it is february, about a month before easter. so whats happening in the sleepy towns of germany? right the "narren are los". the annoying neverentding trarrii trarraaaaa which can only be endred in at least a half drunk state, the costumes, the food, the typical dancing, the parades, all that has started again.
Fasching is different to halloween. the costume are much nicer. you dont have to be something evil or nasty, you can go as anything, an indian, a belly dancer, a prisoner, an astronaut, a kangaroo, etc. i share a love-hate for it. I adore getting dressed up, eating berliner or "fastnachtsküchle" and i dont mind a bit of alcohol either, on the other hand it does get on your nerves: the music is worse than at the cheesiest mallorca ballermann, or après-skiing party in austria. and the perpetual tv parades which get bradcasted instead of the usual rubbish istn't much better.
now why am i writing this? yesterday I went to one of these fasching parties. well not really, we had a tournament (4th place) which i danced and afterwards we went to our club to shower and celebrate the bday of two people of our formation.
It was the wildest shower ever. three showers and at least 7-9 people at a time, plus sect, plus shower "colour" plus loud house music. it was fun. then we all got dressed up-i was a gene in a bottle, with sparkly blue loosehanging pants, and a rather short ans small oriental looking top. but there was an arabian oil "scheich", an indian, a prostitute, several playboy bunnies in different montures, indiana jones, a tourist, a bumble bee, the flintstones, a football player, an astronaut, an persian princess, a prisoner, and surely lots more which i cannot remember. anyhow the alcohol was pouring. I wasnt drunk, but certainly a bit tipsy, however in compared to the majority of both the b and c formation, that was still sober. then, we danced a "durchgang" of our programme, b and c mixed. te b formation dacned the programme 3 years ago, a lot more difficult, so there were some couples doing extra continuals, roundabouts, arms and lankenaus, then there were those that moved up from c to b last year, which had the landeslige programme, and then there were a couple of us that have the current version programmed into our muscle cells. It was chaotic, nobody really go the entire thing toether; dacing a few passages, leaving out some others, doing arms or not doing them, and 3 versions of the thing. the moral is: my dance partner dances better drunk than the one i danced with yesterday ;).
then there was more alcohol, some more dancing, some pizza and other food. at around 8 pm, i started making sure my fave dance partner stops the acohol tap that was dripping into his stomach- he was drunk as hell-but he actually listenend! how nice.
then at 2300 my parents picked me up :( involuntarily I again was one of the first to go. as always. yippie yippe yeay, almost 18 and still not trusted out late. but it was a really good day, a fun tournament, an even more fun party, which i guess the theme of fashing made even more crazy than it would have been otherwise.
Monday, 23 February 2009
Friday, 20 February 2009
MUNISS
and yet another mun conference has passed: but htis time a special one. MUNISS, the conference hosted by our school. this year I had teh priviledge (and the dump of work) to be the Secretry general; signing up schools, giving out countries, Student officers, and all the other boboos of people that dont get their work done.
but all went fine. we cactually doubled in size became more efficient and did have an awesome newspapaer each day for which the press sweated blood and tears each day. however under te specialist eadership of helen and charlotte it all got done nicely.
the catering was also good. admins worked (they just did!), the food was yummy and fresh and the biscuits jsut again show hoe much you can do with well invested money (caaaaaloriiiies!!!!!! :D).
th debates also were of hih quality: the SC was raging and the GA also seldom got tired. i had a crisis crisis half the time so that i culd go aroud to watch and be proud, btu actualy had to work and stress, making up some crazy story about a bolivian military coup, which actually might happen! (yes, and thats the scary part)
further muniss stresses were the beamers. gosh i hate these things, as well as a non alcohol (so sucky) party, and of course the crisis, meeting over meeting, and jsut putting the last day, with the GA, the crisis and finally the Closing Ceremony together.
however the best part is that we are slowly bt surely attracting the schools attention. our director (who seems to be doing quite well) asked me for meeting right after the end, which ill have in two weeks, right after my one week fasching holiday the upcoming week.we might get XXL support from the school next year!!
after the conference i was so dead i was sleeping dead in school the next day. but it was still a great event i wouldnt have wanted to miss out on.
but all went fine. we cactually doubled in size became more efficient and did have an awesome newspapaer each day for which the press sweated blood and tears each day. however under te specialist eadership of helen and charlotte it all got done nicely.
the catering was also good. admins worked (they just did!), the food was yummy and fresh and the biscuits jsut again show hoe much you can do with well invested money (caaaaaloriiiies!!!!!! :D).
th debates also were of hih quality: the SC was raging and the GA also seldom got tired. i had a crisis crisis half the time so that i culd go aroud to watch and be proud, btu actualy had to work and stress, making up some crazy story about a bolivian military coup, which actually might happen! (yes, and thats the scary part)
further muniss stresses were the beamers. gosh i hate these things, as well as a non alcohol (so sucky) party, and of course the crisis, meeting over meeting, and jsut putting the last day, with the GA, the crisis and finally the Closing Ceremony together.
however the best part is that we are slowly bt surely attracting the schools attention. our director (who seems to be doing quite well) asked me for meeting right after the end, which ill have in two weeks, right after my one week fasching holiday the upcoming week.we might get XXL support from the school next year!!
after the conference i was so dead i was sleeping dead in school the next day. but it was still a great event i wouldnt have wanted to miss out on.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
a weekend of dance
again I have spent my entire last weekend not doing the homework and studywork and school work which i was supposed to, but instead i occupied myself with the fine arts: dancing. saturday was a first league latin formation tournament and sunday a tournament of my own. here some impressions and pictures.
saturday: latin the real thing.
for the second time, I was priviledged to watch some of the worlds best ofrmations: the german league, containing the surrent german champs and vice world champs: ggc bremen A. but ot only this highlight, with their famous trainer Roberto Albanese was worth it: velbert, bremen b, aachen and lastly our A formation all were there too. so after the usual four hours training, instead of going home, I roamed through ludwigsburg having some lunch, before settling in to see the competition. at first it looked like wed have dream seat: right at the top, but that wasnt to be granted, as it was a fire exit etc. so we were lucky and got other awesome seats: fourth row at the front! this meant you couldnt see the pctures, but instead you could see the dancing, the facial expressios and the single movements.
now sunday. after getting up at 5 am to di the usual makeup programme. we drove to kirchkeim (teck), had two catastrophical "stellproben", practice runs, got shouted at, gpt ready, and danced an awesome tournament. the first one had mroe adrenalin in it,but i think i was better here. It felt good and was loads of fun. m fave scene was at the end of the prerun, when we wlaked off: I looked at the judge center middle, raise my eyebrows and smile, and see him make a cross. the more crosses the better.
now guess what happened. we beat backnang c and bietigheim A!!!!!!!! :D our two rivals! it was pretty close with a 33345, but enough. getting the results was a dream. we knew we had at least the 5th place secure, so when the team infront of us, backnang c, got a majority of 5th place, we knew we would be above them. half or tema was already jumping up and down (even though we were all like hsh you dint now the result yet) but then we were up! I couldnt believe my eyes when i saw the 3s. it was more than expected, but not necessarily more than deserved. the party mood afterwards was one of the best i have ver experienced, especially when the b team (2nd place) dressed up to a "bad taste" theme.
so here are some pics: (the yellow ones are us, the whack ones the bteam after the show)
saturday: latin the real thing.
for the second time, I was priviledged to watch some of the worlds best ofrmations: the german league, containing the surrent german champs and vice world champs: ggc bremen A. but ot only this highlight, with their famous trainer Roberto Albanese was worth it: velbert, bremen b, aachen and lastly our A formation all were there too. so after the usual four hours training, instead of going home, I roamed through ludwigsburg having some lunch, before settling in to see the competition. at first it looked like wed have dream seat: right at the top, but that wasnt to be granted, as it was a fire exit etc. so we were lucky and got other awesome seats: fourth row at the front! this meant you couldnt see the pctures, but instead you could see the dancing, the facial expressios and the single movements.
now sunday. after getting up at 5 am to di the usual makeup programme. we drove to kirchkeim (teck), had two catastrophical "stellproben", practice runs, got shouted at, gpt ready, and danced an awesome tournament. the first one had mroe adrenalin in it,but i think i was better here. It felt good and was loads of fun. m fave scene was at the end of the prerun, when we wlaked off: I looked at the judge center middle, raise my eyebrows and smile, and see him make a cross. the more crosses the better.
now guess what happened. we beat backnang c and bietigheim A!!!!!!!! :D our two rivals! it was pretty close with a 33345, but enough. getting the results was a dream. we knew we had at least the 5th place secure, so when the team infront of us, backnang c, got a majority of 5th place, we knew we would be above them. half or tema was already jumping up and down (even though we were all like hsh you dint now the result yet) but then we were up! I couldnt believe my eyes when i saw the 3s. it was more than expected, but not necessarily more than deserved. the party mood afterwards was one of the best i have ver experienced, especially when the b team (2nd place) dressed up to a "bad taste" theme.
so here are some pics: (the yellow ones are us, the whack ones the bteam after the show)
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