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Programme
The programme varies from year to year, but here are some of the highlights
listed.
Theme
To set an extraordinary atmosphere every IMWe has a theme and a story-line
and are participants asked to dress up in costumes based on the themes.
The teamers make up a plot and the theme is involved in several programme
activities with each teamer having to act one character in the story-line.
The participants themselves are active observers, although they manage
to influence the plot as the week passes. E.g. themes used at IMWe were
2000: Millennium Bug
2001: India Express
2002: Gold Rush
2004: Hanseatic league
2005: The Cucumber King
2006: The Body from within
2007: Sherlock Holmes murdered?
2008: Arabian Nights - It's bazaar in Al'Mashewa
2009: Intrigue at the Opera - The final curtain
2010: Expedition Lost - Secrets of the forgotten diary
2011: Mission Supernova
2012: Grand Hotel Chicago
Workshops
At each year at IMWe several workshops are offered to the participants
in which they will spend their entire morning. The workshops differ from
year to year but always focus on creativeness, such as painting, acting,
making music, inventing things, telling stories, and dancing. Throughout
the week the workshops prepare something and set up a show at the final
evening, displaying the creative work of the week. The teamers make effort
in inventing new and special workshops every year so that one can go as
often to IMWe as he desires and still always learn something new. Last
few years have featured workshops like bookbinding, Flying Objects, UV-Theatre,
puppet making, storytelling, cooking etc.
Interest Groups
Interest Groups or IGs as they are commonly called are short activities
prepared and organized by the participants themselves. Everyone participating
in IMWe is offered to teach the others any special talent of his, some
customs of his nation or just anything that comes to mind.
The Day Out
One day during the middle of the week is called the Day Out, where the
scouts go to a nearby town and bring scouting to the world by fulfilling
tasks made by the teamers. This encourages the scouts to share their culture
and scouting experience with local Germans, and makes them work together
regardless of their nationality.
International Evening
This is usually one of the first evenings of the week when participants
of each nation prepare a table displaying some goods or pictures from
their country; Icelanders provide shark and liquorices, Norwegians show
pictures of trolls, the Austrians present the newest Yodeling CD from
the Alps, the Slovenians offer Honey and Potica (a nut cake) and the Germans
show up with various sorts of beer and a sip of Butzelmann.
Dream Time
Each day there is a specific Dream time after lunch, where participants
can relax after the hard work of their workshop and the events of the
night. Dream time usually takes place in the basement which is supplied
with blankets and pillows and each day the teamers provide, or ask participants
to provide, different soothing sounds, for example a story is read in
Hungarian, natural sounds are played on a CD or a musician plays the exhausted
participants to sleep.
Chatting Time
Each day also features chatting time where participants are offered tea
and biscuits and actually, participants themselves often bring some kind
of pastry from their country. Mail from the castle's postbox is delivered
but participants often send mail to their secret friends in connection
to the secret angel game. Chatting time is the ideal for integration and
mingling.
Secret Angel Game (or similar)
In some years each participant receives a name of another participant
and is therefore obliged to be especially kind to that participant. It's
popular to send candy or kind words to one's secret friend but some secret
angels (what the person who sends gifts to his secret friend is called)
are more original, sending paintings or riddles to their friends.
Information on who is whose secret angel is kept a secret until the last
night when each angel confesses to his friend that he is the secret angel.
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