hey guys n girls :3
finally some free time and finally I'm taking the time to write here again.
my Dad came over for the weekend to finally bring me my new precioussssssss 22" LCD monitor which was a christmas & birthday present from my grandparents. actually my Dad already wanted to bring it to me soon after Christmas, but never found the time to come here, and I neither have been home since Christmas ^^;; anyway, I named it Töfti-chan and it's pure love <333
of course he didn't only come by for that '_' he first planned to stay until Monday and celebrate into my birthday, but since they've got a lotta work at his company at the moment, and Rosenmontag isn't off in Bremen, he had to return already on Sunday u.u
but we still had lotsa fun. when he arrived on Friday evening we still went to eat at a Vietnamesian restaurant. soooooooo delicious *O* on Saturday we did some grocery shopping by car and also drove to some furniture store to get me a second sitting bag... but they only had ugly ones. still had some food at IKEA afterwards though.
my Dad wanted to see some Carnival stuff when he's already in Cologne at this "season" X'D I first was against it, being glad that last year I was able to escape the terror completely, but then I discovered that was some event called Geisterzug (Ghost Parade?) on Saturday. it was reestablished 1991 when there was no official Carnival parade because of the Gulf War as a mixture of demonstrators and carnivalists. it's a bit darker (a lil like Halloween maybe?) and pretty chaotic compared to the official parade, as everyone may take part spontaneously.
So in the evening we met up with Leo, somehow managed to get into the crowded trains (what made me go mad and think "goddamn, why am I doing this? this is almost Tokyo at rush time feeling") and arrived there really late, but we still managed to enroll the parade and see like everything XD and I must admit, I kinda liked this. there were some real innovative costumes (of course also a lot of crap tho) and it had rhythm and was fun. I also took some pics with the other baby of mine, and I wanna show you some
the atom victim-ness follows me everywhere...
there were also some with Underground station signs... I'm making some plan that IF I'm not escaping carnival again next year, I'll make up a group where maybe 4, 5 persons dress up a a Deutsche Bahn train, and some more accompany us and throw ketchup bombs at us or something like that...
notice the flag here XD
awwwww cuuute XD and the ideal pic for a postcard!
the standard stupid... x'D
that one was cool *_* reminded me of Mononoke hime <3
and my motto XDDDD
after we had arrived the beginning of the parade we went to the next underground station, pressed ourselves in some train again and got to some club where a SKArnival concert took place.
that was also still nice - some Ska is always cool, and even the Kölsch lyrics couldn't completely destroy that XD (but I did not understand much lol), there were only some strange people whom I would have preferred not to meet :/
then we had some Döner and I phoned
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slowmon to get to know where she and the rest of the Bonner gang were and what they wanted to do... they didn't really know either, so we just got to meet them in Cologne South... there there was teh real shit going on. the youth having nothing better to do than drinking on the street and not getting into the clubs anymore x'D the group did separate real soon and Shin came with us. in the end we decided to already take a train back to Bonn at 1am. BUT!!!
that wasn't really possible. we managed to get all into the first train... but it was REALLY tight. I guess tighter than in Tokyo this time. only the men with the white gloves were missing. therefore we had people stinking of alcohol... (some woman just said "oh gawd, hopefully nobody gets the idea to puke" and we all were "DON'T EVEN SPEAK IT OUT!!") and getting agressive... some idiots kept pressing the door-open-button and the one who just got in last and them in the end had some real fight... but the train STILL did not want to get started for about half an hour!! most likely there was similar chaos at the other doors. so we decided to get out and take one train later... there we also met Chris teh Ersti and the Japanese guys again. some police officer told us there was going to be another extra train... but there was not. and in the next regular train we didn't even try to get into, but decided to walk to Cologne main station to be the first to enter... there we just missed the next train by one minute (still could see it) and had to wait another hour XD Chris entertained us though with his comical talent, and we were nostalgic and digged out a lot of old anime and cartoon songs from our youth LOL
in the end we arrived in Bonn half past 5 in the morning :DDD
so yeah, I know again why I DO NOT LIKE THE CARNIVAL IN COLOGNE AND MOST LIKELY WILL BE ESCAPING AGAIN NEXT YEAR XDDDDDDDDDDDDD (or realize that DB train idea and take part in the Ghost Parade... but someone may not drink then so we can take a car back)
Daddy and me slept until about 2pm on Sunday, then I made some delicious feta olive omelette while my dad got the sexual affair between postage and Töfti started, and at about 5pm he left me again and took the Shinken with him.
and yeah, now I'm alone. u_u on my birthday but I did not want
this_rainy_day to have to get through Cologne on Carnival Monday just to visit me ... That's some terrible experience no one really has to survive x'D (if it was already THAT bad on Saturday night .........)
