Blogs List
At the Library
 Larry Hlavsa |
NEW ULM LIBRARY ON "FACEBOOK"!Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 9:58AM The New Ulm Public Library is now on "Facebook." Our new assistant library director, Kris Wiley, has set up and will be maintaining these new informative pages. If you become a "fan" of the New Ulm Library, you'll get info on what's going on in the Library every time you log in to your Facebook acco.
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Rotary Exchange to Ecuador
 Katherine Joyce |
15Tue, November 10, 2009 @ 11:15AM Saturday I attended the birthday party of a girl in my school who turned fifteen and her parents gave her a quincienera as a gift. What happens is she then invites 14 of her closest girl friends to be her damas and then she walks into the party with her cabellero who can be a close friend or in many cases your brother. Then her parents come in with her dad carrying high heeled shoes. Next her dad exchanges one of her slippers for a high heeled shoe and then her mom does the same. Right after the fourteen damas are presented and they stand in two lines facing each other about 5 feet apart, seven on each side. The birthday girl, who is dressed as a princess with a tierra and gorgeous gown, dances to each dama, who is holding a lit candle, and blows out each one symbolizing her passing from a child to an adult. Sometime during the party their is an hour loco in which crazy dancers come in a everyone is jumping/dancing and just making tons of noise.
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Park and Rec Happenings
 Cheryl Kormann |
New Playground at South & Washington!Tue, November 17, 2009 @ 2:29PM If you haven't seen the new playground recently installed in South Park, you need to check it out! This colorful, new playground is equipped with swings, slides, climbing features, free standing spin and rocking toys as well as the traditional slides. We also replaced the outdated spring toys at Washington with the new X-Wave 2; a teeter-totter like structure that 1 to 20 kids can ride for hours of giggles and b.
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Tessa's Rotary Exchange Year
 Tessa Makepeace |
My Last Month and BerlinTue, November 10, 2009 @ 7:45AM Tomorrow is a very, very important day in German history. It’s the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down in Germany that stood for decades dividing East and West Germany along with East and West Berlin. Where I live is almost exactly on the border from East and West Germany so tomorrow night just a few kilometers from my house there is an event that I am going to with my host family. It should be extremely interesting. It’s already interesting to hear about the experiences of my host parents and of other people who experienced a divided Germany as well as a reunited country. I will write more about that in my next blog. So, okay, what have I been up to for the past month? I have to think back. I went to Berlin on the 16th of October for the day. The student information session that was the reason we made the trip there was a lot different than we had expected.
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Off the Record
 Kevin Sweeney |
Sedentary ManMon, November 9, 2009 @ 4:40PM Bob Harper kicked my butt on Saturday. The team trainer on “The Biggest Loser” was in New Ulm for the “Heart of New Ulm” Heart Summit. Before the summit he was featured at what HONU called a “Community Leaders Program” at the Vogel Fieldhouse. I got to go because my boss threw his invitation on my desk and said, “Here, I won’t be able to make it.” The program was supposed to feature a talk by Harper on how to lead New Ulm into better health, and a “light workout.” OK, I haven’t really exercised in about 20 years, but I figured I could handle a “light workout.” Harper, who seems to be a really nice guy when he’s talking, suddenly turned mean and vicious when he got us “Community Leaders” out on the floor. I figured I was in trouble when about 95 percent of the town’s “Community Leaders” appeared to be female, most of them young and wearing fashionable workout togs, the sign that they were veterans of many step classes and aerobics sessions.
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