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OK so sorry to miss last week BUT my Germany schedule was INSANE! I didn’t check my email for over a week and have had 100 emails to sift through on various topics such as increasing my penis size and the fact I won a lottery for one million bucks... how nice.
You’ll be pleased to know that New Zealand did well in the Theatresports World Cup. We got through to the quarter finals where we were beaten by one of the eventual co-victors, Canada, so that’s not too bad. (Also they invented theatresports in Calgary so it only seems fair.)
I performed in Bremen, Berlin, Halle, Gottingen, Hamburg and Munich and despite the fact I don’t drink beer anymore I drank enough to take me back to Orientation Week 1992, just with less puking.
Of course you may be aware that there was this little sporting competition in Germany at the time called the Welt Meister Scahft, or World Football Cup to you and I, and to be there during that was an amazing experience.
Now I watch sport about as much as I get my bikini-line waxed, but you can’t help getting caught up in the hysteria of it all when you’re surrounded by literally millions of soccer-mad individuals. They all paint themselves with flags, they wear flags, they sport crazy flag coloured wigs and they all drink enough beer to take them back to Orientation 1992, just with more puking.
In every town there were what were known as the Fan Zones. Huge outdoor areas with enormous TV screens and thousands of thronging chanting people. In Berlin there were one million people watching Germany play. Yes one quarter of NZ’s population crammed in one huge boulevard complete with stalls, beer tents and a ferris wheel.
Personally I don’t understand how a sporting match can inspire such mania but generally it was all in a very happy, friendly way. You can’t help but laugh when a Dutch fan dressed as a lion with a bunch of carrots for hair wanders passed.
A group of crazy French men posing for photographs for total strangers can inspire you to whip out your camera and a bunch of German men dressed as refugees from ‘The Sound of Music’ in their fraulein outfits is hilarious.
All the team members from the theatresports competition came together to watch the final in a theatre in Berlin. I actually enjoyed watching the game and we all appreciated Zinadine head-butting the Italian man as it added a flair for the dramatic.
In short Germany put on a fabulous show and was gracious in defeat. Everywhere German flags waved and apparently it was the first real swelling of nationalistic pride since World War Two. You see Germans have this guilt thing and somehow sport lifted that mood from their national psyche, at least for a month anyway.
So, as much as it amazes me that I, Penny Ashton am writing this, bring on the Rugby World Cup 2011, ohhhh I feel dirty.
Penny
Last updated: 29/04/2008
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