Germany - Part 4
This is kind of an addendum to the previous post.
Johanna's comment reminded me of something I totally forgot to talk about with regards to New Years in Germany: Dinner for One.
Everything surrounding this New Years Eve television program is odd:
1. It's on repeatedly, on every channel, all night.
2. It's in English...the only thing in English on German TV
3. No native English speaker has ever heard of it
4. People do their diploma theses on it
Well, I had the honour of watching it and it's actually pretty funny. How could a butler getting wasted because he has to pretend to be 4 different characters at the dinner table and, therefore, drink from four different glasses every time a toast is made, not be funny?
On a non-German note, Canada once again dominated the World Junior Hockey Championship. That's three wins in a row.
Nice work, boys.
posted by kent @ 6:12 a.m.
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Winning was exciting, but this story about the MVP of the tournament is amazing (from www.tsn.ca):
Canada's starting goaltender at the world junior hockey championship grew up in tiny Anahim Lake, B.C., which has a population of about 700 when combined with the nearby Ulkatcho First Nation.
When Price began playing minor hockey at 10, the closest teams were 320 kilometres east in Williams Lake.
So he and his father Jerry drove the 640-kilometre round trip three times a week for practices and games, until Jerry decided to put his pilot's licence to use.
''Eventually it got to be a lot of hours in the car so he just bought an airplane so he could fly it,'' Price explained.
At $13,000, the four-seat Piper Cherokee wasn't fancy.
''It was more a lawnmower with wings,'' Jerry said.
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His mother was chief of the Indian band, so I guess that is why they didn't move into Williams Lake, but he did go to school there for the last few years of high school.
Amazing dedication. The father also said that spending a lot of time with together was great. I can vouch for that, as I drove Kent to lots of his practices, games and tournaments. The talking was my favorite part...or was it watching him play...? No matter. Both were great.
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