A fancy dress carnival party on Saturday and a trip to the mountains today – a fun weekend! Yesterday the punk crowd exchanged their rivet leather jackets and combat trousers with Star Trek uniforms and pink tutus. They met for the “Maskenbal” in the club right under the place that I sleep in. Not the MP3 jukebox was playing the ever same tunes again and again, but a DJ. Karaoke all night, dear god, give me a break. The rest was business as usual: Many people dancing and pogoing until early in the morning, the music way too loud (aua, my ears are still sore) and much, much “Bambus”, a mix of cheap cola and cheap wine, brought in (multi)litre bottles from home. All in all I (dressed as a Buddhist monk collecting contributions – including black ombrella so the sun doesn’t burn my shaved head which is not shaved at the moment) had great fun. (Last night I decided to use a lot of brackets in future because they are very easy to read)
Today early in the morning, after 2 hours of sleep or so – no clue how I managed to get up on time, oh I set a cron job on my laptop to play an MP3, alarm clock broken – I was picked up by Barbara and three other people from Zelena Istra in order “to go to the snow”. The word snow sounded interesting enough to accept the invitation the night before without knowing what’s going to happen. We drove to the mountains near Rijeka some 60 km away and got off near a ski lift. Wow, I felt like being teleported to a different world: Many people in strange colourful space suits flying by over the ground without moving their feet! Others speeded around on loud, completely useless machines that look like big scooters but have chains instead of weels in the back and a pair of skis for steering. Man, haven’t been in a ski resort in ten years or so. We ignored all this and walked up to a peak 1500 metres high, enjoyed the view, passed life threatening icy steep rises, fell an laughed a lot and plumped back into the car completely knackered five hours later. Just beemed back to the mother ship. What a tour. Didn’t expect *that*!