Definition #10: Rocktoberfest: British rip-off of the famous Bavarian feast, featuring a "crazy German oom-pah troupe" named The Bavarian Stompers playing IRISH SONGS (!) and a rather semi-cool Kings of Leon tribute band semi-creatively named Kins of Leon.

A truly British day was experienced on Saturday. It started out with our first visit to a British football arena. We went to see the local second division club Sheffield United playing Cardiff. With over 25,000 supporters attending (in second division!), the match did not fail to entertain us, ending 3-4, with another 2 goals disallowed for offside and the first four goals scored within 5 minutes.

After the football, we - as becomes a group of proper Englishmen - made our way to a pub, where we hung out for the first part of the night, before we set off to reunite with the very first people we had met in Sheffield. Having hosted us as couchsurfers for our first two nights, they were now hosts of their very own "festival":

Meeting these people again was nice, but also made us realise that five weeks have already passed since we arrived in Sheffield. Which is a long time and a short time at once; long because it's already quite a substantial proportion of our time in the UK and there's still so many places and things to discover, and short because it's hard to believe so much has happened in only 35 days. We have become at home here quite much and know our way around things (most of the time, anyway;-)). We're already approaching -->reading week.

Definition #11: reading week: a week in the middle of the semester in which most classes don't take place so students have time to finally (do what they've been (doing the whole way through anyway but still) looking forward to: party party party!) catch up on their reading.

Motion #1: All German universities are hereby requested to adopt this practice immediately, including an increased amount of student parties during this week.

Reasoning: According to BIER, article no. 15a, no application of double standards is permitted between universities in different countries (principle of egalitarianism).

Explanation #1: BIER = Book of International Educational Rules