Days go by

So the seminar is getting more interesting...you get in touch with the people and you get to learn something new...
I got barely drunk on tTuesday night...a bottle of Jägermeister conquered me in thesupermarketand now it is almost empty in the room...I do not sleep well since ages, I'd say, but since few days I do not even sleep that much...
It is a pain in the ass...and the weather sucks a bit too much...

Weimar: the Mother Land of German Geezers

When I was in the bus yesterday,I could hardly find a person younger than 70 years old...though I i talked with a 90 years old man who actually was fighting the war (the second) in Italy...he defined Italy a gentle country but Ii wondered what it could mean since when he was that the country was torn apart and divided...whatever...
No way to sleep here: I woke up at six and nobody was awaken in this centrum...fortunately I had stolen my flat-mate's guitar so at least I could play somw stuff, listening to the rain...kind of depressing though...
It will be a long day....

No more Schawarma this week but the nightmares kept on coming...it is a kind of habit of my friday nights: last night as well...I went to bed at 4 and I woke up at 8.30 with the same unpleasant feeling of every saturday morning...
This week run so fast: my parents came here last tuesday...in the end I have been either working or spending time with them...always in a kind of hurry.
I need a break...and maybe I need to get away from here for a couple of weeks...

I am kind of sentimental today and not in such a good mood...I hope that the Rembrandt exhibition we are going to visit will emprove it...

This morning, after having been thrown away from a pub in Mitte called Russian Coffee - not just me, though, we were all expelled - I had the crazy idea to walk on the way to the river...
It turned to be wonderful: even this city is empty for few hours a day and you can seat on a bench in a park in the very center and find nobobdy but birds lighted by the morning sun, American runners/joggers and empty beer bottles...the Dome, the River, the docks and the restaurants....everything was silent and peaceful...only two voices speaking in German...

Schawarma and Nightmares

In this period I am filling my stomach with Schawarma...I mean: I had probably four of these delicious and fat meals last week...
On the other side I collected two very bad nightmares in six days: I do not remember my dreams that often but I´d say I usually don´t have so many bad dreams...
This morning I woke up at 11 - I went to bed at 5 - with a very annoying feeling...and I remember all the shit of the dream...she was the main character and I was among those who could just watch all the thing...

Are the two things connected? Hmm...I would say not...next week Ill try with some Falafel to see if there are emprovements on the quality of my dreams...
Hope that everybody is fine...I am going to work...

The time runs so fast...Megan was here for three days and it seemed that she stayed just a day and a half...we went to this Twilight Singers concert and it was definitely good...really amazing...and there was a surprise during the concert: M. Lanegan sang some songs with Greg Dulli...great!
Then the day after we went to a classic music concert for this Young Euro Classic...it was an orchestra from Norway and they played quiet good, I would say...

I work with my children and everything is OK...it is a bit tiring, I have to say, but you can see that they learn something everyday...

I will go to Weimar in a week...for twelve days because of a seminar...
...then I have the chance to go to Eastern Germnay, not far from Goerlitz, for a ten days environmental project...we should travel by bike between the German Goerlitz, the Polish one and Zittau...sounds interesting...in the end the places that somebody had to visit - but he could not - always come back...In the end I won´t go to any warm place: no beach no sea no real holydays...but these things should be fun...
I beg your pardon but my English is getting worse and worse...my German emproves slowly...but it emproves...

Noch mal...

This week as weel I have been working a bit too much...I feel like I do not have so much time for myself...but in the end I read a lot on the train on the way to my job and on the way back...I play music with my room-mate and I love this city deeper and deeper - why are you not here, damned!?.

Two days ago I had a conversation with a girl and I had to say something definitely important: she said I could explain myself in English but I realized I would have felt so unnatural...so I did my best with German and it worked out...

I hear so many stories that could be easily labelled as border-line. Weird developments for funny situations...or weird situations with possible funny developments...probably just a question of point of view...

I read on an Italian newspaper´s on-line edition that G.Grass, when interviewed by a German newspaper, declared that he was in the SS for a short period of his life...that is weird at least. Another funny development...( Read Mein Jahrhundert and Die Blechtrommel, guys...the read is worth a small period of anybody´s life).

Scaring numbers for stressed lungs

I calculated that, on the average, I smoke 8030 cigarettes a year. It means something like 23 days and a half (every day made of 24 hours) of simple smoking. It is ridicolous...considering the economic aspect of the thing, it means I spend yearly 1300 € (or more) a year in cigarettes...there is an open fly-ticket to travel twelve months around the world (but only round the clock) that costs 1300€...I should travel eleven months, find the country where the cigarettes are the cheapest and spend there the last three weeks, just smoking...ah ah...

Flying cheap in September is harder than believing Mr. Bush is smart

No easy and cheap ways to fly south in September...so I bought tickets for a couple of concerts here in Berlin...Tex Perkins (TNT) in few days and the Twilight Singers next week...

So here we are now

I have been working with the very young children the last week as well. There are new entries in the kindergarten and these new children, as already posted, are more complicated, obviously: new environment, missing their parents, crying a lot, and needing more attention. But after the first few days they got used and turned to be Ok, sweet and great.
The thing is that they are not used to that so they get tired very soon. On Wednesday I was with this C. and other 8 children in the garden (kind of stressing because it is not easy to look after 8 little mouses walking all the time: but it is fun). After twenty minutes she started to cry and there was no way to make her stop: too tired. So I said the teacher that I would have brought her upstairs in our rooms where the babies were. I embraced her - she suddenly stopped crying - and started to walk away from the garden. Suddenly all the kids followed me on the way to the doorstep, all of them: I had not called them or said: "Hey, sweethearts we go upstairs" though. It was like I had a small flute, a silent small German flute.... They trust me. I can play with them and at the same time they think I can protect them. And this feeling is awesome.
N., almost nine months old, learnt to walk last weekend: she walked to me last monday. She cried non-stop every time I went to the garden with the other .- and she could not - until Friday, when I brought her with me downstairs too: there she was peaceful and satisfied.
I am really enjoying the whole thing so far...I guess this is clear.

I have been working 39 hours in the last three days...a personal record I would say...but this weekend has been nice: my sister is here with a bunch of people from Barcelona.
On friday night the people at the restaurant moved from their tables to the bar because of the music I played: it was totally cool!
Then I went to a Karaoke bar with some other people until 6 in the morning...I think wé did a good job with Jealous guy by John Lennon and with Wish You Were Here...the rest was aweful...

New entries in the kita

The same name and a polish surname, a complicated personality, two big blue eyes...
Today was a tough day...