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As I sit here in the Semen's Mission Hostel (he he he) in Bremen Germany, I am more than a little exhausted.
I arrived in Germany on Saturday and since then have been to Frankfurt, Nuremburg, Munich, Gottingen and Bremen.
The Theatresports World Cup is a truly national affair and the organisers are working us hard all over this land of lederhosen, sausage and David Hasselhoff's singing career.
It all started with a few restful nights in the lovely Nuremburg. Yes it was Hitler's favourite town and yes lots of Nazi's gathered there and ranted like a church group, but when we were there it was all about FUSSBALLE!
Holland were playing Portugal in Nuremburg that night and downtown was so orange (Holland’s colour) it looked like Posh Spice's tan at a Fanta
conference in Orange County. There were thousands of them and by the
time they lost to Portugal, whose supporters were less in number but generally prettier, their faces were as long as David Beckham's cellphone bill.
From Nuremburg we headed to Munich for the Theatresports World Cup opening ceremony. Here we met everyone from the sixteen teams taking part. Teams have come from Russia to Canada to Columbia to Zimbabwe and are a crazy group of wacky zany goofy characters to boot.
The New Zealand team consists of Lori Dungey (Improv uber guru from Auckland), Greg Ellis (six foot three of hilarity from Wellington), and me.
Our opponents in the first round are Germany, Columbia and Italy and we play them all twice to decide who goes through to the quarter finals.
Ooh the tension.
Last night we faced off against the home team, Germany, in a gorgeous University town called Gottingen. It was a tense six rounds of stupidity which included me mowing a sheep, licking a very cute German's face and getting a hamster down my pants. The audience decides the winner by awarding points and in the end we won! Hooray, goal!
I thanked the audience for letting NZ win in a World Cup for a change.
Then today we packed up our bags after eating a breakfast of nutella, bread, salami, sausage, jam, pretzels and beer (Ok actually just cereal but I could have if I'd wanted to) and headed on the train to Bremen.
Tonight we take on the might of Columbia. Hopefully they haven't been able to access the cocaine they no doubt all use at home and will therefore be off game. Hmm yes I'm sure that will help. Anyway wish us luck and I'll let you know next week how we go.
Po Karekare Ana!
Penny
Last updated: 29/04/2008
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