Last Day of Camping, Back to Berlin :)

I woke up on the stage the next day, and my knee was getting better. Still wasn't able to dance or anything, but it was a lot easier to walk. It would get stiff if I didn't move it but it would loosen up. Today was pizza making day. I did normal hanging out camping stuff I think for most of this day, and then ate tons of pizza. I was able to walk back to the camp which I was proud of! The fire was very entertaining that night watching all the random people being drunk. I was drinking wine so I was pretty chatty... A few people were leaving that day/evening including the person we arrived with, but Floh and I found a ride for the next day so we were able to stay for another night.

The next day there were far less people, so it was a day of relaxing.





I got my stuff together, and went swimming again with Floh. It was way warmer than a couple days ago, so it was waaayy more pleasant. I was still warm when I got out of the water, and dried in the sun on the little hill thing. Nobody was in a rush to leave, so Jonas, someone with Saturday Night Palsy, Sandra, Floh, Falc, Kristina and I left in the late afternoon in a big van and a Trabi :)




We hung out at Jonas' place that night, and ended up staying overnight there. It was nice to be in a futon instead of a cement ground with a thin insulation mattress :D

Caaaaaamping

Ok so I given coffee and a cool bandage the next morning because my knee had swelled a little. Nothing like last time though, I looked for a picture of my first knee fuckup but I don't know where one is...

I limped around, had a bit of breakfast, talked, then tried going in the lake. It was decent temperature, but outside was not the warmest so when I got out I was chilly! There were two fires going though so I stood by those and dried off :)





The fires were cooking lunch/dinner so after this was eating time :) It was healthier than what I would be eating if cooking for myself. I tried taking some photos of the camp hobbling around :

here is the view from a little hill thing... people watched the sun go down here the night before and it was gorgeous :)







There was a craft table (you know I was there), and in the evening everyone walked down into the village of Kloden and looked at this castle building thing. There was a mini torture museum (free!) and a musical performance. The crafts were these little fire things that people walked down with, it looked very medieval:



I wasn't able to dance this night, so I was by the fire for the rest of the night, until I fell asleep, this time one the stage area :)

Spontanious Camping in Klöden

This day consisted of going on my new spiffy fixed computer! I also watched a movie, then some new people showed up and they tried to introduce me to Vodka Ahoj. I resisted because I don't drink vodka straight up anymore due to my past experiences in the hospital. An Aussie called Dingo was instigating, and later went to look for a place to perform with fire to busk. Floh was leaving to catch a ride out to go camping, so I went with Dingo and friends to watch this fire. We met up with two girls from NZ that were staying at the house, but there was not many people out and about so the fire show ended up being a private one in a park!! It was quite nice - wish I took photos of this!

We got kind of confused with the trams on the way back I think, and when we all finally got back to the house Floh was there - there was some problem with the ride out (I was secretly pleased about this). So we all hung out :)

The next day there was a ride out to this camping thing... with extra space. I was encouraged to go, but I said I had no sleeping bag and no tent so how was I supposed to camp?!?! I was told this was not normal camping, there was an indoor dance floor area, an unused stage that was covered, and there would be extra sleeping bags for sure there so I didn't have to worry. There was a river and a lake, food, workshops, etc... so I was convinced.

We drove down in a BMW convertible with the top down, ohhhh yeeeeeah :) It was a beautiful drive - the sun was doing crazy stuff with the clouds:







it was sunny when we got there, and warm :)



They sold beer there for 50 cent, and there was wine and the lake and the river etc... perfect!




I partied, but while dancing with my hula hoops in one of my better sessions with the things...

... my fucking knee twisted again!

At least it was only once this time, and I was only semi-drunk not wasted so I knew better than to keep dancing on it. I hopped over to the bench and sat down. It hurt but it's nothing new. I instead of dancing now went to the fireside to drink more for the pain. I was later on given a sleeping bag and insulation mattress by Falc which was extremely nice of him, and limped over to the communal tent that was set up for those without tents :) It was a good start to the weekend, minus the stupid pissed off knee.

Enter Flohfish, Technical Joy, and the East Side Gallery

I woke up able to use the internet right away to check responses. I Skype-called Acer Support because they wanted me to send my computer to Canada (bullshit). I just wanted to change the address, but the woman on the phone wanted me to try a couple things first before mailing it off.

The first thing was something I had already done. The second was not. I was to flash my BIOS with a little usb thing. I was not expecting anything, but when I did my screen came to life! It started working again!

MAGIC! You cannot imagine how awesome that moment was. I jumped a little, squeaked, and my eyes bugged out when I saw the little startup screen :D

I was sooooooooo happy!

People were going out that night too, so I could go celebrate! I used my happy little computer for a little while, got ready, and went out to take some photos.

I went to the East Side Gallery. It was being painted over with artwork instead of graffiti style, so it isn't the same as the old school one...
you can see the difference in the non-repainted part and the repainted one, but they are both cool and I appreciate both. I took LOTS of photos though so be warned...













































haha it wasn't me but cool:



















This was a highlight so far :) I love street art! This is where the DnB show was the first night I arrived:



I then hid a book in a supermarket near where I was. I got a little lost and made my way back to the house. Everyone was leaving by a certain time to go out to this wine meeting. You pay 2 euro, but one you get back when you return the glass... then you drink as much wine as you want plus they have a dinner buffet early. You pay what you think you should... We wanted to get food so we headed down fairly early. Of course it's impossible to not get drunk with this method of service, so after we were all nice and red faced we went to a party on a bridge!

On the way there I saw this hula hoop just sitting there... music was playing... I grabbed the thing and noticed that there were hula hoops everywhere! People were dancing around with them - and they were really good!! I played for a bit and I was so happy!!!

The bridge party gets kind of hazy. I remember smashing one of my beers exiting the portapotti. That sucked. I remember ranting about some things, talking in non-rant style about others... general good party times. You know. I was surprised at the impressive amount of people just standing on a bridge drinking! Then the police came.

Next on the list was food, then night bus. I ate, but then Floh and I (also staying at Big Pink and had arrived this day) stood at what we THOUGHT was a night bus stop... but after a while we realized that this was not a bus stop at all. We had missed one because of this and I figured the rest of the crew were on that one. We caught the next one to the house, but no one was there?! Confusing. When asked the next day, Alvaro had no idea where he was either lol. Good times!