One of those days...

Well, it's the end of the semester and that means it's time for the exam period which leads me to the conclusion that I desperately need an excuse to not study.

As usual I started by watching movies, pretending that I do that in order to improve my Spanish, although I really just wanted to see hot Mexican guys and well, stay as far away from my books as possible! That worked out quite well until I ran out of movies and interest in even pretending that I was doing something useful.
As my next preoccupation I chose parties which turned out to be a mistake since there are nearly no parties at all at this time of the semester and all my friends are actually studying for their exams (nerds... ;P) which forced me to look for an other excuse. After adding several applications on facebook and removing them immediately afterwards again, I found the "addicted to scrubs"- application and just had a quick 2hour look around for something interesting. Besides of a few really entertaining quotes I discovered some nice videos and I finally found one of my favourite scenes.



I just LOVE it! *g*

Well, after finding that I got bored again and had to come up with a new preoccupation which has become pretty hard by now since the period of time in which I'm able to concentrate on something is decreasing exponentially by the minute. As far as I can judge it's down to four minutes. That's hardly enough to listen to one song without switching completely annoyed to the next one by the time the first one's half over...
Being desperate I decided to write a post for my blog ignoring the fact that absolutely nothing has happened since the last time I posted something. Well, you see how that turned out... and I'm already bored with it!
Maybe I just go to bed and have a short 30min nap. Something I do quite frequently these days which is pretty unusual for me as people who know me a little longer might know. Well, but anyway it happens to be my favourite pastime lately...
Yeah, I guess that is the only reasonable thing to do. Although there is still the possibility that I start studying instead... hm nah, I don't think so!

Presentation: Mis últimas vacaciones

Esto es mi texto que preparé para mi presentation en mi clase de español. ¡Muchas gracias a Asun por corregirlo! Eres la mejor, guapa. ¡Muchas gracias!

En mis últimas vacaciones viajé con tres amigas por el sur de Australia. Alquilamos una autocaravana y condujimos a Canberra, Wagga Wagga, Broken Hill, Adelaide y Melbourne en díez dias.

Mis compa­ñeras de viaje fueron Elena, Rebecca y Sarah. Elena es italiana de Milán, Rebecca de estados unidos y Sarah es alemana como yo, pero vivió en Francia de joven. Conocí a las tres chicas en Sydney y ahora vivimos juntas en una residencia de estudiantes.

El veintiuno de Septiembre era un sabado. Empezamos nuestro viaje para recoger la autocaravana y luego la cargamos delante de nuestra casa. Después de terminarlo Rebecca, Sarah y yo nos pusimos en camino hacia Canberra. Elena no pudo salir con nosotras porque tenia un examen al día siguiente. Por eso tomó el autobus y nos encontramos en Canberra por la noche, el veintidós de Septiembre.
En esto día fuimos a la ciudad para ver los monumentos por ejemplo el parlamento y la biblioteca nacional. Vimos mucho de la cuidad pero a mi no me gustó nada porque creo que Canberra es un poco aburrida.
Por la noche nos encontramos con Elena y fuimos a Wagga Wagga dondé dormimos en un aparcamiento fuera de la ciudad.

El domingo, desayunamos y condujimos a una viña cerca de la ciudad para hacer una cata de vinos. El vino era excelente!
Luego salimos hacia el Outback. El viaje fue muy magnifico porque el paisaje era muy bonito.

Pasamos la noche en un parque national en el cual dimos un paseo al día siguiente por la mañana.
Por la tarde llegamos a Broken Hill de dondé salimos al día siguiente para ir a Adelaide.
Después de encontrar un lugar para aparcar el coche en Adelaide fuimos de copas y jugamos una partida en los billares. Nos divertimos mucho y el bar era fantastico porque la cerveza era muy barata. Acabamos un poco borrachas.
Siguiendo con nuestro viaje, el cuarto día lo pasamos en Adelaide. Vimos los lugares populares y fuimos al puerto de la ciudad dondé Elena y Sarah hicieron una vuelta en barco. Rebecca y yo en cambio nos quedamos al puerto para ir de compras y tomar unos cafés. Fue muy relajante y por eso fue una de mis días favoritos del viaje.
Por la noche comimos a un restaurante y pasamos la noche en un camping.

El jueves visitamos una fábrica de chocolate dondé probamos mucho chocolate. Luego salimos por Great Ocean Road y Melbourne. Condujimos toda la noche y solo dormimos por tres horas. Era muy fatigoso.
El sexto día estuvimos en la Great Ocean Road. ¡Fue precioso! De repente en la calle vimos nieve. Estuvimos muy sorprendidas porque no esperamos nieve en Australia en esta epoca del año. Aparentemente no fuimos las únicas que no esperamos nieve porque un coche patinó y estuvo en la cuneta. Por suerte nadie resulto herido.
Llegamos a Melbourne esa noche y nos encontramos con nos amigos en la ciudad para ir de copas. Paseamos la noche en la casa de una amiga de Sarah.

Por el sabado me separé de mis amigas y fue a la ciudad para comprar la ropa y ver los monumentos. Nos enctramos para almorzar juntos y luego cuatro de mis amigos y yo quisimos ir al Phillip Island para ver mis animales favoritos, los pinguinos! Pero cuando estuvimos en camino nuestro conductor se despistó por eso regresamos y decidimos ir de copas. Fue una noche fantastica y nos divertimos mucho.

El día siguiente fue un día muy aburrido porque era el ultimo día de nuestro viaje. Condujimos por todo el día y llegamos a casa por la mañana del primero de Octubre. Después de descargar la autocaravana, la devolvimos. Con eso nuestro viaje terminó definitvamente.

Ha sido un viaje muy divertido y fantastico pero a la vez ha sido fatigoso.
Sin embargo quiero hacer otro viaje con mis amigos en una autocaravana para las próximas vacaciones también y quiero disfrutarlas mucho porque serán las ultimas vacaciones que pasemos en Australia.

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Campervan-Trip in VC-Week 21.09.- 01.10

After months of studying and a horrible week with two exams and one essay due, we used our week off for going on a campervan trip through the South of Australia. "We" were Sarah, Elena, Rebecca and I. In weeks of careful planning at our famous "wine and cheese"- nights we decided to go to Canberra, Wagga Wagga, the Outback, Broken Hill, Adelaide, Great Ocean Road and Melbourne. Well, I have to admit that when we met to come up with a plan in the presence of wine and cheese we never started to work on the trip! *g* But somehow we managed to prepare everything... although can't really remember how we did that! But anyway!

On the 21st of September at 12 o'clock Elena and I went to Britz (hehe, sounds funny to say it like that! Sounds like I came home! *g*) to pick up our home for the next 11days. After a lot of smiling and flirting we finally hit the road with one extra camping table, one free map (which actually was 20 bucks) and a neat description of the way out of Sydney in direction to Canberra. What can be done by a little smile!
After arriving at Bulga where Sarah and Rebecca already longed for us, we headed off to Glebe to have our last lunch before the trip. A little later we packed the campervan and were finally on our way to Canberra.
Since she had an exam the next morning Elena had decided to stay home and not join us for the first stop of the trip. She took a bus to Canberra the next evening where we picked her up.

Canberra 21st & 22nd

The arrival in Canberra was actually pretty uneventful. We parked in the city centre directly next to the bars and nightclubs, which at that point seemed to be a good idea since we wanted to go out that night. By the time we went to bed, after visiting two bars, it turned out that it was one of the worst ideas ever! The bars in Canberra obviously don't close as early as we are used to from Sydney. In the contrary! Our sleep was accompanied Bad house music and drunk people on their way home the whole night!
The next morning we decided to explore the city whilst waiting for Elena.
Now I do understand what Bill Bryson talked about in his book! Canberra seemed to be dead! There was hardly anyone on the streets except for us and therefore and because of these huge and important looking buildings the whole city had an eerie impression on me.

...and that was a main road!!!

After walking to all the sights of the city which included the parliament houses, the national library and more, we still had a lot of time to kill before Elena arrived so we did what we like best: wasting time with a coffee in Starbucks!!! *G*
In the evening, after picking up Elena from the bus stop, we hit the road to Wagga Wagga and chose a nice and most of all quite rest area as our place to stay over night.

Wagga Wagga 23rd

After a relaxing breakfast on our two(!!!) camping tables, which we placed on the grass next to the empty freeway, we set off to Wagga Wagga to explore the wineries and cheese factories.

Isn't that a cute spot to have a breakfast??? I loved it!

Well, Wagga Wagga itself consisted of one main street with a couple of closed shops and a KFC in which we used the bathroom to clean our teeth and wash our faces, and the visitor centre in one of the ten smaller streets... well at least that is my impression of Wagga Wagga!
We decided to skip the walk in the "city" and go directly to the wine and cheese tasting in the University of Wagga Wagga, which was a great idea since the tasting was for free!!!
After eating heaps of cheese and buying a bottle of white wine (we bought it since we couldn't drink more than one glass without being arrested for driving drunk) we started our way to the Outback. On our way there we saw a lot of kangaroos and wallabies...all a little flatter than in my imagination and next or on the road! A really nice sight!
We finally arrived the outback after passing the border of the fruit fly free zone which forced us to either throw away the fruits we had or to eat them. That's where I, for the first time in my life, had to throw away my beloved raisins! I would have eaten them if my stomach hadn't refused to take anything more after two apples and 500g of raisins. My heard is still bleeding when I think about it! :(
By the time we drove on an unsealed road (for what we technically weren't ensured for) we got the real adventure feeling. It was unbelievable and the landscape was fantastic!

Unfortunately it took us longer than expected on that road so we were forced to drive in the darkness. And when I say darkness, I really mean darkness! Everything was black! Completely! Nothing to be seen except for the maybe 10m our headlights reached! It was amazing but somehow pretty scary since we didn't know if we were on the right road to the National Park in which we intended to stay over night.
After two hours of excitement and worrying about our safe arrival, and heaps of suicidal rabbits we finally reached the national park and relaxed by a nice dinner with Wagga Wagga's white wine in front of our little campervan.

Willandra National Park 24th

The next morning started very quite. I set of for a short walk in the park. It was short because after five minutes I was so fed up with all those annoying and persistent flies that I couldn't wait to be back in the campervan! I forced myself to complete at least 20min of walking and then returned to have a cup of coffee before we left for Broken Hill.
directly after leaving the park we saw everything the outback has to offer! Cows (I still don't trust them! One fine day everybody will understand why!), emus, kangaroos and a whole lot of nothing but red sand and a little grass!
By that time Elena and Sarah started to be more and more concerned about the fuel. I guess I should have been a little more concerned but I wasn't and so we started to piss each other off by saying either "We will be stuck in the middle of the Outback with no fuel! We are helplessly lost!" or "Oh, come on! The tank is still to a quarter full and there are some houses! See! The next city is only 40km away! So stop worrying!". Well, what can I say, we didn't get stuck in the outback without fuel but arrived at the next gas station and reached Broken Hill after another 3 hours of unsealed road and heaps of flat kangaroos and wallabies!

Broken Hill 25th

To our joy we found a perfect parking place in Broken Hill (after looking for one for over two hours and a few minor arguments). Directly next to the public toilets! And if that hadn't been great enough, no! There was a public shower!!! Finally! A shower to get rid of all the dirt we had collected from Canberra to Broken Hill! We were ridiculously happy and each of us showered for about 30min! Oh what a joy! *g*
After feeling fresh and clean we had breakfast in one of the cutest coffee shops I've ever seen and then set of for another adventurous drive in the outback. Before we hit the road to Adelaide we stopped to do the sculpture walk which was amazing. That was the outback how I imagined it. Fortunately it was pretty windy so the heat wasn't unbearable and walking was a nice change to sitting for hours in our beloved campervan.
After that we started our way to Adelaide where we arrived in the evening just in time for dinner. We parked the car in North Adelaide near the main street with a lot of cute cafés and restaurants and used the time we had to go out for a beer and a game of pool in a bar which was frequented by mostly men. Our arrival torpedoed the number of female customers to seven which was rewarded with a discount on the beer! And that just cost a smile yet again! hehe

Adelaide 26th&27th

We started the day with a nice breakfast in one of the cafés we had seen the night before and then set of to go to the visitors centre to get some information about Kangaroo island and other sights of the city.
In the city itself it was impossible to find a parking place and so Rebecca and Sarah jumped out of the campervan while I drove in circles accompanied by Elena. Rebecca and Sarah returned with bad news about Kangaroo Island: It was f**cking expensive to get there! 250$ in total!!! Rebecca and me weren't willing to pay that much money and decided to stay on a camping ground in Adelaide even though that meant, that I wouldn't see any penguins. But I still had Phillip Island so I decided that this was fine with me. (I shouldn't have thought so, but that's another topic for later!)
Finally Elena and Sarah didn't want to go either and so the four of us explored the city after leaving the campervan on the camping ground. We walked for five hours through the city had coffee at Gloria's and saw a discussion in the Parliament (An eye-opening experience! They were talking about solar panels and no one was really listening. Most of them were either talking or playing with their computers! I want to become a politician when I grow up!).
In the evening we drove to North Adelaide again to have dinner. After that we showered and went to bed after a quick coffee/tea in the campervan.

We left the camping ground early the next morning and headed towards Port Adelaide where Rebecca and me spend the morning walking around and having coffee while Elena and Sarah went on a dolphin watch trip.
After their return we went back to Adelaide to join a tour through the local chocolate fabric. Amazing! And not only because of the free chocolate and the free coffee! *g*
After that we left Adelaide and hit the road towards Melbourne. We drove most of the night and the wind became stronger and stronger which made driving more and more tiring!
We made a quick dinner brake in a weird restaurant next to the freeway which opened only for us. I have to admit that I was a little scared that they wouldn't let us go again...
After the desperately needed dinner we hit the road and again and I stopped driving after I started to be pissed off with the wind (as I usually am. I hate wind!!!)
Sarah and me then slept in the back of the car (well, I tried to sleep but failed horribly as usual when I try to sleep in a moving vehicle!) while Elena and Rebecca were driving.

Great Ocean Road & Melbourne 28th

We slept in a small town and got up early in the morning to continue our way on the Great Ocean Road after a brief breakfast in a cute little bakery.
After driving for about 30min we couldn't believe what we saw. Snow! We obviously had mounted so high on a mountain that it was actually snowing! It was amazing! And a little scary after we saw how a couple of people pulled the car of some Asian tourists out of the ditch.

Further 30min later we finally saw the ocean again and had a break for lunch. The view was just amazing! Although the weather could have been a little better, but at least it had stopped to rain!

*G* Autofahrn, Autofahren!!!

We arrived in Melbourne at around 6pm, parked the car close to Sarah's friend's house and headed towards city to have a first brief glimpse at it. It was surprisingly cold and all of us were happy that we decided to take our winter coats with us.
We strolled through the city and met some of our friends from Sydney who arrived the same night after renting a car. Directly after meeting them we left them again since we wanted to have dinner and the others didn't want to have fast food again. Later that night we met them in the bar in which Sarah's friend is working. After a few hours in that pub all of us were extremely tired and just wanted to go home and sleep!

Melbourne 29th&30th

The next morning we decided that everyone could get up whenever she wants to and so it came that the others left the house while I was still in the shower. I wasn't in the mood to get up at 8 again so I slept until 8:30 and had to wait until the bathroom was free again. I enjoyed having my own time once in a while and so I told the others that I would meet them in the city and went off to see the Victoria Market on my own. Unfortunately the communication between Sarah and me wasn't very good that morning and so it came that she called me to ask where the heck I was and when I would finally join them for breakfast. So I had to go back just to decide to leave them again since I wasn't interested in seeing an art market.
Instead Rebecca and me went to the city where we had a short look at an exhibition of portraits of famous people and then split up when I decided that I wanted a coffee from Starbucks. I spent the rest of the day with strolling through the city and taking the free tram until we met for lunch in a shopping centre where we were joined by the others from Sydney.
The plan for the afternoon was to meet Sarah's friend and shopping, so we left the others and headed in the direction of the city centre. But not even five minutes after splitting up I got a call from Mick that they would go to Phillip Island to see the penguins that afternoon and that they had two more seats in the car. I couldn't resist and so I told them that I would join. None of the other girls wanted to so I ran back alone to meet the others and hit the road to finally see penguins in their natural habitat. Well, I should have known that this wasn't going to happen and that I'm obviously doomed to not see penguins ever except for in the zoo! This time it was the way to get there which was the problem! We drove in the opposite direction for 90min! And since it was already late in the afternoon there was no chance to be in Phillip Island on time to see the penguins.

After admitting that we would never find Phillip Island and deciding for the pub crawl: Mick and Javier in a great mood (I'm not surprised concidering the prospect of getting beer!)

So we decided to go back to the hostel of the others and do a pub crawl after having a few beer in their room and never to talk about penguins ever again! (And I really start to doubt that there are any Penguins in Australia, not to mention NZ!)
The pub-crawl was amazing! It was so much fun and the pubs were definitely the best I've seen in Australia! I wish we had some of them in Sydney!

all the girls: Asun, Elena, Sarah, Aarti, me and Bea (from left to right- gosh, I hope I didn't mix it up again...)

In total we visited 8bars. Sarah, Rebecca and Elena left after the first one because they wanted to change. Bea and Asun went back to the hostel after the 3rd or 4th bar because Asun still felt a little sick because of her dinner the night before (well, we told them to have fast food! But they didn't want to listen and went to a Japanese restaurant instead...). Aarti left after the 5th bar to join the other girls and Sarah's friend somewhere else and so I was left with Mick, Jon and Javier. Since we started at 6pm I was home pretty early which gave me the possibility to have sleep long enough to prepare me for our return to Sydney the next day.

In the morning we went to have breakfast in a nice little restaurant close to the house of Sarah's friend. After the breakfast we split up again since everyone wanted to see sth different. I took the free shuttle bus and went to the Botanical Garden. On the way to get there the bus passed all the sights of Melbourne which gave me the possibility to see a lot of stuff in a short time. And since the weather was pretty bad (drizzle and cold- could it be any worse?) I was happy to take the bus!
I strolled through the Botanical Garden, started to rush every time I passed a child's birthday party (and there was a ridiculously high amount of them!) and then walked back to the city centre where I stopped in Starbucks to have a coffee and write some postcards. Afterwards I bought I bought a sweater that was on sale. I figured that I deserved that one since it has penguins printed on it and, as already mentioned, was on sale for 12AUD! With penguins!!!
Anyway, at 4pm we met for our last lunch. A great place! I had a huge salad for 6dollar! And they sold real bread!!!
After lunch we said good-bye to Sarah's friend and finally made our way back to Sydney.
We spend the night next to a closed gas station in a hick town because we ran out of fuel and the gas stations in the middle of nowhere close at 4pm on Sundays...

The way back to Sydney 1st

We got up at six in the morning in the vain hope that the gas station would be open by then. Well, tuff luck! It wasn't! It opened one and a half hours later which gave us enough time to have coffee before we could finally finish our way back home.
We arrived at Bulga at around 11am unloaded the campervan and started our way to return our beloved campervan. Elena and me couldn't wait to see the cute guy who gave us the van the first day of our trip but we still decided to go for a short milkshake (which in my case turned out to be a Frappucino - I needed the caffeine!) at McD before ending our trip too soon.
After that we unfortunately ran out of excuses to not return the campervan and so we had to leave our little fellow at the Britz station and left with only a short glimpse at the cute guy since he was busy with another campervan... ;(

Well, that was our trip! It was amazing but also very exhausting! But I would do it again!

My Birthday 13/06/

This was the first year in which I had to celebrate my birthday in winter. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, no, I had to celebrate it for the first time without my family.

Anyway, I decided to celebrate in my birthday and so it came that I invited some friends to a bar in the centre of the city. Unfortunately there are a lot of exams going on these days so a lot of people weren’t able to come due to exams on the following day. But in that way I was even happier to see the people who actually could manage to come that night!

Gorgeous, isn't it? (cat in boots aka Stella, donkey aka Ahmad, Shrek aka Sarah and Princess Fiona aka Krithika)

Sarah and me started the evening by watching Shrek the third followed by a few Baileys and a couple of glasses of Cowgirl in Bulga 406 (Sarah’s – and now also mine - apartment). We were joined by Kerstin who was actually pretty sick that day. But she came with us after doing my hair.
On the way to the bar we picked up Eva at Railway Square from where we headed directly to the Equilibrium where we met the others and waited for midnight.

At 0h sharp Aarti, Sarah and Kerstin brought a with lid candles decorated caramel cake. It was sooooo delicious. It took me two runs to blow out all the candles as usual… I guess that will never be better since I’m becoming older every time I have to do it!

Yammy!!!! Caramel!

After the everybody’s congratulations (including a phone call from my mother which actually made me cry a little) and the presents (I LOVE presents!!! *G*) we headed off to the Irish Pub just around the corner where a live band was playing. We danced all night long and went home completely exhausted.

me and my presents: the scarf and the book (1984), a necklace (temporarily hidden under the scarf) and poster with pics of all our friends in Berlin

dancing the night away...

We started the next morning with a breakfast at BreadTop an Asian bakery with the most delicious stuff ever!!! I ate a Tuna Bun for which I was longing for weeks! The day couldn’t start better!

Maybe you can't tell it from the picture but it tastes like heaven!!!

After that we went to Glebe in a combined second hand book and coffee shop! A dream come true! My two most favourite things in the world, cheap books and coffee, in one shop!
I can’t get over the fact, that it took me 4 months to find it! Well, maybe it’s better that way because I would have ended up spending heaps of money earlier. And don’t even think about asking how I want to bring all those books back to Berlin!

effa, Sarah and me in the world's best shop ever!

Anyway, we spent a couple of hours there, ate a salad and then went back home after going to the movie store to get some DVDs for the evening.

We ended up at Bulga 406, watching Sex and the City and having cheese and wine.

Based on the fact that all of us were still a little hung over we went to bed pretty early but I think that was one of my most favourite birthdays ever!

Rugby - Australia vs. Wales 26/05/

Last week on Saturday René and me went to the Olympic Park to watch the rugby game Australia vs Wales. We used the fact, that our tickets included the transport to the park and arrived a few hours earlier to explore the Olympic Park and do some sight seeing. (Yes, I do remember what I said about the park in the post of the Blue Mountains trip, but I didn't have to pay extra...so it was ok to go! *g*)





















I stick to my guns: this place is boring! ;P


Actually we wanted to do a guided tour through the Telstra stadium but unfortunately we arrived half an hour after the last one for that day started. They had do cancel the others because of the game but didn't announce it on the internet so we had no clue about it and had to waste our time by ourselves.

We finally decided to do the flying trapeze since it really sounded like fun!








it really looks like fun, doesn't it?



We arrived in the middle of a session and a sneak preview what would await us if we signed in. Well, unfortunately we couldn't join that attraction either since it was booked out. Ok, I have to admit that this is not quite the truth... in reality I was simply way too frightened! *g*

So we finally strolled through the park, went on the Ring Walk and I satisfied my addiction to coffee at Gloria Jean's while René went swimming in the Olympic pool.

At last it was time for the game to start!














We entered the stadium and found our seats. Our seats were amazing!!! They were in the 5th row directly behind one of the end zones.





We were sooo close, we could nearly smell their sweat! But still far away enough to not to! Thank God! I mean who wants to smell that???

Well, again, I had a hard time to get the rules! I just got the basic aim of the game but in between...? I think they just had a referee because they wanted the audience to be completely confused from time to time so that they are so busy trying to figure out why the referee interrupted the game that they don't loose interest. Or they had some shirts left over and didn't want to waste anything.
Anyway, the game was awesome!





I was freezing my as off that's why I look so pale and my nose so ridiculously red
But thank God there was beer so I could warm my self up by getting a little tipsy! *g*


The game was so exciting!
But in the last second... well actually after the final whistle but for some reason they were allowed to play on... the Wallabies scored for the last time to win with 29 to 23!

It was marvellous!
I'm looking forward to the next sports event of which I won't understand the rules of the game! *G*

International Lunch 13/05/ & 20/05/

German Lunch 13/05/

After their trip to Tassie, which I couldn't join since my sister was in town, the whole bunch decided to have a weekly lunch on Sundays. Since there were people from so many different nationalities they figured that it would be fun, if every Sunday someone from another country should cook something typical for their culture. And so it came that on the 13th of may it was the German's turn.
Juergen ask me for help and invited me about what I'm pretty happy since I probably would have been forced to learn on that Sunday if it hadn't been for his invitation. (Igh, learning! What would the world have come to if I started learning on Sundays??? - or any other day of the week...*g*)

So all the Germans (Sarah, Kerstin, Gordon and me) met at 11am in front of Coles. Just Juergen was missing since he and I went partying the night before and obviously just I was stupid enough to get up after four hours of sleep to be on time. (I still hate the person that decided that we meet that early! *g* Just kiddin'!)
Juergen was replaced by Oriol one of the Spanish guys. I pitied him a little since he was the only one who couldn't speak German and although we gave our best to stick to English we sometimes forgot about it and starded arguing in German.
After arguing about everything for ages (Uri really got a hint of how Germans really are! haha! We love to argue and complain!!! And that's what we did until we left Coles with 130AUD less.)
We headed with the trolley full of food to the student's residence Gumal. There we woke Ricardo to lend us some pans and in the first place to let us in the building where we started to prepare on the rooftop.


















Uri and the food- what a nice view ;P




We decided to introduce the others to a typical German menu which was appropiate even for vegetarians:

1st dish: traditional German soup of which the name I unfortunately forgot *g*
main dish: "Zwiebelkuchen" (Onion Cake)
dessert: chocolate fondue (not really "German", but Germans love it!)









Gordon, Kerstin and Jue preparing the onion cake...












...while Sarah and me were chopping the "Eierkuchen" for the soup


It took us longer to prepare everything than we had expected and we calculated way too much food for everyone! After we finished the main dish there was still 3/4 of the vegetarian onion pie and one onion pie with bacon left.









Quique is longing to eat while the others kill time with German music (for instance: Rammstein - igh!- and Silbermond)

Never the less we went on with the dessert. This part was in Sarah's and my responsibility and after everyone stole some chocolate during the long waiting period before the lunch we were pretty concerned that there wouldn't be enough left but we were lucky! It was more than enough.











the whole crowd during the main dish











the battle for the chocolate
we suffered terrible losses here...haha!



So after the dessert we were all way too full to move! We were cram full but happy... and couldn't wait until next week where Ricardo was about to cook for us a real Mexican lunch! And he promised it to be hot and spicy!

Mexican Lunch 20/05/

And hot and spicy it was!
I still can't move after all that food! And my eyes started to water after one bite of my tortilla with his salsa. And I would die for another bit of his guacamole!!! YAMMYYY!

I arrived at about half past two at the rooftop of Gumal and Ricardo, Silvia and Asun were already in the middle of preparing.
At first there was nothing left to do for me but then Silvia couldn't go on chopping the onions because her eyes started to water like mad. So I took over for her. I was lucky that there weren't many onions left since my eyes started to burn pretty soon as well. *g*














the chef of the day: Ricardo













Silvia and Asun (before they started to chop the onions *g*)

After a while the others started to arrive. Sarah and I helped Ricardo with the tortillas. A very high position with a lot of responsibility which Ricardo gave to us only reluctantly. But we managed to heat them up in the microwave very well after Ricardo took them out of their carton. We just finished doing that in Ricardo's flat and were on our way back to the rooftop when the fire alarm started. (NO! It wasn't our fault! It started in another flat! Honestly! *g*)
So we were forced to walk down the fire stairs and join the others in front of the residence. Sarah was still holding the tortillas Ricardo put us in charge of. We couldn't leave them on their own in the building! Imagine what would have happened if there really had been a fire!
And so we were standing there with 64 tortillas (we must have looked pretty hilarious! haha) and watched two fireman of the NSW fire brigade trot into the building in a pretty bored and pissed of manner. (You could think this happens there everyday...haha, it actually does happen! Asun assured us!)

As soon as we figured there was no fire we went to back to the rooftop where Ricardo was waiting impatiently for the tortillas.
Since there was really nothing more for us to do, we sat down at the terrace and enjoyed one of the most beautyful autumn days I've ever seen (sunny 24°C! In autumn! I love Sydney!!!).
Soon afterwards we started eating!

The Mexican Menu:















1st dish: Patatas a la Riojana (which is a very spicy soup with patatas y chorizo. It's actually Spanish but since Ricardo is the only Mexican the Spanish guys helped him out a bit)
main dish: Tortilla con pollo with guacamole y salsa
dessert: I forgot the name again, but it was marvellous!!!! Caramel out of condensed milk with cookies! I LOVE it!!!!


Everything was so delicious that I even forgot about the salt! And you know that normally everything needs more salt! *g*










half of the crowed














the other half



So in conclusion this lunch was one of the best I had in years! Thanks Ricardo!
I'm really looking forward to next week! I don't know who's turn the cooking is but I'm sure it's going to be another great Sunday!











el cucinero y sus ayudantes *g*

My first AFL game

The Sydney Swans vs. Melbourne 28/04/

Last weekend I visited my first Australian Football League game. René had the idea to do that and organised the ticks.
After I finished work at Harry's I made my way to the Sydney Cricket Ground where I met Gordon, Sarah, Aarti, Amanda, Sumin, Jasmin, Alex, Torsten and René. (Well actually it wasn't quite that easy... René told me we had to enter the stadium at gate I or J so we would meet there. However I found out that there is no gate I to the stadium and gate J was for members only. That made me pretty nervous since the game was about to start 40min from then and so I called René. I must have sound pretty desperate...*g*. What ever, the important thing is that we met what we did at gate C by the way... ;) !)
Before we entered we wanted to dress appropriately so we had a little pit stop at the fan shop and Amanda, Gordon and me bought fancy caps and Aarti got herself a very posh scarf.















Don't we look like real Aussi Football fans???
:D










After entering the stadium we were confronted with the next problem. We had no idea where our seats were! We ask an elderly couple who were happy to help us but unfortunately were pretty confused by the details on our tickets.
At last we found our seats... but not before getting a beer to have the real footi experience. *g*
So we sat in the stadium, enjoying ourselves and waiting for the game to start!










hehe, a little too up high *g*










nice look Gordon! You should use that one more often! *G*




Finally the game started! I have to admit that in the 1st quarter I tried really hard to figure out what exactly was going on down on the field. I ended up with the knowledge that they were allowed to do pretty much everything and a bad headache...
The last three quarters me and the other girls started chatting and didn't bother about the rules of the game any longer! It was sooo much fun!
The guys were quite concentrated on the game... I wonder if they really were interested or just pretended to be because they were expected to... ? Just kidding! ;P






René and Torsten consulting over the next tactical step that would help the swans to win the game (hehe!)










Aarti and me commenting the players short which were pretty tight *G* - we should adopt that in Germany for the soccer players!












We had seats with restricted view... I really wonder who thought up to put that roof there! Well, I mean didn't that person think about it or was it that he just didn't care? Whatever we were all right...



In the end the swans won with 100 and something to 50 and something (I didn't really care after my third beer...*g*).
So another one of our Australian experiences ended and we walked home with the knowledge that at least I will never understand that game!

I wonder what I will feel like after my first cricket game...

Party with my new flatmates

Nude and Sidebar 19/04/

I actually have to learn at the moment but I'm not really in the mood for that (oh what a surprise! *g*).

I got home from 21 hours of work (well I had four hours of sleep in between, I have to admit that) yesterday at 3am (...since it was at 3am I should have said today instead). That's why I'm still completely wrecked so it wouldn't be any good to do anything.
It's not that I haven't done anything yet (I'm at least at the stage in which I know which vocabulary I should know in Japanese for my assessment tomorrow. The only thing that's left to do is actually learn it...*g*). I just figured that I have done enough for today... We'll see tomorrow if I was right. Probably I'm not but what the heck?
What ever, I decided it is more important to tell about my Thursday night! At least that is far more fun! At least for me! hehe

As I said it was Thursday. And as any given Thursday (I talked about that a hundred times already I know...) it was time for Nude Bar!
On my way to get there I met one of my new flatmates, Chris.
In the beginning of April he and Berni moved in. I liked them from the start. We talked a lot and so I told them about the Nude Bar and invited them to join us one Thursday.

Since it was our Easter brake (or at least since everyone had two weeks of break except me of cause) there were no classes on Friday so Chris and Berni decided to meet there.
I went ahead because it was already half past ten when Chris and I met at Central and Nude Bar closes at twelve.

Krithika, Sumin and me at Nude Bar

When Nude Bar closed at midnight, during our compulsory standing in the middle of the street to piss of the security, Chris called to ask what we were about to do.

Well, although we were still deciding what to do I felt safe enough to tell them to meet me at Side Bar...*g*
Well about 20min later we headed off to Side Bar. On our way to get there we miraculously lost nearly all the others, so I ended up arriving with Dani, Charlotte and a girl in a dress which is pretty typical for Australian girls (means: it looked quite ridiculous and didn't leave a lot room for imagination...). I had no idea where Jue was gone and I was a little afraid of ending up alone in Side Bar. As if being there in the first place wasn't worse enough...*g*
Thank heavens I didn't end up alone although I was pretty lost for the first few minutes since I finally lost Dani. But a few seconds later I finally spotted Chris, what is pretty easy since he is about 1.95m.
Shortly after that I found Jue again. It wasn't that easy as to find Chris and Berni but we managed it anyway.

Jue, me and my new flatmates: Chris and Berni (v.l. - I hope I didn't mix up right and left again...*g*)


We had a lot of fun, starting with my first Jaegerbomb (a shot of Jaegermeister that is thrown in a glass of Red Bull... tastes quite good, but it is ridiculously expensive!) .









The real Australian party - Kylie Minogue's Locomotion: Dani, Amanda, Sarah and Oriol joined right in *g*


We partied until about 3am and I had a couple of pictures of my life taken. At least that's what Oriol assured me of each time after taking them...









picture of my life number 1















picture of my life number 2











Well that is not one of the pictures of my life, but I like it anyway! *g*













Una otra fotografía de mi vida
(You get the pattern? *g*)















I think I might have found two companions for Thursday nights... *g*