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Damn you Easy Everything...
2002-08-12 06:20:42
I came here yesterday at 9AM and got 82 minutes for €1. Today I come at noon and get 42...wtf.
Yesterday afternoon was spent going through the Deutsches Museum. Yes, one museum. I got through half of it in four hours. For those not in the know, the Detusches Museum is the world's largest science and technology museum. It holds over 17km (appx. 4-6 miles) worth of exhibit space for you to walk through. It's a lot. Really. Exhibits are sometimes labeled in English, it depends on whether or not there was enough space to make it look right or not. There was still a lot of neat things, and any science/technology/mechanical engineering/astronomy/radio nerd will love this place like nothing else.
This afternoon is either the treasury at the Residenz, the Spielzeug Museum, or the BMW museum. I didn't have to spend too much on laundry (about €8-9 total), and now I have enough clean clothes to get me back to the states. Happy days are here again.
Time for me to look up train schedules so that I don't have too much waiting to do in Hauptbahnhof or anything.
Oh, manga here is EVERYWHERE they sell comics...there was one display in the Hauptbahnhof of all mickey and donald, and the other with a full set of dragonball and a couple other random titles. I may very well pick up a book of DB here and there just to read on trains as the rio is still acting dead.
In the meantime the hostel was a little better for the last 24 hours. Only 4 people were actually in the room last night, and I got the first shower this morning which meant it was dry and fairly clean. All good things.
Had a buttered Pretzel today while doing the laundry. I shouldn't have had it so soon after breakfast, but so it goes. It was damn good. The mineral water I had was weird though...didn't taste right. I need to get another bottle of water or juice or something before I go to the museums...or at the museums or something. I'm willing to pay reasonable prices and all that, but make sure that reasonable is reasonable.
Tomorrow: Rothenburg -
München. It's Bavarian.
2002-08-11 04:23:16
The last day of Strobl was long. Got grades, everything is good enough to transfer. Jutta really loved some of the poetic things I put into my essay so it got enough suck up points to secure my grade. I ain't complaining.
The dinner was OK, it was potatoes with spiced sour cream and vegetables, a nice salad (spicy!), and choco cream puffs. Mmm, chocolate.
The party and ball were OK. Miriam is a shitkicking singer and while Andy and Israel are great on the guitar, hearing them SING hotel california and no woman no cry were not the highlights of their performances. Jonah played three pieces on piano and a couple other highlights included Gottfried and two of the other male teachers in ballet getups and disgusting the entire school. Funny, yes, but not something I wanted to see while sober.
Most people got shitfaced at the party. I didn't, but I did waste beer by letting a bottle slip under my hands when Jutta and the school financial person (who bought me the beer...) were trying to understand why I don't like people buying things for me. I just...don't...especially when I'm capable of getting for myself or doing perfectly well without. Still, Austrian beer is a wonderful thing.
Next morning was the quick ceremony and we all departed. Took the bus to Salzburg early with a lot of people, and sat next to Irit. We talked the whole way, had a fast coffee at the train stationand by 1:30PM I was on the RE train to München. It was nice until we got about 25 min. outside the city and all these old people got on and made me close the windwo because it was too loud for them. I had enjoyed feeling the wind through my receding hair, and had been by myself until that point anyways.
The train arrived at about 3:30PM. I got to the Euraide station to buy a three day U-Bahn and S-Bahn pass, got it, and got to the hostel. I am fortunately not in the 37 person room, but with 6 others, at least one of whom left this morning...
After getting to my bed (a top bunk, so it goes), I munch some Hot and Spicy pringles (which are actually hot and spicy...or my tolerance for spicy has gone down which is quite possible) and decide to do SOMETHING. It had started to rain so I figured that taking advantage of being in Bavaria would be a good idea and see if I can catch a certain movie.
I went down to the desk, found out where the good cinema was, and went back to my room to get ready to go, walk around, and mebbe grab something cheap and fast to eat...
And then find out that I lost my transit pass.
Yup, €11 down the drain. Searched the whole room and immediate area around the hostel that I'd gone to for nothing. Nada. Zip. Card gone bye bye.
I still went to the movie though. Bought a card that serviced more zones than I needed (€5,50 instead of €4,50), and went downtown.
When I posted earlier that the trains were clean and quiet, it wasn't entirely right. They are in various states of cleanliness with the airport S-Bahn trains being the best, and the U-Bahn trains being the worst, with most S-Bahn somewhere in between. They are still mostly quiet...the trains, not always the people, and always on time.
I'm pissed though because I've been on the train 4 times and no one's asked to see my rail ticket. I'm starting to think it would be worth it to just gamble on not having one, but I know that I'd then get caught. Damn being raised with guilt!
SHIT!
A lot of stuff just got wiped out. Dammit Dammit Dammit!
Where was I....
Hostel. The hostel here is good enough I guess. There's 6 people in the room and 2 sinks for shaving, brushing teeth, etc. The showers are seperate from the toilets and at the end of the halls (fortunately near the room I'm in), and fairly dirty, but no worse than the ones in the dorms. The toilets are pretty damn nasty though. They smell and are really dirty. No desire to go there barefoot again...come to think about it the toilets were the worst part of the Salzburg Hostel too, except the Salzburg one was cleaner overall. The showers in this hostel are not so nice, but they work and have hot water. Overall score for the DJH Jugendherberge München (Neuhausen): 2.5/5
The plan for today is:
Run down my last 18 min. of time
Go to the PO and get my suit, dress shoes, and sheets mailed back to the states
Hit the Spielzeug Museum (Toy museum, current special exhibit is teddy bears)
And the Deutsches Museum (Sci/Tech museum)
And mebbe one more if I can afford it.
Breakfast was close to but not quite great. They had Semmeln, some cheeses, jams, and müsli with chocolate in it, but no yoghurt (strawberry or otherwise) to put on top of it, which is an Austrian practice I've come to greatly appreciate.
Lessee...what else is going on...
Tomorrow is laundry, and if the Residenz is open a visit to at least part of that for the afternoon. Tuesday is travel to Rothenburg. I should look up the schedules for that...time to leave the journal for tomorrow. Travel is on!
Glad I looked this over now too. Realized that I didn't re-enter the bit about the new XL version of Manitu. The extra scenes are all up front at the beginning, and give us a lot of exposition and backstory on Abahachi and Winnetouch, such as how they grew up, changed, how they met Dimitri and Ushi, got the map from Grauer Star (the indian version of Elvis, also played by Bully), and how Abahachi first met Ranger.
Going to the cinema here is neat because the seats are very cushy and comfortable and preassigned when you buy your ticket. It was also great to see this movie in 35 at the PROPER speed (unlike the spedup version on the DVD that I'll have to fix when subbing), as well as with a proper audio mix (the DVD has only 5.1 Dolby and DTS...no 2.0 mix at all). So nice. 35mm is great, lots of extra details compared to the DVD, especially with texturing.
Unfortunately, when they say a movie starts at 20.00Uhr, it means the 12 minutes (yes I counted) of ads begin at 20.00Uhr. The ads were neat though because they covered everything from Cigarettes (to my semi-surprise, yup the Marlboro man lives in Germany) to Brazilian tourism to cars to everything else. Very fun.
Saw the trailer for Harry Potter 2 in German, the synchro actors have NOT had their voices break like the real actors...poor Germans. This is gonna suck for them. Also saw the trailer for some movie making fun of Bollywood stuff called the something Swami or another. I want to see this just because I could swear I saw Dahler Mendhi (the dude who did Tunak Tunak Tun) in a dance scene. This should be good...
Anyways, I think everything's been restored. I may pop in tomorrow, may not, we'll all see. Until the next post, keep well and send me email =) -
Last post from Strobl...
2002-08-09 03:08:50
The computer room closes by 8AM tomorrow, and I've still got an errand to do today as well as packing (oh wow, packing...) and other things to do around here, so I don't think I'll have time to go posting.
Last night was fun. Jonah (uk) spieltet Klavier für zwei Stunde. Er ist immer toll, und machtet eine geile Konzert. Dann gingen uns ins Billie's. Ich trank ein Bier und satzte mich während die anderen tanzten. Der DJ suckt. Er hattet keine: Captain Jack, E-Rotic, Blümchen (wtf?!), Tic Tac Toe (wtf?!), und smile.dk. WTF....
So now it's over.
Today is wrapping things up, tomorrow is getting my paper that says I passed my classes, and getting my ass up to München.
I think I did well enough in German too. I saw Jutta as I was leaving Billie's last night (she laughed when I just kept looking at her and then my watch in disbelief that someone over 30 would be out partying with their students at 1:30AM). From what I could hear and understand of our conversation, I think my German grade is safe. I got very poetic in my essay and she liked it. Go me!
Right now is the final listen-through of Hedwig. Midnight Radio is such a great song, must get it into the playlist tonight.
The next update to the site will be either Sunday or Monday, depending on time availability. I could update if the hostel has net access, but it's likely to be much more expensive than going to a netcafe (and without the option of getting food with it...) Sunday is a tourism day, Monday is laundry and such as all the museums will be closed.
As far as the foot goes after one week....it was a lot bloodier last night than it had been for the prior couple days...I can still feel and move it, though, which means no need to go back to the doctor. The little bulb can almost totally be lifted, though, to reveal...a depressed sensitive red area. Tried to get some of the antibiotic in there, and the fact that it stung for a bit last night afterwards means that it was doing something. I'll probably change it early tonight so that I can use Lynn's scissors again to cut another roll of gauze down.
So this is the end of part 1. I hope you've all enjoyed it. I hope that if you're reading this after the trip and were a part of it that you appreciate it and that it clarifies something? explains things? gives you a better picture of what was going on in my twisted little head?
Bah. On to München! -
Exam and then some...(Post 4 for 08.08.02)
2002-08-08 14:32:35
Took the exam. It seemed...easy. Way too easy. Maybe I actually did well. *shrug*
Went down to the dock to take pictures (since it stopped raining and we actually got some sun!) and found that the lake had risen a meter (that's 3 ft. 3 in. for the metrically impaired) and was now right on level with the top of the dock. Roman and Gottfried were in the process of cleaning it up and I took my pictures and got out of the way. Ended up running to ADEG with one of the Sabine's and bought 6 chocolate bars and a can of hot and spicy pringles. I don't know why I bought that much chocolate but I did. It's not like it'll really last. If nothing else it's munchies for the train and Sunday when only overpriced restaurants are open. I'll go to Konsum tomorrow and get another Donald Duck comic and a bottle of Blood Orange juice.
Dinner was OK, but we had tiramisu for dessert so all was good. Supposedly Jonah (uk) is supposedly playing piano for an hour or so and then it's the next to last trip to Billie's for everyone. Should I not have explained this earlier, Billie's is the only bar in Strobl. It's overpriced and it has the shittiest DJ I've ever heard. It makes me wish Rob Lanz could come DJ. Of course if that happened I'd also have someone here to talk about anime with.
It's been almost a month since I last really watched anime. Catching Nadia casually a couple times on TV doesn't really count as far as I'm concerned. I feel not necessarily in withdrawl, but like a part of me IS missing. All I've had is the music, and once I leave the computers in Strobl I won't even have that anymore.
In the meantime, I've got Tommy act 1 going (kept hearing Sparks in my head) and then my time will be up. This is today's last entry (for real this time...), so see y'all tomorrow -
3 in One Day...
2002-08-08 08:21:15
The two updates before this are current for 8. August, 2002. Please read them for the whole day's updates...
The rain has temporarily stopped, although the weather forcast on ORF2 says that it will rain again tomorrow. Apparently areas of Nider- and Oberösterreich are in states of emergency due to heavy flooding. Power and telephones are out, drinking water is contaminated, and cell phone networks are overrun.
I have my exam in 1 hr 18 minutes. I'm listening to the German version of RENT as always before an exam. Wish me luck!
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