The last day before break...

...is a day for watching videos. Well, not in every class, but in a few at least. This morning in GLC we presented our Berlin Districts projects; we had to research a district in Berlin and create an infomercial advertising it. My group chose Friedrichshain (which I learned today is pronounced ,,FREED-richs-hayn," not ,,FREED-rich-shayn"), and this is what we came up with, if you're interested:



Anyway, after the presentations were done, Mr. Uhelski and John D. (that's the one with an h) showed us two German commercials which are well worth sharing. The first one is pretty self-explanatory:



and the second one is like one of those "Have an Idea?" commercials...I'm pretty sure it's for a contest where you enter with a cool idea or invention and can win money. Kann jemand dass Deutsch spricht bitte mir helfen? Stimmt das? Danke. Most of the important dialog is along the lines of ,,And now we wait," ,,He won't be driving through here anymore!" and ,,Don't film the flowers, come over here!" (you can match those up yourself); the text at 1:00 asks ,,Do you have a better do-it-yourself idea?" and the rest you can see for yourself:



Finally, three classes later in Fisix, I finally got Mr. Lyons to watch Der Riss in Der Hose, which is amazing on so many levels, but that's a different story. Anyway, before we got the video about fisix that we were actually supposed to watch, he showed us yet another of the countless differently-subtitled versions of that scene from Der Untergang where Hitler yells at everyone. This particular one, however, makes it onto OAIA quite easily...I'm sure you'll see why.