The Destroying Weekend

In a park near to FHW the plans for the last weekend of March were fixed and supported by a deal: me and Mary will experience the Destroying Weekend and even if nobody follows, we have to stick to our schedule.. and a deal is a deal :)

It all began on Friday when we met near Maxim's place to have a dinner together. Mary was cooking her special French-Italian dish, yummy yummy. Maxim's living room is big enough for a lot of people, so it was nice. Afterwards we all went to a club near Platz der Luftbrücke, to the FHW-party, with Marie's bike and some beers:) The club was not so crowded but it was very hot inside, no air-conditioning. The music was so-so, sometimes good, later not so. But we had fun anyway. Paradoxically the last ones to leave were the "sick" ones - Heidi and Yuki. Seemed like mixing pills and alcohol makes you veeery fresh (which was proven wrong the next day when Yuki, not responding to Maxim's message, was nearly declared to be dead:).

On Saturday afternoon we planned to go to the Baumblütenfest, which is a big Volksfest, similar to Oktoberfest in Munic but with Obstwein. It takes place near Potsdam (Werder-Havel) every spring. After some problems by meeting each other (Marie's phone at Maxim's place etc.) and calming down Marie (being angry about Maxim :)) we finally got on the train and went (with hundreds of other people) to that place, discovering the secrets of German regional trains (nice music inside :)) It was just as Sebastian and Tana (from the International Office) said during the meeting - you don't need to know the way, just follow the crowd! The big one.. so we did and we came to the fest. It is actually a small town, very calm normally I assume. Just for this 10 days a year it changes to a crowdy loud meeting place of every wine fan, and it's nice. The people there know how to take advantage of that event, so you see their gardens opened and family members selling home made wine, cakes, sausages and whatever. You can just eter their garden, lie down to the sun, drink wine and relax. Wonderful.
There is also a funfair with some funny roundabouts, so of yourse we tried some of those as well, it was great :) In different parts of the town you can also find stages where bands play various kinds of music and you can dance. Later we met Chris and some other exchange students, so we went dancing together and enjoyed it a lot :)
The only thing we disliked was the journey back as the train was totally crowded and some of the people were really drunk athough it was not so late. But fortunately we survived.

Afterwards we decided to go to Marie's place to have a dinner and then we wanted to go to the "ekectro-party" Basti proposed the other day. But (un)fortunately we could not find the club on the net and as we didn't know where it was, we decided not to go. We stayed and watched the German TV :) It's kind'a strange to see an American movie with German dubbing..

On Sunday we went together to the Treptower Park, to have a little picnic. Hector offered to bring some Mexican food, so we agreed.. another intercultural (eating) experience :) It was nice. We had some beers and wine, were just relaxing, lying in the sun.. Later we went to an island that is in the park, there was a concert for free (well, I wouldn't pay for that one). Actually we just continued in relaxing.. We agreed that having a picnic on Sunday could become a tradition as well, cause it was very nice and pleasant..