I have been awake for close to 30 hours now; with only one half-hour nap in
between. Plus the night before that I slept only 4 hours. I think I am now
way past the point where you are tired the most.
But more on that later.
First I want to tell you I was in Rome two weeks ago. It was a fun little
trip.
Of course we went to see all the old buildings and ruins and everything.
But I guess if you want to see pictures of those you can just look them up
on Google.
Educated as you all are you of course know what this is:
I visited Rome together with a girl I knew from the year I spent in
Michigan in 2003/04. I don’t know whether she likes her picture on the
internet so here’s one where you can’t see her face.
This is Naples, by the way. We did a one-day trip there.
In Naples there were hundreds of narrow streets like this. The people there
live in tiny rooms and the whole city seemed very poor. This made me feel
like I was at home, because I live in a run-down neighbourhood ^^
In Rome, we stayed in a Hostel, which is basically the cheapest place to
stay at you can get. There were a lot of backpackers, almost all of them my
age or only a few years older. Most of them were from America, but there
were people from lots of other countries as well.
This is why it was so cheap; we slept in an 8-bed-room:
On one of our excursions through the city we became spectators to a funny
scene. Along the river there were hundreds of African guys trying to sell
fake brand sunglasses and purses. We were trying to make our way through
them without buying anything when all the sudden a police car drove down
the sidewalk.
The Africans folded up their shit and ran like hell.
To keep it b0gworthy, here’s a blister on Amy’s foot and a cop in one of
them space things I saw at the train station:
Now to the interesting part of my journal (I hope there is no limit on how
long a journal can be…)
Today it my classes turn to do the ‘Abistreich’ at my school. This is a
German tradition in which the graduating class takes control over the
school, tortures the teachers and makes sure the younger students won’t
have to attend any classes that day. We made a big party out of it by
selling beer and sausages on the schoolyard and playing loud-ass music.
But more details later.
First let me tell you about yesterday.
After having slept only 4 hours I got up early because it was fucking hot
and the sunlight was shining through my curtains straight onto my face.
I had some breakfast, went to the gym and did some weightlifting and an
hour on the rowing-ergometer (right now I am wondering if my journal is
turning into a kogneto-journal…). This was the first time in months that I
had gone to the gym, so it was pretty tough.
After that I went to get myself something to eat and drove to a friends
house where we watched Germany kick ass in football.
After that I went to a date with a chick from my school that I had almost
(goddamn, last-minute-resistance) fucked on the Abireise.
Because of her I have a bad reputation on my school. She cried when I slept
with a different girl the next day. Well.. I figured if she cried she likes
me a lot, so I could give it a try and go for it again.
We watched ‘The Sentinel’
which is an ok movie, I guess, but not worth going to the cinema for.
After this I had to hurry on home and get my shit together for the
Abistreich because we were planning on spending the night at the school and
hide in the gym when the younger students and the teachers would arrive.
Part of the Abistreich is, of course, that only we knew the exact day it
was going to happen.
We met at 11 pm and had a little party on the schoolyard. There was plenty
of alcohol and all of us used this chance to get wasted.
This is what it looked like at about midnight (everyone was still pretty
sober):
Of course we had an seemingly infinite amount of sausages and beer in this
truck:
The schoolyard is connected to a backyard of some new snobbish apartment
buildings.
Throughout the night, the cops were called by residents of those buildings
repeatedly because they said it was too loud. The third times the police
warned us they said we would have to pay a 300-Euro fee in case they had to
show up yet another time.
Here’s a picture of a cop:
Luckily and sadly it started to rain at about that third time the cops
warned us, and we were forced to go inside.
I decided to get into my car while it was raining. It was there that I
fucked that other chick once more, and I don’t think it went unnoticed by
the chick I had dated that night. Shit. Do you think I still got a chance
with her?
Here’s my car and them apartment-buildings I was talking about.
When it started to get bright again (about 5am) we managed to break into
the main school-building which we had had no access to previously through a
left-open cellar window. It was then that we had the awesome idea to turn
the whole school into a piece of art.
We rearranged all the furniture and I actually managed to put some of the
tables on top of the cupboards.
This is the break room, turned into a genuine piece of art:
An hour later we realized that the surprise-effect would be lost this was,
so we put everything back into order. It sucked.
We also had to clean up the schoolyard because this would never have gone
unnoticed:
We also drove the cars off the schoolyard (damn how often am I gonna use
this word) which was a dangerous and irresponsible manoeuvre in our
drunk-ass condition. But nothing happened and there weren’t any other cars
on the streets at this time anyways.
After getting everything ready for the big surprise Abistreich, we walked
to Mc Donald’s for some breakfast.
This is me at that time (7 a.m.), totally wasted because we never stopped
drinking and tired as fuck.
At this point, my brand new digital camera stopped working for some reason.
It works again now. Strange shit.
I will continue this in my next journal as soon as I get the pictures my
friends have taken. The actual Abistreich was awesome. Sucks I don’t have
any pictures just yet.
This seems like the longest journal ever written by the way. Hope it wasn’t
too boring.
UPDATE:
After having slept a good nights sleep I do not remember much of the
Abistreich. It is all blurry and I do not know what happened in which
order.
Therefore I can't write another entry about it.
But HERE are the
pictures my friend took with his 1200-euro camera of the actual Abistreich
happening.
posted by haze on Wednesday 21st June 2006, 15:48:01
wow! that picture of you at the beach (w/o the hat) looks like this one kid
i know who got in a four wheeler accident and lost 2/3's of his
braincells and now he's retarded
its normal in germany..
school cant do much against it, because by then u already
graduated and its mostly the last time you visit that place.
normaly you get there in the evening, drink A LOT of beer, do
some strange shit to the school building (make a big mess
mostly). and in the next morning when the younger kids arrive,
there are several games including teachers and so on.
best thing is that everyone is drunken like hell :D
aren't drugs and alcohol and so forth illegal on
campus??? and shouldn't the building be locked so
people couldn't come in and steal things? i don't
understsand this..
Now I'm no saint but if you decided to try and make up with the one
girl who you fucked over and asked her out why go and fuck her over a
second time?
Thats a bit on the shit head side. If she has a brother he would be
entitled to try and kick your ass and don't be surprised if she fucks
up your car or something...
Rome + 1st Part of Abistreich
