Day 2 2/13/11
Woke up at 10, ate some bread really quick, then made our way down on our bikes to Andres indoor field hockey match. I sat awkwardly at the top of the bleachers, next to his mother for a bit. Starting to realize even more that I literally am unable to communicate with this lady who’s so nicely housing me. I really gotta learn some more German so I can actually show who I am. She moved down the bottom of the bleachers and started taking thousands of pictures with her tripod an camera. The game started and HOLY SHIT. It was fuckin crazy, everyone in the crowd and on the court were soooo into it, I couldn’t help but get Into myself. It was so interesting and entertaining. The game is sooo dangerous the way that they play it compared to US womens field hockey. There’s no age limit on teams or anything so andre was playing like 30 year olds, which is odd I felt. They ended up losing 5 to 4, it was a good game though. Then we rode back to the schlösskeller. To see if his Friends were cleanin the place up and they were. The place smelt like SHIT and was covered head to toe in beer. The floor was soo sticky and the bathrooms were all ruined, total mess. We helped a little bit then went and got cigarettes for me, using his friends ID. Because over here, it’s a vending machine… You swipe your ID then insert your money, all packs 5$, choose your pack then get it the same way you would a vending machine. We went home, I slept for 2 hours while andre went out and went to his meeting. We drove into town for the first time. We got dinner and then drove up to this watch tower that you can see from standing anywhere in the town. It’s on a huge hill. It’s a midevil watch tower. We drove up there and walked up the spiral stair case to get to the top of this tower. It was a birch to walk up. We got to the top and it was beautiful. We could literally see the whole city scape of all the towns surrounding it. Then, as an attraction next to it, they have a mini zoo. With like 4 tigers, HUGE tigers. 1 was a white tiger too, they were soo cool. Then we drove down and he brought me to this place where he likes to go with his friends. It was at the top of this huge crop field that you can drive up, no one really knows about it he said. We had an even better view from there. We sat on the hood of his car and just took deep breaths of the air. Like me, andre loves fresh air. So we just enjoyed the view and relaxed for a few. He was tired so he wanted to go home, so now were home and I’m gonna try and learn some German on Rosetta stone which I torrented off the Internet. School tomorrow should be interesting.
The plane ride was shorter than expected due to the wind. I slept for a good amount of the plane ride and was actually fucked up off of the amount of medication I took for my cold. Not bad, but I definitely felt something. Then andre came and picked me up about 20 minutes late from the airport. He forgot to pay for his parking ticket, then had to back up and go over and pay for it, but he scraped the side of his car while he was backing out. We drove home and the scenery was nice. His town is a reasonable size, But it’s kinda the same idea as Italy; without all of the enormous architecture. All of the buildings are made of brick and stone and are very close together. The streets are more like pathways; one way streets. I think I like the setting a little bit more than suburbia.
We got to his house and it is really nice, it’s average size and cozy. Spiral stair case, big screen tv, 15x15 backyard. We sat down for breakfast, me andre and his mom. I look like a complete fool because I really don’t know German very well. I really wish I did too. I wish I could interact with everyone and show them the kind of person I am, but I can’t. I have to just smile and nod my head to everything and say “ja” or “nein” and occasionally sneak in a few broken sentences with German in it. Went upstairs and slept for a little bit, still trying to fight off this really bad cold, sore throat and sinus infection. It really sucks actually. But when andre came in to try and wake me up, I could barely wake up. After 3 times with him coming in, I finally woke up, to sit awkwardly at the table again for lunch. This time with his father, brother and 3 of his brothers included. I don’t think I said much of anything. We ate this seasoned meat, kinda like seasoned chicken, in small strips. With white rice. And bread. All the time bread. Bread bread bread. It’s good bread though.
Then we went into his music room. He owns like 4 apartments that are all connected together, 1 is vacant right now and the others have people living in it. When you walk out trough his garage into his backyard, he has this finished off garage type thing with a wood burning stove in it with a computer desk, his dj mixer, couple different lights set up around the room in different colors. And like 6 speakers spread out through this little music room that he has. I kept a fire going as he put the final touches on his techno mix that he was releasing at the party that we were going to. It was two of his friends birthdays and they rented out the basement of a castle. It was called Schlösskettle. We rode our bikes down to the place, checked it out with his friends at like 5 o’clock. I loved riding bikes to this place, it was so nice just bombing down hills and corners of these small streets. It felt so surreal. Then we set up all the stuff in the room, EQ’d the sound quality of the room with everything in it and went back to the house to rest up for the long night. We got food really quick before we went to the schlösskeller. Andre is obsessed with this stuffed bread wrap thing called a döner. I got a cheese pizza, except it sucked. I didn’t say anything though, it’s just different culture. It was thin pizza, no sauce, JUST TOMATOE SKINS LIKE YOU GET IN PAPA GINOS PIZZA WHICH I HATE, then different garlic and cheese. Showed up at the party with all these crazy lights and music blasting, nobody there though. Like 4 friends just sitting in this empty place. I awkwardly sat with them and didn’t say a word cause andre was setting up all his shit on the stage. They gave me a beer and it really wasn’t that good, surprisingly. It was a cheap beer though. Very cheap. 4€ for a case of 44 beers. That’s like 7$ for 44 beers. I went up and sat with andre, then Connor Horgan walked in with his German student. Never really talked to Connor, but I’d never been so glad to see someone who could speak English and relate. He is fucking hilarious, honestly, one of the funniest mother fuckers I’ve ever met. For someone who has a horrible life because of some special conditions that he has with his back, im surprised he doesn’t have a shitload of friends. He literally has the same exact vulgar/crude humor that I have and we literally shot the shit ALL fuckin night. We drank lemonade mixed with wine. We filled our cups 3/4 wine 1/4 lemonade. UNBELIEVABLE. seriously. Andre and Peter didn’t acknowledge us the whole night which was fine cause we were just eatin up the humor of this whole ordeal we were in. The ordeal was that when more and more people began to come flooding in. And Connor and I awkwardly stood as “the door people” at the party, by the snack bar, eating pretzels as comfort food as we died laughing at everyone thinking “who the fuck are these kids?” as they first walked by us to enter the actual party. We just stood out sooooooooo bad, it was sooo funny. I started getting pretty drunk after my second cup, then 3, then my 4th, I was hammered. Still just shootin the shit this kid for hours, started getting personal at some parts of convos too, it was very surprising how chill this kid was. I wanted to head home though, so I got andre to walk me back his place then I skyped Sav and passed out.
I just searched what my name meant on urban dictionary and I guess this is what I mean or the definition of my name is..
Kevin
An amazing guy who is so funny, and wonderful. Someone who can brighten anyone’s day no matter how sad they are. He’s sweet, and handsome. He can be sarcastic but he gets it from me, well some of it. He gets scared of nonscary things, and he has an amazing sense of style with wicked hair to accompany it. His smile is adorable, and his laugh is too. He smells like heaven, even though I don’t know the exact name of the cologne he uses. I can pretty much say that I’m in love with this guy, entirely. His name means more to me than it would to anyone else, and I’m pretty sure of that.
I just searched what my name meant on urban dictionary and I guess this is what I mean or the definition of my name is..
Kevin
An amazing guy who is so funny, and wonderful. Someone who can brighten anyone’s day no matter how sad they are. He’s sweet, and handsome. He can be sarcastic but he gets it from me, well some of it. He gets scared of nonscary things, and he has an amazing sense of style with wicked hair to accompany it. His smile is adorable, and his laugh is too. He smells like heaven, even though I don’t know the exact name of the cologne he uses. I can pretty much say that I’m in love with this guy, entirely. His name means more to me than it would to anyone else, and I’m pretty sure of that.
Well. I need to start using this again. And I am going too. I realized I function a lot better through life while using this, I don’t know how. But, there is definitely a distinct difference when I don’t.
Things lately have been well, I have been practicing a lot with Remainder, played a show that went well, and recording not this upcoming Saturday, but the next Saturday. We are producing the whole thing in my studio, and it’s hands down the best music I’ve ever played with a band. I’m really excited hear peoples reactions.
I am ranked 247 in my class, congradulations Kevin. (there’s 280)
(that’s bad if you still didn’t get it)
I’ve been hanging out with Alicia and ang and just the normal crew lately.
I saw 2 deer tonight with Alicia, we went down this very dark, tight width, middle of nowhere, long road that led us to a clearing with 2 houses at the end, I had my highbeams on and there they were, 2 huge female deer. It was beautiful. Not to mention we were blasting blink 182 the whole ride. Which made things 10x better of course.
It’s 1:11AM and I am unable to sleep, What do ya know?
Goodnight.
I got my license today :)
