Whew, it's been quite a week! My borrowed internet signal has been cooperating less and less, so I'm being forced to ration my internet usage significantly to what I can get done on the shared computer at the archive and coming to this weird café to use their free wireless. I apologize to everyone who hasn't gotten a returned e-mail from me lately as a result! So I'm going to post all the pictures I've taken in the last week or so that I haven't had a chance to post already.
First up, some random events I saw happening last weekend. I went out shopping like normal on Saturday, and when I came home I saw this:
A fashion show from the shop in the building next door to mine. Their clothes are really nice - what I would wear if I was 40 and had $600 to drop on a skirt. The woman in the white jacket is one of the models. It was pretty funny to stumble upon! Here's a view from my window:
This time it's the woman in black who's modeling. There were two shows, and I got to witness both, luckily. What amuses me to no end is hearing American pop music being played at events like this. I noticed it in a store the other day too. Everything just goes along as anonymous Europop and then bam! I hear some English and I have to keep myself from laughing.
The next day I walked down to the Marktplatz, which is usually quiet on Sundays, but there was a special event going on. I'm not sure what it was, but it had something to do with children (based on the sign) and something to do with Islam. At one point there were Arabic/Persian/Middle Eastern (pardon my ignorance) rappers with an audience mainly consisting of Middle Eastern families and bemused tourists.
I looked around for some tasty food to buy in the accompanying market that was set up, but nothing looked promising. Yesterday I saw a similar event, but that one had something to do with Cuba and I had forgotten to take my camera with me.
Also last weekend was the running club party! I went to help make what turned out to be massive amounts of food that was barely eaten and used it as an excuse to take some pictures of where the running club is located. First off, to get there I have to walk down this hill:
Which isn't that big a deal, except after running for however long, I then have to walk back up it:
I hate that damn hill.
Then, at the end, I need to walk down this flight of stairs - also not too bad, until after the run, when I have to walk back up.
It's hard to see because of all the greenery and the glare, but it is an enormous staircase. That landing on the right side is really only about the halfway point. Sometimes we start our runs by walking up those stairs, and then we all bitch about it. Or in British terms, we "whinge" about it.
The club itself is located inside one of the pillars of a bridge:
Our friend of the "porno" tag strikes again! It's not a bad place to start a run, that's for sure.
Also last weekend, I went to the Dollhouse Museum, which was awesome.
They have a special wedding exhibit going right now, which was kind of cool. It had nothing to do with dollhouses, but it was fun to see all the old dresses they had, and especially all the pictures of people getting married ca. 1900. Plus, the displays of all the miniature things were really impressive. My favorite was the row of miniature stores, with different ones filled with tiny shoes, or loaves of bread, or pastries or whatever. It was awesome.
This weekend has been much less exciting. It's been raining the whole weekend, so I haven't really done much. Plus, yesterday was a holiday, so nothing was open. So much for my weekly food shopping! On the plus side, I've actually worked on my dissertation a little, so that's something...
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