inspired by germany

august in winnipeg means the stereotype perpetuating 'cultural celebration' known as folklorama. off the german society i went with alana and adrian, my favourite german connection in winnipeg. we learned about the sorbians, a slavic ethnic minority in germany, and were also told that german dialects are so different from province to province (yes, germany apparently has provinces and not states!) that germans can't even understand each other. the three of us listened politely, then exchanged somewhat confused looks when we could finally make our getaway. even after finding out that adrian is german and alana and i have both lived in lovely deutschland, the woman telling us all about german provinces and dialects still seemed to think we were just a bunch of clueless canucks or something. keine ahnung!

this is the only thing about the pavilion that actually reminded me of germany