright.

• What is the meaning of life?

To be happy and have fun as much as possible.

• You are awesome because…?

Am I?

• How do you imagine life after AUBG?

More sober, both literally and figuratively.

• What is Daily for you?

The hope for AUBG to have a proper news media.

• Your last words to Daily.

TAKE THE COOL IMPORTANT STORIES, GUYS!! [caption id="attachment_32220" align="aligncenter" width="645"] Anna Bashuk. Personal archive[/caption] Meet Anna Bashuk from Volgograd, Russia. She graduated from AUBG with a degree in journalism and mass communication and is currently a graduate student in mass communications at SIU Edwardsville. She was a member of InFocus, participated in BLIMUN, and worked at the Office of Communications and Marketing at AUBG. She was also the editor-in-chief of AUBG Daily. Her interests include photography, writing, editing, art, layout design, digital media, film production, traveling, languages, and cultures.  

• Tell us your best and your worst memory at AUBG.

There are too many amazing memories, and I can’t select only one to share. Living with my first and best ever roommate, enjoying our picnics in the yard with exchange students, watching Real Madrid at Prego, eating banitsa and duner, performing in the theater production, hating all the classes and loving them at the same time, meeting great professors and incredible friends, joining the family of AUBG Daily, spending an exchange semester in one of the most beautiful countries, creating my first website and my first documentary, marrying the person I love, and moving on to the next chapter of my adventures… All of those things that AUBG gave me I will never be able to forget. I don’t have a worst memory, because each moment I lived through during my undergrad years was an experience, and that’s all that matters.

• What were you before? What are you now?

Before, I was a girl not sure what she wants from life. Now I know exactly who I am and what I want. Or at least this is what I’m telling myself.

• If you were 18 years old, what would you do?

I would do exactly what I did when I was 18 years old.

• What word defines you best?

Creative.

• What is the meaning of life?

It’s different for each person. When you finally know who you are and what you stand for, this is when you understand what the meaning of life is.

• You are awesome because…?

Because I can’t be otherwise. :)

• How do you imagine life after AUBG?

I don’t have to imagine, because I am already living it. AUBG is just a single chapter, and there are many more unexplored places and opportunities to come our way. There is no reason to be afraid of the next steps, as there is no reason to be afraid of life.

• What is Daily for you?

Daily has always been a family, where, at different points in time, I played a role of a responsible daughter or an overprotective mother. Giving me the chance to explore my talents as a reporter, photographer, and editor-in-chief, Daily also gave me invaluable knowledge and loyal friends, and I am proud to have been a part of it.

• Your last words to Daily.

I’ll allow myself to quote one of my friends on this one, “Be smart. Make good choices. And be nice to others.”