INTEGRATED HUMANITIES TRIP 2010 TO GERMANY AND POLAND
PART 3: WHERE WE TURNED INTO CHILDREN AND ADULTS, AND WHERE FOOTBALL IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Where:
03 JUNE 2010, FRANKFURT – LIEPZIG – BERLIN
A DAY OF TRAVELLING, TRAVELLING AND MORE TRAVELLING
WHAT HAPPENED:
WOKE UP TO A FABULOUS BREAKFAST AT THE COURTYARD.
BEING THE FIRST DAY, WE WERE UP AND RUNNING LIKE EARLY. [WELL, KWANGMING AND I DID]
THEN WE PROCEEDED WITH OUR JOURNEY TO LEIPZIG, APPARENTLY THE CITY OF COMMERCE.
REACHED THERE AT NOON.
BEFORE REACHING THERE, LUSH GREEN SCENERY AND OVERLAPPING PATCHES OF GREENS FILLED THE SURROUNDINGS.
AND LOTS OF “SHOOTING STARS” - THIS IS DAMN COOL. IT'S LIKE THINGS FLYING DOWN FROM THE SKY AND SHOWING THE EXACT PATH OF HOW IT FELL.
THE WEATHER'S SO COLD IT COULD DO THAT!
WE STOPPED AT A PETROL KIOSK.
NORMAL ROUTINE BEHAVIOUR.
BUT THIS PETROL KIOSK WAS DIFFERENT.
THERE WAS A JACKPOT MACHINE, AND BEING SO WELL BEHAVED, WE DIDN'T TOUCH IT AT ALL.
WE JUST LEFT IT THERE, WHILE THE LIGHTS WERE SHINING AT US VIBRANTLY.
YA THAT'S WHAT WE DID. :P
ANYWAY, BEING SO INNOCENT AND WANTING TO SEARCH FOR OUR CHILDHOOD, WE WENT BEHIND, WHERE THIS PLAYGROUND GREETED US.
WITH SLIDES, THE SPINNING WHEEL, AND A FEW SPRINGY THINGYS.
AND WE JUST PLAYED WITH THEM FOR THE ENTIRE TIME (:
HAVE I MENTIONED THAT THE WEATHER THERE IS AWESOME?
SO MUCH BETTER THAN SINGAPORE'S.
OH AND ONE OBSERVATION I MADE.
THE TOILETS ARE KINDA INTERESTING.
EVERY TOILET HAS A MACHINE THAT DISPENSES WEIRD THINGS.
LIKE CONDOMS, …. (SHOULDN'T WRITE IT DOWN)
THEN UPON REACHING LEIPZIG, WE WENT TO FIND FOOOODDDD
'COS WE'RE ASIANS AND WE NEED NUTRITION TO GROW TO THE EUROPEAN'S HEIGHT.
FRIED FISH AND POTATOES WITH DESERT.
THE ALL ROUNDED NUTRITIOUS MEAL FULL OF PROTEINS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. (:
ANYWAY, NEXT TO IT IS THE MOST AWESOME STORY GLOBALLY.
MACDONALDS.
FINE, I WAS EXAGGERATING.
BUT YOU GET MY POINT RIGHT?
MAGNUM MCFLURRY.
BEAT THAT MAN, SINGAPORE'S MACDONALDS!
ANYWAY, WE CONTINUE EMBARKING ON OUR JOURNEY TO BERLIN.
BERLIN WAS QUITE FAR, AND BY THE TIME IT WAS ALREADY DINNER TIME.
DINNER: TOMATO SOUP, PORK CHOP (AGAIN.) AND GLUTINOUS RICE DESERT THAT TASTED GREAT!
THEN WE WENT TO OUR HOTEL AND CHECKED IN [MENINGER HOTEL]
WHICH WAS LIKE 4 PAX PER ROOM.
AND PROCEEDED TO THE TRAIN STATION NEARBY, WHERE WE TRIED BUYING TICKETS TO GO TO THE CITY AREA, BUT TO NO AVAIL.
AND WHEN WE ASKED, THEY SAID IT WOULD BE CLOSED, SO OH WELL, WE STAYED AT THE TRAIN STATION.
AND ATE ICE CREAM.
WHICH TASTED AWESOME BY THE WAY.
AND COSTED ON 2 BUCKS!
WE MET THIS BUNCH OF SWISS SCHOOLKIDS.
AND THE BUNCH OF THEM STARTED PLAYING SOCCER.
[OWNED BY THEM]
AND OH YA, DOGS ARE ALLOWED IN THE TRAIN STATION.
EPIC.
AND AT NIGHT: BRIDGE AND FREE INTERNET!
END OF A SHORT DAY IN BERLIN WHICH INCLUDED A DAY OF JUST PURE TRAVELLING.
GERMANS AND THEIR ICE CREAM MAKES ASIANS GO WILD.