Sunday morning…it’s Fasching (Carnival) right now. Yesterday in Romerplatz (100 m from here) they were singing German songs (probably about beer) and wearing funny costumes…I wake up this morning and I see there there are 3 ambulances down below my balcony with about 20 paramedics just milling about…I’m guessing they’re there for the drunk people that will be showing up soon…I’ve heard stories of people waking up drunk in a park somewhere during this time…unfortunately for them it’s often cold in February here so they may be frostbitten…The story came from a paramedic originally so it must be true.

The weather here is beautiful right now…I was here last February and it was about -5C with 100kmph wind gusts…(sorry for making people in the states do math right now).
The sun is shining and I have my door open at 9:30am.
There will be a parade today somewhere around here….I see old women wearing cat ears, and lots of guys in pirate costumes….

I love this country!!!!

Update….there’s now about 50 paramedics and 12 ambulances….it’s almost 11am.
The ambulances are parked where the Asian tourist buses normally park……

12PM….
Ambulances are still there, but paramedics seemed to have dissipated…Cops have started arriving now as well….I do like German cops they seem to not be so serious all the time…They actually will talk to you and will have a laugh with the drunk people…
There are random people in costumes carrying around stereos and dancing….There are random cars/vans driving down the street with loudspeakers playing dance music….The church bells are ringing right now….Catholic holidays rock….every drunken festival in Germany is celebrating something to do with a church or religion….

A bonus entry…thanks Matt

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather than
German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-
year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in
favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have
one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond
year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make
words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag
is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vordskontaining
“ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in
ze forst plas.

English is a Germanic language.
Speaking German in pig latin is fun!