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[australienne]

Am still shaking my head over the strangeness that was Ukraine's winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest (and am trying not to remember that I'll probably be in Eastern Europe when next year's train wreck is on, and could quite easily make it to Kiev...), and have abandoned all my royal scruples in a week of drooling over Prince Frederick and

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[vonlooney]

Hello - I came across your comments whilst reading ajhalluk's journal, and decided to friend you, given your interest in Germany and so on.

Question for the masses: if no-one will employ people without experience, how exactly do you get it?

Networking and nepotism seem to be the preferred modes of entry. This is a problem for those of us not overly keen on either.

[australienne]

Before it appears as though I've no manners at all, welcome aboard! My apologies for my recent absence - I rather stupidly volunteered to provide an extra presentation for a history seminar I'm sitting in on as something of an expert. I'm not sure whether to laugh at the idea that I've got that much knowledge as an honours student, or depressed that what I know seems so broad to the class. You'd think someone doing an MA in Holocaust Studies and writing an essay on collective memory (due in three weeks) would have heard of Bitburg, or Willy Brandt's trip to the Warsaw Ghetto memorial, or the television series 'Holocaust', or have a vague idea that Adenauer wasn't particularly reflective about the past...

Anyway, I hope I manage to post something interesting at least some of the time!

[vonlooney]

Oh, that's quite alright - you do, after all, have an excellent excuse. As it is, I'm well aware that the life of the Honours Student is a busy one, and if you're taking on extra work - even if you love it - it rather precludes Livejournaling.

You'd think someone doing an MA in Holocaust Studies and writing an essay on collective memory (due in three weeks) would have heard of Bitburg, or Willy Brandt's trip to the Warsaw Ghetto memorial, or the television series 'Holocaust', or have a vague idea that Adenauer wasn't particularly reflective about the past...

Well quite!