Party in Köln!!

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I attended a party in Köln this weekend and it was a ridiculously large amount of fun. On Saturday about 11 o'clock or so I met up with a few of the others from my language camp and we took the train to Köln (Cologne) I spent most of the day with Kairi. We did a bit of shopping where we both bought matching turtle necks. However, not for the purpose of matching, just because they were amazingly cute and we both were in desperate need of some warmer shirts as the weather here is starting to grow chilly. I also came dangerously close to buying a pair of black leather pants. (Lederhosen!) They were only 30€ which doesn't seem so bad until you think about the fact that they aren't real leather and you will most likely never find an occasion to wear them. Regardless, they were still tempting. This same weekend there was also a political demonstration taking place throughout the city. I was told about it before hand by my host parents, but I didn't realise there would be such a large amount of people. There were two grouples that remained separated by the 4,000 policemen. (No exageration here.) These two groups ahd more politically correct names, but put simply, they were Nazi and Anti-Nazi. I saw a lot of young people. Most of them looked (by popular definition) quite scary. The intimidating ones were not vastly part of the Nazi group, though as one would think. Actually on the contrary. I saw more kids with chains, mo-hawks and piercings wearing the Anti symbols than I did wearing the Nazi symbols. There was one large fight which I did not witness, only heard about, that involved incooperateve activists and some policemen. The fight was not between the people from the two different groups, but between one group (not sure which) and the authorities. This I found a bit surprising.

We were supposed to check in to the Jungendgästehaus by three so Kairi and I figured out how to use the U-bahn (subway) to get to the youth hostel that was just a little ways outside of Köln. Coincidently her and I ended up in the same room, 509. Emma, who just so happens to be the most amazing human being on the planet earth, was also in our room. This filled me with much joy. We ate supper at 6, sat around for a bit and then went to the dance at 8. They had a contest for Homecoming King and Queen that you could sign up for which I found to be quite comical. My friend Jacob signed up and was the only American boy in the running. Jacob won, it was hilarious.

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Hi, your observation was wrong. I was one of those protesters who your friends labeled as Nazis. The group is actuelly called pro Köln and we are no nazis but we are against a large mosque beeing build in köln and genarally against the islamisation of europe. Remember 9/11. We dont want to let this become reality here in Germany. Bless America and bye bye