Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

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!

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

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.

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! 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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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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