Easter

Well,

there's actually not much to say about the Eater holidays here, except for that they were looong. In Germany Friday alias Karfreitag is a public holiday so everything (nearly) is closed and you don't have to go to school :) Which is good.. but if the weather is as it is here and now.. in Czech we would call it April weather. And most of the Easter it was so. Windy, cloudy, rarely sunshine, more often rain or even snow. Only on Monday it was such a wonderful weather, with no single cloud on the blue sky.. sunshine the whole day.. if only it would stay like this!!

So I had to change my original plans (which was sightseeing mostly). I went shopping, not only from the reason not to starve, but also to buy an mp3 player as I couldn't stay the calm in my room any more. I had some criteria according to I finally found the right player for me. And I have to say I'm higly satisfied now. I only need to get some more song into it.. But I already gave my (super PC-work tallented but curently on maternity leaf so not that much up-to-date) sister a description how to send me some songs so I hope she'll manage ;)

Except for listening to BBC and some funny German Radio stations I spent the rest of the Easter reading (Berliner Zeitung and old "Spiegels" I found in our kitchen), a bit sightseeing (mainly on Monday) and in the church (St. Hedwig's Cathedral). During the Mass on Monday some strange guy during the speach of the priest suddenly stood up, went towards him and started to take off his clothes.. for whatever reason, we don't know. Some people stopped him quickly and took him away. But the most strange thing for me was that the priest just continued with his speach, he didn't seem surprised or something. He didn't say a word about that. I felt he should have...

But all in all it was nice to spend Easter here cause for the first time in my life nobody tried to beat me with some strange stick like the guys do in the Czech Republic.. they call it tradition. I quite hate it. Here it was very nice, seeing the mothers trying to secretly hide the Easter (chocolate) eggs in the park, on the S-bahn stations.. simply everywhere.. so that the children could then find them thinking that the "Osterhase" had hidden them there. That I would call a nice tradition. Not beating girls saying that otherwise they would not be fruitful..