A weekend up North

Hello,
My second blog for tonight and the second one with a heap of delay (about two weeks I think).
This one is about the weekend two weeks ago which I spent in Hamburg visiting my uncle Bernd and his family consisting of his wife Sabine and their two kids Melanie and Nils. It was a Saturday when I went up there by train which takes about 5 hours. I had a thirty minutes stop at Cologne so I met one of the German girls, who also went to Rochedale High with me Kira at the train station.
When I arrived in Hamburg, Bernd and Nils picked me up at the station and we went to their place which is about 30 minutes by car outside Hamburg. We spent the evening having a barbecue and watching some movie on TV.
On Sunday, we went to watch a soccer game in Hamburg between the FC St. Pauli which is a suburb of Hamburg and Alemannia Aachen which is my hometowns club. Before we went to the game, we went on a little walk to the “Landungsbrücken” which is part of the Hamburg harbour. It’s I think the second largest harbour all over Europe and it was It’s birthday this weekend, so there was sort of a festival with ship parades and so on. After we watched that for a little while, we went to watch the game. Bernd got VIP tickets from his work so this was pretty cool. We had lunch provided before the game with heaps of food and a chocolate fountain you could stick fruit into. The actual game wasn’t to mind-blowing, because it was one of the last in the season and it didn’t count any for both teams. Fortunately Aachen had the better end for them and they won with 2:0.
After the game we drove home. Just after dinner I went running with Bernd and as we is heaps more trained in running than I am it was sort of a torture for me. We were quite fast at least compared to my normal pace. But as you know me I’m a sports guy(and a boy) and I don’t easily admit that someone’s heaps better than me so I ran. As a consequence I had a massive muscle ache two days later.
On Monday morning we went out for breakfast and after that to a park. Then after a barbecue for lunch and a lot of playing soccer in the backyard with Nils it already was time for me to go home. About six hours later (I had a bad route but it was cheaper) my mum picked my up from the train in Aachen. It was about 11 o’clock then.
Yeah that was my weekend up North in Hamburg. It was pretty awesome and I want to thank Bernd and Sabine for that weekend from this place again.
I guess there will be a next time next year. At least I hope so.
And I suppose that was it for tonight. I hope you are all alright down there. Hope to talk to you soon on MSN or whatsoever.
See ya soon.

Your Daniel

Of course there are some awesome photos you can have a look at:

Hamburg '08

Climbing

Hey guys,
It’s me again!
I have to admit that it took me quite a while to get myself writing this blog. I’m just too lazy, but now, about three weeks late, I am going to write it.
Well. As you can figure acknowledging the title of this blog, I’m going to tell you about my little climbing adventure with my sports class.
As I said that happened about three to four weeks ago. We had three climbing lessons and finally we made a climbing license, which shows that you know everything about the knots you need and about belaying and so on.
Climbing isn’t that hard at all, even if you are a bit scared of heights (e.g. Sonja). It’s actually quite simple.
There are a couple of things you should know to make it easier climbing the 20 metre high walls. Belaying someone is also pretty easy, but you have to weigh nearly the same as the one you’re belaying.
I guess there isn’t much I can tell you about climbing. Everyone who’s got the choice should try it. It’s heaps of fun. The only problem I had is my weight, because its harder to climb if you weigh much.
That’s it for now (well for the next couple of minutes, because I’m writing a blog about my Hamburg weekend now)
See you then…
Your Daniel

Have a look at the climbing photos. I guess they are quite good.

Klettern

C'est la France

Hello people,
I just came home from my trip to France where I have been from Thursday to Sunday together with my Big Band and the one above us.
First of all I have to say that it was pretty awesome although France especially the French are quite weird.
But I’ll start at the beginning. On Thursday at 7:30(remember that’s madly early for Germans on public holidays) we had to meet at our band room and at about 8 o’clock we drove off. The journey to Montebourg, the city we stayed at, which is in the north of France, took about 10 hours.
So that took the whole Thursday. Except at night we had a practise which was pretty crappy and our band leader was heaps pissed off.
On Friday we went to a place called Mont St. Michel which is sort of a big church and fort on a mountain which originally isn’t connected to the main land so you can only get there at low tide. But now they’ve built a bridge thing to get there. After visiting that (it was another 2 hours from our stay) we drove back and stopped at a super market to get some stuff. Actually mainly beer. Well, we had a concert in the evening which was as well pretty crap because we messed it up a little. Nevertheless we had an awesome party afterwards. This took until 3 o’clock in the morning. Well I went to bed at 3. Then I had a beautiful sleep until 7 o’clock. Not too beautiful actually.
But anyway we went to Cherbourg on Saturday morning and visited a marine museum, including some great fish (quite little parrotfish, sharks, and so on) and a French nuclear submarine. That was quite interesting as well. Afterwards we had lunch and then had to prepare for another concert near an airship hangar. Surprisingly this concert turned out to be quite good and after that the serious part of the trip was finally over. Following there was another mad party on Saturday night. I, again, went to bed at three and had to get up at 7.
In the morning we just had breakfast and cleaned up everything. Then at 9:30 we took off for another 10 hour trip back to Aachen.
Concluding there is just one thing to say about that trip: “La France – C’est génial”.
That’s it for now. I hope I’ll talk to some of u soon on msn or else.
C’ya soon.
Yours Daniel

Of course I took some awesome photos:

Montebourg '08