nice but there is a 'but'

ladies and gentlemen, here comes tübingen.

cute, small, rainy, fucking ordentlich - ok, maybe I'm just freaking pissed off coz I was given a ticket today for riding a bike in a Füßgängerzone which went for about 50 meters!!! 50 bloody meters where you have to get off your bike only to hop back on it after a 40-second walk, agghhhrrrr, that was frustrating.
other than that - the city is unbelievably pretty, it's actually quite hard for us Poles to even imagine that, it's as if the whole city looked like Warsaw's old town. ok, for Brazilians or Australians it's another story - I reckon they are amazed but in a way I was amazed by India - it's so totally different, it's so old, and clean, and cute that it escapes any comparison. but for me it's a problem, coz I know many of our towns and cities used to look like that - not like that - here I mean the history and the atmosphere behind it, but some how after the war we couldn't bring them back to life and there we are left with a handful of historic buildings here and there, and the rest are communist leftovers.

deutschland

11.09.2008 my first day in Tübingen.
people, older people hold hands when walking down the street
for the first time in my life i live in the city center
in the historic city center, I should add
it's nice and clean (me), and safe (friends from Chile and Brazil)
except for one bus driver who said to a guy sitting next to me: weź diese kartony bo nic nie widać, nice nice, I’m sorry but it’s our bloody stereotype coming true, aghhhhh
oh, one more thing – when a hausmeister was giving me keys I had to sign that I have a chair, a bed, a sheet, a blanket, and all this good stuff, I also have three keys and one key ring – I couldn’t hold it any longer and had to burst out laughing at this one ;)
other than that – you can’t pay with a card in Plus and I think I’m gonna like it
oh, and I haven’t spoken a word of English yet!!! I’m so proud of myself, we’ll see how long I can go with it ;)
tschüss!

not-mine-anymore lukow

a little bit of catching up to do on Lukow

on Lukow that I don't recognize any longer, or no, not 'don't recognize' but rather lukow that I can't make out any longer, what keeps people there, why they don't mind those ugly, really ugly new mini-shopping centers, why they buy those shitty clothes, why they can't be bothered to do something with their neighborhoods, agghhrr, no point worrying about it, i'm in tubingen now, ready to immerse myself in a german smiling sauce of happy people, cute little shops, and students from all over the world