Bremen finally !!

After almost 2 years i got finally to Bremen. And if u think about it, we are talking only about a 2h way by regional train. :D

With a Landesticket, 4 people ( 5 on the way back ), we spent a full day in the sunny, famous Bremen.

Hai Romaniaaaa!!!

Do we have really a chance?

One of the spanish guys said yday that if Spain would have played instead of Italy in group C they would have lost, but now that Italy plays anything could happen, more exactly: Holland scores 2 goals in the last 10 min and Italy scores in minute 95, qualifying itself for the quartel final.
Pretty nice scenario.
(von meinem guten Südtiroler Freund erzählt)

Let's wait and see.

Trotzdem bin ich dabei.. und ich bin nicht die einzige:



(I have to go to the theater now but still i will think of it and catch only the last half an hour. Hai Romaniaaaaaaa!!! )

Open air concert in Sternschanze

For the 1st time i went to an open air concert. Electronic music it was ( i think =)) ). Interesting atmosphere. The people? Diff from the one i meet usually.
++ nice music , nice weather
-- too much dust because of the people jumping

It was on a Sunday (11th Mai more exactly), but no problem of waking up Monday early cause it was Pfingsten so holidaaaay.

From the category 'Durchschwuling', meet my friends:

Wild Park " Schwarze Berge "

For the 2nd time i decided to make a visit to the Wild Park "Schwarze Berge". This time i organised the event for the international students as a Compass tutor. (Each student had to pay only 1 Euro, the rest being payed by the university. )

The poster:

With help from our guide we gained some insight into the life of some animals.


Fake freedom..

No.. i didn't kill it. It died some time ago, the poor bird.
One of my favourite pics:

It seems like the germans enjoy spending time with the goats..

Our guide..

I think i saw also some people who looked like this. But the question is, who is worse? :P:P


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It was a full weekend. (To remember it in the future, it was the one Fel had 4 of his friends over.. )
Thursday China Lounge, Friday no basketball (it was closed because of Thursday, the 1st of May) so i went running, Friday eve Schanze with the Serbians, Rosinski with Fel and his friends, Saturday BBL Top 4, Saturday eve Reeper until fish market, Sunday Wildpark and Computer Graphics, Monday waking up at 6.30 :|
'hehehe'

BBL Top 4

On 3rd/4th Mai Hamburg hosted the end round of the BBL national league - BBL TOP 4 2008 :



Speed. Show. Musik. Great atmophere.

Unfortunately i got to see only the semifinals on Saturday. Sunday was already planned before i decided to go there.

My ticket ( \:d/ ) :


Color Line Arena - located pretty far from the center. Just next to the HSH Nordbank Arena. These two places are the host of all the big events in Hamburg.

Talents - Part 5

Fish from fish market .. à la K



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Faust

'Faaaaaaust?' 'Abeeeer.. es ist schwer' 'Verstehst du was?' 'Ahh..puei Faust e greu.' 'But do u understand it?' etc..
This is part of the comments comming from my mother, my international friends, my german friends..

It is something to read Faust, but to read it in German?!?!?!?! :P
Well..it is good that you can still find classes in the university where you can forget about the normal technical / modern life and get lost for a while in another world.

This happens also with my class 'Literatur und Kultur' already in the 4th 'season'. Faust I was a nice experience. During 3 weeks we read it and tried to understand as much as possible from the original version so that the modern interpretation we were going to see in the theater would cause us as little 'problems' as possible.

The theater play was interesting, interactive. The stage was located in the middle. Actors everywhere in the hall 'forcing' the audience to take part in their short but intensive life.








Next on the list? On the 17th June. This time 'Der Schimmelreiter' by Theodor Storm. Different from Faust but very nice too.
Mal sehen...

Blindness / Confusion / Illusion / Weakness ?!

"Da, sunt numai un calator, un pelerin pe acest pamant! Dar voi sunteti altceva?"

Yesterday after the usual basketball session I went to the harbour to enjoy the nice weather and look at the ships, but most of all to finish reading 'Suferintele tanarului Werther' (auf deutsch: 'Die Leiden des jungen Werthers', in english: 'The Sorrows of Young Werther') by Goethe. It is nice written but I didn't like the story; actually I didn't agree with the decisions and the behaviour of the main character. I should read it maybe again when I will start (if ever) believing in the love between a man and a woman. I find it stupid (sorry ab this) to loose ur head, ur mind for another person. I liked very much how every feeling he had was put into words.

"Prezenta ei, destinul ei, participarea ei la destinul meu, toate astea imi storc si ultimele lacrimi din creieru-mi pustiit." It sounds truly great, but how could it be possible for one to get to this state. Simple terrifying. It goes hand in hand with part of my believes: There is no such thing like love between a man and a woman, but a feeling that takes u to a level where u cannot think clear anymore.
"Doamne! Asta-i soarta pe care ai dat-o oamenilor; ei nu sunt fericiti decat cand isi pierd mintile !"

Am i talking about blindness, confusion, illusion, weakness?
"Tare ma tem ca numai faptul ca nu poti sa ma ai te face sa tii atat de mult la dorinta asta."
People start chasing something (a fiction, an ideal) and when they catch it they don't want it anymore, because they realize it isn't what they wanted / expected to be.

"O, de ce oare a trebuit sa te nasti cu firea asta violenta, cu pasiunea asta nestapanita care te face sa nu mai lasi din mana ce ai apucat o data?"
Wake up and get over it !!!!! I would say..

Maybe my favourite passage in the book:
"Imi pretuieste inteligenta si talentele mai mult decat inima, care e totusi singura mea mandrie [, care e singurul izvor al oricarei fortze, al oricarei fericiri, al oricarui necaz. ] Ah, ceea ce stiu poate sti oricine, dar inima mea e numai a mea! "


I don't know if the reading changed my mood or it was something else too, but i didn't have any desire to go to the french party announced for that evening. Coming home at 10.30 pm I decided around 11.30 to pass by because u never know what could happen.
It wasn't such a big party but I ate some crepes, had some conversations in german, english and spanish and ended up playing basketball at 3.30 am. I lost..damn it. The hair is to be blamed. :P
It is funny 'cause many people told me about the experience of going swimming in the early morning or, different said, during the night. Although i am not such a big fun of the see, of swimming, I think I can understand now their point of view.. by comparing their experience with mine.
The ending?! Again.. expect little and u will be surprised. Hmm.. I think this time I should try to say it a little bit different. More suitable would be: Funny how different the people think and act. You might expect something to happen but u end up 'receiving' something else (i.e. having a surprise - good or bad). Or even if the result is exactly the one you expected you still look surprised. 'Funny'.

"Nu numai mie imi merge asa. Toti oamenii sunt inselati in sperantele si in asteptarile lor."

2nd Easter in HH

This year the Easter was a little bit different. 1st of all bcs it wasn't in the same time with the catholic one. Therefore in March i was prepared to spend a quiet Easter in front of the pc talking with my family and/or maybe walking around HH in case of nice weather.
Well.. it wasn't actually like that.

I thought on fasting in the last week.. like always. Well it didn't turned out to be so easy like home.
Monday i ate in mensa.. chicken.
Tuesday.. well.. we skip it directly. I hope though i will still remember the reason after some time. :P
Wednesday was ok. I had a dinner with my NIT friends. Indonesian food and lots of tee.

Thursday i don't remember if i went to China Lounge or not, but i don't think so. ( i should write more often here otherwise i forget the details. :P )
Friday it was the party in the mensa where i drank only O-Saft, noticed i knew after all few Germans and where I stayed until 5, of course when the party ended. I went there with the idea of staying only 1h.. ok 2.. ok until 3.. ok.. nevermind.
So.. Saturday was a calm short ( because of waking up pretty late ) day. Because last year i went with Chris to an evangelic-lutheran church to take part in the Easter Gottesdienst ( slujba de Paste ), this year i decided to go to the only church in HH where the service will be held in Romanian (more here). "Let's see if i feel like home."
In the mail i got it was written it will start at 10.30. I was there at 11.30 thinking that the important part starts at midnight like it should. But the question is/was 'Who's midnight?'. Surprisingly they started on Romanian time. :)))))))))

The people?! In one word i would characterize them as 'diverse'. From the high class Romanians to the ones who leave their car in front of the church and are dressed sporty (m) or short dresses and tones of makeup. And of course i shouldn't forget the 'gossipers'.

The service ended at 2 so i was home at 3, woke up at 6 to go to the fish market to buy fresh fruits and vegetables to have a nice Easter breakfast with my 2 new Serbian friends (and their flatmates).

The fish market at 9 am on Sunday:


This is how an Easter breakfast looks like:


..and a close-up on the eggs the serbians painted (using the onion procedure):



The Easter Sunday was ended very nice by Faust (more here). On Easter Monday another dinner in our dorm. This time a Mexican one.

A full week. Many pics. Nice memories.

Every Tuesday eve..

After basketball every Tuesday eve you can find me here..



Kiddin'. Not every Tuesday. Come on. :P
But next Tuesday for sure cause it is Karaokeeeeee. Time to shout once again: 'What's goooooooooooing on?'
And i still have to go once there on the 1st Tuesday of a month cause it is Lady Night. But have to make it there until 10 pm.. or was it 11?!