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Hamburg Schanzenfest

Yesterday evening my favourite German and I went to the Schanzenfest, a street festival in Sternschanzen. It is an illegal street festival. It is not permitted, however, people still go there to sell second hand clothes and action figures form the 90s. People also sell home made cakes and salad and also drinks.

I thought it was pretty cool. In Australia, you have to have a licence for everything. You can't sell home made cakes on the side of the street because they may not apply with health and safety standards. You cannot sell alcohol unless you have a licence and you can't drink it on the street.


Drinks for sale


One of the second hand stands


A festival in Germany isn't a festival unless you can buy sausages! :smile:

There were lots of ...I don't know what the english word is....punks? youth? at the festival. They were dressed in black hoodies, with covered shoes, dark sunglasses and some also had dust masks or handkerchiefs around their necks. Yes, just your friendly festival-goer. Nothing suspicious there.

We were in a little park, where lots of people were sitting, talking, BBQing, playing songs using empty bottles, playing cards etc etc. Then, the plice walked in to say 'Hey, we're the police, if you make any trouble, watch out'. Does this even work? These people who were equipped for fighting clearly don't like police, so the police walking through the park is just making these people angrier.





The police were also standing around the four corners of an intersection, just watching people, filming and waiting until someone threw a bottle/stone at something. Keep in mind, people are still eating in the cafes, children are still there...Some of the police had tanks on their backs which were filled with pepper spray, all of them had shin protectors, helmets and batons.


A police water truck


I then left, because I didn't want to be there when the fighting started. I went to the Reeperbahn, which is Hamburg's clubbing strip. At 8.30pm it's pretty empty but there are still girls with badly dyed blonde hair and muffin tops, standing on the corners, wearing only a T-shirt and underwear *is sick* A friend of mine was in Hamburg and she took a photo of one of these girls and got yelled at. They also sit in windows. If you take a photo of them when they are in a window, you will get a cup of water thrown down onto you...but then a minute later, you will realise that it is not water, instead it is urine :yuck:

Then sometime at 21.45 the fighting started because someone got sick of the police and threw a bottle at them. There are some photos here. People threw those fire things you use when you are on a boat, bottles...

I don't think we have any riots in Australia. I think everyone is too lazy to do anything. These people were fighting against the system, aparantly. CEOs of companies earn millions of dollars and they are not happy with this and they are not happy with a lot of other stuff. Well, the police are paid out of TAX MONEY. So, when there are 2,000 police on the street to control the riot, the rioters are wasting their own money....This money oculd have gone to something else. There are people in the world without clean water and the police have to fire water at rioters in order to control them. WASTING THE MURRAY!!! How many of these people were actually fighting to CHANGE something and how many were fighting just for the fun of fighting?

In Australia, when we are unhappy with something, we can write to our local member of parliament, or we have an organised picnic in a park.

Switzerland: land of chocolate factories and banks

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I told someone I was going to Switzerland and he asked me 'Why? To see a bank?!'. Funnily enough, I didn't see many banks. I also asked at the tourist information office if there were tours of chocolate factories. Nope. The closest chocolate factory was 3 hours away, in Italy :|

Anyway, last weekend I was in Zuerich, Switzerland. I don't think I'll go back there anytime soon. It was unfortunately a very expensive weekend, eventhough I didn't pay anything for accommodation! An ICE train ticket to Switzerland and back will set you back around 75 Euro, if you have BahnCard 50. If you ever stay in Germany for a decent amount of time, buy a BahnCard 50. It allows you to purchase train tickets for half the normal price.


The chocolate section in a Swiss supermarket


Happiest mannequins ever


Miss E and I were in Zuerich during POT PLANT FESTIVAL!!!!


Sign in a tram, telling you not to make loud noises, damage seats and to not place your feet on the seats.


When I arrived back to my empty apartment (the removal guys had taken everything, including my mobile phone charger *annoyed*), I found someone on my bed!!!!

Kiel and Hamburg

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Have you ever had someone who is holding a clip board, try to talk to you on the street? Most of the time, people ignore these clip board holders. Well, today I didn't. I did a market survey about a coffee advertisement today. I had to watch some advertisements and then answer questions about them. For my hard work and effort, I received a bag of lollies worth 0.99Euro! :smile: Woooooo (I think this is my new favourite word to include in emails)

Click 'read more' for photos from the weekend: Kiel and Hamburg.

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Memories

I feel like going to sleep. However, it's still bright outside! It gets dark here at around 10.30pm! So, instead of sleeping, I cleaned out my room.


My rubbish...and I didn't sort it :O

I have so much stuff. The stuff contains memories. I don't want to throw it out!


Receipts aren't just for tax purposes. From this receipt I can remember my first breakfast outing (I had never eaten breakfast in a cafe before) I drank orangejuice and felt HAPPY. I remember that the cafe didn't want to serve soft boiled eggs. I also remember, that after the breakfast I went to an art exhibition and didn't understand anything. I remember before the breakfast, my favourite German and I went to the post office to get a mysterious parcel and it was a pen from a bank....then we gave the pen to some kids giving out brouchures. Receipts hold a lot of memories. Oh and it was COLD too!


This is on a little book I got from the T-Oline shop in Berlin. They have a tea shop in the corner and my penpal, Mr R and I drank some free tea. It was really good tea! It costs 13 Euros for a small packet :| After the tea, we went to the top of the TV tower. Then we went to another tea shop, ate some cheesecake, went to a Polish shop to by pierogis, then we cooked the pierogis...then we dressed up in stupid costumes and went to a cafe:) This was the first day that I didn't wear a jumper and jacket!

Then there is my postcard/picture collection on my cupboard door...each postcard/picture holds a memory.


Tulip: From 'The Apartment' cafe in Duesseldorf, on Karneval weekend, I believe.
One Night Send: From my fvaourite German. He wrote it while I was talking to him about transvestites.
Penguins: I found this in a book and thought it looked nice.
Ich Liebe Dich: I got this from a cinema, where I watched 'Waltz mit Bashir'.
Three rectangular pictures: From a calendar I received for Christmas.
The chair: From the bar around the corner.
Postcard with people and the black and white line postcard: From a museum in Munich
Barbie Dolls fighting: Where did this come from? I can't remember :frown:
Rose: An easter present
Hattu Paeckchen: From Schwetzingen, at a birthday dinner
Sunburnt people: From an article on sunburn. The following weekend, I got burnt :smile: (well, brown, but not red)
Black and white cartoons: From an Irish pub where I attended a couchsurfing meeting (I think)


Ahh I have the hiccups :frown: They hurt too


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You may recall I wrote that I went to two internship interviews. Well, I now have two offers. Something is wrong here: I NEVER get job offers in Adelaide abnd I do the interviews in English. Here I speak German in the interviews and get offers :D

Second weekend of june: South to North

This week I had two job/internship interviews…in GERMAN! I am quite proud of myself  I found one firm attractive and the other firm attractive. After a phone call tomorrow, I will know if I have been offered an internship.

A wise farmer once said…
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch….

Yep, sometimes chickens don’t hatch.


Now I will tell you about what I have been up to in the last week. I was going to write about something else, but this blog is not the place for it.

Some of you may say 'I am not interested in what you did'. Well, I don't care, you don't have to read my blog. But, this blog does serve as a diary. If I write in my diary, I usually write keywords and not actual sentences.

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By night

Yesterday at 22.30, I decided I would walk around Mannheim. I enjoy randomly walking around cities. There is always something new to discover. Today, for exmaple, I walked around the streets behind my apartment and found cafes, restaurants, bakeries and a toy shop, all of which I never knew existed.


The Neckar River


On the bank of the Neckar, I found some fire twirlers, dancing to drum beats


My university


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Instutite for Plastination, in Heidelberg


My favourite grafittied crab
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