I know what you did last weekend

No, frankly I only know what I myself have done this weekend. Friday evening was not spent alone, I've had one of the new colleagues over at my apartment for dinner and watching some movie or something on my laptop. Finally we decided on watching the newly acquired episode of Heroes, but first I had to explain everything that happened between the pilot episode my guest saw and the newest one - it was a quite tiring talk, but at least I had my own recap with it. The show was okay, nothing too special, interesting as usual. After the show somehow the topic of our final university projects came up, which led to me having to explain mine in great detail, up from the basics. Which was an interesting experience, since I basically did not even think about that work in detail since early last summer. Strangely enough I managed to come up with new examples, some of which were not even that bad. Even though it was a very long talk, about one and a half hours long of me speaking and answering questions, it was somehow quite worth it. But then I really had to get my sleep so I threw my guest out :D
Saturday... nothing special, around noon I decided to go out to the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz to check if there really is some free wireless internet as I figured. And there was. So I spent there some time answering emails and reading news, in the middle of the usual crowd of tourists, but at least here there's a more comfortable place to sit than compared to the wall next to that cafe I visited a few times before. I even saw some people from Aachen, the first German town I was to in my life last year, they were there for a football game between Hertha BSC of Berlin and Alemannia Aachen. Of course I did not know the Aachenese people in person, but it was fun to see them. BTW Alemannia was beaten 2:1 :) After lunch in a cafe I headed back home, and even later my guest from the evening before and his newly arrived girlfriend came up with the idea of finding some nice bar in the city. So that's just what we did, we hung out near Hackescher Markt, a place where quite some bars are. Our's wasn't particularly good or bad, it was a bit pricey but beer was good. There was even some classical music playing nearby on the street, so it was quite comfortable. One of the waitresses even stopped at our table when she heard us talking, and spoke to us in broken Hungarian - I even asked where she learned the language that well. Quite embarrassingly she was originally from Hungary, she was just here in Berlin for like 4 years to study and make some good money. She was a nice person, and I think we made her eve a bit better simply by being Hungarian :) Of course we could not stop laughing later, realizing that we got a real Hungarian service: slow and with mixed up orders :) But it was nice nevertheless, and made me sleepy enough to just fall unconcious the moment I entered my room again.
Sunday was also slow, as all weekends, the other guys left for some general sightseeing I've done already before, and I went to check out the East Side Gallery. This would be the longest original portion of the Berlin Wall, I guess I even mentioned it in one previous post. Well, this was supposed to be painted all over wit graffities, which it surely was, 15 years ago. Now the "historical" side is pretty run down, but the other side looks good, with very new paintings. I even photographed some Spanish speaking tourists there, since they asked me to do just that. I think they were glad I at least pretended speaking their language :) Then I crossed the rive Spree on the lovely red Oberbaumbruecke, made a picture of the Molecule Men in the distance, and headed home again, since it looked like it was going to rain soon. Which it of course did not. But I had a short walk in Eastern Berlin before getting home, well, that part was pretty run down, especially compared to the Western part where I live. And I had to give directions to a local kid :)
In the evening I had dinner at my colleagues place, his girl cooking and us watching TV :) After dinner (basically the same sweet-sour thingy I had last week just not as good :P ) we watched the School of Rock movie on TV...well it had good music, but otherwise, not a very complicated movie :) I like the part where Jack Black's character hands out the "home work" CDs to listen to, and mentions some of the greatest bands I listen to, Rush, Pink Floyd and the like. Good movie in this aspect :) Actually there were only a few other parts that actually made me laugh, which is not much for a supposed comedy :)
Monday...as usual, first day of the week, people who went back to Hungary arrive and are sleepy. The special event of the day was that one colleague finally received his laptop he ordered here in Germany. I also did some shopping online, smaller things though. We'll see how that goes, seemingly German post has less sticky fingers compared to the Hungarian. Of course I have to wait for all the items I ordered to be in stock at the same time, so it's gonna be maybe 2 weeks for my stuff to arrive. That's fine with me.
The only thing I miss is some good books...it's just series on my laptop all the time. Since I've finished the magnificient Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. I guess I should get some other book to read...I might dare to buy something in German :) We'll see...

(Some pictures might follow later)

And on a sidenote: my time here got extended until the end of January :D But of course I will spend end of December at home.
Exit, stage left.
M.