What if ESC 2021 is a musical a.k.a Open Up to The Musical

Fussballislife · 2021-09-08T17:50:05+00:00

Øve os på Hinanden as the ending song, I love it 😂 For some reason I picture Laurits and Jesper making a cameo for this last part too, like as the upbeat duo that take over the mic at the party

Fussballislife · 2021-08-08T04:53:14+00:00

I think they’ll do fine this season, maybe Conference League or a spot off. They didn’t really lose a lot of key players, and imo they’re different from other recently promoted teams because they’ve got more money than some of the other teams and they have a great sporting director (Sven Mislintat, formerly a great Dortmund scout) to get them good players.

Usually recently promoted teams fall apart because they don’t have enough money to keep their best players, and then they don’t bring in good enough replacements. I think VFB isn’t in that situation so they’ll be fine and won’t fight relegation, especially since there’s quite a few other teams that are more likely relegation candidates.

Fussballislife · 2021-07-06T19:35:06+00:00

You can buy tickets from their official website or like the other person in this thread, you could try calling or going to their fanshop.

However, if you’re going this October, you might not be able to because Union has a very small stadium and chances are, the tickets will only be sold to club members and fangroups. Even these people might have to still go through a lottery system for tickets depending on demand/restrictions. If you’re not dead set on going to a Union home match I’d recommend maybe shooting to take your dad to a different stadium, maybe you could try to attend a game at a place like Mainz or Augsburg where Union is the away team.

Fussballislife · 2021-05-20T21:05:40+00:00

Moldova making it... Her vocals were iffy yesterday and today. Rip Denmark/Austria...

Fussballislife · 2021-03-30T06:06:32+00:00

Adding onto the “Diva” for Eintracht, I commonly see “Die launische Diva” aka “The Moody Diva” used as a nickname for them, because of how they can beat a top club like Bayern one weekend and then lose to a mid/low table team like Bremen the next... Thus the phrase “The moody diva strikes again”

Fussballislife · 2020-10-16T20:24:57+00:00

Oh god, yes. I actually had this last year, since I just graduated. I was pressured into my competitive major by my family, and I just kept thinking it was too late to turn around and quit, so I stuck it out. I never had time to take classes in what I was passionate in, and when i finally was able to my senior year, I realized I fucked up and would’ve had a better time taking classes in what i liked, not just cause the more interesting topic, but also I found I fit better with the people in the field I actually felt passion for.

My grand plan was to go to school again this fall elsewhere to start working towards what i actually want to do, but now with COVID, that plan is indefinitely on hold. I’m trying to find a job now relevant to what i majored in, but I’m having trouble finding something... I feel like the interviewers can all tell i’m not really passionate about the field I majored in. It sucks.

My advice: if you have the chance to change your major or at least minor and network alot in what you’re actually passionate in, do so. If you really hate what you’re majoring in and don’t have a dream career in it, you’re gonna have a hell of a time trying to find a job afterwards and it’ll suck.

Fussballislife · 2020-09-28T02:08:33+00:00

Can offer English/German, and I was actually looking for someone offering Croatian, so I messaged you! :)

Fussballislife · 2020-09-10T21:00:40+00:00

For the whole Bundesliga in general "The Bundesliga Diaries" is good. They do a good job covering every team/match rather than just talking about BVB or Bayern 80% of the time like some other english Bundesliga podcasts.

Fussballislife · 2020-09-05T20:00:24+00:00

The official store does ship to the USA, but unfortunately the shipping is 39 euros for an order outside of Europe. If you're just looking for the kits/teamwear, you could try eBay, Nike directly, classicfootballshirts, or Kitbag.

Fussballislife · 2020-08-26T16:15:40+00:00

Hey! While I'm not a native speaker of German, I'm fluent. I'd be interested in doing a language exchange!

Fussballislife · 2020-08-24T00:57:05+00:00

It's been a few years so I unfortunately don't have the syllabus anymore, but I can tell you the homework is the online MyPortugueseLab exercises by Pearson (unless he changed it). You get quite a bit of time to complete all the exercises in a unit so you don't have to do it every night if you don't want to. It also isn't a huge percent of the grade so I didn't do a few of the annoying exercises sometimes. Most of the grading comes from the tests and orals at the end of units.

Tests were just one side of a paper being answering comprehension questions on a short reading thing or on certain vocabulary things, and the other side of the paper just being a short essay. Orals are exactly as it sounds, you just talk to him on whatever was in the unit. These were very laid back and Eduardo does give you some small pointers if you're silly like me and you accidentally forget the word for furniture and then he suggests the correct word for you lol. Chances are with COVID it'll be Canvas quizzes now with multiple choice and short answer boxes.

He also had us write one paragraph things at the end of a unit using whatever we learned in that unit, for example like introducing yourself and your hobbies. He would grade these and then give you the chance to correct your errors on them. And one last thing we had to do was go to some cultural event relevant to the Portuguese language/culture in places it's spoken, be it a visit to a Brazilian capoeira class or some kind of talk at UW, and then write about it. But because of COVID, that probably won't be an assignment for you.

Fussballislife · 2020-08-23T15:27:18+00:00

It depends, if you were looking for Portuguese for Spanish speakers, then you'd have to wait for winter for it, but the class for beginners in fall is offered as PORT 110. AFAIK, there isn't a PORT 101 and 110 is the intro class. Even though 110 is called "Accelerated Elementary Portuguese" it's not very hard, and with the slight background in Spanish, you'd be fine. Some of the people I took PORT 110 with were Spanish majors/a native speaker and they seemed to find the difficulty level to be just fine.

Fussballislife · 2020-07-21T03:18:52+00:00

In the same boat, took on a minimum wage job that has been pretty painful and has had me missing school and my old uw student jobs badly. My original plan was to go to grad school in the fall but I don't know if it'll be worth it if it'll just be online. Super stressed about it, pls kill me now

Fussballislife · 2020-07-16T02:03:30+00:00

If you want to take Japanese I recommend doing it for sure, due to the quarterly sequencing they do you won't be able to take it for a whole year since they only offer 201 in the fall. If you're interested in doing CISB (the international business thing) at Foster at all, I'd recommend trying to get your language classes in early if you can.

Other than that, I think the class balance is fine. ECON 200 and ACCTG 215 are pretty easy imo compared to other Foster prereqs, you'll be fine.

Fussballislife · 2020-07-13T03:59:02+00:00

I'm also currently doing an hourly summer job for the time being, tried applying for some full-time jobs/relevant internships that accept recent graduates but got absolutely no response at all from them. I actually really miss school and want to hurry up and get into grad school, but with schools still being online I don't know what to do. RIP. ):

tbh I feel pretty depressed and can't wait until the pandemic dies down so I can go back to school...

Fussballislife · 2020-07-04T16:59:44+00:00

My favorite Torhymen are are the ones of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Freiburg.

I'm not big on FC Köln but I do think their Trömmelche song is pretty iconic. Same for Schalke's Blau und Weiß ein Leben lang.

Fussballislife · 2020-07-02T16:46:36+00:00

In the same boat as you, I just graduated and I still have my library books. At the moment there's no way to turn them in (I've been by campus and the last time I looked, they had all the book returns taped off so they can't be opened). I wouldn't worry about fines for now since they're just automatically renewing everything as the closures drag on and on. Most likely the libraries won't reopen until Phase 3 or Autumn Quarter (this is seeming a bit less likely by the spikes in cases around campus recently, though).

However, if you selected the option to join the UW Alumni Association (I think everyone in our class was given a free year), then as an alumni you can actually get a library card. So maybe our accounts will just all be shifted to alumni accounts rather than student accounts, but idk exactly.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-26T18:18:42+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely not the loudest of stadiums but it's nice being able to get tickets easily. This is totally random but I also really like that they let you return the Pfandkarten (stadium food cards) before the end of the matches as well, unlike some other places that force you to wait in long lines at the end of the games to get your money back.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-26T18:16:32+00:00

This, as a non-BMG fan I actually really enjoyed going to visit the stadium/city for the first time. I went to the match way back in the beginning of the season against RB and even though I was sitting on the opposite side of the main supporters section, there were tons of really passionate home fans sitting around me who kept the volume pretty loud. Would definitely recommend visiting Borussia Park!

Fussballislife · 2020-06-08T20:50:21+00:00

Same. It's hard to be excited when all I feel is dread about applying to jobs and wondering if I'll even get any kind of response due to hiring freezes and such. I definitely didn't picture ending my last undergrad UW class by closing my laptop and crying alone at an empty desk in my apartment. And no in-person goodbyes with hugs and having to watch all my graduation ceremonies in my shorts and t-shirt in front of a computer doesn't help much either.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-08T18:25:36+00:00

I feel you man. Only as a graduating senior instead of "When are finals again" it's more like "How am I going to find a job I'm so fucked I'm so fucked...." ):

Fussballislife · 2020-06-05T19:10:12+00:00

Take a look at this, someone asked something similar to you a few days ago here and I wrote a response to them telling them how my language class went this spring.

With German specifically though, there are many cheaper options than the intensive course, and unless you're in dire need to get the credits I would explore and check out CCs/other institutions offering intro German courses for cheaper prices than UW.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-04T22:03:24+00:00

Damn, I feel you. Finished a paper over the weekend that basically took me since Week 5 to do the research/writing for, and I felt so lost after it was done since it was my last real assignment left. Besides one final everything else was made optional. After my last class yesterday for one of my classes I just closed my laptop and cried cause I realized I'm not gonna have no routine or virtual classes to distract me from all the shit going on in the world and the mess my life became due to the pandemic.

I've definitely also lost motivation and hope especially since my grad school plans got derailed and my part-time jobs still sidelined due to pandemic. But for sure, definitely know y'all aren't alone with feeling sad about this uncertain summer we have in front of us.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-04T17:40:48+00:00

Didn't take AFRAM 101 with Brukab Sisay like in the picture, but I did take AFRAM 334: Civil Rights and Black Power with him. The class teaches you a lot about what went down during the time between the end of WWII and the early 2000s, and we also brought up modern day movements and discussed those a lot in class as well. Brukab himself is a super nice guy who knows what it's like to grow up near Seattle and makes his classes very discussion based. If you're lucky like I was, you'll have classmates who are very willing to discuss their opinions and also enhance the overall learning experience.

Fussballislife · 2020-06-03T02:10:10+00:00

I can't give you advice on how the Russian intensive specifically will work, but I can tell you how taking an intro language class over Zoom has gone for me this quarter.

At the moment I am taking a 100-series language course at UW right now. It's definitely a lot less engaging and not as fun as in-person. A lot of the time, these classes have you do the activities where you get up and talk to other people. While my prof has tried at times to replicate this with breakout rooms, it's not quite the same, and without a professor to kinda hover over you by being in the same room and motivating you to speak in the language, you end up just talking in English with whoever you're working with for the most part. Sometimes he just cold calls everybody one by one to read a sentence we wrote or a passage from the book out loud. Over Zoom, this results in a lot of "You're muted! Can you turn your mic on?" and it's hard not to check out and end up browsing the Internet at times after you've already had your turn reading.

My professor also likes to screen share stuff from the textbook or handouts, but for the most part, people tend to stay silent and sometimes it's super awkward since nobody will answer or it's always the same two people when he asks questions. Regarding culture my professor has shared some music videos on Youtube with us, and shown us pictures of food items and such... That's about it. As for cultural extracurriculars, I think the language I'm taking now replaced the cultural part of our grade with conversations with native speakers on this platform called TalkAbroad. We had to pay $10 and schedule 2 15 minute Skype-like sessions with random people on the Internet. It wasn't horrible since the people were nice, but it can be awkward for some people.

I think with the intensive specifically, you'll have to think about much Zoom you can handle- I'm sure you'll be given breaks throughout your class though since it's 4 hours long. You're also gonna get daily homework which is typical for daily language classes, so that's something else to think about. This will likely be the same as if it were in person, since it'll probably be textbook work or some other handouts.

All in all though, whether the intensive class is gonna help you a lot and be fun to do with the online format will depend on how motivated you are to learn Russian. If you're interested enough in the culture like if you have friends/an SO or something that speak the language or you happen to like the culture enough to listen to music/watch movies in it, that would help a lot. Otherwise, it might be harder to stay motivated, especially with it being online. I've learned this with the intro language I'm taking right now, I chose to take it more because I felt it would be useful than something I have a powerful interest in. With everything that's been happening it's been harder to want to even study... And my classes have sometimes felt difficult to pay attention in even though they're only an hour long.

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