Sunday, November 26, 2006
We're here!
Hi all! I'm having issues with their keyboard as the y is not in the same spot as our's are back home so Kate will type instead because she has a similar kezboard
Similar I don't know... I would go more with different too!
On the plane was fun. While on the flight we made friends with Ahat - aka Emilio (according to Elisa and Mike). He was a very cute 3 year old sititng in front of them. By the end of the flight he ended up on our laps. His mother was worried for a bit, but as she had another baby I think she was just relieved we babysat him :) We taught him to High-5 then pound, which was entertaining. He wasn't verz clear on defininitive articles, so everyone was Lisa, and Georgeanne wasbecause she had no shoes, and he didn't either. Logically.
So we all arrived, with all our luggage, and we were all met by our hosts, which is in total nothing short of a miracle.
Long flight, but we bought expresso in Frankfurt, so it's OK.
The one rather entertaining thing is that they assumed Erin was a guy and so had great plans to make her and Mike share a room... didn't work out too well. So Mike and Erin are together in the same family that hosted Will and Josh last zear. They were dissapointed that we weren't as musical! They had people over for supper (raclette - melted cheese etc, very yummy)
I went over last night to socialize because my family is about 500m away from Mike's. It was fun! His host mother speaks spanish, so it was a verz multi-cultural evening.
My host family is very nice. I'm learning German! So far I have road, trée, knife, fork, spoon, and other happy nouns figured out. (that last sentace took a reallz long time to write as randßom tings kept popping up!=)
They speak a fair amount of English. Not as good as MC, but we get along with gestures and a dictionary. (speaking slowly and loudly, as I said I never would! )
Mike's famiy has very good English. Georgeanne is very far away in another village (beorde), as the hosting people from the city of Stuttgart appear to be from a massive collection of villages.
Back to Mike because he's bored perching on the stairs.
The computer is in a fun corner at the top of the stairs with the roof slanting with a sky-light just at the right height for mz head so I'm not decapitated.
So we had our first round today around 2pm at Max-Born-Gymnasium school, after opening music from the students playing first big band music and then two piano and panflute duets then opening comments from the MP equivalent of the region and a representative from Stuttgart (said Shu-gart btw) City Hall. Then they gave us the resolution THBT human cloning should be allowed and we were Prop against Germany 1, apparently one of the hardest teams we'll face. Drum roll please.................We lost. But it was close. We defined human cloning as theraputic cloning, essentially the cloning of tissues and organs. I wanted to be ballsy about it and just go with full human cloning but we decided to be reasonable and define it that way. We were worried about narrowing it down too much but it turned out that everybody else defined "human cloning" the same way but unfortunately it quickly became a "definitions debate" with the Opp standing against the cloning of humans over all, saying that it would be equilavent to a "genetic photocopier" which would deny individuality and the specialness of humans as people whereas we talked about the need for this technology (my somewhat explained point that was pretty good but not greatly presented but something to work on, eh?) and the benefits of stopping a blackmarket in organs to make up for the lack of current organ donation and availability (Kate's point) Georgeanne was an awesome third speaker and Erin was our dutiful cameragirl. On a side note, POIs are allowed to just be statements, the Israeli judge (who's really good at giving comments and criticism and as we learned at the Festival of Nations is crayz...wait, strike that and reverse it.... there you go...) told Kate in the post-round comments as she asked the Germans if they had actual questions when they stood up and made speeches about why we were wrong...
But they're really fun and we enjoyed the round over all. We lost over all by one point on about 250, a symbolic gesture to show how generally close it was. Arg at definition debates.... Team Canada, Dylan, Erica, Kirsten and Andrew, won as Opp so that was happy.
Then we had food and merriment and then the Festival of Nations where we learned that all Central (Eastern) European countries' representatives think they invented an alcoholic beverage that one guy admitted he stole from his father's closet...
On the train back after the country presentations Erin and Kate and I were talking to one of the guys on the Israeli team about Canada being really big and how we're apparently "America' little bitch" according to somebody who told him to say that. We found that funny coming from the country that benefits the most from the US weapons and technology it receieves but that could be just our Canadian perspective talking.
Random fact: it seems you never drink non-bubblified water here. We've only had essentially Perrier water by another name and wine and loads of tea and cappuccinos and apfelsaft (basically pure apple juice). Even at the school we had two ,75 litre bottles of this "Eiszeit Quell" water and three cups.
Um. So that's a taste of Germany so far. We've made friends with a random child going to Karachi with his family, Emilio, Andi from the Czech Republic (especially Erica who loves him) and one of the guys from Israel. Germany is essentially awesome and I love it here.
That's all for now, we'll see if other people update some time soon and hope life in Calgary is going well. Just a quick gloat before I (Mike) sign off for the night, as it's ten to eleven currently, CBC's website tells me it's -23,7 degrees Celsius right now back home. We're looking forward to about 13 tomorrow and it's actually too hot to wear my winter jacket that I took because of the weather back home. Hehehe. That was mean but somewhat necessary.
So I'm off to bed and we'll be talking to ya sometime soon!
Hugs from Stuttgart (Nellmersbach is where Erin and Kate and I are and all the others are in other villages around the immediate area of the S-Bahn, the Stuttgart and area train.
Bye for now and wish us luck!!!
Mike (on behalf of all other Germans for now)
Similar I don't know... I would go more with different too!
On the plane was fun. While on the flight we made friends with Ahat - aka Emilio (according to Elisa and Mike). He was a very cute 3 year old sititng in front of them. By the end of the flight he ended up on our laps. His mother was worried for a bit, but as she had another baby I think she was just relieved we babysat him :) We taught him to High-5 then pound, which was entertaining. He wasn't verz clear on defininitive articles, so everyone was Lisa, and Georgeanne was
So we all arrived, with all our luggage, and we were all met by our hosts, which is in total nothing short of a miracle.
Long flight, but we bought expresso in Frankfurt, so it's OK.
The one rather entertaining thing is that they assumed Erin was a guy and so had great plans to make her and Mike share a room... didn't work out too well. So Mike and Erin are together in the same family that hosted Will and Josh last zear. They were dissapointed that we weren't as musical! They had people over for supper (raclette - melted cheese etc, very yummy)
I went over last night to socialize because my family is about 500m away from Mike's. It was fun! His host mother speaks spanish, so it was a verz multi-cultural evening.
My host family is very nice. I'm learning German! So far I have road, trée, knife, fork, spoon, and other happy nouns figured out. (that last sentace took a reallz long time to write as randßom tings kept popping up!=)
They speak a fair amount of English. Not as good as MC, but we get along with gestures and a dictionary. (speaking slowly and loudly, as I said I never would! )
Mike's famiy has very good English. Georgeanne is very far away in another village (beorde), as the hosting people from the city of Stuttgart appear to be from a massive collection of villages.
Back to Mike because he's bored perching on the stairs.
The computer is in a fun corner at the top of the stairs with the roof slanting with a sky-light just at the right height for mz head so I'm not decapitated.
So we had our first round today around 2pm at Max-Born-Gymnasium school, after opening music from the students playing first big band music and then two piano and panflute duets then opening comments from the MP equivalent of the region and a representative from Stuttgart (said Shu-gart btw) City Hall. Then they gave us the resolution THBT human cloning should be allowed and we were Prop against Germany 1, apparently one of the hardest teams we'll face. Drum roll please.................We lost. But it was close. We defined human cloning as theraputic cloning, essentially the cloning of tissues and organs. I wanted to be ballsy about it and just go with full human cloning but we decided to be reasonable and define it that way. We were worried about narrowing it down too much but it turned out that everybody else defined "human cloning" the same way but unfortunately it quickly became a "definitions debate" with the Opp standing against the cloning of humans over all, saying that it would be equilavent to a "genetic photocopier" which would deny individuality and the specialness of humans as people whereas we talked about the need for this technology (my somewhat explained point that was pretty good but not greatly presented but something to work on, eh?) and the benefits of stopping a blackmarket in organs to make up for the lack of current organ donation and availability (Kate's point) Georgeanne was an awesome third speaker and Erin was our dutiful cameragirl. On a side note, POIs are allowed to just be statements, the Israeli judge (who's really good at giving comments and criticism and as we learned at the Festival of Nations is crayz...wait, strike that and reverse it.... there you go...) told Kate in the post-round comments as she asked the Germans if they had actual questions when they stood up and made speeches about why we were wrong...
But they're really fun and we enjoyed the round over all. We lost over all by one point on about 250, a symbolic gesture to show how generally close it was. Arg at definition debates.... Team Canada, Dylan, Erica, Kirsten and Andrew, won as Opp so that was happy.
Then we had food and merriment and then the Festival of Nations where we learned that all Central (Eastern) European countries' representatives think they invented an alcoholic beverage that one guy admitted he stole from his father's closet...
On the train back after the country presentations Erin and Kate and I were talking to one of the guys on the Israeli team about Canada being really big and how we're apparently "America' little bitch" according to somebody who told him to say that. We found that funny coming from the country that benefits the most from the US weapons and technology it receieves but that could be just our Canadian perspective talking.
Random fact: it seems you never drink non-bubblified water here. We've only had essentially Perrier water by another name and wine and loads of tea and cappuccinos and apfelsaft (basically pure apple juice). Even at the school we had two ,75 litre bottles of this "Eiszeit Quell" water and three cups.
Um. So that's a taste of Germany so far. We've made friends with a random child going to Karachi with his family, Emilio, Andi from the Czech Republic (especially Erica who loves him) and one of the guys from Israel. Germany is essentially awesome and I love it here.
That's all for now, we'll see if other people update some time soon and hope life in Calgary is going well. Just a quick gloat before I (Mike) sign off for the night, as it's ten to eleven currently, CBC's website tells me it's -23,7 degrees Celsius right now back home. We're looking forward to about 13 tomorrow and it's actually too hot to wear my winter jacket that I took because of the weather back home. Hehehe. That was mean but somewhat necessary.
So I'm off to bed and we'll be talking to ya sometime soon!
Hugs from Stuttgart (Nellmersbach is where Erin and Kate and I are and all the others are in other villages around the immediate area of the S-Bahn, the Stuttgart and area train.
Bye for now and wish us luck!!!
Mike (on behalf of all other Germans for now)
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correction: everybody was lisa according to ahat and gee was a "silly boy" because she wasn't wearing shoes and her hair was up and he wasn't wearing shoes and kate had called him a silly boy because of it
That sounds amazing, At least you faced the top team at the start, best way to progress as a team. I hope the vegitarians are going strong...you probably know who this is now....SEAN..Anyways..things here are going well. crazy but well..We are all wishing you luck and hope you enjoyed the books. REMEMBER REMEMBER THE 5th of Novernment, and SEX AND SPERM, wow i had a head rush...anyways have funn. Your Friend Sean
# posted by 
: 2:49 PM
: 2:49 PM
The ; : " , and I believe the [{}] keys are the ä, ë, ö and ü keys (not in that order). The S-tet or that funny-looking B is the \ key I think... Oh and the Y-key is Z and Z-key is Y. Ja.
Oh and according to our German prof (who's from Köln --Cologne-- pronounced "Keuhln") bubbly-water like Perrier is the "water" you drink in Europe. (Mineralwasser) Forgot the explanation our prof gave us as to why though. Hm.
Oh and if you get a chance to, there's fun cake that I used to get in Montréal and here lots and it's German. Once I return to the import store, I'll have a name. (It's covered in a layer of chocolate and inside, there's either cherry, strawberry or other flavours in the centre. It's like a loaf of cake/Käse (Kay-zuh) and the packaging is shiny)
Glad to hear you guys are all having tons of fun so far! And echoing Sean, it's good that you've tackled the hardest team first.
It's 8 to 10°C here in Ottawa and apparently the pacific coast is suffering from more Global Warming stuff--like lots of snow. (5-20cm) Oh and it's raining here too. Ooh, stairs-perching. Sounds like fun there Mike. Falling would be a bad plan.
Haha...kezboard.
Guten Abends and have fun. :)
Oh and according to our German prof (who's from Köln --Cologne-- pronounced "Keuhln") bubbly-water like Perrier is the "water" you drink in Europe. (Mineralwasser) Forgot the explanation our prof gave us as to why though. Hm.
Oh and if you get a chance to, there's fun cake that I used to get in Montréal and here lots and it's German. Once I return to the import store, I'll have a name. (It's covered in a layer of chocolate and inside, there's either cherry, strawberry or other flavours in the centre. It's like a loaf of cake/Käse (Kay-zuh) and the packaging is shiny)
Glad to hear you guys are all having tons of fun so far! And echoing Sean, it's good that you've tackled the hardest team first.
It's 8 to 10°C here in Ottawa and apparently the pacific coast is suffering from more Global Warming stuff--like lots of snow. (5-20cm) Oh and it's raining here too. Ooh, stairs-perching. Sounds like fun there Mike. Falling would be a bad plan.
Haha...kezboard.
Guten Abends and have fun. :)
# posted by : 5:35 PM
: 5:35 PM
Aha, I'm dumb! Kuchen, not Käse for cake... Unless you guys like cheese?
But, if you want cheesecake that's "Käsekuchen". I'll blame all of this on the fact that I'm ill, again.
But, if you want cheesecake that's "Käsekuchen". I'll blame all of this on the fact that I'm ill, again.
# posted by : 5:41 PM
: 5:41 PM
Cake can actually be Kuchen or Torte, depending how much cream is in it. The Kuchen is dryer and the Torte usually with lots of moisture.
And the description for raclette sounds too much like fondue for the novice...
Great post!
And the description for raclette sounds too much like fondue for the novice...
Great post!
# posted by : 6:50 PM
: 6:50 PM
Sounds like you guys are having lots of funn!!
GOODLUCK dont forget to keep us calgary debaters posted for the rest of your trip!
xoxo
Carly
GOODLUCK dont forget to keep us calgary debaters posted for the rest of your trip!
xoxo
Carly
# posted by : 8:35 PM
: 8:35 PM
Ohmigoodness, guys, way to be awesome. Make sure to keep updating, cuz this is so awesome. I am so, so, so jealous!!
And way to go, Amlake, now I want some Käsekuchen. Even though it's only 8 am.
PS have you stalked any attractive german footie players yet?
And way to go, Amlake, now I want some Käsekuchen. Even though it's only 8 am.
PS have you stalked any attractive german footie players yet?
*is sooooo incredibly jealous of you people* For one, you get to enjoy some real fall-type weather over there *grumbles at -30 with windchill and blowing snow here*
Isn't Frankfurt airport teh insane? I went there about 4 years ago and it was an absolute maze!
Und ihr müsst mehr Deutsch lernen, denn ist Deutsch eine fantastische Sprache!
And remember, es gibt keinen Löffel.
It's pronounced 'shtutt-gart' not 'shu-gart' btw (yes I'm being a loser, I know)
Also, boo at definition debates. Those things = no fun at all. But yay for meeting new people, like the random Pakistani kid...or the Czech boy *remembers Worlds 2005*.
I agree with Devon, you totally need to go stalk some hot footballers.
Anywhoo, keep partying hard in Deutschland. Tschüss!
Isn't Frankfurt airport teh insane? I went there about 4 years ago and it was an absolute maze!
Und ihr müsst mehr Deutsch lernen, denn ist Deutsch eine fantastische Sprache!
And remember, es gibt keinen Löffel.
It's pronounced 'shtutt-gart' not 'shu-gart' btw (yes I'm being a loser, I know)
Also, boo at definition debates. Those things = no fun at all. But yay for meeting new people, like the random Pakistani kid...or the Czech boy *remembers Worlds 2005*.
I agree with Devon, you totally need to go stalk some hot footballers.
Anywhoo, keep partying hard in Deutschland. Tschüss!
OMFG hi!!!!!! :D. SO jealous of you all. czech boy....i wonder if any of them are the same czech boys as calgary-worlds? hope today goes better. PS i gave this url to angela, she was excited tooo.
# posted by : 10:58 PM
: 10:58 PM
"He wasn't verz clear on defininitive articles, so everyone was Lisa, and Georgeanne was because she had no shoes, and he didn't either. Logically."
um what?
um what?
also, i really, or should i say reallz am proud of you guys. you are doing an amazing job, keep it up.
Sean Here, CONGRATES ON YOUR ROUNDS EVERYBODY that means you too ERICA:). Thats so amazing, i am so happy for you guys. it sounds like such an amazing oppertunity, and you guys are taking it. These motions sounds ...much like western sems ones...weird quicky but fun in the end.
ALl things considered we are all so proud of you and do hope you call. Are you guys having fun, hows about the Billiets, and for all the divine beings in the world EMAIL MP hes kinda freaking out.
your friend
SEAN
ALl things considered we are all so proud of you and do hope you call. Are you guys having fun, hows about the Billiets, and for all the divine beings in the world EMAIL MP hes kinda freaking out.
your friend
SEAN
# posted by : 8:11 PM
: 8:11 PM
OH MY GOD YOU ARE USELESS. i found out THIRD HAND FROM ANGELA that team canada won. Congrats to them (and however you guys did too, i'm sure it's fantastic ALTHOUGH I WOULDN'T KNOW FOR A LACK OF UPDATES)
# posted by : 9:30 PM
: 9:30 PM
i was off with the israelis and hungarians till all hours, cut me some slack, it's not my fault everybody else is useless too, i gave them access to posting.
Thanks for NOBODY filling in Carly on how everyone was doing in germany!
psssh.
=(
xoxo
Carly
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psssh.
=(
xoxo
Carly
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