tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72944101787253924782012-02-16T11:32:09.257+01:00my trip into the heady rush of first time travel. i'm going head-first into germany for 12 months with no expectations and no idea what i'm doing.t j adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09606279039268911443noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294410178725392478.post-8785589152968534282008-10-06T03:27:00.004+02:002008-10-06T03:41:14.736+02:00

just one more reason why i am harbouring a total crush on tina fey===> click me for shits and giggles===> and click here for a 'news worthy' discussion of the tina fey linkage

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i am coming home in a few weeks. yes that's right, i am heading back to my beloved melbourne. it's been almost one year since i chucked the city life in and moved to a quieter, and some would say somewhat confusing, little hamlet called heidelberg. don't get too excited mum and dad, i am only coming back for two weeks before heading off once again to my new adopted hometown. in flight terms,

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i'm going to bavaria this weekend (just for saturday and sunday - nothing too special and fancy) so i thought i'd share with you the only bavarian phrase i know apart from random words like 'servus' (which i thought was goodbye, but apparently is also hello and maye thankyou, it's the bavarian aloha). now apparently bavarian is only a spoken language (whatever the hell that means) so i have to

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i seriously geeked all over myself when i watched this.

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so i stole this meme from a friend's blog who got it from another blog and thought it would be interesting to put it on here. what is basically going on is that the big read has stated that the average adult has only read 6 out of the top 100 books. let's check out how i go.1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicise those you intend to read.3) Underline the books you LOVE, and

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so people have been asking why i haven't written here for ages (by people i mean about 5 or 6, and by that i mean friends at home) and there is no real reason apart from laziness. now don't act like you didn't know i was slack at things that i'm not paid to do. well, that and the fact that the berlin story ends in some odd, totally berlin decadence that i was a little unsure about putting down

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so here we are at part three of this saga. i am secretly hoping that this is the last one, cause after a brief departure of a short blog entry letting people know i'm fine and am now gainfully employed and another very short entry (posted while slightly intoxicated on german beer - mmm... german beer...) showcasing one of the coolest and most useless websites i've stumbled upon to date, i'm back

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nothing more needs to be said other than what's in the title. click here and enjoy. you wont regret it.

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so i've started working. big motherfucking relief that is. i've been here four months and i've finally gotten a job. if you're wondering what i'm doing, i'll tell you in german. ich bin arbeiten als einen Kellner bei eine IrischKneipe. it's not that hard to work out, but for those with language troubles or if i've made a mistake (which i do constantly when using my german) it says that i am

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so here we are again, ready to continue on from where i left off with my new year's eve in berlin - part one. i hope you're still comfortable in your couch's arse groove and you haven't eaten all of your nacho hat just yet. you might want to boil the kettle again as there's still plenty more to tell. after all i only just got past telling you about the countdown and the endless spectacle of

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even though some time has passed i want to tell you about berlin on new year's eve. i can sum it up in two words - crazed anarchy. it was like nothing i have ever experienced before. it was the kind of evening you'd see in a end of the world film or hear about about happening to a friend of a friend of a friend, but never something you think you'd expereince yourself. it started off pretty normal

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last night i watched the brave one. now i didn't quite know what to expect from this movie, as i like jodie foster (except for that horrible flightplan movie, seriously woman, what were you thinking?) and i am a sometime fan of neil jordan (he of interview with a vampire and crying game fame), but i really enjoyed it. even though the film takes place in a post 9/11 new york and can be seen as an

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everyone else has one so i may as well join the throng. and besides, it seems to be the thing to do at this time of year. so here's my list of things i want to and should do before the new year is up.1. get off my arse and learn german and spanish. i've been here in germany for 3 months now and i still haven't learnt anything new apart from random words. and i still don't know how to form a

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let's talk about a club in berlin. i wont bore you with the details of berghain just yet, but what i will talk about just briefly is the kitkat club. this club is one of the stranger ones i have been to. it feels like a rave club, yet plays like a fetish bar. it's one of those places that are very welcoming, full to the brim of extremes and yet somehow still has a hint of innocence. i don't know

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i have recently (read as the last six months) have begun to champion the hoodie as an item of clothing. (link is another stupid and pointless wikipedia entry, but for the uniformed you get what a hoodie is) previously i have hated and despised the things for years. they seemed so american and so common that i really had no time for them. not that i hated america, but i didn't see the point of an

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as my last post states - i was in berlin. i was there for a total of ten nights, eleven days. i stayed at a friend of a friend's house just round the corner from yorkstrasse station and saw many a sight and had many an experience. the only thing i was a little disappointed with, was having no internet for the time i was there. how could i keep up my facebook friendships? how could i communicate

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yes, i'm finally in berlin. the capital. the birthplace of cabaret and burlesque. the king of undisclosed decadence. the giant wurst. to be perfectly honest with you i haven't done that much sightseeing wise, but i have wandered around a little. i've seen the reichstag from outside (haven't been inside yet, that's for another day, along with a couple of museums and galleries). i've seen a church

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if you hate christmas shopping like i do, then a word of caution - i have just discovered that no matter which country you are in, no matter how picturesque the landscape or view, christmas shopping is shit. i have just come home from spending an afternoon shopping down the hauptstrasse and i hate myself for it. my legs hurt, my brain feels like mash, i am not in a happy mood, and the next person

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i've been to the movies twice since i came to germany. there is a cinema in mannheim that plays american and english movies in their original language and on my first trip i went and saw beowulf. not the most exciting movie. it left me with a feeling of indifference and a need to watch 300, what i feel is a far superior movie. on the second outing i went and saw the golden compass (IMDB page) and

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you might have noticed a couple of small changes on here. firstly i now have a picture of me on here. at first i didn't want to do that, i wanted to stay somewhat anonymous. i'm not too sure why, it was just a gut instinct to hide myself on the net when i started. being invisible allows you certain freedoms, ie the ability to pick something apart totally and give bad reviews to places or events

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saturday night i went to a nightclub in mannheim called connexions. connexions is a bit of a mash up of three clubs all in the one building, with one thing in common - they all played old, boring, tiresome music. i don't know if it was the night that we went or the fact that the place was full of americans (again i ask where are all the germans?), but it wasn't the best night out i've had.

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tonight i'm going out clubbing in mannheim. apparently we are going to one of the biggest clubs in this region of germany. it should be fun and i am promised there is to be no gluhwein anywhere. it's funny how i've gone from loving that sweet sweet elixir to being completely wary of it. anyway, the night is starting with me cooking dinner. a chicken and creamy sauce with spinach and cheese

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so on wednesday night i went out with the intention of getting drunk on gluhwein. this was all good in intention. i went to the christmas market with alexis and spanish carmello to meet a few of their friends and have some drinks. now, as an australian i have that cultural breeding that includes the joy and love of getting quite smashed and merry - something that i have found out is not a

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on saturday i went shopping down the hauptstrasse and to the christmas market again with alexis and his spanish friend carmello. this was the second time i've been there and the magic of it still has me enthralled. it just looks so quaint and like a postcard that you can't resist walking around and feeling all christmas-clucky. and this is from someone who had never gotten into the christmas

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for the past few weeks i have come across one of the most trying and frustrating things since i started this spontaneous trip. it has nothing to do with customs, sleeping patterns, german red tape, people on the street or being called an american everywhere i go. it is one of the most simplest and mundane of all things. it is quite possibly the easiest thing to overlook as well. i am talking

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pizza sundays has been reinstated in heidelberg. before i came to germany myself and irish pete indulged in what we liked to call pizza sunday. it started as a hangover cure for the incredibly drunken nights we started having on saturdays. usually starting with us being bored on a saturday and going out for drinks that ended with us coming home in the daylight hours on sunday - very boozy and

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i bought a bottle of jagermeister for 6.49 euros!!! also found out a bottle of johnnie walker scotch is only 12.49 euros. let the good times begin. teeheehee...

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i had a friend describe to me his bad experiences with german bureaucracy the other week. (i'm not going into his particular issues, as it's not for me to say) he's german and said that the german people like to make rules about rules and if there's a loophole found, instead of changing the rule, they just add another one onto it. i laughed and said it can't be that bad, but oh lordy how i was

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i think i've been here long enough to be able to talk about the german personality and demeanor now, except the work life of course. (i'm still unemployed - and loving it!) before i left home i was told by a few people to watch out for the stereotyped german - cold, uncaring , business orientated blah blah blah... you know the stereotype. since i got here, yes there have been a couple of them

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okay, i just finished watching 24 season one. i know, i know, you're in germany and you're watching tv! what's wrong with you? why aren't you out steinering it up, you boozehound? i'll tell you why, i've just spent the last few weeks going places and seeing shit and experiencing some of what travel has to offer. now i want to sit down, watch some tv and chill out. and since german tv is good for

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let's talk about german tv. so far i've noticed a couple of things. german's love married with children, or so i gather from the amount of times i have seen it on the television. it's almost as if it's their simpsons. (speaking of which, i am so missing the simpsons. it's one of the things i miss the most. i know it sounds stupid, but after seeing it almost everyday for the last 17 years, i miss

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as a couple of people have said that my last post was a little negative, or that i simply had a bad day, i'm going to take this opportunity to say some of the things i like about germany just so you know that i like it here. (i've also included the pronunciation of numbers so that i can help remember how to say them and to show people back home the difference between the numbers and how to say

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before i post about the heidelberg schloss i thought i'd write about some of my experiences here. these are completely random are not about a particular place. just me either having trouble doing something or just noticing the difference between australia and europe, whether it be the way people behave or me being a stupid traveller. the first thing i want to talk about is customer service. it

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cause blogger has issues, once again i have decided to publish the pics on a separate entry. and once again i'm not giving huge explanations, read the previous post to find out more. this first one is of the town hall in the marktplatz. this is a main street in mannheim. you can see the 'water tower' in the distance. and yes they have trams here, as they do in frankfurt, heidelberg and even in

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(it seems that again blogger wont let me spellcheck or add pictures, so you'll have to get by without my pictures and any spelling mistakes are too bad. this is starting to really piss me off. is it something i'm doing or not doing? i don't think it's the size of my posts, as some of the earlier ones are larger and i could still use all the basic tools and add pictures. if anyone knows could they

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because blogger wont let me add pictures to my last entry, i've decided to just add the pictures here. i'm not going to explain that much about them because i explain everything in the last post, just a short note to let you know what's what. enjoy...this is the entrance to steingasse through the keep, which then leads to the marktplatz and the hauptstrasse.this is steingasse, on the left about

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(for some unknown reason blogger wont let me spell check or add images. i'll try do this later so keep your snooty comments about this to yo'self for now, fool!!!)to follow on from what i was writing yesterday, my companions and i walked the philosopher's walk (philosophenweg) and down across the river neckar via the old bridge. this bridge leads us through the keep and into the old town. (to

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so i went on the philosopher's walk, so named because back in day heidelberg's thinkers and lecturers used to walk along it to, well, philosophise. i can say it is beautiful and i can definitely see why they used to do it. we started from the less-steep side and made our way up the road towards where the walk starts. from the beginning i knew i'd love it (not the walk, but the view. i'm not much

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i'm here. in heidelberg. freezing my arse off. i've been here for a couple of days now and this town is beautiful. it's all old style buildings and completely german, as opposed to frankfurt's 'look at me, i can be western too!' the first thing i noticed here was that there are no youths and junkies milling around the place giving tourists and uneasy feeling. there's plenty of milling going on,

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i went out with the hostel guys last night. it was an interesting experience. they were all american and i was the only other nationality in the group. there were 5 of us in total (not including the crazy german leader who organised the night out), 3 white guys, me and a black dude from chicago. the black guy was called troy and i sort of made friends with him during my last couple of days. he

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(NB this entry is going to be huge!)i went out last night by myself. i was a little scared to do this because, well, i was by myself. alexis, my friend in germany, chatted to me on the phone before i went out and he warned me to be very careful. not because i don't know how to handle myself, but because i'm in another country were i don't know the language. if i got into trouble a) how would i

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i was suppose to go to the supermarket this morning and pick up some things. after a disastrous attempt at going to buy shampoo and conditioner yesterday, (it took me twenty minutes to distinguish the conditioner from other hair care products - i laughed insanely the whole time, and i think the woman behind the counter thought i was high. i would have thought i was high.) this was not a trip i

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i slept pretty well last night. i was going to go out and either see a rock band from sweden or go to a metal club/bar that the girl at the counter told me about, but apart from the fact it was on the other side of town, i passed out at around 9:30pm german time (5:30am australian time) and slept for about 10 hours. i guess that just made up for the sleep i missed out on during the trip here. i'm

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yep, the title says it all. I'M FINALLY HERE IN DUETSCHLAND!?! and boy what a long trip that was. apart from the three months it took me to organise everything and get myself here, the trip was a killer. 9 hours from melbourne to hong kong, 7 hour stopover (duty free is not that interesting as i don't care for cartier watches and hugo boss sunglasses), then another 12 hour flight from hong kong

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so i've been in stink-town now for two weeks and to be honest i haven't really minded it. this is only because i've been hanging with my family and one of my best friends. if it wasn't for them i would have spent the last few weeks in melbourne crashing on people's couches and just being a drunken lunatic. my brother and sister, who are both in high school, have just gone back to school this week

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i'm back in ballarat - or stinktown. it's just like i remembered it. cold, boring and very simple. nothing against stinktown, but i always feel like i've gone through some kind of portal and travelled back in time. somewhere between bacchus marsh and ballan the time continuum slipped and yaz is still number one on the charts, clear cola is all the rage and the equality movement is still just a

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it's now official and done. i handed in my resignation today and i feel like a massive weight has been lifted. i know that i've already quit, but it didn't feel done with until today. my resignation got handed in and emailed to all the right people and is pretty much as official as it can get. i only have one problem though, i didn't burn my bridges, ie tell the people i wanted to to get fucked

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so i have less than a week left at work and just over a week left in melbourne. the nerves are pretty much non-existent. to be honest with you, i'm more nervous about organising a visa than actually leaving the country. this, or so i am told, is pointless worrying. everybody has said to me that the visa stuff is easy and you'll have enough money and blah, blah, blah... but i don't care what they

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i thought i'd write a little about my home town, melbourne. i love this city. so far it is the one place that i really consider home. most people who know me don't realise that even though i grew up all over the place; sydeny, brisbane, the sunshine coast and a small stint in ballarat, i was born here. some of my earliest memories of life are in melbourne. (NB some of these dates are probably

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i've started the clear out of my stuff and i have to say, how much shit can one person possibly own? i know i'm kind of a pack-rat, but seriously people! i have things dating back to high school tucked away and it's been many many many moons since i was in that hell hole. heck, we had our class reunion last year and my school was in a different state. did i bring this with me or has it stowed

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i'm about a week and a half into learning german now and i have to say, coming from an english speaking background german is about 50/50 on the easy/hard front. i find that sentence structure is pretty well straight forward and very similar to english. this makes stringing words together into something that resembles communication quite simple, my only problem is remembering the damn words. the

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and the organisation continues, as of today i know have my tickets paid for in full and collected, along with my passport (such a pretty picture) and the hostel booked in frankfurt. it's kind of a relief not having to worry about any of this stuff anymore. all that needs to be done now is get my injections for travelling and get my visa sorted. i have to say, it's all coming along nicely. i think

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a few days have passed since i wrote on here last, so i thought i'd give you guys a quick rundown on my progress. it's completely and utterly official i am going. not only have i done what i said last time, ie bought tickets and insurance and what not, i have now told work i am going and put in for my annual leave. i finish work on the 14th of october, but i really finish on the 20th of september

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So it's official, i'm going to Germany. to be honest with you i am shitting myself. now i know alot of people are all like, 'it's character building', 'you'll meet heaps of new friends', but until that happens i literally have to check my 'reg grundies' on the hour every hour. last week i went and reapplied for my birth certificate (my old one has worn away with age - something akin to paper

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