Canada vs. Germany: Une réflection

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Canada vs. Germany

une réflection

Un-distinguished Lecture Series (UDLS)

Marcus Rohrbach

Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of British Columbia

2UDLS - Marcus Rohrbach - 2007-07-06

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.



Outline

� Facts- University / Computer Science- Countries- Beer- Business & Co- Transport- German language

� Photos- Nature- Sports- Scouts

� Visit Frankfurt?



Outline






University / Computer Science

� Entry

- Height School

- Application

� Degree

- Bachelor (4 years)

- Master (2 years)

- PhD (5 years)

- Abitur

- Registration (majority)

- Diplom (4.5 years), (old) Magister, Dr. (old)

- Bachelor (3 years)

- Master (2 years)

- Doktor (5 years)




� Tuition (per year)

- $ 4000 +

� Support

- Income:• Master: $ 15.000 ?

• PhD: $ 20.000 ?

- TA (per hour)• $ 27

- Other• ?

- $ 1500

• $ 0

• Similar ?

• $ 12

• BaFöG: up to $ 750 per Month

� depending on income, parents

� ½ has to be paid back




� First years (Bachelor)

- Lots of easy stuff ?

� Master

- Trying to get everyone

� General

- One course contains everything

- Very theoretic

- Very hard

- Starting at a high level

- Different type of courses• 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

- Sugar

- Flavor

- Colour

- ;-)

� Price

- expensive

- Water

- Barley

- Hops

- Yeast

- Chepearthan water or coke...



Business Hours

� Groceries

- Up to 24h/7day

� Restaurants

- To 21:00/22:00

� Other shops

- 7 day, till 19:00

� Holidays

- In lieu of holidays

- 6 days, 8:00 – 20:00

- To 23:00/24:00

- 6 day, till 20:00

- … don’t exist



Grocery stores

� Very service oriented

� Uncountable number of wasted plastic bags

� ALDI & Co.

- Food discounter

- > Cheap food

- ALDI frequently wins tests

- ALDI brothers are both in top 20 richest men list

- ALDI & Co. forced Walmartout of Germany

- Optimization• Packaging

• Till

• Only one type of a product



Money & Co

� Credit cards

- Used everywhere

- is “public knowledge”

� Banking

- Cheque based

� Money

- People are more open

- Not accepted always

- Hardly anyone would give their # over phone

- No cheques

- FREE online banking and transfers• TAN based

- Don’t talk about moneyor income



Public Transport

� type

- Bus, bus, cap

- Greyhound

� Out of cities

- Difficult to find a place where you can go.

� Area

- 3 zones (Vancouver)

- U-Bahn, Straßenbahn, Bus, Taxi,

- S-Bahn, Regionalbahn,...

- Difficult to find a placewhere you cannot go.

- 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

� Slow

� Lots of space between seats

� Short

� Fast

� Lots of 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

� Free food

� Tax included in price

� 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






Nature - Waterfalls

� Rockies (Mt. Robson) Harz



Nature – more Waterfalls

� Indian Arm: Granite Falls



Nature - Trees

� Vancouver Island/ HartzLight-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






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/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=30&threadid=1375233&messid=12068224&STARTPAGE=1&parentid=0



And then?

� I will have my last supper @ Café Katzenjammer

� Hope you all come!

� First drink is on me.

And now?

� I am leaving tomorrow afternoon

� I had a great time.

� Thanks to all of you!