Kultur 6- Cameron Carpenter

Ich finde very interesting how the Germans took the tabloid journalism to a new level. Ich mag this article mainly because my grandma used to work for life magazine which is now people magazine, so she has told me a lot about that kind of thing. However to go as far as publishing naked people is unheard of over here, although I suppose the European liberality with sexuality would probably make it more acceptable. I did find it funny how defensive the magazine got when the sun published a partially nude Foto of the chancellor. Calling saying " my chancellor is nicer for me to look at than your whiskey-bloated ass-faces in London", and then calling them out for the up coming world cup. This article got me very interested and hopefully I can read Bild Zeitung soon.
The second article was not nearly as fun as the first, but I did find it good to know that if a door is shut one should still just knock and walk right in. I did enjoy the picture of Bush looking like a idiot, but who doesn't like that. I also enjoyed that closing paragraph telling you to show that door who is boss knock hard once and walk right on in.
The third article was also quite interesting how complicated the Germans make every thing. The trash obviously is no different with trash, when I counted up the number of bins the article said there were I counted acht bins which is about seven more than we have on average. I really enjoyed the little story it had, about how every one got confused some with the train and the narrator with the trash. I like how it was added that trash disposal is often headlining news in Germany, where it would never be here.
It's pretty cool that most German students don't live in dorms. I feel like it gives them more of a real world transition in stead of the dorms. Although I also think that with the decentralized living arrangements it would drastically change the college experience.
Firstly Tübingen looks sehr schön, a mix in between north England with its architecture and a Venice like feel from all the small boote on the river. It is cool that it has a connection with here and that the university was the first to open after the war.
I had no Idee that there were so many immigrants in German. I friend from frankfurt had told me a little about them and how much he hated the people from turkey, a gang of them once beat and stabbed him. It is crazy that 80% of asylum seeking persons in Europe come to germany, because that is a massive number.

AMD 6- Facebook

For my final AMD vor der semester ich changed my facebook en deutsch. Ich sehe around meine page. Ich saw that the friends as Freunde und mutal friends as gemeinsame Freunde. For the news feed it gives the time of the en Deutsch. So instead of 20 minutes ago it would be vor 20 minuten, or if it is 2 hours they have vor 2 stunden. Instead of liking something it is gasëllf mir. I also saw "hat seinen Beziehungsstatus von „in einer Beziehung“ zu „Single“ geändert." which is someone becoming single after being in a relationship. After looking around of a while I had a conversation with my friend who lives in Germany. We met when he came to Petoskey for a foreign exchange and we became good friends. We had a facebook chat. We just really went over the basic vocab. Guten Tag, und es geht's di?, es geht mir gut was his reply. The conversation kept going like this. I also asked how the weather was and what he was did last weekend. It was really nice to talk to him again.

Kultur 5- Cameron Carpenter

The idea that a German will ignore that some one is there is a little bit surprising and that the people wont even say sorry or anything, but I mean they are Canadian so what can we expect. I found it really funny that an older women would jab someone just so her grand kid could see a parade. After that the comment that a young man will still give up his seat for n older lady is probably more out of fear than respect. Firstly the opening to this article is hilarious and probably the best thing we read all semester. This article is fairly accurate about the American perception I believe, however it is not completely correct in Ann Arbor we have the safe sex shop right on north u. and there is also one in my home town that's fairly open. Comparatively to Germany though we are quite close minded on the matter and I don't think any one say " oh I have some extra money, I should get some porn!". The idea of paying for a public bathroom seems insane to me, I think the person who gets paid to do it then they should. Charging you petty change although doesn't seem like much it would really add up, which we saw by some of the women's weekly earning. A thousand dollars a week is crazy for just cleaning a bath room. For the flirting article I really only read the part for the men since I decided that was probably the only part that pertained to me. It is really interesting that girls will not like it if you are to forward and will most likely to be scared off. The quick eye contact is rather weird to me, but I suppose it makes sense, although it would probably be considered awkward in the united states. The main gist of the last article was that women seem to be better than men in Germany, they live longer, there are more of them (although that's probably better for the men), and more go to college. I found this article so dumb compared to the normal kultur articles so I really only skimmed it.

AMD 5 - Bolton: «Weitere Zeichen der Besserung» bei Muamba

For the AMD I read an article about Bolton midfielder and his recent heart attack. A few weeks ago English born born midfield Fabrice Muamba had a heart attack while playing in a match vs. the Tottenham Hotspur in the FA-Cup-Viertelfinale. After this the Fußball commuity really came together. In Madrid the Real Madrid team wore shirts saying "Gute Besserung Muamba" which I asume is along the lines of get well soon. I picked up on quite a bit of this article such as Der englische Fußballprofi Fabrice Muamba which I presumed means the English football player Fabrice Muamba. The phrase "des 23-Jährigen" the 23 year old. Also "Muamba war im FA-Cup-Viertelfinale bei Tottenham Hotspur", which means "Muamba was in the FA Cup Quarter final with the Tottenham Hotspur." This is Fabrice Muamba and my heart goes out to him and his family:
http://www.pipeline.de/www/pipe_51_109993484-1-58981_Bolton-Weitere-Zeichen-der-Besserung-bei-Muamba.html

Kultur 4- Cameron Carpenter

The first article was very interesting. Although I knew that a lot of people in Europe like to bike places. I also knew that they just went on the street or side walk and don't have their own lanes like many place over here. Mein Opa hates them, aber if one got in his way I would like to think that he would move. So to hear that many Germans would move is extremely surprising. I'm not particularly surprised that the drivers don't stop for pedestrians, although it is so different from over here, especially Ann Arbor in which one can cross any where and assume even with out looking they will be fine. Over there and even in larger cities over here drivers really get the right away and if a walker gets in their way it will most likely be their funeral. Its very funny that the Germans are so logical that if one asks for a ticket then asked for the next train and the teller will tell you the next train not if it is yours or if your ticket is valid for the ride. The idea of a free meal in our culture is quickly disappearing, however when we see a chance to get one we almost never turn down the opportunity. I we saw a train with no turn styles we would probably hop on that train whether or not its going where we want. To see that in Germany they buy tickes no matter what. It kinda reminds me a parking tickets, one may get away with not paying fr a while, but soon your luck will run out and you'll pay a lot more in the end. First off I love the Idea of Slobs Anonymous. The Idea of two one way streets running into each other seems crazy, but I'm sure the Germans thought of a way to make it work. They are the most organized people and this just furthers proves it.

AMD 4 - Make love, not Warcraft.

For this AMD Ich watched another south park episode. This episode was called "In der World of Warcraft". Different from last time I watched a south park in Deutsch I understood so much more than last time. I learnt the world "toten" oder to kill. So i picked up on the phrase "Sie Kenny getötet" und "Sie töteten meinen Vater". This episode is about the game called World of Warcraft. The boys start playing the game and then a mystery man attacks and kills there characters. After the boy can't spielen World of Warcraft with out gestorben, they start to give up. How ever Cartmen has the idea of leveling up just killing boars until they are a high enough level to kill the mystery player who killed kept killing them. Before this happen they try to get all the kids in the neighborhood to join forces and kill this online menac. When Clyde says he desn't want to be a part of the group then Cartmen ask,"Sind Sie Französisch Clyde?" After the plan fails they train and kill the man who is terrorizing the web. My favrtive line was "wie wollen Sie töten ohne Leben?" or how do you kill one with no life.

AMD 3 - Reading an article about Bayern Munchen

This article was very difficult to understand. I did pick out that on every sunday at 7:30 pm something happens. It looked like that on TV there is a interview or something of that description. It then goes on to talk about the legend in the world of football Franz Beckenbauer. I said that he had something on Sundays, although I could not understand quite what is was. It seems like it then goes on to compare him to Bayern's Robbin. It talks about how when Robbin is playing well there is something very rare with him. It then does on to say what I believe was he is a safe pick to do well, how ever I'm not quite sure. The article ends with Beckenbauer say something like there is no comparison to Robben and that Muller is no replacement, or something along those lines.

http://sportbild.bild.de/SPORT/bundesliga/vereine/fc-bayern-muenchen/2012/02/13/knallharte-kaiser-kritik-an-robben/beckenbauer-erweist-bayern-baerendienst.html