Hej :)

Hello everybody!

A lot has happened since my last entry...so it's time for an update.

Last weekend many people from Karlstad/former exchange students came to Munich for our "reunion". In Karlstad we planned that we will meet again at the Oktoberfest and somehow we decided to meet on the last weekend of it.
Hong and Sina arrived on Thursday evening, we had dinner together and had a really nice evening in our kitchen. It was almost like it used to be. It was weird, because I realised that I haven't had such a nice evening since I'm back from Sweden. Of course I had nice/funny evenings with my friends back home, but it's different. We don't cook together, we don't sit on a table and just talk - we go out, have a blast...which is nice, of course, but different. Anyway, on friday we strolled around Munich, met Lena and picked up Elisabeth from the station. It was sooooo nice to see her again!
We went back to my place, had a small pre-party and went back to the city center to meet the rest of the group. It was so cool, Lucia booked a table in an Irish Pub and we were around 20 people...it was so great to see them again! We had a funny evening at the Pub...but we didn't stay for too long, since we had to get up early for the Oktoberfest.
So on Saturday morning, 8.15, we were at the Oktoberfest, in front of the Schützenfestzelt. It was crazy how the people tried to get into the tent. They were pushing and yelling, it was worse than on a Robbie Williams concert. Anyway, we managed to get in and got a table.
Honestly, the mood inside the tent was really good. I don't drink beer, so I drank "Spezi" but I had a good time anyway. People were standing on the benches, singing to stupid german songs and just having a good time, it was really nice. The fun ended when the securities came to throw us out of the tent - our table was booked at 1 o'clock and at 12.15 they started to throw us out. They didn't give us a chance to get to another table, they just pushed us to the exit. Very harsh and very unfriendly. Most of us still had their glasses in their hands - including me.
So there we were, standing in front of the tent, in the rain..freezing and wet. After some hours of looking around and discussing we ended up in a Bar in the city center, where we had something to eat and drink. And in the evening we went back to the Oktoberfest were we sat in a beer-garden :)
So that's a summary of the Oktoberfest... on Sunday morning we took Elisabeth to the station and in the afternoon Hong met a chinese friend - and I went to the Premier of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3. It's quite complicated to explain, but an editor from BUNTE offered me to go there. So I went there, saw all the screaming teenagers standing next to the red carpet and thought that I should turn around and go back home... Instead, I tried to call the editor, but she didn't answer the phone. Helpless I wandered around and thought about what to do. I didn't have my ticket, because she told me that I should call her. I wasn't standing on the guestlist either...so I went to the press-counter and asked them if my name is on the list. Nope. So I explained them that the Bunte-editor is waiting for me but that I can't get in touch with her - and they gave me a press-card so I could get into the press-area next to the red carpet. I was standing there with my small digital camera, next to all the journalists with the huge cameras..and took some pictures of the celebrities that walked past us. Kai Pflaume, someone from Topmodels, and the actors of HSM 3 of course.
Afterwards I tried to call her again, no luck again...so when the people went into the cinema I left - because I didn't have a ticket (just the press-card, which wasn't valid as a ticket). It was a weird afternoon...I felt a bit like a cheater because I managed to get into the press-corner without actually doing something press-related :P

Soooo, that was my exciting weekend. Exciting, but not very relaxing, that's why I'm quite tired today...
good night ;)
M.
PICTURES OF THE OKTOBERFEST