This past Tuesday’s German election seemed to be one of the highlights of the semester for me in our class.  I found it very exciting to be able to participate in the mock election.  I felt that this was one of the more crucial parts of our semester.  The ability to participate in something like this gave us, or atleasst me, the true understanding of the material we were studying.  Our individual write-ups and our speech’s allowed us to research our party and the district we were running for.  This gave us the opportunity vote and elect for our respected opponents.  The following class we broke off into our respected parties and discussed our the main focus of our parties and which elements we were able to sacrifice and deal to another party to correlate with.  Our party, the free democratic party or FDP, had the largest council, which consisted of six party members.  The discussion we created between each of the groups was to try and make deals to form the strongest political correlation.  Needless to say, our party spoke very well and had very strong ideas, but were lazy when it came to trying to correlate with other groups, therefore, the other three groups formed a partnership and outvoted us.