Hello Everyone!
First written 10 days ago:Just another short note of what I was doing lately. Last week was the last one for Rosa Alba, an intern from Italy I was working with in the same room. So, to show respect (cause she is from Sicily:-), we went out to Maria Roses, a small disco-bar with a good music. Because me and Veronica, a good friend from the US doing internship at the UN and simply a smart one, sat longer in the UN bar sipping cheap white wine and beer, we got to the place a bit later. We were a bit drunk, as usual, and forgot about the paper with directions and phone numbers on it, so, it took us a good one hour walk to join the others. The funniest thing was to ask for wrong directions from a taxi-driver, who got us home on the previous weekend. Vienna could not be that small! Eventually, after Veronica took over the lead, and went into Marriott hotel, where she used her women tricks and charms and got a whole map with the exact location of the bar, we soon joined other interns and got a round of tequila from our flatmate and a nice guy, Nicolas. Apparently, the drink I should not have drunk. It is a drink I have very bad relations with. Then, we danced in the basement, where actual disco is located, and I almost got my eyebrows burnt. I was at the bar, and the barmen were whistling like mad, and making gestures as if saying - Get the hell outta here! - how could I have known that they are trying to set a fire on the bar? Good that I was pulled back at the very last moment. Otherwise, the bar could have had a free kebab party that night. And a half-naked girl that came later on the bar could be dancing vicious cannibal dances around a good cooked Firdavs meat. Anyway, I liked the bar very much. It has a good music and atmosphere, good expensive drinks and cocktails. Another hint from me.
And on Sunday, me, Nicolas, and Veronica went to Schoenbruen Palace after being almost two months in Vienna. It is one of those big tourist attraction sites, one has to visit while in Vienna. For its beautiful 1441 rooms, a museum, gardens and the zoo. The Kaiser tried to build a "modest one" palace that would look like the one in Versailles. He did a good job. It is indeed magnificient, especially the gardens. I also liked feeding squirrels in the park. These squirrels are not afraid of people, cause people keep on feeding them with nuts, which is then eventually stolen by evil crows.
Last week's adventures:Last week on Friday I went to the UN bar with all the other interns, as it is a normal thing to do for us, that is assemble, socialize and drink cheap drinks. I don't usually go to the UN bar during the week, because I am always tired and then I have my Arabic courses I am doing for fun (It is indeed fun to go to these courses, first-because they are for free, second-because it gave me more self-esteem after I was put into the Group 7, which is the highest they have to offer (though for me to start speaking Arabic I need to go through 3 more groups at least :- )). Anyway, back to the UN bar. I was supposed to have a couple of drinks, then to go for the dinner with some Japanese interns, unfortunately i was late by 15 minutes, and they were gone already, I wonder if they were fasting, not to be able to wait 15 minutes. What-What? It is mere 15 minutes people! So after waiting for 30 minutes at the place, I went to join the other interns for clubbing. Of course, I had nothing to eat, and then we went to the famous second ring, where you have a lot of disco-bars under the bridge where actually the underground trains run. We did 5 discos in one night! Soft rock, Hard Rock, chicka-por-favor-kind-one, techno and then i-dont-remember-anymore one. Closer to morning we decided to take a taxi back home. I wish we just waited 15 minutes till the first U--bahn. When the timer in the taxi started showing more than 30 euros, Veronica and Nicholas got furious, and asked for the taxi-driver to stop immediately, saying he is cheating and then Veronica refused to pay any money. Taxi-driver started kinda shouting at her, she started shouting at him using nice f-words. Damn, i should have noted some of them down for future uses. I think she wanted him to beat her or something, because I was sure she was keen on having a big issue next day in the newspapers. I stayed rather calm...mine small fish. So, I simply followed our superpower Veronica, for another mile followed by the taxi. In the end that what was supposed to happen happened. Three police cars came in 10 minutes. Six policemen surrounded us. It was like in Hollywood films, but worse and real. I will be writing for my blog from the police cell, I was gonna say, but they turned out to be noisier than really tough. To be precise they even called for another taxi for us. Btw, I noticed how they changed when we started speaking English, smart of us. Though, I wish something really nasty would happen. Headlines: UN working American and her companions from African Golden Ghana and Muslim Communist Uzbekistan refused to pay for a cab or this kind of stuff (if you have better sounding headlines, plz, do leave in the comments :-). Next day was horrible, because I woke up around one o'clock and remembered that I have not been eating for 24 hours and only drinking. I was sick, my hands were shaking. I was simply done. It is the only time you wish you were dead and did not suffer. Even a glass fell off my hands and broke in IKEA families-only-cafeteria, causing me a big embarrassment in front of a bunch of kids, who made the look I will never forget. Bloody adults...
After all that, the conclusions and decisions made were: not to go to the UN bar anymore, as its cheap prices are the source of all troubles. Not to go out at all. The Finnish do drink a lot. Hard rock discos are not for me. Avoid expensive Viennese taxis. Dont go to IKEA cafeteria. And in the light of the same conclusions made last week, TO KEEP STRONGLY IN LINE WITH THEM!
So that is all I wanted to report to you.
See you soon in Fulda!
Firdavs.
PS: Does anyone know a good room in Fulda? I just realized I don't have a room in Fulda anymore.
To my very big surprise last week there was an article on the CNN, which friend Veronica forwarded to me, telling about Angelina Jolie's comments on that same photo. (What a coincidence!:-)
Everyone knows she is a goodwill ambassador of the UNHCR, UN agency for refugees, and that same photo caused anger of hers.
