Over the weekend I visited one of my friends in Hamburg - a popular city in the North of Deutschland. Quite inspiringly, my friend Eva lives and pays there everything by herself. She attends some kind of webdesign private school that she pays off, first by working in a bar in Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn, and now being hired by an actual agency. Since her parents pay none of it, a girl that used to party every weekend like all of my other old german friends turned into a modest full-time worker who knows her values.
She showed me the bay in Frankurt which, frankly saying, is by no means pretty - though Hamburg itself is a neat city....for German standards. The older I get, and the more I see of this country, the more I appreciate Germany's beauty in its agricultural landscapes and quality of living rather than trying to discover some urban qualities that would attract people of my age. We also visited mentioned Reeperbahn - a place where hotels hold the paradox signs "Rooms for free" and also "From 30€ onwards" and shops are titled "Sex paradise" - so basically, where German prostitutes make most of their living. I felt awkward and disturbed at once walking through this "paradise of sex". I kept thinking about how sad it is that women could find themselves in situations where they are forced to lose their values like this and allow lustrous men to abuse them like that.
Two highlights of my trip was seing the musical of Disney's Lion King and walking through a MiniaturWunderland, where I felt like Gulliver in Lilliput, taking a million pictures to document this miracle. The musical was formidable! It consistet of colourful costumes, wild dancing, epic puppets, and african singing that would would raise a nostalgic feeling in me. It was an amazing show - though in German. The performers were mostly Afro-american or original Africans, which made their voices evidently beautiful, deep and strong.
Your Dilly
