Yeah! To prove that my German lessons are kind of working, I have set up a new approach. I decided than I will learn crazy difficult words and I will actually put in practice. So the effort to learn them will be worth Sounds Reasonable, right?

Yeah! To prove that my German lessons are kind of working, I have set up a new approach. I decided than I will learn crazy difficult words and I will actually put in practice. So the effort to learn them will be worth
Sounds Reasonable, right?

So, as a first test, on thursday I have learnt this new verb, schlittschuhlaufen.., and on Saturday I went to apply.  And, guess what… I went ice-skating!
As last year, we went to the Olympia-Park and had a fun with friends, trying to falling and dancing on the ice. I should point out that we where almost girls, ’cause the men where scared to hurt themselves… Shame on them, eheheh

Oh, bye the way, I had almost forgot to explain you the  etymology of the verb (lucky you that I remembered, eh?). It’s easily explained. “Schlitt” means sliding, “Schuhe” means shoes, and “laufen” is running… Ingeniuous!

That one of the examples of why I am starting to love German, actually!!!

tschüß

Spain, I am coming.
Ah, the harsh job of an astronomer…wake up one morning and discover that in two weeks you have to flight to Spain, for an observing run  at a new telescope… What could you say, when they are going to pay you the flights,  the staying, and it’s a good chance for your job to learn something new, to get involved in a new project? What could you say, besides…

” My luggage is ready, when does the plane take off? “

So, just a quick look at Google Map:

to discover that the telescope is close to Granada [where I am staying a day as a tourist: wouldn't you me to be back in Munich on a Saturday night, right?!] .

Then a check at the official website to read that ” the 30-meter telescope on Pico Veleta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada is one of the two radio astronomy facilities operated by IRAM. Built in only four years (1980 to 1984) at an elevation of 2850 meters, it is one of today’s largest and most sensitive radio telescopes for tracing millimeter waves”.

A look at the pictures gallery [Preview to the pictures I will take]

And in two weeks ready to leave!

you’ll get  a cake if you are lucky

Today was the tipical bavarian day. If it wasn’t middle Oktober!
Cold, grim, snowy… c’mon! Where is autumn?

Wondering why there are not half seasons anymore – and I am sorry if that sounds  like a conversation between embarrassed neighbors but it’s nothing that the true – I remembered that ONLY last weekend was almost summer and I had a nice solo trip by bike.

It was the other kind of typical bavarian day: sunny, the sky blue crossed by small soft white clouds…I even took pictures, impressed by the smooth autumnal weather (Oh, If I had known!) …
I feel I have to publish them, I feel I have to do this for all the Europeans who are dealing with the sudden winter and are not mentally prepared and need some summer-which-was reminder..

It was a beautiful sunday, so I picked up my bike and went riding to one of the small lakes near my town.

It was just perfect, music in my hears, sun on my skin, warm around, a blow of wind, enough for moving the grass. Peaceful with the world…

For the last weekend, Oh If I had know!!!

My sister has arrived! Here some pictures
(end explanations soon..)

Nymphemburg Schloss

Today pictures from the conference we had in Italy in July arrived.
So let’s play: find a Silvia (and a Michi) in the picture [too big for this post..]

Big prices for people who guess… (even if it’s pretty easy..)

Yep! Since is September, in Munich the Oktoberfest has begun this weekend..
It is going to last for the next three weeks, which means that for the next 20 days you cannot take the Ubahn (underground) from 7 pm to 12 pm because crazy, drunk, German thousands of people move around Munich!
But if that is the bad part, what is actually cool is that German people really feel the Oktberfest is a kind of national event to be proud of, and for three weeks you see men and women, children and teenagers, couple of grandparents walking in the traditional Bavarian outfit!

You see men going to work wearing the short leather trousers, with braces. Often, you have to turn your face not to smile in front of someone who so proud of his German origin [but, to be honest, sometimes also worths just to have a more careful look at.. ].
And you see women wearing the dirndl, the female dress, for taking their children at school, or go to the shop, or stay in an office.

Actually, the female dress is pretty nice, so nice that yesterday Irina and I were around for shopping, saw a window full of colorful dirndl and couldn’t resist! We didn’t buy one, do not worry!, but we HAD to enter, try and take pictures!

Do we look like real  Munich girls? I guess so… but before judge, please, have a look at this video. You have to, especially if you are in a bad mood or you are feeling stupid…
Hope it is going to help* : I love Bavaria

*you’ll also understand why I made these pictures so kitsch…

by Robert Louis Stevenson

paint by Alphonse Mucha

Sorry, I am becaming as annoing as a spam chain with my posts about my new place…but I am so happy about it (the flat, I mean)!
And atually, since at the end I love you a bit, I am going to compress two posts in one. Happy?

First celebration.
A week-day evening. After work you cook, eat, maybe wash your clothes or iron them, say hello to parents and friends on skype, you w.. (work??? no, not work) .. and then you are ready to enjoy all the earned (with the pretended work  we were speaking about ) comforts  in the flat. A good film, a puppet, and the best configuration ever created for that: The Ikea sofa!

Cleo! THAT was MY place on the sofa!

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Second celebration

I was so proud of my new flat, that I had the arrogance of having a
warm-up party there this sunday.
First, I invited a carefully selected bunch of friends. In an 18 sq.mt room (including furniture), 17 people had a lot of fun! We were the perfect numbers, in fact the space pro person was much bigger then the one I had in the NY party.
And if they do in that way, we can do better!

Second, I spent SOME time cooking for my guests. The menu was set by the Fabello’s team (my mother, well-known in Monza for her cakes, gave me some recipes, and my father, a refined cook, suggested the main dishes*) and then I put my ability and my love in cooking.
Indeed, some of my old friends in italy complained because it happened that I had never prepared such an awesome dinner for them!

At the end, everyone agreed in saying that the party was a big success! And they DIDN’T say that just because I was there! So, looking forward for the next one.

* Yep, I am trying to buy my parents services with flattery.

** The food was really good, and (hopefully) everyone was fine after the party. But it happened that my fridge is broken, and today I decided to finish same shrimps-pasta left, after three days…
I spent the afternoon in bed, food poisoned by myself! :p

Cheers

Here we are! After a strenuous (thanks Drew for this new word ) week of trips to the Ikea & co shops, for taking measures, choosing, buying, returning*, building furniture, my flat is almost done!
I am very proud, and a special mention goes to my parents [here in the picture] who came and help me, with indomitable courage, even sacrificing their own health to create a beautiful flat…

Home

*sometimes you think you are living in the neverending Story, when you buy a table, arrive at home, open it and discover is broken. So you go back to the shop, but that model is runned out; you choose another one, bring at home, open it but you discover the screws are missing. So you go back to the shop…