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	<description>English Life in the Ruhr-Metropolis, the community of 53 cities and towns in the heart of the German state of Northrhine-Westfalia which will be Europeans Cultural Capital 2010 is covered by this blog. The larger cities of this area are Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmuind as well as Oberhausen, Mülheim, Herne, Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop.</description>
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		<title>The Local&#8217;s guide to the Ruhr Valley&#8217;s year of culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Local&#8217; (Germany&#8217;s News in English) provides an article &#8220;The Local&#8217;s guide to the Ruhr Valley&#8217;s year of culture&#8221; including a photo gallery. The guide contains a list of the highlights of 2010.
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		<title>International School Ruhr opening September 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t have writen much about this project initiated by the &#8216;Initiativkreis Ruhr&#8221; and &#8211; as far as I remember &#8211; the CEO of the RWE company: The International School Ruhr is going to open in September 2010 in Essen. This is the link to its website.
http://www.is-ruhr.de
According to a press release and the school&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Drama Group: Romeo and Juliet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2009 Pam and I went to watch a French play at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the city&#8217;s theatre. It was a stage adaption of &#8220;The Little Prince&#8221;. Funnily enough, the play was arranged by the American Drama Group in Europe. Usually their plays are in the English language.
Anyway, in February the American Drama Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonders of the Solar System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I have been to the exhibition at the Gasometer in Oberhausen. Seems to me and my wife that &#8216;gasometer&#8217; is a British word which is used for large gas holders or gas tanks. The Gasometer in Oberhausen is no longer used as a gas tank but as an exhibition hall. Starting in 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carolinenschule, Bochum opened</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/08/carolinenschule-bochum-opened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s Bochum&#8217;s first private elementary school and it opened Tuesday.  I already reported about the project. Therefore I won&#8217;t repeat how the bilingual Carolinenschule works. It started with four classes and 45 pupils. There is space for 80 pupils but the license for the school came only 14 days before the opening.
WAZ Bochum, 18.08.2009: &#8220;Bochums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibitions: Varus Battle 9 A.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anno Domini 9 the the Varus Battle tor Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place somewhere in the forest of the old Germans. The old Germans were a group of tribes living in an area namend Germania by the old Romans. At the climax of its power and culture the Roman empire tried to turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissappointed at German Mining Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/08/dissappointing-english-offer-at-german-mining-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we went to the German Mining Museum (english page of Deutsche Bergbaumuseum)  in Bochum with my parents-in law &#8211; finally. I was told that they offer an English tour. Well, it&#8217;s not an audio guide. At several place in the replica mine, they installed recordings in German and English language that explain the exhibition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful Lists on English Contacts</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/useful-lists-on-english-contacts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/useful-lists-on-english-contacts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I started a little research to get a list of English roundtables in Ruhr. I wrote an Email to all four contacts and the result was a surprise.  Wolfgang Wosmann from The Social Club Mülheim an der Ruhr sent me a list with a lot of them. (Many thanks!) But he also added that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Capital of Culture is a multi-lingual project</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/european-capital-of-culture-is-a-multi-lingual-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/european-capital-of-culture-is-a-multi-lingual-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least &#8220;European Capital of Culture&#8221; indicates that the city granted the title offers a lot of English language activities. Pam and I just have been to Linz, European Capital of Culture 2009. In my opinion Linz&#8217;09 seems to focus three things: sound, light and electronics.
Some of the offers of Linz don&#8217;t need language at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming: A new Englishman in &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/upcoming-a-new-englishman-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/07/upcoming-a-new-englishman-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But for now we have to live with his &#8220;The Genglish Diary&#8220;. It is also written by his German sweetheart. The author is going to move to .. (the Ruhr area?) in September. The project of the diary &#8211; a blog &#8211; is about intercultural experiences. Yes, I know what they are talking of. Pam [...]]]></description>
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