10 things you didn't know you could do in UTB

All right. This is the project I've been thinking about for a long time. I'm going to write so GREAT article that it should be divided into ten parts. Just like Star Wars or James Bond :)

"The first thing you didn't know" will be about the Internet connection around the campus. But I am just excited and writing this article as a trailer.

So, "Things you didn't know" Part 1 COMING SOON!

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How to memorize State capitols?

Why do you need to know the capitols of the U.S. states? There's almost 50 of them. Well, you don't really have to know it. I bet even the Americans themselves don't know all the capitols.

But here are some of the reasons:

• You are enrolled in American Studies course, (where you have to learn the capitols of the states)
• You aren’t enrolled in course, but you think you will be in “Who wants to be Millionaire?” one day, and you will need these.
• You must know them in order to impress people. (We are livin' in Amerika! Coca-Cola, Wonderbra! :P)

Whatever it is, I found a very easy way to memorize all those names in 1 hour.

What is it?

Animaniacs.

What?

It’s a cartoon song.

WTF?

Yeah, it’s simple. This is a piece of song from cartoon Animaniacs. Just watch it yourself, OK?

courtesy of Teachertube

There is the lyrics, from STlyrics.com

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.

Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton's in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You've got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau's in Alaska and there's Lincoln in Nebraska
And it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here's Honolulu; Hawaii's a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin' and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa's got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That's all the capitals there are!

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Breaking news: Global Village in Devitka

We interrupt this program to give you breaking news about Global VIllage....... it's coming to Devitka.

Ok, enough hysteria. Barbora just told me that there is going to be an info meeting on "Wednesday (16th April), at 19:30, in "Devítka" (I guess you know where it is, opposite to Prior)".

If you're interested, come and join the meeting! I will be there, too.

Courtesy of www.restaurace.cz

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Global village is coming to town

There are 245 countries in the world, and two types of people.

1. Citizens of well-developed countries. Their country exports entertainment to the world and it helps them spread their culture, e.g. USA, Russia, UK etc.
2. Citizens in other countries. They feel their contributions are missing. So, they wish to exhibit their cultures to the world, “Our culture should add up to the globalization, too!”, e.g. Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.

If you’re #1, you have to know A LOT to fit in this Internet roaming, jet plane flying world,. If you’re the second type, #2, you may want to show your country to the world, screaming “I’m from (your country here)”.

Whichever of the above you’re trying to accomplish, I have a good news – Global Village. This is a multi-culture festival, which will be held this summer in the University Building U2.

Barbora, an AIESECer who is part of the team preparing this event asked me to post about it on the blog. “A lot of foreign people gather in Zlin to present their country to the visitors of this event. They offer samples of their traditional meal, teach the visitors words from their language or even traditional dances” she said.

Even for bystanders, who don’t want to go up and represent their country, they are saving money by watching it. Because they get to know and experience culture shock free in Global Village, instead of traveling there and paying for loads of money (9,999€).

If you like free things by the way, this is another reason you should join, I’d say. You could probably taste many types of foods free such as:

• Fried meat, sweets, pancakes, biscuits, cookies.

Also I’ve read about Global Village in Dubai, where people buy many fancy foreign things, such as:

• Traditional clothes, jewelleries, souvenirs, handcrafts.

Oh wait, instead of pathetically trying to describe the event by listing words, I can show you a video. D’oh! Click here to watch the video!

I list all the other things I found interesting below:

• The organization team pays for your expenses, and you can buy anything you want to present your country.
• You can be as creative as you want to represent you country, e.g. Powerpoint presentation, songs, teaching traditional dance, basic vocabulary etc.
• There is “Zlin dog” students film festival after it, jackpot!
• Then, all the students go after-party!

Update: it is in June 4th. Don't forget to watch the video!

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