New Die Zeitung!

Hello everyone, good news!

There will be a new Die Zeitung this year, as I have worked out a plan with my school to write my issues of Die Zeitung as part of school work.

For those of you who haven't been reading my blog, or haven't known me very long, Die Zeitung is a newspaper that I have been doing since 2005. I write mostly about the stuff on my blog, but I am personally a lot more proud of my newspaper when they come out. Also, on many of my newspaper there are special interviews or reviews. I wrote 4 issues in 2005, 1 in 2006, and 4 in 2007. I have been very busy over the past two years so I have been too busy to write any, but I am very excited now that I have made an agreement with my school so that I can fit newspaper writing into my very busy life.

I will be definitely be sending out an issue at the end of June, and I will most likely also being sending out issues at the end of August, October, and December. These four issues that I will trying to do will make up the 2009 Editions of Die Zeitung. I haven't decided the price to order all four of them, but I am thinking that it will be around $20 for all four issues.

If you would like to subscribe to all issues or just one of the 2009 issues of Die Zeitung, please email me at isaac.wurmann@gmail.com and letting me know if you would like me to mail you a paper copy, or email you a "green" copy.

Also, to anyone who is just new to Die Zeitung, and has never seen any of my newspapers before, you can email me and I will try to get a back copy of Die Zeitung to you ASAP.

The money that I make from these newspapers will go to a school trip to France that I have in grade 9 or fundraising and awareness campaigns that I will do in the future.

Please subscribe!

Canmore Disk Drop

On Sunday I did my third disk drop (After Edmonton and Winnipeg), and it was in Canmore. I did the drop when I was coming back from Golden to Edmonton, and I dropped it off in the visitors center on a pile of magazines.



Here are the tracks that I put on the CD:
1. Cruel - Calexico
2. When These Mountains Were the Seashore - Hawksley Workman
3. Left and Leaving - the Weakerthans
4. Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
5. Brainy - the National
5. Black - Okkervil River
6. Nine in the Afternoon - Panic at the Disco
7. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
8. Record Body Count - Rheostatics
9. Sleeping Sickness - City and Colour
10. Archaeologists - Wintersleep
11. Just - Radiohead
12. Broken One - Luke Doucet
13. Someday - Brett Dennen



I know that some of the tracks on this CD are the same that were on the Winnipeg CD, but I had to make this whole CD while on the road through BC and Alberta.
So, I hope that whoever got this CD likes it, and if you are the one who got it, please comment on this post to let me know.
Thanks!

Boyle Street Shoe Drop-Off

Today me and two of my friends (Rebecca and Zoe) went to drop off the shoes at Boyle Street that I said I was collecting a couple weeks ago.
Boyle Street is a centre in downtown Edmonton where homeless people can go to eat, get stuff (like the shoes that we donated), or just to stay warm during the winter. When we were there my mom's friend Matt, who works there, gave us a tour of the place.
He started off at the youth section, where he works. He explained to us that the youth part is for people aged 14 to 24, but is mostly used by people who are over 18 years old. What I found interesting was that Matt told us that when they try to help people who come in who abuse drugs, or do other stuff like that, they do not right away tell them to stop doing drugs, they just try to make it safer for them by giving them clean needles or something.



Then after that he went to showing us the room where Child and Family Services is, which, interestingly, is right in Boyle Street. This is interesting because some of the people who go to Boyle Street that have children may think of Child and Family Services as "the baby stealers" or something. So, now Child and Family Services has taken a new approach where, for instance, if they go into a house and see that the family has no food, they wont just take the children away. Instead, they will try to understand why they don't have food, and then help them to get food.
Then, Matt took us to see the place where the homeless can go and get food. There were quite a lot of people there, but Matt told us that it was fairly empty. He said that some mornings, there can be 300 people eating there!
I thought that the tour was very interesting, and was an eye opener to how some people in our own city live.



Oh, and of course, the shoes! Well, after a couple weeks of collecting shoes from school, my mom's work and family members, we ended up collecting around 50 shoes!
So, I thought that this was a great experience and I thought it was great to bring my friends along for them to help in this experience aswell. I hope that maybe in the future, like possibly even next year, I might be able to get my whole class to come and help out for a couple hours at Boyle Street.
By the way, Boyle Street has a new website: http://www.boylestreet.org Check it out to learn more!