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THAT WILL BE TWO POUNDS AND A BUTTON PLEASE

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I think any girl will recognise that feeling of dread when they approach a checkout after a mad shopping spree in their favourite clothing store. Just pick up what you want, don’t bother to check the price tag, and leave the cringing for that moment you see the total and hand over your credit [...]

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German Word of the Week

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I thought it would be fun to have a little feature in which I chose a fun German word every week!
Nashorn (n) – Rhinoceros
Fun fact : Nashorn is a lot easier to spell than Rhinocerous.

When walking around Dortmund, you’ll see these winged rhinoceroses everywhere, ( in Berlin you’ll see a similar thing but [...]

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Clubs in Dortmund are sweaty

September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Well, Suite023 was. It was ridiculously tiny and packed to the brim! My first German club experience, awwwh. Naturally it was with members of TEAM FABELHAFT (the group of friends made at Altenberg… the fabelhaft thing is a loooong story) and it was aceee.
They played tunes from the 90s all night – as [...]

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BOB GELDOF!!

September 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Germany

 
We saw Bob Geldof in Dortmund!
BOB ‘GIVE US YOUR FOOKING MONEY’ GELDOF!
He was playing in Dortmund city centre as part of an anti-Nazi concert thing – apparently Dortmund has a problem with Nazi demonstrators, something which the population of Dortmund clearly (and understandably!!) has a problem with.
I’m not entirely sure why we were [...]

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