The 13th June
was a great day for all Anglistik students who were members of the GLC
II courses.
After the excursion to Dublin the participants wanted to present their
experiences and impressions of Ireland at the university, and by using
display boards they were able to present their new knowledge in a creative
way. But not only the excursionists, also those students who did not take
part in the Dublin excursion were asked to show what they had learned
in their GLC courses to all the other students.
We were two of these poor students - that was what we had thought at first!
- because there was no really good idea in our minds until Ana Z., one
of the excursionists, suggested we examine German brewing processes, in
our case at the "Hachenburger Pils" brewery, in order to compare a German
beer to Irish Guinness. After hard work we were finally able to display
our project, and in fact we could not complain about the result. There
were even some people who found it was really good. [Yes, it was super!
C.W.]
However, it was not only our project that gave us pleasure; the whole
Irish Fair itself was an adventure. We were involved in all the preparations
and after the Fair we helped to clean up as well. At that time we were
allowed to eat sandwiches without paying for them! After some very funny
hours in which we had taken some nice photos of Phil and Cathy in front
of our displays, Cathy was so impressed by all the people's help that
everybody got one or two free cans of Guinness. You can't imagine how
great the joy was about such a present when you had already drunk several
of them during the whole day!
Then Cathy said "the great moment" we had all been "waiting for" had arrived.
We were in suspense - what was it? "A dance to my car," Cathy told us.
That still sounded suspenseful, but it turned out that the "dance" simply
involved carrying to the trunk of her car all the many things - including
drink crates, coffee machine, posters, photo albums - that Cathy had brought
with her to the Fair. As you certainly can imagine, that "dance" was not
as exciting as the Riverdance steps at the Fair. But of course we did
it without complaining and after the hard work we said "goodbye" to Ireland,
which had come to the University of Siegen for one day.
Rabea Bräuer and Achim Hartmann
