Revelations: Summer Project 2013 by The Blueprint Masquerades

While you enjoy the delicious food and beverages the FAVA will offer on May 30th, the Blueprint Masquerades would like to entertain you with reveal plays and short stories. Admission is free!

Not This Again…

Raph al Guul

Week by week the same old song:
Read your books, it won’t take long (yeah right)
Be on time, prepared as fit
But still, that is about it-
Until…

My Life in Manchester – British Weather Enthusiasm and Pre-Departure Homesickness

By Laura Németh

Dear Readers,

It’s been ages again! I really can’t believe how time flies and have been very reluctant to write because that would also involve acknowledging that my year here will be coming to end all too soon. In what is about exactly a month I will have to pack my suitcases (which will involve finding a solution for all the dresses that I have acquired and that will certainly exceed Easyjets nasty weight limits) and leave this flat, the city and, above all, the people that have made this place home for me during these past months. Of course I am looking forward to my other home in Zurich too: I can’t wait to see all the lovely people that I have been missing for quite long enough now, to relax by the lake or jump into the river after a hot summer’s day, and to finally be able to cycle anywhere again at any point of day or night without any lights on my bike and yet with perfect ease of mind in the knowledge that the potential of being robbed, being hit by a double-decker bus or of losing my way in area in the darkness of a rather dodgy area is virtually non-existent.

And yet, even though I have certainly had a few moments where I was completely fed up with this place and wondered why on earth anybody could choose to live here, it has nevertheless become very dear to me and I know that I will miss it very badly. You simply cannot hate this city even though there are undoubtedly some grim things about it. In fact, I think anybody with an open mind could not help but start to really like it sooner or later because there are just so many things that make up for its less desirable sides.

The Zurich English Student Podcast #7

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Apocalypse goggles
- Pointless presentations
- Complaining and ranting
- Raph invites spammers
- Jenny instructs trolls

The Zurich English Student Podcast #6

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Another guest appearance for news
- The pursuit of objective reality
- American animated television
- Jenny is not a cartoon character
- Raph does quite a lot of cutting

(F)Ailing (T)Errors – Buy tickets now!

Hear ye! Hear ye!

The Blueprint Masquerades proudly present …

… an English Drama Group production

… a world premiere

… an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing

Come and see our performance of the hilarious musical

(F)Ailing   (T)Errors

A Glossary of Fake Literary Terms, Vol. I

M. H. Abram, G. G. Harpam

authentism: 1. The authentic depiction or description of autism. 2. An author’s disease resulting in growing to the height of a tree, aka Fanghornwriteritis.

bromantic: 1. The combination of a brother, a man, and half a Tic Tac. 2. A small flea that inhabits a broman.

decimeter: A tenth of a poem’s meter.

My Life in Manchester – Springtime!, Or: The End of Rain, Rain & Rain

By Laura Németh

Dear Readers,

As one of my flatmates has rightly observed, according to the frequency of my contributions, my blog should be renamed “The Dead Manchester Student” – she most definitely has a point! Although I certainly do not feel dead at the moment. In fact, it’s rather the opposite, one of the main reasons for this being that – very swiftly and incredibly – spring has arrived in the grey northern city! After about six month with virtually no sunshine at all, suddenly seeing the cloudlessly blue sky, feeling the sun on one’s face and being able to walk around in a summer dress and light jacket without freezing to death just feels absolutely amazing. To the extreme joy of everyone, we are currently experiencing a series of sunny, warm and most definitely spring-like days to the extent that my running companion Beki exclaimed yesterday that “It feels like being in a Mediterranean country! I mean it’s still cool – but it’s nice!” (Nice being a very unusual adjective to describe Manchester, I might have to add here). And I couldn’t agree more with her, although the Italians definitely wouldn’t be as exhilarated by a few nice days and a bit of sunlight as the British (and me after having endured six months of grimness, greyness and rain, rain & more rain) but I think that’s actually quite a nice thing because you really start to appreciate the little things and are immensely grateful for and positively surprised by every day like today. And you worry about getting a sunburn after not having seen the sun for so long, but never mind that!

The Zurich English Student Podcast #5

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Newsless Babble
- Reluctance to embrace Freud
- Shameless self-promotion
- Raph dreams of smoking
- Jenny dreams of a table’s legs

The Zurich English Student Podcast #4

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Pig picture stuff
- Outlook on the upcoming semester
- Discussion of experiences with instructors
- Unexpected nudity
- Jenny earns cheers
- Raph forces metal music on you again