Red, gold, and black can only mean one thing: Deutsch! South’s German Club is officially restarting and beginning the year with some interesting events, according to Lauren Fraser, German Club sponsor.
“I’m really excited that [German Club] is up and running this year and that there is interest to get it more active,” Fraser said. “I love making a presence of German [culture] and German Club in the building.”
The energy to restart German Club came from junior Elayna Mork, new club president, Fraser commented.
“[Mork] emailed me over the summer and told me that she was […] really interested in restarting German Club and doing more things with the German Club,” Fraser said. “She had a lot of […] engagement to do it.”
According to Mork, she had thought of the idea to restart German Club over the summer after her attempts to cram time into her busy schedule through the previous years went awry.
“I had seen [German Club] when I was a freshman, and I wanted to join, but I didn’t have time,” Mork said. “I was going to do it last year, but I looked for it and I couldn’t find it anywhere so I decided to restart it this year.”
After Mork had brought her idea to life, she needed to wait to see if Fraser would agree to support this new club and be the sponsor. According to Mork, when the wait was over, it was completely worth it.
“I was really excited [when Fraser agreed to support German Club] because I had never met her before, and she turned out to be really nice and I like her a lot,” Mork commented. “She is a great teacher, and she really loves what she does.”
Fraser is not the only person excited for the future events and potential of German Club. According to Mork, she is extremely excited for the new and culturally enriching outings they will venture on throughout this school year’s agenda.
“I am really excited about Christkindlmarket during December and [karnival] where we cut off the [neck] ties of teachers,” Mork said.
Mork may be very excited about the Christkindlemarket; however, Spencer Colbeck, German Club member, has his own idea about what he is looking forward to with the club’s planned events. One such event would include Oktober Fest, which is planned to be held at the Chicago Brauhaus.
“We’re really actually looking forward to planning something fun for [Oktober Fest], and hopefully […] we can go downtown and hang out at Oktober Fest with everybody,” Colebeck said.
German Club is not exclusive to German speakers. According to Fraser, all students should come and check out the cultural foods and diverse events offered while making new friends in the process.
“[German Club] doesn’t do anything language focused,” Fraser said. “You might learn a couple of weird random words, but everything that we do is based on cultural things […] Everybody is welcome.”
