i have been having internet issues. and so i have been blogging to a word document, which was,very,very exicting but i still never got round to writing a proper update on my berlin escapades.
so blog part I:
I hate that you cant record thoughts straight as they come out of your head. Like in my art class my head was just running with thousands and thousands of things, and now I can’t remember any of them.
So we will start with...here and now. Here and now I am sat in Cole Street, but the table that we normally have is reserved as of 10pm. Which personally I think is shit, because we come here every Thursday and they guys were fairly sure that they – being the people that work here had it reserved for us already...And then the last time we didn’t move because no-one appeared to come and claim said reserved table the grumpy waitress was all “Shame you didn’t move” – How FREAKING GERMAN?! Anyway. I like this corner, and thus unless someone expressly comes and asks us to leave I don’t think it should be expected that we do so...
It’s snowing on and off at the moment – just a note to keep the weather covered!
Erm the streets are shit, but not as shit as they were in Berlin, which is good because in Berlin they were actually lethal, i fell over twice! There’s a really cute couple sat next to me, and its ridiculous. Last night I had a dream involving...water, and Chinese vampires....
So a group of us from NING got together to go to Berlin last weekend, it was really great. The fact that I actually got off my arse and did some planning and bits to get something done was great and something that I’ve not done in quite a long time..
I left the house Friday night at about quarter to six, after having stayed up to clean my room the night before until 4, and then working all day. Can we say STUPID? And COFFEE? In the same sentence...STUPID COFFEE. I like it =] stupiddd coffee. So yes, I was stupid, and consumed vast amounts of coffee to keep me going down the autobahn in possibly the most hellish conditions I’ve ever driven in...even worse than the drive back last time, because in that weather you still have relative control of the car, when it gets icy you relinquish all control you may have ever had.
One day this deserves to be published as a book, maybe not just this year, but a collection of things, stupid things/normal things/ just general things that I do over the next [insert amount of time here..]
So I got to Luebeck at about half past 6 on Friday night, I then needed to fill up with petrol and check my tyre pressures, and about an hour before I left the house it decided it was an appropriate time to snow. But like properly snow... so the sky turned yellow and the roads turned slushy and the traffic also turned to mush. We finally left Luebeck to then take a wrong turn [entirely my fault] which meant that we were then going in the wrong direction with about 22km to the next junction where we could get off and come back down the other side [still snowing] so we finally hit the road in the right direction about an hour after having left the centre of Luebeck... we then got stuck in various jams, mainly due to the weather, or accidents related to the weather, or the autobahn being ploughed because of the weather. All in all our 8 HOUR journey time, can be blamed entirely on the weather xD, and none of it was my fault. It have never been so tired driving in my entire life, although saying that I don’t think I have ever driven for that long in my entire life, considering I didn’t even pass my test a year ago. I have to say this is the life I imagined myself living in more 5 years time than now, but hey, what’s 5 years?! It also means that maybe the desire to sit in lunges and bars and just drink coffee or talk to people, or in this instance make offline blog entries, will entirely leave my system and I can get on with the partying and hooking up with people that the general population of people my age seem to be doing. Instead of sitting and socialising with pHD students, post doctorates blah blah blah, most of whom are over 25. I have to say though, they’re great company, and can hold a proper conversation. This makes me wonder whether the way I was brought up leaves me to desire this, or the level of education I have already had, or just the quality of my education, or is it a combination of all the above?
Anyway, BERLIN!
I will finally get to the point here, I promise.
We arrived in Berlin at about...2 in the morning or something stupid, by the time we had parked the car by the Motorola offices and gotten the U-Bahn into town and then figured out where we were staying, woken up Carlo, settled in etc it was about 3. Breakfast was served until 10, which really wasn’t bad at all! It was a good breakfast too, and included in the price, I reckon If you’d have gone anywhere else to eat, it would have been at least $5...and considering we only paid $18.50 a night for our rooms, it was a pretty good deal, not to mention the fact that there was a U-Bahn station LITERALLY out the front door.
Some people have come and sat on the couch opposite, so I used my very best German to tell them that at the moment there were no more people, but more people will eventually come. Darren has just arrived so I should probably close the lid and be a bit sociable, although I find him quite difficult to socialise with. I think its probably because he is THAT much older and THAT much cleverer.
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