While we searched for the ultimately perfect campsite for the next week, we came across many droppings and footprints that we tried to identify & follow. The track above might be a marten´s; the one to the left is most likely a wolve´s. How exciting!!!
Yey, snow! At least it´s enough to build miniature sculptures out of it! - Although we really really hoped that we could finally practice building igloos and snow-burrows. Instead, the snow melt after 4 days and left us only mud...
On the picture on top: me, Julia and Katja (left to right). Beneath it: Julia and the forest. Trees are great:) And thereunder: Marcus, Katja, Dirk, Heidi, Seppel and Markus (I always mix up the first and the last one, Im soooorry!)
Yeah! 10 days in the forest somewhere out in the wild plus nine other outdoor-lovers. I missed the wild terribly, so I´m happy, happy, happy!
To satisfy all clichés of this strange country of mine: these are supposed to be real Germans, dancing "Schuhplattler" in Lederhosen and Dirndls. I bet Andrew would have been thrilled to watch their performance!
Apples from Arnold Schwarzenegger´s hometown must be dipped in gold - at least their price of 1 Euro per piece suggests that.
May I introduce you to Milli´s tiny pet? It´s Fips, the Hamster. Fips is the cutest little creature ever, he eats as if he had only one day left of his little life and runs like a steamroller on speed. He´s simply gorgeous! Here you can see how Mister Barber & Nele try to win his little heart - with food, of course....
It´s always good to be against something, isn´t it? So Marie and I are protesting against all protesters, especially in sushi restaurants. And against the weirdest bathroom ever, that gave me a shock cause when I looked in the mirror, I saw Seppel (this shouldn´t be taken as an insult, Seppel, really...). And, by the way: Katja and Martin experienced the same thing, I guess.
Seppel, Martin and me also went to see some museums, get a cultural shock and introduce the museum attendants to our kind of art. For example a postmodern interpretation of "Seppel´s red jacket hanging next to some really meaningful grey stuff" on the left and above the neo-classizistic performance "2 tired people in the New National Galery". The full catalogue can be orderd at the artist´s office.
Reichstag in winter - isn´t it beautiful? And do you recognize those illuminated figures guarding the christmas tree:)?
We didn´t get much snow this winter, but it seems to be enough for Martin who found the snow-women of his dreams in the park between Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag. I wish them a happy future at -10°C...:)
That´s what happens if you try to give two nature freaks a guided tour through Berlin...
This is the evidence that Mister Barber´s shoes are falling apart and that therefore he had absolutely no right to keep nagging about Luki´s and Alvine´s - äääh, I mean Almut´s decayes shoes for a whole week. What an impertinence:)!
More food, more people! From left to right: Martin, Seppel, Lukas, Almuth, Mister Barber, Elisabeth and Marie. Yummmie, that was a hell lot of food! And the circle of my chaotic but absolutely great visitors is still incomplete...
Seems like a normal situation for strange little hackers like Lukas - but I just thought it looks hilarious, Luki diving into the innards of Mister Barber´s computer while he´s holding the flashlight; slightly bored and obviously not very concerned about his PC´s health. Whatever - a scene from my everyday life:)
I drove back to Berlin after visiting my family for Chritmas and definitely didn´t expect so many people in our kitchen - Valentin, who was my interim tenant during my stay in Tucson, prepared dinner for all of us and even tried to seve it. My friends Marie, Lukas and Almuth were there (a lot of people visited me around New Year´s Eve); as well as Toralf, Mister Barber, Elisabeth and of course, Valentin and his girlfriend.
There´s another tradition on christmas meetings, that I almost forgot: the singing. Loved by us and probably hated by most of Stangenrod´s burgeois inhabitants. Well, I must admit - to their defense - some of us are pretty good at singing loud, but not exactly so very good in singing in tune. For us it doesn´t matter. Here are Hendrik, Lisa and the whole choir, followed by Julia, who danced to entertain Samuel, Mechthilds little son.
Back in the arms of these weird wild hiking forestlovers:) From the top to the bottom: I missed fighting with Julia!!! Then: Miro and Verena during the meal-preparations for about 30 people. Aaannnnd: Seppel, Berthold, Katja and Julia - on a walk and on a tree:).
I´m back in the city of punk and chaos, of culture and subculture, of pomp and fith - and, of course, in the circles of my tall and tiny roommates. Here they are: Milli Meta, Nele and Nina. I guess Mister Barber ran out of the picture...
My sister Noemi, Idefix and I went on a winter stroll through Liederbach and discovered so many beautifully frozen leaves, spidewebs and twigs. We felt like walking through a winter fairytale...
Okay. Finally - 3 month later - I managed to upload some more pictures! Here´s my very dear aunt Sigrid, my brother Marcell with his girlfriend Alla, and me, my mum, my sister Noemi and my cousin Janina. Good to see them all again!!!!
I´m finally back in the old world. The pure fact of being stuck in this cold, rainy, rattlesnake-free country again depressed me quite a bit in the beginning. But fortunately, I have a crazy family which makes me feel at home again. And sometimes, as you can clearly see in the picture above, they can even behave for two seconds...:)
