Kiwi in Berlin

I'm just one of the 250 (registered) New Zealanders living in Berlin. Here I try to answer pressing questions such as: What are the Germans like? What happens in Berlin on a day-to-day basis? Why is NZ so far away? What does "playing the offended sausage" mean?

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Ancient lesbian sex

Last night there was another Hartz IV demonstration, this time down our street. Luckily only a few hundred people though, maybe because it was cold and dark. Damn, it's cold already. 8 degrees C right now outside, at 1:30pm, with an added wind chill factor. Brrr. Dead leaves everywhere, but pretty orange colours. German's the only language I know with a special word for dead leaves - "Das Laub". I should go out later and take some pics.
Class was a bit weird this morning. We listened to a dialogue between a pretend Leni Riefenstahl (notorious German director) and Marlene Dietrich (notorious German actress who emigrated to the USA before WW2). They were played by two old women and it was such bad taste - okay, some of the info they took from real interviews, but at the end the two women end up (on the CD) getting it on!! Two very old women! Hearing it was almost worse than seeing it... And I am SURE I heard one of them say, "It should be narrow after all these years." But maybe she was referring to their friendship...either way, it's undone years of therapy.
Another package arrived from NZ, this time thermals. So we are well-prepared for winter and for a looking-as-unsexy-as-possible competition.

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