Shroom Hunting, City walking and Beer drinking...

Aight...today was a great day. actually these past few days have been amazing. Right now im sitting upstairs in Phil's room typing this, while everyone is all downstairs talking about the difference between North Braveria and South Braveria.

I'm listening to amazing music...warm...and full!

So first of all I left Magdeburg, said goodbye to Leah and got on my train. It was a RE train so i had 2 connections...which is no problem for €36. SO I listened to music, read some of my book in preperation for Labri...So once i arrived i met Phil.

Phil is alices friend from Brayil. He's living in Marburg, Germany training to become a doctor. He goes to the Uni here, Phillips University (from memory). A bit about where he lives and why he lives there.

He lives in a massive, massive house. Its owned by about 100 different people and goes by the name 'TH'. It is a club. A fraternity club for students studying at the uni. All marburg has to offer is history and a university. so theres lots of these clubs everywhere.

he pays $60 a week which gets him his own room, electricity, gas, water, internet, cleaner, chef (all lunches and one dinner). the house is massive. theres a dining hall with the club sign engraved into the chairs. theres foxes everywhere because like fish, they call the new club members fox's. theres a table tennis table. a massive party room. a fridge full of beer (costs €1 per half litre of beer...just so you know how cheap that is, its equivilent to 2AUS dollars, also at oktoberfest they charge €8 per litre beer. very cheap.) its 3 stories. there are 8 rooms for 8 students to live permanetely. on the third story theres a movie theartre room, drying room, toilet, bathroom, two spare bedrooms with linen and beds. the 2nd floor hosts the 8 rooms for the students, a tv room plus 2 showers and 2 toilets. the 1st floor has the party room, 6 toilets, massive industrial kitchen and the dining hall...

and im staying here all for free. phil is an amazing host. every morning he has bought breakfast for me. chocolate musili with banana. croisants. lunch time we walk to the student hosue where we phil gets student discount, so he's bought my meals both days, and we eat the lunch served there. its fair average but its only €3.

when i got there it was phils birthday. so there was a party for him. everyone was very friendly. i got talking to two germans about oktoberfest. very friendly. they offered me lots of advice.

first day. phil took me around marburg and showed me the castle (Schloß) and the university and a music shop. then that night we had another party saying goodbye to a friend of theres. about 20 people were there. i was talking to James and thomas about the german language. they wrote down the numbers 1-10 and told me key phrases for oktoberfest ie. cheers, thanks, this rounds on me...(dunno if thats a good one??? lol)

then today i woke up had breaky, went to the student house for lunch, then helped round the house cleaning the yard. we then drove out to the bush to go mushie hunting. i found 2...that may seem fair...but compared to christian who got 2 bucket loads, it was pitiful. lol.

we left at 3 and got home at around 8. it was intense. lol. so why did we bother going into the bushland to pick wild and possibly dangerous and poisenous mushrooms???

well to make a stu of course...Christians mum cleaned them, chopped them up, mixed them with butter, cream, herbs, salt and pepper, bacon and onions...then served it with spaghetti...

it was to die for. amazing. whole thing probably cost about 10 bucks and it served about 12 people. with heaps of left overs. there were two 1 1\2 foot long pans filled with it.

there are small things that are making my stay here awesome.

phil plays guitar and has two...we jam all the time. we share music. its awesome

today phil left me his keys cause he was leaving to go to the uni for some work.

he bought cookies

everyone speaks german, but for me they speak in english. everyone is very very nice.

so yeah...my time here is aming...tommorrow we're going bowling. it just keeps getting better. lol

anyway...enjoy.

Prost!

Magdeburg

ya...so right now im in germany.

stupid keyboards.

so for the past few days ive been staying with leah...its been real good...checking out magdeburg...i went to the zoo today. it was fun.

yesty we hung out with all of leahs dancing freinds. they just came over and we chilled. they're really nice.

so tommorrow im seeing leah dance which should be good.

and i've almost eaten an entire bag of gummie cherries...so i kinda feel sick now.

but im sleeping on leahs floor, with a the aid of an air bed matress....

i generally have been waking up late...going down to german town and trying to learn german. im not very good. i dont want to seem arrogant for not learning it. but i just don't speak german sorry. lol

i bought my ticket for marburg today. so i just have to make sure that phil is still cool with me staying...

and thats it really...oh and ryanair are averge.

A Week With Sil

So right now I'm in the UK. Manchester to be in fact. it is the last day of my UK stopover for now, before i fly out to germany tonight.

So what have i been doing since i arrived here a week ago??

well not much really.

the first day i got here i just slept, cause i was so tired from the flight. which was very good. we arrived ahead of scheduale, then it was empty aswell so i just slept across three seats.
my first impression of manchester was of how cold it was. man it was chilly. i was shaking when i got there. i really had to do some shopping ya know. i only had two jumpers. and not really any winter gear. so the following day i went into manchester with sil. we caught the train in and she took me to her work. which is at the court house.

so i walked all around manchester that day. went to a couple of music chops. clothing stores. i walked away with a beanie, sweatband, leather *fake* jacket, cardigan and 4 t shirts. don't ask how much it cost. it had to be done.

i had a packed lunch courtesy of sil. thankyou sil.

the next day i woke up incredably late. i've been sleeping on a really really comfory mattress in the tv room. with an amazing feather pillow and a doona to diea for. so i did a lot of sleeping this week.

the next two days i just slept in late. watched some scrubs, top gear and crazy english television. went for a walk around hazel grove (where she lives in manchester) then the day after i went into work with sil to see her in action.

so i saw 3 guys go to jail. they stole something like 6000 punds worth of stuff, so they got 2 years. some had drug problems, some where just fools and thought what they were doing was gardening (drug farming)...haha

so now that i was turned off drugs i went to a free science and technology museum which was just like the science centre. that was fun walking around manchester seeing all the planes.

i tried to model a plane jet engine on a computer while i was there. my plane flew for 5 metres before plummetting to the ground. obviously the is no sciecne gene in my blood...thats okay. i can still watch mythbusters and watch them blow stuff up.


so i've been listening to this band called The Thrills. they're amazing. i encourage you all to listen to them. everyone would like them.

on the weekend we went to blackpool. some crazy combination of south beach, las vegas, time zone and kings cross. there were lights up everywhere like vegas, then there was no actual casinos, actually just one, but time zone machines. it was all on a beach strip. then next to those was night clubs...so what happens i guess is that a family comes to black pool, drops the kids off at the arcade games, then go next door clubbing...then they all meet up afterwards...haha...maybe not.

but lots of hen parties, dudes dressed up like girls, girls looking manly, and bucks parties.

so tonight i'm sleeping in an airport ebcause my flights from london at 6.30am. so i need to be there early. and screw paying for accomodation. so yeah...thats me.

we had a baked dinner alst night. best meal by far since leaving aus.

so now im pottering around doing bits and pieces getting ready to leave.

aight....i might blog again in germany. actually i will.

sorry about the long delay in blogging. after a while you get over it.

but im doing it to remember stuff..

aight...peace.x

Annapollis! with a touch of Anna!

Hello World! (programming reference)

 

For the last 3 days I've been in Annapoliss...Chilling out watching TV. Except for today. I  went to experience everything DC has to offer. It is an amazing City.

 

Oh i'm staying with Anna's church friends, Kathy and Phil Dalby. Who have been really nice to me. Housing me and ensuring that I have plenty to eat and a roof over my head.

 

So DC, I was taken there by Kathy and Phils daughter, Rachel and her Boyfriend, Tim. It is amazing. We saw the Washington Monument, the Whiter House, Linconl Memorial, Rossevalt memorial, Korean memorial, WWII memorial, Museum of NAtural History and the Air and Space Museum. Smithonians, if they were a people, are amazing.

 

We started out with the white house, then walked everywhere. thankyou obama. although not everyone in america is Pro-Obama. I think everyone in Australia is though, which some americans find hard to believe. lol. they don't even know who Kevin Rudd is.

 

so tommorrow i fly out to England at 8pm. My plan is to go to there church then get dropped off at the subway and make my way towards the airport. i'll have my guitar so i can chill out playing it (perhaps busking) before my flight.

 

Before annapoliss i was with the Thomas'. staying with everyone Josh, Nina, Jacob, Sam, Jay, 3 Venusulaians, Kevin, Cpt. Brian and Cpt. Ruth. plus me. Thats a lot of people in one house. i loved it. so much fun there. we would play brall all day, then eat, then play some more brawl, talk about swords, eat, then play some basketball. then eat. go shopping. see movies. it was awesome.

 

and before that was NYC. which was expensive. lol. i seem to be working backwards. but guess how much my ticket to washington was???????? 3 dollars. thats right. only 3 dollars for a 4 hour bus ride. amazing. america is the land of the cheap i guess.

 

so i'm very excited to be leaving america. not cause i had a bad time here. but cause i've got some really exciting adventures ahead of me. i've got england, then germany, then switzerland all lined up. staying with Leah, Phil, one of alices friends, oktoberfest then Labri. afterwards i'd like to go to scandanavia to stay with some friends there. so yeah. its all looking good so far. very excited.

 

anyway thats really all i have to say. i'll blog again when i arrive in the UK to let you all know im there, if you care.

 

aight (american slang for all right...hahahahah)

 

enjoy.x

Sitting in the Kitchen

We're sitting in the kitchen finding out what movies are coming out under the new Disney/Marvel alliance.

SPiderman 4/5/6
Thor
Xmen Origins: MAgneto

plus so many more...

today we tried to go apple picking. but failed. cause the price was so expensive.

Rev Gen

Greetings readers of my blog,

I am currenttly sitting at a computer in a hotel. It is free internet at that and there is no one else in the hotel so I seem to have quite a bit of time on my hands...I thought blogging would be nice.

So today we're off to RevGen, which is a music festival with Relient K, Switchfoot, Underoath and many more! We'll probably leave in about 2 hours (which would be 3 O'Clock). I'm very excited. especially to see Relient K. As I have never seen them before...however...

The irony of my situation is straight after this gig, they are flying to Australia to perform in Sydney...I laugh. The one time I get to see them, and possibbly have bragging rights for all my friends, they go and play back home. HAA!!!

Not to worry...I get to see Underoath too. And Switchfoot. And Jon Foremen.

So we've snuck an extra person into the hotel we're staying. 6 people in 2 double beds. Thats 2 on the floor. They let you somehow have 5 people in...thats why its only 1 person snuck in.

Before I was here I had to catch a train all the way to Stamford to pick up the tickets. It was nice to see Captain Ruth and Captain Brian again. I'm considering asking them if I might be able to stay with them sun, mon and tuesday night...just cause I did my finances and I only have $120 left for an entire week. Lucky I don't have to pay for accomodation in Washington (9th-13th) and I've already payed for accomodation here (till the 5th)...which leave me with 6th, 7th and 8th to find a place to stay. hmmm??

Oh well. It is the joy of travels. and the stress. I like it though.

Anyway I'm gonna go make my sandwiches (penut butter an jelly) and eat some Breaky.

Until next time...

I thought it was worthy...

I thought it was worthy to write a blog about where I am...right now if things in hollywood exsisted in real life i'd be surrounded by snow and possibbly burning books to stay alive...???

anyone???


NYC public library, i'm at one of the computers where they filmed the scene where they pulled the books from the wall. I cans ee the skirting around the outside. it's amazing.

just thought I'd share...ya know!