Today, I’m going to write about the Summer School again. Last week, we’ve been to the Hamburger Dom (wich is essentially a really big fair) and to the Baltic Sea, so I’m going to drop a few lines about that and then show you some pictures

This Friday, we went to the Hamburger Dom with some japanese students, who wanted to go to show them the fair, try some attractions and watch the fireworks later in the evening. It was a funny evening, with sausages, beer, water slides, 70 meters high chairoplane (never used this word before now Oo) above Hamburg in the night, of course fireworks and it ended with some of us ending up tired in the Mc Donalds at the central station and eating burgers, because there was no train driving to a certain suburb at that time anymore. So like every good night should end

The second event was today, where we went to the Baltic Sea with the train. Our goal was Timmendorfer Strand, which is a small tourist village (mainly visited by old people and Porsche drivers as we noticed) just a bit north of Lübeck – if the latter one is known to anyone Sadly, the sky was totally clouded, so we had to skip bathing and swimming, but we still went to the beach, to build a sand castle and do pictures. Which was twice justified as we were tourists and had Japanese with us – in theory, we should have just kept doing photos without a break. Anyway, after some lunch at an italian restaurant, we visited the Sea Life Center, before we went back to the station. They had a big variety of fishes to watch and even some ‘Nemos’, as many small childs cried out loud, when they saw the small clownfishes . Kawaii ne~~~ xD

Still, pictures say more than all of my babblings, so here you have a small selection. You can see more pictures and videos of the fireworks on my Facebook-profile (whooho, cross-referencing xD)

Long time, no read eh? Yeah right, I haven’t been the most productive writer in these past one and a half months – I admit it. Too much stuff to care for, like exams and work. But I’m finally back and I’ve brought some stuff with me to feed everyone with new life input from me

Right now, I’m a Tutor in the Summer School at the Hamburg University for Japanese, who came here for a month to learn German. It all started with two days, in which I spent 7 hours at the airport to pick the japanese students up – instead of an hour, which was the time I planned for that beforehand. But some plane in Japan couldn’t start for some technical reasons and nearly every student was sent to Hamburg on a different route around the globe. Sadly, we didn’t know about the different new flight plans, so the organisation at the airport was pure chaos with us don’t knowing were everyone was and at the same time having to care for te students, who had already arrived. Probably one of the highest stress levels I’ve had so far…

Luckily, the Summer School itself turned out to be a great thing and everyday there is a lot of fun. Last week, I had to teach Yui and Mimi, who were both really eager to learn and we didn’t even had to bother with too much shyness at the beginning of the week Mimi is also a student at the Hiroshima University, so I’ve already found out some more facts about my future exchange university. The most shocking one was sadly that I will be studying in Higashi Hiroshima, which is a part of the city that’s a ‘little’ bit away from the main urban region. Less nightlife and more running in the woods, I guess ^^”

Anyway, we’ve done a Hamburg tour with all of the Summer School students on Saturday, so I’d like to show you some pictures of that now. It was the only good day in the last week and this week is also pretty rainy so far.

A small gallery of collected photos from the Filmfest

http://fabian-hammerl.de/jffh_2010/

Today was the World Cup game Germany vs Serbia – which Germany sadly lost after a tough fight. We weren’t efficient enough with our chances and Serbia got a goal after we were confused because of the red card for Klose (stupid referee -.-). Anyway – I watched the first half of the game on the fan park at the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg, which was an interesting experience. Partly because of the group feeling you get there, partly because of all the idiots you’ll find. As soon as Serbia scored their goal, most of them already left or startet to moan around like they were seeing the worst game of Germany ever and as if all hope was lost. I hate that attitude of these sunshine-and-success-fans… stay with your team through good and bad, or don’t at all. Complaining is always ok, but constructive and with some though to it please. Geez.

Rant over.

Believe it or not, I’m going to study in Hiroshima for one year – starting next year! *insert dance moves here* It’ll either start in next years March or September, which I still have to find out because the sources are kinda contradicting on this matter (and as I have to apply for financial support, it might be useful to have the exact dates ready ^^”).  Anyway – it’s awesome either way and I’m really really happy about it!

By the way – I googled Hiroshima wit their image search and the first page is showing only pictures of the atomic bomb damage and victims except of one, which shows the new city. Maybe I’ll come back glowing in the dark or something like that… xD

Party time!