Diversity Week Update

German students will actually be participating in Diversity Week on Wednesday the 25th. Do not show up on Monday! Unless you intend to learn about some other cultures, of course. We need volunteers for each lunch period. There is a sign up sheet in Herr Kandah's classroom. Please remember to sign up and show up Wednesday the 25th in the learning lab during lunch!

Diversity Week

At today's rather low-key meeting, we discussed Enloe's upcoming Diversity Week (February 23-27) and what German Club will be doing to represent German culture. We are going to have a booth set up on Monday the 23rd during all three lunches, and we need volunteers! Please, do not skip class out of enthusiasm for German. Only sign up for your lunch period. We will be displaying all aspects of German culture through flags, soccer jerseys, music, pretzels, and a video of Oktoberfest revelry, among other things. Let us know if you have any ideas or can supply us with anything else. You are encouraged to wear Lederhosen or a Dirndl!

We also discussed Herr Kandah's t-shirt design, which seems to have widespread approval (despite the lack of participation in a related poll). I know it will come as a disappointment to some of you, but Herr Kandah's face will not be appearing on any t-shirts anytime soon.

ein neues T-Shirt Design??

First, thanks to Mary Grayson for updating the website. Yes, the service project is underway, thanks to Mrs. O'Quinn for allowing us to assist her. German Club members: contribute to those boxes in your English classes! Contribute multiple times. And tell your friends to do the same. After the collection is complete, we'll help Mrs. O'Quinn's Junior Class officers pack the care packages up.

Now, the t-sirts. We need t-shirts! I attempted a design. Let's go with a black t-shirt again. On the front of the shirt, either smallish in the upper corner of the shirt, or larger and centered (I personally prefer the former) would be this image:



Then on the back, a reminder of the great historical personages who changed the world using the German language:



What do you think? Let me know. I want to get this design to Body Billboards in Durham, the folks who made our t-shirts last year, for an estimate on cost, etc. Vote to the left on this design. Let's unify and wear these shirts with pride, people! If we act fast we can possibly get them before German Day.

Alles Gute!

Service Project Success and T-shirt Troubles

It looks like we're tying up the loose ends we discussed at our January 14th meeting. Thank you to everyone who attended on Wednesday! We finally got our service project off the ground with the help of Mrs. O'Quinn. The project, Love Our Troops, is intended to show the troops we care by sending them items they need just in time for Valentine's Day. A really really big thank you is in order for everyone who carried collection boxes all over the school. If you couldn't make it to the meeting, you can still help us by finding the Love Our Troops collection box in your English class and donating something. We also put up bright pink flyers around the school, which should be hard to miss.

Now all we need is a T-shirt design. If no one submits a design soon, we're going to go with a simple design that gets the job done. If you'd like something with more pizazz (or more cartoon animals or German flags or whatever), then submit a design!

Gingerbread Creations

I think we can all agree that today's foray into gingerbread house (or Berlin Wall or boat) construction got a little messy but was still a lot of fun! I think we should thank our presidents for orchestrating this. It took a lot of graham crackers, icing, and gumdrops to make that happen. Congratulations to the winning team, who created a very charming structure out of ordinary foodstuffs that managed to impress our judge. Great meeting, everyone! I'm glad we got to flex our creativity together.

Wednesday Meeting, December 3, 2008

This Wednesday is devoted to the GAPP exchange. There will be refreshments, but the meeting will be called to order at various points so that vital information can be disseminated to host families and Enloe German students travelling to Germany next summer. All German Club members are welcome to attend, but decorum must be maintained during the meeting; we want to make our GAPP Exchange a memorable thing, and we want the German Club to spearhead the welcome mat for our German friends in Schwetzingen. We have to begin seriously planning for the exchange however.

So, come to the meeting but be prepared to listen quietly to important information that might not pertain directly to you. But enjoy hearing about the parameters of our exchange with the Hebel Gymnasium in Schwetzingen!

We will have another meeting before we depart for our Winter Holiday Break - on Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Thejn things will be more festive and light-hearted!

Tschüss!

etwas Neues - Endlich!

Nice turnout at German Club. Hope everyone had fun. In attendance were: Mary Grayson, Kurt, Kyle, Brendan, Aaron, Henry, William, Ruqiyah, Cal, Lea, Sarah, Miles, Matt, Andy, Kelsey, Michael, Chris, JoJo, and Ashton. If I missed anyone, forgive me. We had some new faces too which is nice, and we had a guest from German 1 last year, Erin, who no longer takes German, but she came to visit us, which was nice.

By the way our officers are:

Sarah and Matt - Co-Presidents
JoJo - Vice President
Mary Grayson - Secretary
Cal - Treasurer

Speaking of the treasury, PAY YOUR DUES! They are only five dollars. They help pay for food and drink.

Extra Service Officers include

Jacob - event organizer
Michael - service project organizer

Their actual duties will be further explicated at a later date.

What we're working on currently:

T-Shirt Designs - a nice, clean, original design, with a motto.
Service project - we need to start thinking about this. Something to outreach to our community.
German Day - Thursday, March 5, 2009 - the theme is Grüner geht's nicht! It'll be held at UNC-Chapel Hill this year. More news later on this.


We're thinking also about the GAPP Exchange. Our exchange students will be her in late March, 2009. We want to use our German Club to make banners, welcome the students, make them feel at home, etc. More news later on their arrival and stay here.

Now the pictures we took today. Here they are!