Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Sore Legs Lactic Acid

"Forum on Federalism and Democracy"

This was the title of the conference, which was held today at the Hilton Hotel and our Director, Tilman and I were present.
The meeting room was furnished with rows of tables, of which table cloth on the front to the floor ranged on which roses and bouquets of flowers stood up and prepared documents for each pad, pen, water and candy - would be an inspiration to the lectures at the university, - )
The event was for me - especially in view of my specialization in Peace Studies - particularly interesting since the topic of the relationship of civil society to government and market in question, or the contribution of civil society in building a democratic government, even in Ethiopia ( the constitution as a federal republic made in Ethiopia in 1995!) ja in direktem Zusammenhang dazu steht.
Angenehm war natürlich auch, dass im Zeitplan der Tagung eine Kaffeepause eingeplant war, sowie ein anschließendes Lunch im Atrium des Hotels. Durch Zufall landeten wir am Tisch des Präsidenten des FFD und Organisators der Veranstaltung, sowie Vertreter der kanadischen Botschaft, den aufgrund seiner Abstammung alle für ein Mitglied der indischen Botschaft hielten. Große Begeisterung, jemanden aus Österreich am deutschen Kulturinstitut zu haben (Österreicher sind im Gegensatz zu Deutschen hier wirklich eine Seltenheit!!!) und noch dazu aus Salzburg – „Aaah, Salzburg, very beautiful city!“ (da scheint auch schon jeder gewesen zu sein).
Zurück im Institute, I was commissioned to research a member of the German Bundestag information that is supposed to appear shortly in the institution, before we (Tilman and I) we devoted the remainder of the minutes of the meeting. Or dinner in the cafeteria and then made their way home, it's been a pretty busy day and I, and filled up with food before, realized that after the last two days, the suit very closely sits ...

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