A personal recount of a life within Berlin, Venice and the EU

Thursday, April 13, 2006

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So after almost a month let´s describe some of the funniest things seen in here:
a guy from Jamaica who plays chess on the streets: if you want to compete with him, he switches on the radio, keeps it very loud, and plays fast: he declares he is the fourth best player in his country...possible, no? The more you play with him, the more you pay...
A man who comes to the restaurant every single night trying to sell candles, the big coloured ones...so far nobody among the personnel has ever seen him selling at least one but he seems so peaceful and happy...
A man who comes to the restaurant every single night offering you to have a Polaroid photo: we once asked for one and realized he actually has no perception of the proportions: half of the photo had no subject and we were put in the left part of it...he asks five euro for this and in Berlin it is a lot for such a service....but whatever....
Turkish children playing football in a yard, everybody against everybody...joyfully screaming and running hard...
A Georgian man talking a good Italian with an American guy, living in Rome, in an Italian restaurant in Berlin: they understood each other so well!!!
A Techno party in a grungie place in Kreuzberg: five in the morning, 1500 people sweating in a dance floor with a tropical climate...unbearable...I have been told some people kept on partying till four in the afternoon..guess thanks of what?
German people eating half a kilo of fried cabbage with french fries, with fried Curry wurst, curry, mayonnaise and ketchup at three in the morning...the last three not fried, unfortunately for them!!!

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