Dead baby jokes and a roll in the hay with the boys, ja?

[kindigo]

What we did:
We went to a Gästhaus that was built in the Middle Ages (HOW EFFING COOL IS THAT? EFFING COOL!) Seriously, it was sweet. It looked so old and cool and great and old. And cool.
And we really did go for a roll in the hay with the boys: we were all sleeping in the hayloft of the barn, middle-ages style. It was fricken cool. and also cold. But soooo fun. And we went on one of those ropes courses, things, you know like you put on a harness and then clamber through the wires and jump and swing through the trees like an elf monkey? Yeah, I'm sore. But I completed ALL of it. And impressed the Germans. Probably because they thought Americans are lazy (we all finished it, thx.) And then we went to Mödlareuth where there is a museum from the days of the German-German border. It was awful how they kept East Germans away from the wall...And I understand the Berlin Wall so much better now. There's a museum in Mödlareuth (which is called 'Little Berlin') because it'S a town of fifty people (read it, FIFTY. Follow that link and scroll down to the second picture- that's the WHOLE town (without the museum).)

And they built a concrete wall right through the middle of it.

There's a story of two brothers split by that wall, where what once was a minute's walk and a hop over a tiiiiny creek, in order for the East German brother to visit the West (vice versa was not allowed), it took a six hour train-and-bus journey. One minute.

I hopped over the little creek, and I touched the East side of the piece of wall still standing. And it was really humbling, how easy it was for me, and how impossible it was to East Germans for 24 years.

As a side note, George Bush, Sr. visited Mödlareuth while VP under Reagan =D It's romored that, instead of Kennedy's „Ich bin ein Berliner“ (as the tour guide translated, I am a jelly donut), Bush said „Ich bin ein Mödlareuther“. They seem pretty proud of this.



Yeah, Little Berlin. If you have any questions about the German-German border...Well that's what comments are for!



The Inbounds:
Tim, from ChicAHgo, we call Cameron because he looks like Cameron from Ferris Beuller's Day Off. (I We kept singing 'Let my Cameron...gooo..' Which I could do because for some reason my voice dropped an octave this weekend...and now it's dying...) And Cory aus Alaska is hot and looks like Peter Pan from Hook only with dark hair. And he's hot. Unfortunately they and Kaity (-_-;;) from Indiana all kept talking about drinking games and all that typical crap, ugh. But Steph the Aussie and Laura aus Finland were also cool (the Fins and I were *not* dancing like the crazy Latinos...and Cameron kept trying to get the girls to grind -_-,,,) Speaking of the Latinos, Lucas and I talked about Eva and other Old School anime! He's from Brazil. Also it was hard for me to like the Latinos because they were always loud, and sitting down in other people's seats (where they have full plates and teacups and just went to the bathroom or something) and talking all night after curfew when there are Finnish people trying to sleep and they've been told to shut up twice by Rotex. But then I remember Lili Bikini. And I suppose that's the point of Rotary Youth Exchange.

Also, to the Latina who did that 'exchange a look with my latina chicas and then sing 'American Idiot' at me: If you're trying to insult me for being an American, don't do it by singing a song in English by an American band while wearing American Eagle. Because you just look stupid and I laugh at you. kthxbai.







Mää tahtoo veivaa veivaa. Mää tahtoo, VEIVAA! (I like to move it move it in the original Finnish!)

Comments

[blame-my-muses.livejournal.com]

"There's a story of two brothers split by that wall..."

*choking on her onigiri rice-triangle*

You did that on purpose, Kiki. I hate you.

...But despite hating you, I AM glad you found an otaku to talk with, even if only about the oldies of anime. Does he not know the new ones, or did you just want to talk about the old stuff?

By the way...?

TEACH ME HOW TO ANIMATE ICONS!!!!!

*Kowtows (sp?) to the Queen Mother Goddess of All Icons*

[kindigo.livejournal.com]

Well, I wanted to talk about the old ones, because I usually talk about the new ones with all of you because you haven't seen the Golden Oldies.

And the brothers, hahahahaha.

[blame-my-muses.livejournal.com]

I've seen some of them... Eva, I really liked. That's the only one you mentioned by name, or I'd list more... Speed Racer, Kimba, Escaflowne (okay, so I owe that one to you, but I'd been looking for it anyway...), and then some. Some of the old ones I don't really like, but that's just normal. There's always going to be shows that don't tickle one's fancy.

Besides which...

I beat you to Ai no Kusabi, which is NOT new, and is SLASH.

So there. ^^ j/k

[kindigo.livejournal.com]

Guyver (OMG. XD Sara, I ♥ you), SLAYERS, Dirty Pair Flash, IRIA (and bob!!), Slayers, Urusai Yatsura, and Ranma of course, Sorcerer Hunters, Fist of The North Star (speaking of, Gantz! Ahhh!), Nadesico, Bubblegum Crisis (original and tokyo 2040), Slayers, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Princess Mononoke, Gunsmith Cats, Tenchi Muyo (ha!), Slayers, Ghost in the Shell (the movie), Nausicaä, Vampire Hunter D (original), Vampire Princess Miyu, Slayers, Dragonball (not Z or GTX or anything), Ninja Scroll, Mermaid Scar *stabs out eyes* And did I mention Slayers? Please Save My Earth (more Shonen-ai (kinda)), Earthian(shonenai again), Here's Greenwood, Lupin III, Armitage III, and of course Slayers, what else did we talk about...

Some of those are debatable on the 'old-ness', depending on how you define old. But ye-ah. We talked about all of those (a lot of me asking 'Have you seen x?' and him saying, 'No... have you seen y?').



I beat you to The Song of Wind And Trees, the first ever yaoi, so stfu.

Man this got me on a kick of trying to remember all the old anime I remember....what was that movie that Sama had us watch, not A Wind Named Amnesia but the one with the cool guy with the wine! WHAT WAS THAT CALLED?!? And Panzer Dragoon, omg. DRAGON-HALF!!! I really need to stop now, you know this has been going on for three hours.

Someday I will make a post that includes all the anime that DotM does not allow me to count! *shakes fist* Someday....

[dontforgetme.livejournal.com]

ARSLAN! The Heroic Legend Arslan! And his name was changed half way through the series to Gueebo. *laughs*

Dude, your list is kinda short?
We've seen a lot more good ones...

[kindigo.livejournal.com]

That was just what we talked about. Or rather, what I mentioned hoping he'd heard of. (We both really like Slayers.)

I know the list is short. We both know the list is short. If I did a list of all the old anime I've seen, LJ wouldn't let me post it here. 500 word comment limit, you know. XD