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Victims on the way to the "Maltese Market"
Facts and Figures

For weeks we could not think of anything else… the days were racing towards the 13th June when the big event was to take place - difficult and time-intensive preparations forced everybody to work as hard as possible. We have even heard of somebody who in fact was not able to sleep the nights before the market…

But let's get down to facts: there were at least 50 students who took part in the market's organisation … and so much more: Matthias, who had to sing the amusing Maltese Calypso, some older students who always had useful solutions, and last but not least Cathy and Phil, who were in a way the "beating heart" of the whole project.

But even this was not enough for the success of our mission. More than ten display boards, fully crowded with any material the project groups could find, (which in fact means 100 kilos) had to be prepared and carried to the "Audimax" (you might imagine that some muscles are still aching). More than 30 big sheets of wallpaper where used to present all the collected information (and even to cover everything behind the food-bar). For this we also needed kilometres of sticking-tape, kilos of glue, several big black markers, and one damaged hand!

The food group sold 20 litres of Kinnie, and many bottles of Guinness and Brown Ale. For the cocktails, one guy got up at 5.30 am to get 10 kilos of crushed ice from the Kreuztal fishmarket. We created several pieces of "bread and oil" from six baguettes and more than twenty tomatoes… not to forget the large quantities of flour a grandmother used to create the yummy "honey ring."

You see, all in all a few hard weeks for the hard(ly) working Anglistik-students of Siegen University!

Nicola Bruch