Berlin

I miss some good friends in here...I miss the old ones and I am a bit sad because I did not create so many new friendships in here so far...it is probably my fault...
But I cannot complain too much though...all the rest had been quiet fanstastic...but I miss good friends a lot anyway...

We really don´t need you, Mister Iñárritu.

I went to watch Babel; I left the cinema before the end: it is one of those movies you have the feeling you have already seen: in this case already twice with this over-rated filmmaker´s previous two movies...damned! I should have gone to see some Berlinale movies!
Take care you all and boycott the film, please, it is so obvious in its try to be indipendent and against the violence and the distorsions of this world; but in the end such a movie takes advantage of all these sad and tragic stories...it is the only way Hollywood can deal with serious topics...finding everyday tragedies and putting them on the stage, with cool colours and cool "montage", just for a couple of hours; after that we should all feel better, no? And the director should be labelled as an "indipendent" regisseur! Please!
Verdammt!

News

SO the first thing is that I am going to Australia from March the 15th to April the 19th! Fuck yeah. Stephie will be already there and we will spend a month between Sidney and Adelaide...sounds great...I just have to keep on saving money...

What else? Not so many things indeed...I am going to Venice before that time and I am looking for somebody who can live in my apartement for that month...if you know somebody who is interested, please let me know...
Ciao.

P.S. Read it if you have time, sounded interesting to me

Friday afternoon

I finally realized today that, since I still have a lot of vacation days to take, I will be done with my project in three weeks (and three days)...in the end time has passed so fast...as everybody would probably say...
I am looking for something else to do, it does not seem to be so easy though...
I have the feeling that I am not enjoying the city as much as I should, but the time is limited and I am working almost every day: today it is the 12th day of work without any break...and I have to keep on till three in the morning probably...
I miss you all, dear bloggers and friends...I hope you ll manage to come to visit me soon, somehow...
Take care...

P.S. I am sorry for the troubles that some people experienced with posting in this desolating blog...and I have no idea on how to solve them...please, do not give up, though.

11 January 2007

Days and days of working with my children made me love them so much: I know so much about them now...but the work is getting kind of boring: there are not so many big news indeed...but it is probably me more than everythig else...
Paul, I feel my life goes like you described it: slow and fast at the same time...I am not sure we meant the same way, but I guess we did...
I am thinking about going to Australia for a month after I will be done with the kids...I have to see if it is possible or not...

I am fixing my new apartement bit by bit...now I can actually host you without problems...so please come to visit me, if you have some time off!

Take care and be in peace!

Ciao.

Hallo 2007

So guys, happy new year to you all!
I wish you that 75 percent (at least) of your dreams can come true this year! It would not be a bad rate, uh?
During the N.Y.´s Eve I have been working while drinking Champagne - a good deal somehow, since they also paid me!
After that I tried my best to get obliterated: I almost managed to succeed: the sourness of the lemon juice just fucked my stomach up a bit too early!
Anyway I spent the whole evening with the most amazing woman of this city. We had fun!
What did you do, people?!

I look for a website which finds the best offers for intercontinental trips?
I have a sort of plan for March! Any tip?
Take care you all, and enjoy the warm January 2007!

Tomorrow I am going to the cinema with my cousin: any tip for a movie we can both enjoy? She is 12 years old.
HAve a nice day.

Back in Venice

Where is the Xmas atmosphere? I am probably not sensible to it this year, but on the other side it seems that this city is losing its soul, and it is doing it very fast. It does not seem that it is such a big deal for the people who live in here, by the way...and that is probably the saddest aspect of this development...not such a big news though...
Once more I feel farther and farther away from this city....it is not a good feeling: you feel like you cannot live anymore in the place where you are born.
It is still charming, still beautiful, still the most amazing challenge to Nature that I know, so far : building up a city on the water...but I feel as a stranger, everytime more, and that makes me feel sad...so deeply sad.
I was Santa Claus tonight: I dressed up for a four years old child who, lucky her, still believes in him...I envied her somehow: still having this excitement for such a wonderful moment of the year is something that I would like to enjoy once more...I guess it has been the best present I did this year: mostly because she was not supposed to say "thank you" to me: I did it just to let her fantasy go further, one more year dreaming about the magic of life...that is cool.

My dear blog-readers: I was thinking about making a top-five concerning the things I want to emprove about myself for the next year: would you please think about them for you as well, and post them on the blog, please? There is a bigger and bigger luck of feed-back for this blog...sometimes I think about I should write much more, sometimes I think I should not write anymore...it is getting boring without feed-back. Can you understand that?

By the way, my dear, I wish to all of you a peaceful, peaceful, peaceful 25th of December 2006. Hug you all.

There are moments when you feel like not having choice....there are moments when you feel like that you shouldn´t make any, rather wait and be a more patient with the things happening all around you...
There are moments when you know you should just consider that there is no third option, keep it cool and let the angryness and the frustration away...
There will be moments when I ll just enjoy the patience, probably...

People told me lately, and in different ways, that I am not so patient....I think I see a point on that...I think as well that I get less patient with somebody when I have the feeling that I have been misunderstood...
On the other side I do think as well that I am not such an easy person to understand: I am not easy for myself as well, I guess....

Anyway the time goes by really fast, I did not manage to do all the things that I had planned for these three months....but I found a flat, just next to my house, so it is gonna be easy to move out the staff from one place to the other...
I was in Holland to visit Michel, a good friend...went back to The Hague after seven years...my memories were so confused, really impressive how few I could remember...but I had the feeling that I had already been walking in front of the small Parliament´s lake, before I could actually remember it....I felt my mind just jumped to that evening of seven years ago but did not tell me that it wanted to move back there...it is probably similar to the feeling you have when you remember a dream months after...you fee like your mind is communicating with you through feelings... you remember in a sort of neither verbal, nor figural way...
There is still something I did not understand about Holland though: it is a very developed and organized country, where people seem to be pratical on one side and able to enjoy life on the other....what I did not clear with myself yet is if I would be able to live over there....it is not an answer that I should get soon, it is more a question mark Ill try to solve...

Ana, I ll try my best to come to visit you before Xmas, but it sounds difficult, my organization needs some help: a group of students from Sardiny is coming to Berlin for a week, and since they do not talk any German and any English, Ill probably get big headaches trying to translate stuff to them...
But I promise Ill do my best...
Ill be in Venice from the 22nd to the 30th this month....so if you know somebody who is interested to have holydays in Beriln for Xmas, there is an apartement in Kreuzberg waiting for him, her, them....I would not ask for a lot of money, though...It would be cheaper than any other accomodation you could get in there for that period....and the apartement is in a very nice neighbourhood!

I had some troubles with posting stufff....don ot why, actually!
There is a post which waits to be there since more than a week...Ill try today once more but it did not work.
Hope you are doing all right. All of you. I am scoring pretty well

Hopefully there will be more room to talk about the past

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,453620,00.html

Another Seminar

Between Colon and Bonn, in the middle of nowhere

Have a look

Le Monde

South American Volunteers

So Edgar is leaving soon for Perú...he is gonna do some volunteering there....good luck, man!
By the way here is his blog, check it out from time to time: I will, my friend!
Edgar in Perú
Alex is leaving soon as well...Argentina is his destination: take care you too, man!
Paul, we should really try to manage to go there next year, at least to visit them!
Noemi, if you are still in Chile, I can just say: "Take care and kisses".
For anybody else have a nice day!

122nd Post

I posted a lot in this blog, but mostly at the beginning...not a lot in this last couple of weeks...or maybe more...whatever..I am fine, a lot of things are somehow changing...I met a lot of people both in here and during the travels I did...but it is not easy to keep the contacts with everybody...and sometimes you think it would be nice, but does not work so well...by the way the time is never enough, and that is a pity as well...

I am listening a lot Tv on The Radio, right now....do not listen to them if you have not already gotten through an hard rock period in your life...but they are so cool!!!
What else? Nina Anastasia is kind of interesting: I started to listen to her with more pleasure since I wrote an interview she did a month ago: at a certain point he says:" Nowadays is the most revolutionary thing is to be totally true and sincere!" I think she is right, but I did not manage to be so till the very end in these last months...I am trying to emprove...and I am, actually.
I would say NIN are cool as well, but more difficult to listen to...
The Editors, on the other side, seem a copy of Interpol: so a copy of the mixture between the Velvet Underground and the first Coldplay...a coupe of tracks have a really charming beat though...

I just started to read another book by Z. Smith: my mother sent it to me last week...she is so young, so beautiful and she writes so well...unbelievable (ehy, I am not talking about my mother, obviously..!)
I am trying to Belgium or Netherland for a couple of days (3rd-5th December: no way to change the dates: it is the only window of opportunity...if somebody is interested, it would be nice if he´d let me know!)

I hope you are doing all right, wherever you are...
I ll post some more soon...

On Thursday the 19th there has been the twenty years Party of the Kindergarten where I work...there were almost all the children with their parents, playing and eating some bloody pasta and some nice home-made cakes...everybody was in the garden...there was also a show for children, made by a woman dressed like a tiger....
I was really happy of the whole situation: it was nice to see that the children run to me to tell you just Hallo, that the parents smiled at me, and that the teachers considered me as part of the school, one hundred percent...

But the coolest thing happened when the party for the family finished and I went with 15 teachers upstairs to drink some wine....photos of ten years ago came out, stories of the past, told in this strict Berlin accent, came out as well...and I could feel at a very intuitive level that I am working in Eastern Berlin...I loved it...

Yesterday I went to this German-Czech Jazzfest, that turned to be OK but a bit too poppy for my taste...mostly because when I think about jazz on one side, and about the amazing players that I heard in Czech, I feel like I miss something for sure...and then there is this kind of typical Czech attitude of making charts of anything: when you study Economic History of the previous socialistic Eastern European Countries, it is easy to find some Czech authors who will tell you that Czech was the 8th biggest world economy in the 1920s, in every essay the will write....or that Czech always scored better than any other previous brother-country from any of the European standards - that is actually not true...or that the mountains on the Czech side are nicer...
So it is Ok I guess, but why should I care about the fact that the piano player I am listening was ranked among the best 10-12 European piano players of 2006, according to some magazines...I mean: since he plays a cheasy version of Fragile, full of funny (negative meaning) keyboards sounds...?
Anyway that was the first thing the leader of this band - Shanti (ethnojazz v Ceske Republiky) - said....hmm....


It was cool though: I met a woman from Prague there, who actually offered me a ticket for half of the price: we obviously talked in German: since she lives in Germany since 1966 it was the language we could both talk well enough...

TIPS

Last week I read a book by Agotha Kristof, the first of my life: Hier....amazing, probably less than 100 pages...but so intense and so direct....read it, if you do not have a book on your table right now...by the way she is somehow a product of what happened yesterday, exactly fifty years ago...
Right now I am reading a book by Coetzee: the beginning sounds really good...

So after such a kind pretentious cultural part, a short story to make you all laugh ( hopefully): Lost in Translation

A nice week to everybody...

P.S. It would be nice if the people who read this lunatic blog could post something from time to time...just to keep some more contacts...
Tschüß.

Illness

I cough a lot, I have got a cold as well, on Friday I guess...but I would not say I am ill....anyway I cannot get more than 4 hours sleep since thursday night so I feel like dead...I went to the doctor today and I guess I looked like a very ill person...that is why she gave me three days off...but the thing is: "What should I do?" I´d love just to sleep for ten hours in a row...for three days in a row...not the most likel event in here....

Anyway it is interesting to be home and enjoy all the sounds of my neighbourhood, sounds and situations that I had not enjoyed that much. Have a nice begin of this week you all!

Sunday ........ Sunday

Once more it was one of those weekends full with things going on...once more it has been one of those weekends in which I work more than 24 hours in 2 days and I cannot get any sleep: would you consider 14 hours sleep in three nights enough sleep?
Anyway I had an interesting day. Since I am looking for a new flat, I walked a lot through areas that I did not know...I saw something new...I went to my favourite bar in Kreuzberg 36 and drank something, while reading the last pages of "White Teeth" (get it! It is amazing!)...the evening was filled in with Czech beers and the need to be by myself...I can state that I love also the Autumn of this city...
I love to be here...I am getitng sentimental.

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