More pics!

More pictures! This time from last Friday! Enjoy! :D








Friday 5th September 2008 (facebook album)

Pictures

So as it has been absolutely ages since i updated this blog, I shall post a link to pics from last Friday where ye can see what I am up to since I got back which is going out without alcohol (6 weeks on Sunday) and having a laugh! :D







Full album: Friday 29th August 2008

A bit late I know

Well its offical! Im returning to education in a number of days! 27 to be exact! To study what? you ask GERMAN! Yes I am starting beginners German in the College of Commerce for a 10 week course to keep in the habit of learning! Hopefully it will help me get a better grip of the language and allow me to use the language more when I go over for Karnival! :D I'll try and keep ye updated on the lessons!

Yes I know, I'm back from Germany and its a bit late to be starting now but what the heck! :P

I'm Addicted to A German Soap!

Yes, I come back to Ireland and end up addicted to a German soap, which I never saw when I was in Germany! The show in question is called "Verbotene Liebe" (Forbidden Love) it is a fantastic program! Of course I don't watch on TV, i watch it on Youtube with English subtitles! The Youtube only follows part of the story really, the Oliver and Christian one, but that is good in its own right! (Yes it is gay!) I have embbeded the clip that got me addicted! (its all Cillan fault!)

Enjoy!



If you live in Germany, it can be seen Mon-Fri at 6.00pm on Das Erste.

Even the Italians think I'm Italian

So Cork is full of foreign students again all over here to learn English. I don't know why as they cant understand Cork people! Of course this also means a hard time for me as everyone thinks I'm foreign! I have posted about this before about it happening in Germany but over the weekend it bugged me on two occasions and three occasions where it was hilarious! I have blogged about mistaken nationality before, just ignore the bit about the bad German!

So to add to that list we have Hungarian! Yea, I know, a completely new one to bring the total of mistaken nationalities to 15!

So thats story was one of funny ones. One of the lads who works in the Savoy Centre was in with a relative. I was in one of the other parts of the shop and they asked her where did she think I was from, she thought for a while and came up with Hungarian. The lads said yea, but he has great English! So to play along the lads called out to me as "Stefanov", now I didnt hear the name I just say them waving at me. So I came up and they asked me to check to see did we have something in a 32" waist. I replied "I think I have alright upstairs, give me one second there and I'll run up and check". You could catch flies in her mouth! The lads then told her I was actually Irish!

So thats one funny occasion, onto the annoying ones, they are kinda similar so will get them out of the way. On Friday I was out in Rubys and I was a bit drunk having being in instinct before hand. This guy (who I have had encounters with before) stopped me with a hand out for a handshake and introduced himself. I replied, "I'm Stephen", he looked disappointed as I confirmed to him that I wasn't Italian!

Then on Saturday I was using the facilities (i.e. taking a piss) in Instinct when an old guy (I do mean old!!) stood next to me (I hate it when they do that) and asked "Where are you from?" I replied in a thick Cork accent "I'm from Cork", and got the same response! Thankfully I wasn't interested in either of them!

So back to the funny ones! On Saturday I was working when a group of foreign students came in. One of them wanted to try on a shirt. He spoke to me in his native tongue. I replied "Sorry , I don't speak Spanish". He replied by informing me that he was speaking Italian, not Spanish! Most foreign students in Cork are Spanish and I would have recognised French so it was an honest mistake. I of course replied as any Cork person would, "I don't speak that one either!" They actually thought I was Italian!

Then today, I came back up to the main shop from the shoe shop, (try saying that fast) when again the guy from the centre was there with more relatives, this time he asked me "What part of Italy are you from again?". I replied in a thick Cork Accent! "I'm from Cork, like". "Say something in Italian" he asked. "I can't" I replied, "French or German I can do". Then he turned around to his relatives and said, he actually is from Cork and they didn't believe him! I was in stitches!

I also have stories about people thinking I'm straight, but thats for another time!

arrivederci per ora! :D

Steve

German Language

So over the past week I have spoken German, surprisingly quite well, on two occasions I have used German. One was on Saturday night in the franciscan well where I was drinking German beer and suffered the usual German hangover, its too strong I tell ya!

Also today someone said "Dankeschoen" so said "Kein Problem" and then a conversation ensued in German about crocs! never knew my german was good!

SO if you see me talk to me in German people! LOL

Relationship

So a little bit of rant!

I'm in Love. But I cant tell him. Hes heading off to Oz in Jan and he dosent want to be in a relationship so he dosent break my heart. This is making me like him even more!!!! I don't know what to do!

I can't go with him, cause he needs to get away from Ireland and discover himself!

HELP! oder hilfe!!

Work

Well I have a job, surprisingly quickly! I got the job two weeks after I got home after applying for countless jobs online from Germany and while I was here I applied for quite a few jobs which are all getting back to me now and I am in my job now three weeks!

I work now for Zenith for Men, in a clothes shop and a shoe shop, which I know a few girls would nearly orgasm at the site of em!

I love the job so its fun. The lads (and girl) I work with are hilarious! That makes such a difference! I also have cool clothes now! :D

Pics, Pics and Pics - Finally!

So I finally get around to uploading pictures! Yes, I know I'm home over a month at this point but in all seriousness I couldnt look at them until now, even now they are bringing tears to my eyes as I cry looking at pics of the Boys, Koeln, and all my friends in Koeln! Enjoy them!

Rheinpark

Around the House

Going Away Jamesons - Part 1

Going Away Jamesons - Part 2

Going Away - ExCorner

Enjoy and reminise!

I Never Knew I Meant So Much To People

I have stated since I left Germany that I plan on going back there, the problem is, its going to be very hard to that. The reaction of my friends since I got back has really touched me. Its been wonderful been back and meeting everyone again and all the hugs and kisses cause I know I have missed all my friends in Cork, I just didn't realise how much they missed me. This is going to make it so much harder to leave the next time, especially if it is more long/medium-term like I was(?) planning. I will face that when it comes, but it will make that decision so much harder.

Of course I miss all my friends too in Koeln and I will be back for a visit next year, more then likely for Karnival!

But back to my friends here, the things people have said since I got back and being out dancing in Freakscene and Ruby's has made my relationships with my friends so much stronger as I realise how much I appreciated them and what I mean to them. I actually have tears in my eyes writing this. I am not sure why, but it shows how touched I have been!

anyway ciao for now!
Steve
xxx