Let’s forget and Lest we forget

„Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future“ - Willy Brandt, 1971

Today is the 9th of November 2014, the day on which 25 years ago the Berlin Wall came down.

Today is the 9th of November 2014, the day Britain is building a wall between itself and Europe more than ever.

„We won’t mention the War“ - You already did

Holy Guacamole! It’s already four months since I left Germany and moved to Britain. During my adjustment and settle-in time, I was shaken up on a regular basis by questions lovely English people asked me. It’s a pretty sad list. But at least they are interested, right?

I'm too young for Worthing

I couldn't be happier not to live in Worthing. Or as someone told me "People move to Worthing to die". 

pre and post Brighton Pride brainwaves

What a Pride this was! My little Kiez turned into little Kreuzberg with people dancing to techno on the streets and beer was sold in front of off licenses. Just a few more gimps on the street, but all in all a new Brighton-Berlin similarity that I can tell of when people ask me why I moved from Berlin to Brighton (people will never stop asking). 

Bound 2 or the Internet of things

I looked for some things on the tinternet for you. A pure description of narcisstic Western society feat. Kanye West (no narcissism without Kanye!). This is us in a week's nutshell:

Monday's madness: Yep. I got it. Did you?

Beitrag von The guy who writes the headlines at 'The Argus'.

It’s the Wohnungsnotstand, stupid

This is the odyssey about how we ended up paying quadruple rent.

First of all, we couldn’t get rid of our flat in Berlin. 

We decided to move to Britain. As I got a job that started in the beginning of June, we had to cancel the rental contract. There’s a three-month cancellation period before we could get out of it. But we had to move in two months, that’s why we had to search for someone new ourselves who would be ok with paying 30% higher rent (Wohnungsnotstand*, stupid!), take our white goods and move in in June.

BUT THIS DID NOT HAPPEN.

The Empire Strikes Back

I moved from Berlin to England (again). This is how it happened:

Putting Merkel and New Order together

...in a blog post. Sounds maniacal, but - oh yes - I have Listomania! My handpicked list for calendar week 9 of the year 2014.

My encounter with Ukrainian police cadets and Lenin statues

I’m sitting here, two different live streams open. Watching the twitter feed and clicking on live blogs. I’m thinking about Ukraine and recalling my experiences with people there. My mind recalls especially one specific encounter. 

Hats off Ellen, bye bye Friedrich!

Holy Macaroni, what a week this was!

Here are my favourite bits from the interwebs. My week and maybe a tiny weeny bit of your week in a nutshell. A special message from me to one person who had to leave the public interest: Don't be sad Hans-Peter, a multi-national company will hire you. And Seehofer will take care of you in your warm CSU nest. Ok, enough said. Here we go:

How to do a German accent

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„You may want to do this because you’re in a play or want to impress your friends“ 

Yes, these are convincing reasons to do a German accent whilst speaking English. I, for example, do that all the time. But I have to work on that because people keep on asking me where I come from when I’m speaking English.

Thinking of moving to another country? Move to another planet!

In an earlier post I whinged about my constant thoughts of moving away from Berlin. Away means for me to another country. But what did I dare to whinge! There are 200.000 people who want to leave mother earth. Forever. And ever ever.