Anyone who found the adult education center’s new program in their mailbox these days may have asked themselves two things: How did that thing fit in there and why is it so thick? Yes, there is actually nothing these days that you can’t book on VHS. No language is too exotic, no recipe too crazy, no sport too strange and no distance too far. You can choose between the multimedia show “Vodka, Vastness, Adventure: Traveling with the Transsib”, the lecture “The American Dream and Organized Crime” or the virtual journey to “Cherry Blossoms and Japanese Garden Architecture”. At least in Unterhaching, there is also a Japanese course. Or would you rather learn Icelandic in Taufkirchen?
The VHS in Sauerlach is all still too earthly, here you think far beyond the horizon when it comes to education and devote yourself to the topic “galaxies and black holes”. In Haar, too, one can only smile mildly about the offer from Unterhaching to travel to Kassel or to visit the Saarland with the VHS Oberhaching. Because in Haar they are pursuing completely different goals. There was a recent announcement here: “News from Mars”.
At this week’s event, all questions about matter, climate, water, life and perspectives for people should be answered. “When will the first human land on Mars? And will it be a one-way ticket?” the announcement said, which not only made the Martians among us curious. In times of travel restrictions on the Corona-plagued earth, such a trip into space naturally offers a real alternative for the upcoming annual vacation. Of course, it would also have to be clarified whether there is an early bird discount, how many MVV zones you have to cross and whether the strip ticket is valid.
But the invitation to this extraterrestrial journey was less than half an hour out when VHS Haar canceled it again. So nothing new from Mars after all. Too bad. Would have been too nice, more exciting than Kassel and Saarland anyway. And because the Saarland is so often used as a size comparison scale: How many times bigger is Mars? You can certainly learn that from the VHS.