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Hi Folks,
I know it’s been a while since I got a new post out and that it will be a bit more time till I get the new podcast up. Many of you know that the months of July and August are traditionally the vacation months here in Germany and while the whole county doesn’t shut down like you may see in other European countries, it is hard to have a completely productive Summer.
In my case, it’s Summer vacation with the kids so I’ll be focusing on family more than the blog and podcast. But have no worries, as the Autumn slowly turns it’ll drive me back to the microphone
I had the poll for the next podcast up for about 2 weeks and decided to close it down after over 90% of you voted to hear about nudity in Germany. really. I never knew that about you guys…
I have to admit, I was surprised. I figured that all of you would jump on the nationalism / Nazism topic … but perhaps that is selling you all out short. After all, I assume most of you are enlightened enough to know that the extreme right movement in Germany is tiny, especially when compared to that very same movement in Germany’s neighbors. So nudity it is!
In anycase, I shall follow the wishes of the people and get to work on putting a podcast together for all of you very soon With the topic being as it is, I was considering making it a video podcast. But then again, perhaps that’s going just a bit over board. We’ll see.
Well the EM has run its course and the better team won, Spain. Watching the game last night with my neighbors was, again, an insight into how different cultures see things, or better put, react to things differently. As soon as things started going less than perfect in the game for the German side, my neighbors began to criticize the team. It started slow at first until it became an outright tirade about the inability of the players to do anything right. By halftime, an overwhelming sense of hopelessness had crept over all of us. This attitude I saw, was reflected by the faces of the German fans in the crowd in Vienna.
This shouldn’t have surprised me. After all, I’m aware of the German’s overly critical views on things and I have a general understand that this is base upon the fear of failure. But it did strike me as strange, despite any fore knowledge I might have had. At one point, of our neighbors remarked, “the Spanish fans would be trying to fire-up their team at a time like this. But look at us. We can’t help it, we’re Germans.”
I think that I’ll put out?a podacst about this. Please do have a vote for the topic you’d like to hear about next (as discussed in the past podcast).
And I was going through Amazon and found some cool stuff that you might like to have. Just browse the carousel and if you’re interested, click on the product.
Hello Friends. It’ s high spring in Germany and the Football season is in full bloom. The German Ntl. Team has proven to be not completely reliable in thier performance thus far in the EM football cup this year. Their arch-nemeses from the World Cup, the? Italian Team, have also made it through the initial qualifying rounds into the quarter finals, so it shall prove to be an exciting week. The Mercedes-Benz Marketing department, one of my clients, has recently released a really cool ad showing their support of the German national team. The general idea was to compare the EM tournament to climbing a mountain. In the ad you’ll see the German team dressed as old-school mountain climbers. It’s a cool idea and it turned out to be a cool ad. Check it out:
param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/uZK7vhULRNY”>Some of you might be aware of the fact that I made the move to a start-up company and this is most certainly taking much of my time. I continue to have very little time for podcasting, which, to be very honest, has boiled down to a question of priorities and laziness. At work today I reflected upon what I wanted to do with the MyGermany Podcast. Should I dump it? Let it die an ignoble death through inattention? Should I continue with the audio format or make the jump to video as I had originally planed. I’m not really sure about future, but I do know that I’ll continue to produce content for you and, to be honest, for me. It’s something that I still believe in and I’m still grateful for the high subscription rate and regular listeners.So with that, I’ll leave you with a hint about the next podcast:
Thanks to the excellent support of my website designer milo, things seem to be back on track for the myGermany website. With Easter holidays coming up, I’ll probably be able to get a new episode of the podcast up for you pretty soon. Keep your eyes open and your RSS feeds ready!
And I was going through Amazon and found some cool stuff that you might like to have. Just browse the carousel and if you’re interested, click on the product.
I had the poll for the next podcast up for about 2 weeks and decided to close it down after over 90% of you voted to hear about nudity in Germany. really. I never knew that about you guys…
