My Christmas holidays were spent at my parents house and we had a lovely time. Good food & conversations. It was relaxing although I had to do some studies over the holidays.
The 30th of December Claudia and I went to Hamburg to watch 'Australia' in an english cinema. It was so good to be in an actual city again. Wismar is nice but still small. We walked over the sweet Christmas market at the Hamburger Alster and got some Starbucks Coffee before we watched the movie in the cozy cinema.
New years was celebrated together with Claudia, Melli and Claudia's brother Alex as well as Sebastian (Campus open air, Wismar) and loads of friends of Alex' down in a party basement in Bargteheide. We had loads of food before the party and played some PS2 'BUZZ'. So funny. I think we were 8 people battleing against each other. Hilarious!!! During the party I had, again, a couple of drinks too much so the party ended for me at 2am or so. But it was so funny. We had a the annual firework at 0.00am and enjoyed it all together.
On my birthday one day later, I went shopping with Melli in Hamburg 'AEZ', the bigggest mall around. We spent some money on clothes, of course, and had a real good time together. Later the day my family cooked a delicious dinner for me. My brother and his wife came by, Lu (Günni's youngest daughter) did the potatoes, my Mum and Günni cooked the chicken and veggies. It was nice to have them all around me. These moments are definitely too rare at the moment.
Eventually Kay, Melli and Claudia hopped in later this evening. They got me presents, except for Melli who told me she first has to assemble it (I had no idea what she was preparing). Kay got me a lonely planet for NZ and Claudia, with help from Kay and Ralf, got me an A3 drawing board (as a becoming architect I should own one).
Back in Wismar, reality chrashed back into my life. . . .
I had so much stuff to prepare and to work on, so in the end Claudia and I decided to skip the first semester compulsory exam. We made a deal with the professors which ended so that we also have to do a design projekt out of the compulsory task, which is alright for me 'cause I wanted to do that anyways.
For the third semester a broschure has to be made and handed in. I got this finished and made the oral exam with a pretty good mark. So the third semester can be officially named as finished.
Normally the semester would have ended for the course at the end of January, but exam dates were moved to the first week of February as well as deadlines for handing in the broschures. So that criss-crossed Claudia's and my plans having a semester end celebration on Thusday the 29th. We did it anyway.
So on Thursday morning we first helped our friend Sasha, she's from NZ, with the contract of her new flat and headed then to Hamburg.
In Hamburg we checked in in the 'Hotel Hafen Hamburg' located at the 'Landungsbrücken'. The reason we choose a pretty expensive hotel was that Günni is working there and we were able to get a private hotel tour through both hotels (Empire Riverside Hotel by David Chipperfield) and we didn't wanted to get back home in the last train after the concert of David Garrett.
So we arrived in the hotel and got to our room. At this point Günni came by the room and told us that the wine on the table as well as the water and fruit basket are for us! Nice!!
He organized us the missing bath robe and got us a tour to the famous Tower bar. Our room were in the tower as well so we had a pretty nice view over the Alster.
Tower Bar second level
Up in the bar we were told that we are invited to some cocktails after the concert. So we only have to pop in and a table will be reserved for us . . . dream . . .!!!!
Back in the room, bath robes are hanging, warm, next to the bathroom, we got ready for the concert. Proseco was opened to get in party mood and we had so much distraction that we could easily relax from the studies!!! The whole weekend I wasn't thinking about Wismar and all the stuff that is waiting for me on my desk.
We arrived at the Color Line Arena around 7.30pm. On our seats, drinking some Coke we waited for the show to start. Wow, with a song from 'Pirates of the Carribean' David Garrett came into the arena from a side entrance. The concert was indescribable beautiful. Have you ever heard Thunderstruck by ACDC on a violin accompanied by a rock band and a symphony orchestra?? (video from HH concert)
After arriving back at the hotel, smiling all the way, we got ready for the tower bar. We opened the wine and had a glass. At 1:20am Dirk, the maitre d' welcomed us: Hello, you must be Conny Nitsche, how was the concert?
Me: (must have my mouth stay open in totally disbelief) Yes, yes that's me. The concert was great thank you.
Dirk: We served a table for you up in the
second floor, is this alright for you? You do smoke don't you? (smoking is allowed upstairs)
Me: Yep, that's very kind of you, thanks very much!
We got to our table and had a stunning view over Hamburg! Cocktails were served and we had so much fun!!!
After the second cocktail, last order was given and we got down to thank the staff and headed down to our room.The wine was emptied and at 3:40am or so we fall into the bed.
At 9:30am Günni called and asked if we wanna have our breakfast served in the room???? Disbelief again in my mind, but no thank you we'll come down to eat. Can you imagine how we felt? In German you'd say 'gebauchpinselt' which means to fell flattered. And that was the constant feeling we had the last 24 hours. Günni told us that we're also invited for the 20,- eur expensive breakfast! Bam again.
Down in the Piano Bar a woman came to us, Good morning are you Conny Nitsche? We are waiting for you, let me show you your table and can I get a cup of coffee for you? Feel free to take what you want from the buffet.
Me+Claudia: THANKS!!!
After breakfast our hotel tours started. First we had a look at the Hotel Hafen Hamburg which is a building ground mostly. Pretty interesting and I could see the two rooms I was designing a couple of month ago. They look great.
1 hour later we drove to the second Hotel. The Empire Riverside. It was finished last year and is a pretty modern one. We went to the upper floor where the 'twenty up' bar is located. In the mens room they can look over Hamburg during . . .
We had a look into some rooms and got down into the lobby. There it happens that Claudia and I became teens again.
Nobody else then David Garrett was sitting there before us in a couch giving some interviews. Yep, we got to him and asked for an autograph. What else would you do? The highlight of the last 24 hours!!
The tour continued. We've been on the roof top, seen the heart of a hotel (technical equipment) and everything else what is neccessary to run a hotel this size.
At about 3pm we hopped into the train back to Ahrensburg and Claudia brought me to my parents house were I spent the weekend.
See, I told you I would write when something interesting is happening.
Hope you reached to the end, this is a long blog but you made it :)
Cheers
PS: Mellis gift for me was a self made dreamcatcher!!!!! Its beautiful and I was thrilled when I saw it. Thank you sweety!!
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