Canada vs. Germany: Une réflection

Un-distinguished Lecture Series (UDLS)

Canada vs. Germany
une réflection

Marcus Rohrbach

Computer Science Department
University of British Columbia 1

Canada vs. Germany - une réflection

Front note:
Don’t take it too serious
Best to my knowledge
- Several unequal comparisons
- [estimated] what I heard/estimated
Lots of fun photos

Photos featuring people have partly been
removed for privacy reasons.

UDLS - Marcus Rohrbach - 2007-07-06 2


Outline
Facts
- University / Computer Science
- Countries
- Beer
- Business & Co
- Transport
- German language
Photos
- Nature
- Sports
- Scouts
Visit Frankfurt?



Outline
Facts
- Countries
- Beer
- Business & Co
- Transport
- German language
Photos
- Nature
- Sports
- Scouts
Visit Frankfurt?



University / Computer Science
Entry
- Height School - Abitur
- Application - Registration (majority)
Degree
- Diplom (4.5 years), (old)
Magister, Dr. (old)
- Bachelor (4 years) - Bachelor (3 years)
- Master (2 years) - Master (2 years)
- PhD (5 years) - Doktor (5 years)



Tuition (per year)
- $ 4000 + - $ 1500
Support
- Income:
• Master: $ 15.000 ? •$0
• PhD: $ 20.000 ? • Similar ?
- TA (per hour)
• $ 27 • $ 12
- Other
•? • BaFöG: up to $ 750 per Month
depending on income, parents
½ has to be paid back



First years (Bachelor)
- Lots of easy stuff ? - Very theoretic
- Very hard
Master
- Trying to get everyone - Starting at a high level
General
- One course contains - Different type of courses
everything • Lectures
• Practical courses/labs
• Seminars



Countries
Area
- 9,985,000 km² 357,000 km² (1/28)
- 945,000 km² (BC)
Population
- 32 million 82 million
- 3.2/km² 230/km²
GDP
- $ 1.1 trillion $ 2.6 trillion
$ 35,000 per capita



Beer
Ingredients
- Water - Water
- Sugar - Barley
- Flavor - Hops
- Colour - Yeast
- ;-)
Price
- expensive - Chepear
than water or coke...



Business Hours
Groceries
- Up to 24h/7day - 6 days, 8:00 – 20:00

Restaurants
- To 21:00/22:00 - To 23:00/24:00

Other shops
- 7 day, till 19:00 - 6 day, till 20:00

Holidays
- In lieu of holidays - … don’t exist


Grocery stores
Very service ALDI & Co.
oriented - Food discounter
Uncountable - > Cheap food
number of wasted - ALDI frequently wins tests
plastic bags - ALDI brothers are both in
top 20 richest men list
- ALDI & Co. forced Walmart
out of Germany
- Optimization
• Packaging
• Till
• Only one type of a product



Money & Co
Credit cards
- Used everywhere - Not accepted always
- is “public knowledge” - Hardly anyone would
give their # over phone

Banking
- No cheques
- Cheque based
- FREE online banking and
transfers
• TAN based
Money
- People are more open - Don’t talk about money
or income


Public Transport
type
- Bus, bus, cap - U-Bahn, Straßenbahn, Bus,
- Greyhound Taxi,
- S-Bahn, Regionalbahn,...
Out of cities
- Difficult to find a place - Difficult to find a place
where you can go. where you cannot go.
Area
- 3 zones (Vancouver) - Half of the province
- 7 zones (RMV)
- 1 million options...



Passenger Trains - numbers
[estimate]

Vancouver: 50 per week
Toronto: 50 per day

50 per hour Frankfurt



Trains
VERY long Short
Slow Fast
Lots of space between Lots of seats
seats



German Language Intro
Cell phone Handy
Hand-Shoes Handschuhe
17 o’clock 17 Uhr
1,000.25 1.000,25
When you your Verbs to the End of your Sentence
put
All Nouns are in capital Letters written.
Three form of “a” and “the”
- Einer, eine, eines
- Der, die, das



What I really like
Free water Tax included in price
Free food Mensa (Cafeteria)
- reasonably good & cheap



What totally confused me
How to open windows, doors, and locks
How to use water taps - they are always different!
Why your Brötchen have holes in them?

[public domain]
[www.domaene-fredeburg.de]



Outline
Facts
- Countries
- Beer
- Business & Co
- Transport
- German language
Photos
- Nature
- Sports
- Scouts
Visit Frankfurt?



Nature - Waterfalls
Rockies (Mt. Robson) Harz



Nature – more Waterfalls
Indian Arm: Granite Falls



Nature - Trees
Vancouver Island/ Hartz
Light-House Park



Nature - Snow
10 meters 10 feet



Nature - Snow
Vancouver Frankfurt



Nature - Glaciers
Rockies Austria



Nature - Glaciers
Rockies (Mt. Robson)



Sports - Skiing
Whistler Alps (Austria, Swizz, Italy)



Sports - Skiing
In Motion
- Fun with snow… … and without



Sports - Skiing
In Summer



Sports – Kayaking / canoeing
Indian Arm Hungary



Scouts - Camping
Plastic tent Kothe/Jurte (cotton)



Scouts – Role play
Pirates Lord Of The Rings



Scouts – Role play: Lord of the Rings



Outline
Facts
- Countries
- Beer
- Business & Co
- Transport
- German language
Photos
- Nature
- Sports
- Scouts
Visit Frankfurt?



Visit Frankfurt?
Same as Seattle…
… but much further away



Visit Frankfurt?
Public Market Center vs. Kleinmarkthalle

[www.frankfurt.de]


Visit Frankfurt?
Space Needle vs. Spargel (asparagus) -Europaturm

[] [GNU Free Documentation License]


Visit Frankfurt?
Hammering Man (Jonathan Borofsky)
- 14.6 m 25 m

[public domain]



Visit Frankfurt?
In Seattle they even have



Visit Frankfurt?
YES, of course!
- Find out the differences yourself!
- Visit me :-)

[Marcus Rohrbach]



“Differences exist,
they make things interesting”

Thank you for your attention!
Questions?


Reverences
- http://de.wikipedia.org/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/
- http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/messagepos
t.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=30&threadid=137
5233&messid=12068224&STARTPAGE=1&parenti
d=0



And now?
I will have my last supper @ Café Katzenjammer
Hope you all come!
First drink is on me.

And then?
I am leaving tomorrow afternoon

I had a great time.
Thanks to all of you!


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