Blessed sisters, brothers, damen und herren. We invite you on a journey of interplanetary funksmanship. We are a beautiful people. So many faces with so many stories, so much food with so much drink, so much love with so much funk, hit me in 3-D baby, swing low sweet cherry top.
Prayer breaks for food to be consumed. Eager individuals leap for the starting line, predicting the wait that will follow an apathetic walk up to the tables full of food. We all wait our turn, consumed in conversation, sneaking glances at passing plates, oh the delightful anticipation.
Go time comes, fork – knife – spoon – napkin – plate, let’s do work baby. Each of the six, maybe seven, rectangular picnic tables is filled with food, five types of salad, bowls of mashed potatoes, gravy to complement, a tray of enchiladas, bread rolls, green beans, and at the finish line there’s Dr. Rainer, hand slicing a golden brown once living animal of Turkish descent. Dunkel oder helles? Dark for the dry mouths, light for the wet. You choose. I prefer my turkey dark.
As stomachs filled, the conversation previously held around rectangular and circular tables branched out beyond these confining constraints. A group of athletes took over the engineering lab, taking advantage of the conveniently placed ping pong table, another social scene formed around a circular chest high table outside, members of this social niche brought together under one common commodity of consumption, cigarettes, and various others scattered throughout the building, lounging into leather couches, watching Toxic Avenger YouTube clips, and I believe an Alte Hause was spotted, but this will be filed a rumor for the time being.
LMU students from each discipline were in attendance, engineering, film, the various majors that make up the New Europe Program, and of course the AIB students from Bonn University coupled with the teachers and administrators that have given their all to make this semester happen.
If you weren’t there that night, wo warst du? Everyone who had a hand in the production of this event deserves the greatest of thanks, for a day for the thankful, I thank thee production committee. You made my night a memorable one, and feedback from attendees reverberate such sentiment.
