Anyway, that's all that out the way. Since my last blog from Chemnitz, I've been, as per usual, a very busy bee.
After Chemnitz I slept, oh it was glorious, and woke up on Monday feeling more than ready for the week ahead! I had the most awesome time in school, as ever, and I can't stand the thought that I soon have to leave. I love being a language assis
tant, I'm really enjoying my time here and the school is just amazing. There'll most defin
itely be some crying next week when I say my goodbyes! There are two new trainee teachers who have started last week, and it's a shame they've only just arrived. They're both really lovely, and one of them lives in Diepholz, we've planned to do something all together before I leave!
So my weekdays were like my normal weekdays, a sea of Karoli
na and Kaffee catch ups, lesson planning and rand
om chats with Cornell, cycling arou
nd Diepholz relatively aimlessly and lesson planning, wie immer!
On Thursday, however, I went through to Bramste
dt, where my language assistant friend Nat
han lives! It's only about 30 minutes away from me, so although we haven't met up all that regularly, it's been nice having a fellow Englander nearby, in case of a bout of Heimweh....he cooked dinner whilst I drank wine (I tried to help!), and then Annwyn, our Nienburgerin, joined us after she'd finished at school. We ventured into Syke, a nearby town, to go see Nils Landgren, a jazz artist whose played with Abba. He didn't crack out any of the Abba classics (I was gutted!) but he was amazing, a really talented musician, and I'm glad we decided to go! Natha
n and I have been attempting to go see some jazz music since we
made friends, , so I was very glad we finally managed it before I left! Then Annwyn, Nathan and I went back to Bramstedt, ate the cake I'd made (chocolate and orange-nom noms) with custard, gossiped, drank a bit more wine and
watched Singing in the Rain =) I admitted
ly fell asleep through the film...standard practise for me nowadays.......
Apologies, readers, that I seem to be waffling. There's a lot more where that came from. I'll try cut my ramblings down!
FRIDAY came and Annwyn and I left Nathan's and
embarked on our trip to Hamburg, where we met the lovely Rachel and Laura, two other language assistant pals =) We decided to stay the weekend in Hamburg. Our initial plans were for a crazy weekend in Frankfurt, but after seeing expensive train tickets and being told Frankfurt wasn't *that* great, w
e booked a hostel in Hamburg. We've all been before so we knew it quite well, and it was amazing to be able to bummel around the city and explore parts we hadn't been to before. Hamburg is amazing, it was my fifth time of going there and I wasn't even nearly bored.
The picture above is of a Titanic-esque building that we clambered to the top of on Friday (there were steps!). The view was incredible. There were loads of buildings like this, all with glass windows so you could see in.....very very chic. I want to work in one when I'm older!
After walking down the harbour, we wandered around the Elbmeile, which is essentially a big row of restauraunts and markets (which were sadly closed!). Th
e markets apparently all come to life at 6am selling fish, and we've been told that the 'done' thing is to have a night out and then come see the market on the way home. Sadly we didn't manage that (though we did manage a big night out!) but it's something I can save for next time =)
After wanderings we went for dinner, and then beer in
a posh Italian Restauraunt, where they , after iding us, decided they loved us and insisted on taking lots of photos of us....bless them. We were all flagging a bit after a big long week of school, so we went back to the Youth Hostel room and all called it a night!
Oo the Youth Hostel Room had a really beautiful Swedish boy in it. Just had to get that in somewhere. He was stunning!
Saturday came and we ventured into the Schanzenviertel. This is very much the arty part of Hamburg, with lots of different little shops and cool places to eat and drink. We wandered round, assessing where we'd return in the evening, and then embarked on an amazing little flea market in Sankt Pauli where we all spent ages browsing through the books, old postcards, and other bits of kramm! Then came lunchtime........and then it was FERRY TIME.
Ferry time was super fun. So we realised we could get a really cheap ferry to a little beach. Above you can see the lovely Rachel and Laura modeling said VERY German beach! This little piece of Hamburg is an absolute gem, with some stunning houses that look like they cost and arm and a leg! Still, an amazing place live, I bet. The beach was a bit disappointing, well no, it wasn't, it just wasn't what I'll be expecting of a beach when I'm in Spain, to say the least =)
So after a day of wandering and eating we were all a bit sleepy. I have somewhere along the way managed to forget to mention that Nathan and Rachel's flatmate Laura had joined us too! Nathan had to go home, but Laura took us to a rather Schicki Micki bar for coffee, before we all crashed back in the hostel before our wild night out......
My lovely little Partymäuschen =)
We went for dinner in Schanzenviertel after our retreat to the hostel to make ourselves look less touristy (!), and after a very yummy indulgent dinner, we headed to a pub or two in the Schanzen, were we drank wine and then met Rachel's flatmate Laura again, who'd left us for a few hours. This resulted in us singing Spice Girl songs, recalling S Club 7 knowledge and generally regressing to our childhood for hours.....in half Deutsch half English, as the wine began to affect our ability to speak in any language whatsoever ;) We then stumbled on further into the night, and after an amazing rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart in the Schanzen U-Bahn station, we headed onto the Reeperbahn......
NO we didn't really. Well we did.....the Reeperbahn is a notorious red light district, and at night it is so so so scary. So scary. But, we wanted to see it, and there is a street very nearby where it is safe/good for students to go out! So we decided on a walk through, in full on snow, and what was a walk soon became a run, as we realised quite how lairy and seedy the whole thing really is! We hit our studenty fun street, where we ended the evening in an amazing club (they played THE CURE in A CLUB, AND THE BEATLES. THE BEATLES!!! I was in my pure element) , where we danced the night away until 5.30am.....then we quietly returned to our rooms, for sleepy sleepy time.
The next morning we arose from our pits after wenig sleep, had a big breaky, giggled on through the morning about the hilarious previous evening, and headed back to our respective towns =)
And das war es! All in all, a stunning weekend with some brilliant friends. Gonna miss them massively when I go to Spain!
"Touch the floor for democracy!" (Our new system of deciding what pub to go to).
"If that guy turns that light on, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna TURN IT OFF" Oo Laura, she went there!
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