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Published: April 28th 2008
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Morning: Today we leaving for Berlin so got up earlier to have breakfast w the kids before they leave for school. They are still in their usual self, very hyper and we squeezed around the dinner table and ate together. Normally when the kids are up, Seth will be in a stressed-out mood cos he have to prepare everything for them and also their breakfast at the same time so we try not to add on to his stress and kept out of his way. Anyway yesterday lots of things happened to him so today he's trying to settle some of the domestic stuffs like broken ceiling in his bedrm, broken down van and broken-into office. Can u believe it? All on the same day! Hope we didn't bring him bad luck...Ok finally said our goodbyes to the kids and Lilla left without looking at us so jus hope she's not sad abt us leaving already or getting too attached to us. We started packing up our bags cos we didn't plan to go anywhere and spend some time w Oscar.
Afternoon: Seth came back w the fixed van and offered to send us to the train station after we
have coffee. We said ok and left at abt 1:30pm. He brought us to this nice trendy street to have Portugese coffee and delicious ham & cheese toast. We took photos w him and he sent us to the train station, will miss him alot cos he's been a nice cute guy who's still like a cheeky boy inside (um only when his kids are not arnd to stress him out). Then our nightmare begins after we step into the train station! We are taking the 3pm train to Berlin and when we boarded the train, it was super packed again and we couldn't get a seat at all. Then the train staffs and people were rude to us and we were really pissed w them. Talking to us like we dun look like we can afford Class 1 seats! Very angry! And when we finally reached the Berlin HBF, our host stood us up! Tried to call him on his mobile but no answer for the 10th time and we sms him and he replied 'he's got emergency surgery tonite and won't know when he will be done so he can't host us'!?!? Now then he tell us?
Night: We were so f**king stranded and we have waited at the train station since 4:30pm till 7pm so we decided to have a bite at McD and also to rest. We tried different sorts of way, asking the tourist office for hostels info but they only gave us a list of hostels addresses but no rate on it so we can't possibly call every single one of them to find out the best rates. Then luckily jus before we left Hamburg, I remembered Seth telling me he got a friend in Berlin who was the one that intro him to CS so I kind of asked him if we ran into trouble can we look for her. He says sure! So I gave him a call immediately to tell him we needed his help now, jus a few hours after leaving him. He says he will contact his fren and will call us back later. He did while we were in McD and he said there's an emergency couch but tonite he has already 5 CS in his flat and that's too crowded so we shld only call him as a last resort. He says he will look for
alternative and will call back again. I went to call the emergency couch host but his phone was not on so we were abt to start calling the hostels cos it's already 8pm when a miracle happened...
BrittBee, Seth's Berlin friend appeared right in front of me in McD! Apparently I jus casually mentioned to Seth over the phone that we are in McD of the train station and she jus came to look for us to see whether we were there. Then she told us that she found a host for us which is her good friend but she's not sure how long he will take us in. Seriously, as long as he's willing to have us for a night we are grateful enough so we were so happy when she told us but the catch now is...
We have to go to a party with them that nite cos her bro is having a housewarming and her fren will be going there too. Of course we said ok so we left our heavy bags in the train station locker (which costs freakin ex!) and went to a nearby place to walk around and hav dinner till 10pm while
BrittBee went home to rest first. Met her later at her bro's place U-Bahn and walked w her to the apartment and she jus left us by ourselves w a bunch of strangers. It was a bit awkward at first but then we slowly warmed up and started chatting w some of them. Lisa's English is not very good so she had trouble telling me what to see in Berlin; then I met our lovely host, Johannes and chatted w him for a while before going to the cooling balcony to breathe in fresh air cos literally everybody there is smoking. At first I was alone enjoying the breeze then slowly more and more people came out and crowded the entire balcony. Max's English is really good but i think he was abit high and kept saying lots of similar sentences but it was a joy conversing w him; then last of all Maxmillian aka Spunk, my guess he's a left-wing kind of person and he wears nerdy glasses w dreadlocks, studies in a only democratic college in Germany, prefers to be a Buddhist and helps the handicapped people for his work! I'm simply amazed by this boy's personality! Very sweet guy who is humble and nice so I'm glad I came to speak to these interesting people.
Ok by now, we are on very extended time here and my head is already almost brain-dead together w lots of secondhand smoke. So luckily Johannes and BrittBee are leaving, we immediately followed them, took the train back to the train station, picked up our bags and travelled to his home, which is also a damn long walk plus 5storeys worth of steps up to his apartment. We are so gone by then and went to sleep finally at 4:30am....what a long daaayyy!!
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