I’ve just come home from going out. For the first time I’ve been at the German Club; not the university’s but the real Edmontonian one – although maybe a third of the people were from the U of A one. (Bari is really fantastic as a president, our president, I may say as I'm a regular member. :-) The Edmonton German Club - or German Canadian Cultural Association (GCCA) to be precise - tries to set up a new thing, a monthly so called “Feier Abend” with German beer and German and European dance music. On the invitation it said quite ironically “... and you think there is nothing for people under 50 at the German Club.“ – which is exactly the German’s (as well as the Austrian’s, only that their Club is again way smaller) problem. They are getting older and older, their children are Canadians – and unless the Club manages to set up something successful now it will be vanished in 10 to 15 years.

Well, at least for me it was a good start; I had a lot of fun. I just hope the boss doesn't find out that I'm partying with the Prussian enemy otherwise I'll be immediately kicked out of the institute. ;-) On the other hand - I think I've met almost as many Austrians today as Germans..

The first funny thing was that shortly after I arrived (I was late of course) the organiser of the evening showed us very quickly some dancing steps and moves. When I saw them I immediately thought – and said to one of our German Club: „That looks very much like DJ Ötzi to me!“ (which of course didn’t mean anything to her). As soon as the music started, of course: „Hey Baby! Uh, ah! I wanna..“ I fled very quickly from the dancefloor, but – the others stayed, and did a very good job:

I went to the bar instead and got a beer, and of course couldn’t resist to remark to the organiser: „You know that’s pretty telling about who’s the real culture nation if you need an Austrian to get some atmosphere.“ Kidding, of course. To talk about culture in relation to DJ Ötzi, well.. By the way I was surprised today when I read that he jumped from 0 to 1 in Austrian charts and from 0 to 3 in Germany. And I was sincerely shocked when I went to youtube and listened to the song..

WHAT! What the hell is that? Are you kidding me? This is Number 1? I mean Ö3 sucks, but this? I think I have to consider whether I should stay in Canada for a bit longer..

That’s it for now – it’s 3am and I really need to sleeeep! But I hope I have time to continue writing tomorrow, there'd be another a bit more serious topic to talk about..