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

Friday, September 15, 2006

Falling Star

Yeah, I have seen a falling star, just half an hour ago...on the way back from this pub, the only one that Grosshennesdorf has, I was walking through streets without any kind of public lighting - if somebody ever doubted about it, guys!, the Milky Way still exists!...the moon is less than the half right now...

The day has been long...we have been riding our bikes for more than 50 kilometres today...we visited a small town that is completely relying on renewable kinds of energy, has a congress center that is amazing and lives just next to a convent full with Benedictines nuns...you can enjoy the newest technology at the border between Poland and Germany...

I have been in the point where Poland Czech Republic and Germany meet up....there is a small river going by and three four flags blowing at the wind - EU´s flag is obviously the fourth one....

I am positive in these last days...the reason is not just one, and by the way, it is something really difficult to write down in a clear way...
I also have to say that some phone calls during the last days helped me a lot to keep the mood high...

This seminar I am doing is well planned: a small group, many inputs on different topics...many informations, the chance to meet people who dedicate their life to something in such a way that is so deep and so natural at the same time...and, last but not least, thepossibilty to be outside fromn the early morning till late in the evening...

Czech, German and Polish people were the people I met in these last days...
This region was fucked up by the pollution: it was coming out mostly from some coal mines and brown coal power plants that were all built along the area - it was actually named the Black Triangle.
The environmental problem was the biggest issue in the late 80s and at the beginning of the 90´s...nowadays not any longer, but it seems that some people miss the point....so many persons left this region to move West: Germans to Western Germany, Polish and Vyech moved a bit western...it seems like that the famous "Best minds of the last Generation" left this areas and that the few people who are still doing stuff here live in this sort of idealistic and metaphysical regional pessimism...
All the others seem to be very passive or nostalgic of the past...

I am going to sleep...it is more than a month that Imout or awake till late...now it is too late to make the things changing but my legs are tremblig so I need some sleep...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Marco, you forgot to write the most important thing:
what did you wished for when you noticed the shooting star?!
your anonymus....