Death by Flying Coins

Here follows "actual Europe". As requested. (29/5)



Ow. Headache.

My hair is poofy. Very poofy. It has "volume". It was worse yesterday after I washed it. I guess it's the different climate. I had it cut short for the sake of not needing to get it cut whilst in a non-English speaking country, but it seems to have doubled in size.



The napping on th plane did not work as a woman in front of me wanted to put her chair back as far as it would go, until it was on my head. How far back to those things go?

Excuse me, mam, but your seat is in my supper.



The flight from Singapore to Munich was really long. I noticed every hour going by and when I thought I had been asleep for ages, it had only been twenty minutes! And then it was all pain and fidgeting. I did watch these two interesting foreign films, and ye-gods, did I just use the term foreign to describe non-Hollywood movies? It must be the jet-lag.



(1) Exam. A British film, by a Mr. Hazel-something.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/
An interesting film on social reaction experiments. Reminded me of Das Experiment. Some of the acting was only so-so, but the characters were interesting. More proof that Hollywood isn't making the interesting movies.

(2) 14 Blades. Chinese.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442571/
It was like Lone Wolf and Cub meets Wuxia Pan. It was crazy.

By the by, Munich airport doesn't sem to have any immigration checks or declaration of goods. If anyone wanted to smuggle something in, I don't know where they'd stop you. A guy checked my passport but I didn't get a stamp. I'm technically not here.

Staying with brother's girlfriend Alina. Her place is nice, modern and cosy. Paul speaks only German with her and she speaks only German to me. I can follow her well enough, but at the moment, replying is difficult. I'm either responding with only a few words at a time or in well-constructed sentences a few minutes after she asked the question. There's usually an awkward silence or two. Thankfully, I'm not thinking too much about my sentence construction, but my vocab needs to catch up. But I can follow a conversation okay.

Also, I have not asked anyone the way to the train station yet. Although if I did, I wouldn't need them to show me how to get a ticket, because apparently they are unnecessary. According to some. That said, Munich is expensive and we take public transport all the time. On tram ride, for the whole of two blocks, costs €2,40. That's NZ$4.80! Ridiculous.

Also, people seem to throw money at you. Paul and I picked up breakfast before catching the train. After I paid my money, the woman behind the counter flung the change into this little glass square with a depression in the middle that sits atop the counter. One must reach up to gather the coins out of the bowl, whilst avoiding customers. It's troublesome.

Also, things I've noticed about Germany: the dawn chorus of birdsong starts at 3:30am.

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