A picnic in Oktober
Donnerstag, 05.10.06
Yesterday, the international students met up for a picnic in Volksgarten [literally translates as ‘People’s Garden’]. Everyone made a good effort, with quite a few homemade dishes. As I wasn’t well informed of the proceedings, I didn’t have anything to contribute. There was delicious pasta, Spanish omelette, salad, cake eaten out of my improvised foil bowl. The good weather didn’t last for long though, and we went to take shelter at a café/bar to enjoy a few rounds of Kölsch. We then wanted to go to the cinema but as we didn’t find a film we wanted to see that wasn’t dubbed, we ended up watching ‘Elephant’ on a laptop whilst lying on the bed like sardines. This was particularly the case as the slats were missing from the bed frame, so it was our ‘play pen’! Elephant was an interesting film, inspired by the events of the Columbine High School Massacre. The fact that it didn’t have a storyline or even a script made it a unique piece of motion picture.
Waking up this morning was a bit of a challenge, as usual; I had initially hoped for a 7am waking in good time to meet up with Yu Chung at 8am who was going to help me at the council offices. My eyes opened to seeing the clock at 7:40am and I hurriedly got dressed and ran to the tram stop as to keep with German etiquette for being punctual. To my relief, I got there minutes before his tram came, all thanks to the morning dash. As we were early to the council, it wasn’t too long of a wait (only 12 people in the queue before me, rather than a 100 or so if I had gone later in the day). As a result, I am now registered as a resident of Cologne :) .
Yesterday, the international students met up for a picnic in Volksgarten [literally translates as ‘People’s Garden’]. Everyone made a good effort, with quite a few homemade dishes. As I wasn’t well informed of the proceedings, I didn’t have anything to contribute. There was delicious pasta, Spanish omelette, salad, cake eaten out of my improvised foil bowl. The good weather didn’t last for long though, and we went to take shelter at a café/bar to enjoy a few rounds of Kölsch. We then wanted to go to the cinema but as we didn’t find a film we wanted to see that wasn’t dubbed, we ended up watching ‘Elephant’ on a laptop whilst lying on the bed like sardines. This was particularly the case as the slats were missing from the bed frame, so it was our ‘play pen’! Elephant was an interesting film, inspired by the events of the Columbine High School Massacre. The fact that it didn’t have a storyline or even a script made it a unique piece of motion picture.
Waking up this morning was a bit of a challenge, as usual; I had initially hoped for a 7am waking in good time to meet up with Yu Chung at 8am who was going to help me at the council offices. My eyes opened to seeing the clock at 7:40am and I hurriedly got dressed and ran to the tram stop as to keep with German etiquette for being punctual. To my relief, I got there minutes before his tram came, all thanks to the morning dash. As we were early to the council, it wasn’t too long of a wait (only 12 people in the queue before me, rather than a 100 or so if I had gone later in the day). As a result, I am now registered as a resident of Cologne :) .
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