Faux ball hockey

So I showed up Friday expecting to school the Germans at Canada's favourite past time: hockey. I was surprised to find that their version of ball hockey is actually indoor field hockey. Which was a bit disappointing, considering I shelled out 25€ for a stick. Although, it was also comprised of 65 percent women, which made it a little bit less devestating. Its a good game and it takes a bit of time to get used to stickhandling with one hand but other than that it was a good time.

Carving masters.

On Tuesday we had a bit of a carving contest at my place. Although its hard to say who won it was an interesting experience for Per, from Sweden who had never carved a pumpkin before.

Per, myself, Guy, Damien, Sarah and Linda.

Per, myself, Sarah (Jagermeister symbol done very well) and Guy.

Amsterdam

I got a call Thursday night from Jason and Eric, two other Canadians doing a co-op project around the Baden Wurttemburg area and they asked me if I wanted to go to Amsterdam for the weekend. We left Friday afternoon at 6 got in at into town around 1, parked the car and wandered around a bit. I didn't bring my camera out Friday night so all of the pictures are from Saturday and Sunday.

View of the canals in the down town area.

Canals and me.

Street shot.

Taking in the 'Heineken experience,' although the brewery tour had little to do with beer making, it was more of a 2 hour advertisment. At one point they had an interactive ride where you live the life of a Heineken beer bottle, very interesting.

What better way to describe Amsterdam?

I love this shot, I think Heineken should hire me for their marketing department.

Gotta love the Spock advertsment, very logical.

This is basically a brainwashing device where you watch the last 30 years of Heineken advertisments.

Again, please hire me.

This is a shot of the main pedestrain area of town at around 10 or so.

Taking photographs of the prostitutes is not encouraged, if the pimps see you doing it they have a tendency to heckle at you and probably throw mini bags of coke at you while hollaring 'hey Charlie!! Feck off!'

Another shot of me and the Quebec boys.

My favourite shot of the Red Light District.

Myself and Patrizia at some Irish Pub.

Sunday morning, never ask an Asian girl to take a picture of you. You ask for one and soon she is changing the angles, dictating poses and when you get your camera back you have over 3000 shots of the same thing.

On the Autobahn. Two minutes after getting back into Germany a motorcycle cop pulls in front of us, I told Jason to gun it because he can't do anything but then the lights come on and another cop pulls up from behind. Oh shit, what did we do? We pull over and they search us and the car (expecting to find some guns, drugs and/or dead prostitutes in the trunk I suspect.) Being the nice Canadians we are, we are more than happy to oblige to their requests. After about 15 minutes of us cracking jokes about taking off on them on the Autobahn and the cops not finding anything we were let go with a friendly 'auf Wiedersehen!'

Jesus and Bären Jäger

I dedicate this post to Alex, I have found the infamous Bären Jäger that your Opa is so fond of and I have another bottle here with your name on it. Please if anyone can give me aexplanationon as to what the hell is going on in this label I would appreciate it.

Close up.

Also, I welcome my new roommate Jesus from Spain to our apartment. We have a cleaning system here where everyone has a section of the counter for dirty dishes, Alex my roommate decided that it would be a good idea to use a visual aid to indicate his part of the table. Click on the picture for a better view.

On a side note classes finally begin next week and I'm off tAmsterdammn for the weekend with the boys from Georgian College.

Course registration

Having spent the last few weeks doing very little school related asides from the language course I am stuck with the tedious task of finding courses for this semester. This is turning out to be a far more difficult task than I had first expected, one thing Germany is not particularly famous for is their bureaucracy, not to mention their usefulness of the website. I decided to take a picture to demonstrate my frustrations.

Tubingen crew in Freiburg

This weekend the OBW crew from Tubingen came down for the weekend to get a taste of Freiburg. I think they were impressed the most by what Jake called the 'ambitious' hippies that live beside my residence. Had some good times and they are always welcome back.

Saturday we went for a hike up Schauinsland at 5pm and decided to walk down (on avg takes about 3-4 hours) not taking into consideration remaining daylight hours....

After 3 hours of face paced walking we emerged at the bottom. The don't call it the black forest for nothing, you literally can't see more than a few feet infront of you.

Snapped this shot at the bottom of the hill.

Inside the 13th century Müster in Freiburg.

This street performer was insane, juggling fire tipped sticks and knives on a unicycle. His lips also looked like Tyrone Biggums'. Although he was from Amsterdamn.



Holly and Siobhan.

Guy doing his Spiderman impersonation.

and again with his Elvis impersonation.

Breakfast the next day, what time does the clock say?

Vienna

We got into Vienna a bit late Sunday night and had to settle for a pension, which was twice as much as a hostel. Vienna was cool, I checked out a few museum, a Picasso display, the Freud Museum and at a Mozart Concert.



Dali's sketch of Freud.

Vienna Schloß, 1444 rooms.

St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Another church.

View from the gardens.

More Cesky

While waiting for our train we saw the coolest kid in all of Czech. He sported not one but two of the coolest haircuts from the last 20 years. First was a bowl cut, complimented by a foot long rat tail that started 2 inches below the bowl line. Topped off with a pair of camo pants and he was good to go climb a tree. All the while his dog tried to eat him :)

Inside a really cool tea house. I also found out my camera has a long shutter function.

We climbed into what seem like an old soviet camp or something, complete with tank deterrants, barb wire and a massive courtyard.

Another set of Hostel II.

Cesky Krumlov

After Prague we checked out a small town in south Bohemia Cesky Krumlov. The town was very cool and old with a river running through the heart of the town. Hostel II was actually being filmed while we were here but they rufused to let us be extras... their loss.

Bike tour with Alex, Kim, Rene and Craig. A few minutes later Alex bit the dirt and had to get 10 stitches in her chin, nothing better than bleeding everyone in the back countries of Czech. I'm glad to report she survived.

At the travellers hostel. Playing another game of sloppy, the Aussies can't get enough of the game now.

Shot of Absinth.

Pool games, Rene and I made a miraculous comeback against two Aussie pool sharks. It was all in the cue though I think.

Time of pass out: 4:44 Friday afternoon, weapon beer and Czech moonshine.

This fine lady was a cook at the restaurant where they were shooting Hostel II. We came by the next day to have a beer and the entire staff was pissed and insisted that we have a couple of shots with them before we could order our beers, which we did. Hollywood must have cut them a good check for scene.

This is the last bits left from the set of Hostel II.

A view from the river.



attack of the tourists, which if you ask me is more scary than Hostel.