Sunday, August 28, 2011

Summer is almost over :(


Much time has passed since our last update! Although we have all been enjoying our summer break, we’ve been hard at work brainstorming theme and fundraising ideas and figuring out the perfect date to hold our main event.

Earlier this summer, three of us met with a few faculty and affiliates of the Canadian Center for German and European Studies at York. Our meeting was a success and we managed to capture the interest of those we met with. The meeting ended with the best possible outcome, as we received notice shortly afterward that Professor Dagmar Soennecken (School of Public Policy & Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) and Professor Ulrich Best, (Visiting DAAD Professor of Geography) have taken an interest in co-supervising our symposium. We are all looking forward to meeting and working with them over the coming school year.

We may have put a lot of work into our project over the summer, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time for fun! In the meantime we’ve been trying to meet up under more casual settings to get to know one another a little better in hopes of becoming a strong team!