10 July 2009: Entitled 'On Thursdays and Cuckoo Clocks, Fork Oil and the Signs of Growing Old' It’s Thursday. I hate Thursdays. Of all the days of the weeks Thursday is by far the worst, like a big black vortex full of nothing-left-to-do-ness squished between the wow-the-week’s-beginning of Monday and the pheeuwph-it’s-time-to-relax of Friday. This is not the sort of thing that one should really admit (especially not before one’s 21st birthday) but I rather ...
5 July 2009 Time is spinning past so fast, sometimes I feel like honey in a centrifuge, just hanging on for the ride. This blog is like the wax I am spinning away from and I realized there are so many gaps because so many exciting things have been going on! So this is an in-between news to fill in the empty bits before they get lost in forgetfulness. Let’s start with the witch-burning part, because that is always fun. 23rd June is the Danish ‘Sankt Hans’, a midsummer ...
2 July 2009 Vienna/ Wien/ ‘Donaumetropole/ hub of the Danube. Burial site of Beethoven, playground of Mozart, home of the Sachertorte. Yep, I have been off gallivanting across the continent again! Originally I was not much interested in going to Vienna, I wanted to visit Paris instead. But all my friends had signed up for this trip already. So I did too, and that was a good choice! It was completely worth two overnight bus trips to spend the weekend in Austria’s capital. ...
25 June 2009 Ah, Bavaria! Where the skies are blue, the men wear Lederhosen and the pretzels are abundant… Well, the weather did not play its part very well, but other than that last weekend’s trip to see my host family was very successful. And very catholic. Actually, I met a bishop, visited three churches and was given a Madonna figurine by a woman in a souvineer shop. Oh, and a random man on the train professed his undying love for me. So it was an interesting trip… ...
18 June 2009 It is finally summer! Blue skies, 23 degrees, almost sunburn weather. Perfect weather for a mass demonstration outside the university against student fees. 4500 students from schools and unis, and hundreds of armed riot squad police. Before today I had never seen so many police in one place, let alone police wearing such hard core body armour and shin pads. They were filming the demonstration too, which was rather strange. Hopefully I don’t get questioned at the airport ...
15 June 2009: Prague “Thirteen sleeps ago I was in Prague. There were lots of old buildings. I saw a bridge and an opera and our guide kept telling us about a man called Kafka. One day I had pancakes. They were yum.” *Insert crude hand-drawn picture of house/ bridge/ dinosaur here* That is about the extent of my linguistic abilities right now, my brain feels like it has been run over by a truck after two full days of intensive text analysis in German. At ten to five ...
31 May 2009 Ok, I admit that I am cheating with this blog. I was too lazy to write one two weeks ago, so the date is a LIE! But now that I have that off my chest, let’s get on with the juicy bits… Highlights in this installment include a hoofing big strawberry cake, upside-downy rides and getting hopelessly lost at 4am. So let’s begin! The coolest event was going to the Freiburg Messe, which is like the Easter show except it doesn’t happen at Easter and it is free to ...
27 May 2009 Well I have just had a long talk with the girl from upstairs called Saskia. She was in NZ on exchange a couple of years back and just came by to drop some notes off to my flat mate. It was cool to talk to her again, and laso to have someone to share my pineapple lumps with! I met her for the first time on Saturday evening at my flatmate’s 21st. Turns out she lives just upstairs and I was at her place for tequila party a month or so ago. Small world! And ...
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