Your national team has just won the semi-finals of the European Championship.
What are you most likely to be doing?
Well, if you're anything like the people that inhabit my town - you're gonna be heading for the streets to euphorically chant and sing and blow whistles and wave flags.
Or, you'll be jumping in your car (preferably with 8 or more of your closest friends) and joining the growing convoy of like-minded revelers, to drive laps round town while chanting and singing and hanging out the window waving flags - all the while- blaring your horn.
This being Germany, the home of 'Ordnung', you'd imagine the police'd be doing something about it. But, from what I've just viewed out my front window, they seem to be joining in!
It is impossible to describe the noise here right now... And all this on a 'school night'!
(I'm not really bah-humbug though, it is all very exciting. And we did actually have a couple of Friends over to watch the game. I even utilised the German-flag-soccer ball napkins AND the soccer toilet paper that the Schwierig-mutter brought over last Friday. Reckon I've just got enough of both left over to see us right for next Sunday!)
über me!
- pyjamamel
- Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
- Of antipodean origin, currently living in Germany with the "Ger-Man", not-nearly-as-little-as-he used-to-be "Caspi-Man" , "The Cheeky Monkey", and four-legged "Banjo". Dream is to have a permanent place in both hemispheres and the means to travel betweeen. Am lucky to have family & friends in far-flung corners of the globe but, where ever I am, I'm missing someone terribly. Prone to procrastination and to wearing pajamas and animal ears - I often find myself outside my comfort zone...life seems to be a continually- vertical learning curve...
1 comment:
Don't they know about the cost of fuel?
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