Tales from Nordrhein-Westfalen

coming to an end..

2007-02-04T20:04:19Z

hey hey
well.. just two short, fast (whole) days till i start leaving here. I don't actually get home until 40 minutes past 2 days after we leave Düsseldorf. how's that?
Yup i realised last night when i rang mum for her birthday that yes I am guilty of not writing for two weeks. I discovered that I didn't go to Berlin last week, but the week before, and therefore I hadn't only not written for one week, but two.
I've also developed an extra-confusing writing style over the last couple of weeks, too. And, just a warning: I could possibly have less-than-perfect English skills when I return to my mother country.
So.
I spoooose everyone should like to know what's been happening.
Just been at school, which involves lessons, free periods and shopping in Opladen, and umm..last Sunday Malin and I went to visit Lena and Ava in Kleve, and went swimming right on the Dutch border. Lena's mum made us traditional german food for lunch like Bratwurst and Knödeln (what we had at Christmas time). And so that was a cool day.
The rest of the week has just been school, except for Wednesday, when I had no school! The teachers were having a party for a teacher who was leaving so 6th period was cancelled, and our maths teacher was away, so 5th period was cancelled, and since on wednesdays I only have two lessons - 5th and 6th periods...that was nice.
Wednesday night was awesome : Malin, Merle and I went to a soccer game - Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs. Werder Bremen in the huge Bayer Stadium in town. It was such an amazing experience!
Well I better go now, gotta help out with the leaving party we're having tomorrow night and Malin and I are going to a theater show of Macbeth (in english) in Opladen tonight.
soo I shall see everybody in NZ!
Love,
Kim

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mostly berlin

2007-01-23T16:32:45Z

okay well first I have to say, today, blimey! it's so freezing. Like 2 °C during the day, I think. And minus something at night!
I arrived back from Berlin on Saturday, after the most Amazing week ever. It went something like this...
We left on Monday morning from Düsseldorf, and spent the whole day travelling, until we arrived (duh) at about 5.30pm. After settling into our rooms and eating dinner, (Ava and Lauren were in a room with the two girls from Cambridge, and I was in with three girls from Dunedin, Emma, Robyn and Anita, who were all really nice) we made a small trip to Kufürstendamm, the shopping district, to test out the public transport (this was all at about 10 at night) and look at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis-Kirche (Church dedicated to the memory of Kaiser Wilhelm) which does actually look better at night than in the day.
Tuesday we did a speed-tour of Berlin in the morning, during which we saw what's left of the wall (it's really skinny), lots of beautiful churches and old buildings, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Holocaust Memorial, dedicated to the memory of the unknown Jews who were killed. It was pretty eerie to walk through: it consists of hundreds of smooth, dark grey, stone blocks of varying heights and on varying ground levels, and they're all in rows and columns taking up a whole block of the city. No one knows the actual interpretation of it, but there's one theory, and that's that it's meant to make you lose your orientation a little, which is definitely true. Our wonderful american guide, Tom (everytime he said Berlin he said it a certain emphasised way, which you all definitely have to hear me try to mimic), even showed us the hotel right beside the Brandenburg Gate where Michael Jackson dangled his baby out of the window. I saw Humboldt Üniversität too, on Unter den Linden, which was originally famous for philosophy but then became famous for physics, and Einstein proclaimed his theory of relativity from there We then had some free time to do some shopping,then went to an exhibition called The Story of Berlin, which was all about the history of Berlin divided into different aspects like work, religion and so on. We had free time again after this, but cos it was monday night and nothing was open, we ended up going to McCafe Of All Places!!
On Wednesday we were split into groups of about six people and each group was given a place/attraction in Berlin to go to and answer questions on, by ourselves, and had to come back in the afternoon and make a little presentation to the others about what we found (Preferably, Herr Stein said, auf Deutsch, but only two brave boys actually did this...). My group had the Olympia Stadion, where there was absolutely NOTHING going on, but we still managed to have some fun hehe. mostly cos each group was given a disposable camera to take photos with. Later we went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum,which was pretty good but a lot of reading.
On Thursday the day was all about Potsdam, an area of Berlin (sort of its own town) but some of the program was cancelled/changed because of the storm warnings and it was rainy and windy and all that. We did a bus tour of Potsdam though, again with our wonderful guide Tom, and went through Grunewald where all the posh people and country ambassadors live (we saw the houses of the turkish and swedish and who-knows-where-else ambassadors) and a house owned by Yoko Ono. We also went through Wannsee,which is a pretty rich suburb on the bank of the Wannsee (it looks like a lake but apparently it's really a widening of the Spree river) and went past House Wannsee, where the Wannsee conference was held, to make important decisions about the Final Solution in WWII, and it was where they decided on the use of gas chambers in concentration camps. We didn't go inside though. We walked around the outside of Cecilien Hof, an old english-style house where the Potsdam Conference was held, attended by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill to make some important decisions or other (stuff about the future of Berlin while it was split between britain, america, france and the soviets)...then toured the Sanssouci palace, where Friedrich the Great (Friedrich II) lived his summers (the name Sanssouci means without cares/worries, so he allowed no women to enter the palace), which was really ornate and really...gold. it was quite pretty for a man's palace, actually. We had to wear ginormous slippers over our regular shoes to protect the floors too. so that was fun. you can probably imagine us skidding all over the floors of a huge old palace. hehe. We had no free time in Potsdam as had been promised, because of the weather, so we went back to the hostel and did an evaluation of our entire time in germany early instead, and played Skip-Bo, which I was introduced to by Robyn, my wicked roommate, and which we played for a very long time without ever getting bored. t'was great. BUT, that evening the teachers decided the weather was okay for us to visit the Reichstag luckily, so we went there in the gales and climbed up into the glass dome on top (after being shut outside until they felt like letting some more people in and then going through the metal detector) . It was so beautiful though, we had a 360° view of Berlin at night, which was amazing, and we had lots of time there as well, so we could just go up to the top which took probably less than 5 minutes and hang out and talk.
On Friday morning we had the chance to visit one of four museums: the Jüdisches museum, all about the history of the Jews (NOT about the Holocaust); the Pergamon Museum, with ancient greek, iranian and turkish restorations of architecture and objects etc; the Boden Museum, which is really new and has art stuff, I think from the Renaissance and such things; or the Deutsches Technikmuseum, which is about technology and that stuff. I went to the Pergamon Museum, which was pretty interesting, but lots of the same sort of things and there are only so many greek statues and iranian 'tiles with knobs' you can stand looking at before you get bored. We then had free time for the rest of the day (from about 12 pm till 7.30pm) in which we could shop or see more sights or anything we wanted as long as we were in groups of four or more.
That evening we all went bowling, which was a wicked end to the most awesome, fun day. The guy there who was playing the music welcomed us all cos we were from NZ and Australia, and even played us a special song - 'I come from a land Down Under' hehe - which was great, and everyone had so much fun. It kinda hit us after that that we all had to go back to our host families the next day, and no one wanted to very much, especially when people had made good friends there like I had with my dunedin roommates and cos some people are going home via london and other places to visit family so they won't be on the flight home with us, and if they live in a different place in NZ we might not see them again.
The next morning we left the youth hostel at about 9.30am, and travelled home (slept), and after dropping about 4 lots of people off at stops along the way, arrived in Düsseldorf at about 5.30 or 6 pm to lots of hugs and big welcomes from our host families - i think they might have even missed us! And there was lots of news to hear, even after just a week.
On Sunday afternoon (after a big sleep in) Malin and Kerstin took me to Altenburg, about 10 min drive, to the Altenburger Dom and Märchenwald, both of which were nice. The Märchenwald (fairytale forest) had little houses and displays of different fairytales, and when you push a button, music plays and the fairytale is told, like Schneewittchen (snow white), Rotkäppchen (little red riding hood), Dornröschen (sleeping beauty), die drei Bremer Stadtmusikanten ( the musicians of Bremen) and lots more. The Altenburger Dom (church/cathedral) was okay, it was huge and had beautiful big stained glass windows.
The rest of my time until now has been filled with mundane things such as school etcetera.
Home in less than 2 weeks now!
Lots of love, and miss everyone Heaps

Kim

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long-awaited news!

2007-01-13T22:52:04Z

Well it's been a little while, hasn't it, so as a result this entry's probably gonna have to be a mama one...
okay the 29th of December was a sunny day (one of the few), at least in the morning, so it was of course a perfect day to visit Schloss Burg, which is a medieval fortress about 20 minutes or so away. it was in the mountainous land, so from the tower in it you could see for ages and there were lots of old medieval things on display and you can just imagine the knights riding through the courtyard hehe.

inside the burg

the outside

malin and i in the tower at the top

The next day with the whole family we went to go bowling together, but the place was shut, so I got to visit my first Eiscafe and ate icecream that looks like spaghetti.
For silvester (New Years Eve) we had dinner at home with something called a Racclette (if that's how you spell it) which is like a grilling thing you put in the middle of the table and each person has like their own little frying pan and you put vegies and meat or whatever you like in it and put cheese on top and grill it. real yum! Malin and i went to the party of a friend of a friend, and that was okay, cool at midnight when everyone in every street were letting off fireworks.
on the 2nd of Jan Ava and Lena came to visit us from Kleve for the day, and we all hung out here then had lunch and went ice skating together, which was a bit wobbly at first but lots of fun.

iceskating at leverkusen eissporthalle

the next day Malin and I caught the train to Raesfeld (about 1 hr 15 min) to visit my old neighbour Angela and her family, and meet my penpal! We arrived and Maren (my penpal, she was really nice) came for lunch, then we all popped over the border (about 20 min, 1/2 hr drive) to Wintervijk in Holland for the afternoon, where we did a little shopping and that. it was cool, everyone was speaking dutch but they can speak german as well, and the houses are red brick with bigger windows than ones in germany. Yes, we also saw a few windmills on our travels!
Last weekend (5th-7th Jan) Kerstin, malin, merle and i went on holiday to belgium for the weekend, and stayed in a resort place called sunparks, which had a pool and that so we could go swimming (yay!) in a town called De Haan, on the North Sea. So beautiful.

ocean!!! yuss!!! :D :D

We drove there on the friday, and on saturday we went to the big city of Brugge for the day, about 15 min away, for some shopping and sightseeing, which was amazing, with a new courtyard or canal or castle or church to happen upon around every corner. It was wet and rainy but still lots of fun. We ate pancakes in a nice little cafe/restaurant looking onto one of the canals, and chuckling at the wet bedraggled people trudging past(like a man who walked past twice, once in each direction, carrying an easel on his back). The church bells played a little song every hour too hehe.

one of the canals in Brugge

Merle, Malina and I in a little hidden courtyard

On the Sunday we drove home via Antwerpen, in the Netherlands, and Roermond, where we went to the big factory outlet centre, which was pretty full but still worth it.

Outside the Fred Perry shop (haha)

The next day, 8th Jan, was our first day of school of the new term, during which i got some homework i had to do (in english), read in class, and did a step aerobics class in sport.
Tuesday was pretty uneventful at school, everyone was getting marks back in class still so there wasn't much to do. In the afternoon/evening i went to visit a friend, Michelle, in Burscheid and hung out with her and her friend Gabriella (they're both AFS exchange students, from Brazil and Honduras respectively, and their host families live right next door to each other! How's that?!).
Wednesday (two period day) i had 2 hours or so free at school, read the whole of charlie and the chocolate factory, in english, in the library, as well as a little bit of german history; and made esters in Chemistry (just as smelly as at home).
Thursday was an awesome day: I had a full 7 period timetable, I could do the exercises in Physics(!), learnt HEAPs in history, and nearly fell asleep in chem (but then so did everyone else), BUT the best thing was going to We Will Rock You in the evening, which Malin's parents had given Malin and I tickets for for Christmas. It's a musical basically about the survival of rock, and it's set in the future. All the songs are Queen songs :D and man it was the most awesome show! - wicked lights and phenomenal set and costumes, not to mention these amazing singers singing the timeless Queen songs (i'm sure there's one for every occasion) and a live band, whom you had no idea about til they were exposed at the end...and the rest of the audience loved it too; there were guys older than Dad bopping their heads and tapping their feet to 'Another One Bites the Dust' and 'We Will Rock You'(that one had the whole theater going) and there were about five standing ovations at the end-they just kept coming out again!
On Friday night we went to a pub, just young people there, in Opladen called Bizarre and hung out playing Foosball.
Today, Saturday, we went to IKEA in Düsseldorf (a huge stuff-for-your-home shop that's really big here in Europe..and in Dubai too apparently..) but there was such a long queue at the traffic lights outside with thousands of people going in (Malin and Kerstin say they've never seen it like that before) that we just carried on into Benrath (a suburb of Düsseldorf) and found a castle called Schloss Benrath (haha-it's pink!) which is in a huge posh looking park. So yeah we went for a walk and had a look at that instead.
Off to Berlin for a week on Monday (yay!) with all the other little german kiwis and some aussies too i think, which will be awesome.
So lots of exciting photos and tales from Berlin coming soon!
Love,

Kim

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Christmas :)

2006-12-28T13:55:34Z

So, the merry time is not quite over (still Sylvester-New Years Eve to go) but much has happened.
Christmas Eve was spent first at Scotty-Opa's house (around the corner) with Aunty Andrea and cousins Freddy (13) and Laura (20 or so), where we had 'Kaffee und Kuchen' (coffee and cake) in the little cosy living room with a fireplace etc

Freddy, Laura, Merle, Malin and I at Scotty-Opa's on Christmas Eve

We then came home for dinner, which was Rouladen (like schnitzel made into individual roasts) with gravy and so, and Rotkohl (red cabbage, sort of pickled and saucy) and Knödeln, like a type of dumpling, and potatoes. I'd made my pavlova that morning, which turned out okay...so we had that for dessert with about 5 different types of berries.

My pavlova being served up

Between dinner and dessert we all relocated to the lounge to open presents and so, where the sweet (real) christmas tree is, covered in only red decorations (which reflects the taste of Kerstin) and with real candles you only light at special times so the tree doesn't burn, which is comfortingly logical.

Malin and Merle singing Christmas songs on Christmas Eve

Udo, Kerstin and Merle opening presents

Ersteweihnachtsfeiertag (first xmas celebration day)- 25.12, was pretty relaxed in the morning, sleeping in, then we walked along the Wupper river, which is just around the corner (not altogether much to see at all in winter) and surprised Tante Andrea with a coffee visit, then rushed back home to get changed and go to Speckmausoma's house for an afternoon meal (also with Andrea, Freddy, Laura and this time Uncle Michael), which was fun. Also noted: this was not Frieda-Oma, whom I had thought we were seeing, but Speckmausoma, so as a result this poor lady received no christmas present on the right day because i took the wrong one. oops.

Everyone in the living room at Speckmausoma's

Laura (with pashmina over head), Speckmausoma's (second)husband, Uncle Michael (freddy & laura's dad and Andrea's husband), Speckmausoma, Kerstin, and Malin (with other pashmina over head)

The equivalent of Boxing Day was similar to the day before - we went at 12.30 or so a little into the hills to a gorgeous hotel and restaurant with Udo (host father)'s family - FRIEDA-Oma, and his brother Harald, sister-in law Verena and nephew Sebastian.

Udo, Harald, Verena and Kerstin at the restaurant

Sebastian outside the restaurant

the (blurry) outside of the hotel/restaurant

Afterwards, coffee and cake(torte) at Frieda-Oma's...and watched good old LOTR I at night. Made me miss home lots :.(

Frieda-Oma and Harald at Frieda-Oma's

Today (Wednesday 27.12) Malin and I went by train to Oberhausen, about 40 min or so away, to meet Ava and her exchange partner Lena for shopping and such things. Humongous shopping mall there, and hoards of people too, but lots of fun.

Malin and Ava at lunchtime in the food court

Lena

Ava, Lena and Malin

the inside of Centro, the shopping centre

lots of love to everyone
ox kim

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winter days

2006-12-26T09:55:05Z

it's so cold!!!!!!!!! and foggy and generally just terribly freezing! But it's probably not even bad. yet.
On Saturday evening we visited the swedish market near central Leverkusen (small but sweet) where there were people making candles and carving wood etc..we also baked cookies for Christmas (Plätzchen)...

Malin while baking Plätzchen

Sunday we went to the middle age market in Siegborg, a little while away and that was exciting although a little overwhelming, with all the people. All the stallholders and entertainers were dressed in clothes from the middle ages, and selling middle-ages sorts of stuff like , and baking bread on-site in stone ovens. i forgot my camera so i have no photos. but don't worry, I won't do that again. I think it was in the town square, which was absolutely beautiful with tall old buildings with paned windows all around. The atmosphere was cool too - it was a big family outing for everyone I think. We took a little detour through Köln on the way back, and I had my first glimpse of the (as quoted) schwarzer, alter, doofer Kölner Dom. It's really big.
Monday consisted of school, and English and Sport (badminton) lessons for the first time, both of which were similar to in NZ, but in English they were studying grammar I've never heard of so that was great. After school was (as every Monday) lunch at Frieda-Oma's house, which is about 2 doors down from here. And did she feed us well. man. we went Christmas tree-hunting that evening, too
Tuesday evening we had a christmas party with Malin's old class at school in the cafeteria, lots of fun.

Caitlin(Canada), Cherie(US) and I

Everyone had to bring a 'bad taste' present for Secret Santa, which was Hilarious. And Malin made Kirsch-Pie (cherry pie), but here they actually have no word for pie, they just sometimes use the american one. they call it Kuchen(cake)or torte instead.
Wednesday we had the 'school's out' party at a youth club called E-Werk in Cologne, with the rest of Malin's year, which was also fun. Just dancing, dancing, dancing. and drinking water.
Thursday was shopping day with Malin and her friend Mara in Cologne (amazing). We went by train to the central station (Kölner Hauptbahnhof) and the central pedestrian zone is right there, and it's also HUGE!

Hehe i did take my camera this time, so photos will be coming soon...<actually they're here...>There were so many shops..even an 'English Shop' which is stocked full of food and souvenirs from the UK, in case some Britons get homesick I think! And we whipped by (not) the Weihnachtsmarkt beside the Dom, where there were so many stalls selling christmas presents for absolutely anyone, but very expensive.

The Dom was even more breathtaking from the inside...just totally humongous..and the stained glass windows...and lots of candles...but all the tourists were kind of a bad point...it just felt like a place where the flash of a camera would disturb something (it was too dark and you couldn't take decent photos anyway)...
so yea
photos coming soon (maybe later today)
love kim

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here's my room

and another street in Köln..

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interesting germany stuff

2006-12-16T12:57:30Z

hey!
Well...now it's 1.21pm on Saturday and I have loads to tell!
Wednesday was my first school day with um FRENCH! first, cos that first day i went with Malin to all her classes. so that was hard cos the teacher was speaking half in french and half in German! It was a double period, which i didn't know until afterwards I did wonder what everyone was doing when the funny bell went (it's not a bell, but four ummm notes? a bit like on Grease when the lady hits the xylophone, but more synthesised) and some people got up and left the room but their bags were still there and some others came in from other classes to visit and some started eating. Haha. But then we had a break (there's one after every two periods) and a free period because Malin's psychology teacher wasn't there. I think that must be what always happens when a teacher is away! They just have a free period! Then were Chemistry and Maths: i could kinda understand the concepts which was awesome Malin's maths teacher, Herr Gerber went to NZ 12 years ago and did a trip from Auckland down the North Island and the South Island. He didn't come to Tauranga though. He said he loved the hiking as well hehe. When Malin first introduced me to her classes, someone always said 'Wilkommen' or 'Herzlich Wilkommen' which means welcome, and banged their knuckles on the desks. On Wednesday night I went with Malin to her art group, where they do oil painting, and started a canvas. We caught the bus home (a big bendy bus) which was different.
I have my own timetable now, and I have Chemistry, Maths, English and German with Malin's class (like her form class) and then I have Art, bilingual History (it's in english), and Physics, and also volleyball and badminton with Malin and some of her friends.
On Thursday night Malin had badminton in the school hall, so i went along too, and that was fun (and funny, cos i can't really play it). We also biked there and back, and they don't wear any helmets, and the bikes are quite old-fashioned looking but really modern otherwise, and the lights on the front and back are dynamos. hehe.
Yesterday morning (friday) i didn't actually have to go to school until 9.30. But I didn't know that. So I was ready at 7.15. haha . I had German for the first time, and they started studying the movie Run Lola Run in that period! (we watched it in German in fourth form i think). Then was my art class, and i think it was a theory lesson, so they had a sheet on Leonardo da Vinci to study...so i whipped out my german dictionary and made a brilliant Leonardo Da Vinci vocab list! for example : phrases like 'the mysteries of the human corpse'.
Malin and I went shopping last night in Wiesdorf, which is another part of Leverkusen and oh the smells were so yum. there are food stalls in the pedestrian zone, selling crepes and waffles and licorice....mmm. And lots of pretty christmas lights everywhere! We went to H&M, a clothes store where it's very cool to shop, and there were quite a few department stores like this one, where the area of one floor is about as big as a regular shop in NZ, like ummmm Glassons maybe, but there's an escalator in the middle, and another 3 floors as well! Malin's friends Mara and Kati came over afterwards for dinner and we all played singstar. haha it's cool, they have singstar rocks (some german songs, some english) and Singstar Deutsch Rock-Pop (all german songs). I'm getting to know some cool german songs!!
So, a busy time so far yea?
I'll write more soon

Love to everyone

Kimberley

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finally here!

2006-12-28T13:39:40Z

hey i've been here in Germany for over 12 hours now! Singapore was pretty cool to see on the way, but not overly exciting, except for seeing streets and things from the plane as we came in.

Christmas display at singapore airport

Both flights were looooong, but the second one (Singapore-Frankfurt) was the worst, I guess cos we were all over the whole screen on the back of the seat thing by then and just wanted to sleep lying down. We had to wait for an hour on the bus at Frankfurt while the driver fixed something with the engine. Haha we had to speak our first german in a shop: we stopped at a rest place on the Autobahn (with McDonalds, etc) and had to order in German "~ but it was okay, everyone helped each other out. Anyway, it was nowhere near as nerve-racking as coming out of the bus and meeting our families! It was just a crowd of a whole lot of random people to us, and i think it was hard for most people to search through them for faces from photos. But it was alright, Malin and her mum waved at me so I found them without too much trouble.
Came home here and Malin and her mum and dad all had the day off today, but Malin's sister Merle was still at school. It wasn't light until about 8 or 9 this morning, and by 5pm it was pretty much dark. They took me for a little walking tour around their small town, Opladen, and showed me the school and the Weihnachtsmarkt and where their relatives live.
Oh well I'm tired as and I'll go to bed now.
School tomorrow aah "~

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Leaving Tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!

2006-12-10T06:29:23Z

Excited, but nervous at the same time "~
Well all packed (thanks to mum ) so I'll be off to the airport tomorrow morning, at bout 6.30 to fly out at 7.05 to Wellington, then flying at 11am to Christchurch, then finally out from Christchurch at 2pm...leaving the country!!! Supposed to get to Singapore at 11.30pm our time, then a four hour stopover. We get into Frankfurt at about 5pm Tuesday NZ time (6am German time) all ready for a 3 1/2 hour bus trip to Dusseldorf, yay! THEN we're picked up from there by our families, and to get to Leverkusen should take about half an hour I reckon...but that's probably wrong. I'll tell you all if I'm right
But that's all I can think of, boring aye!
I might post something in Singapore (free internet kiosks!) if I can
Thinking of you guys

Kimberley

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testing...

2006-11-08T04:20:07Z

Only 33 days to go now! gotta get 5 exams over with before I can go though but the days are going so fast... only 6 more days of school then two weeks of exams and a week off and I go!

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Countdown

2006-10-06T23:27:51Z

I'm flying out in 65 days...so excited!
7.05am from Tauranga on Monday the 11th of December 06
and it's coming fast
Just found this site for travel blogs, which I'm going to use while I'm in Leverkusen, Germany for 2 months to record all the awesome stuff I do and think about and everything!

Kimberley

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