email from Springe, December 2002
Actually, the Brazil trip report lies first and foremost in the pipeline, awaiting displaced by house hunters rush and settling in Paris in vain for weeks his processing. This does not last forever. As this report is, however, by numerous, hair-raising adventure, a major undertaking, I will confine myself at this point to the most important event of the trip, and then the state of the Things in Paris give priority.
Although it looked at our piranha fishing competition in the Amazon, an agonizingly long and also sweltering day as if Susie would emerge with an impressive record of 13 to a Piranha as a happy winner from it, but I could at sunset the oar a surprise coup at the last second turn things around again. I started with a puny by Susi Piranhas a huge monkey, and exposed to more clearly articulated by their triumph from the Amazon drawn as simple Vorleistungsgut prey. I will not elaborate on them, that Sami, our Indian guide, my catch by catch a baby alligator with his bare hands should be on the same evening a little perspective. One or the other holiday experience is as different depending on whether it describes Susie or me.
However, apart from small rivalry, we were climbing the Sugar Loaf as in Samba dancing in the streets of Bahia, sun-bathing on the beaches of the island of Itaparica as in admiring butterflies on the waterfalls of Foz do Iguazu, a heart and a soul. And even though I succeeded in
old Portuguese tradition, Susi again cunning to lure in the cod trap, and I also had secretly chic ballet slippers in the luggage, while Susie is left out, that applies
my motto, we wanted to limit ourselves to the comfortable but not nice to tourists looking sandals.
Once returned to Germany, I immediately had to throw myself in the difficult housing market in Paris. Tempered by my adventures with Portuguese heartbreakers in the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro and tarantulas in the rain forest, I managed it with such great intrepidity, that even seasoned French deeply impressed by my gripping type, and showed my perseverance. Well, of course, could not know that my uncle sly Ukrainian Georgian medical students, the mice and the brutal caretaker Hell's Kitchen, as well as water beetles of Williamsburg have been cured for all time. Anyone who complains of the Paris housing market reaching
whose prices barely a third of those in Manhattan, and where no one would even think to turn a studio with the help of curtains in a comfortable four-WG, for which I have only a tired smile.
Anyway, I'm successful with my housing search in just two weeks, all cousins put out of my French friend who had to look three months. I am also after the
note of about 300 Phone and house numbers back really strong in mental arithmetic. For old Latins, the French say is not understandable reasons, four times twenty plus seventeen, when my 97
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proved more harm that the French tenancy - hard to believe but true - in renter-friendly than the German. More specifically, it is a prime case for a set of rules that achieved in the effort to protect the supposedly weaker exactly the opposite. A real treat for former colleagues from the College of Law and Economics in Hamburg. To remove a recalcitrant or enabled tenants from the apartment you need in France on average fewer than two and a half years.
This means that a significant part of the Paris apartment rents are non-empty. The daring part of the Paris apartment owner asked his landlord, can those that princely sum to prove tax-free wage income, seemingly absurd security, such as a bank guarantee for an annual rent or a parent as a guarantor of his ability to pay with either
pay slips or income tax returns to has documented.
This claim led to very unpleasant scenes with my father, the secret is his duty as sacred as the members of the National Rifle Association, the American fundamental right to possession and use of firearms. A first peak was in this affair a secret call from my mother, I swore by it I could have the income tax return, if only the father mightest know nothing about it. The final highlight was in a barely disguised threat of war in France
I do not want to play at this point in the text. As a result I could, however, guarantee, together with the income tax return and to extort a long time ago, something bold painted apartment in Paris' trendy Bastille district. Especially in the Turkish household appliance bazaar around the corner I enjoy great popularity as a distant cousin and I each Compelled to visit a coffee, so I can tell the dealer and his friends in peace, where all their relatives are in Germany at home.
The equally dark as unanimous Cassandras of French-hating Americans and Italians in New York and living in Paris foreigners, that French arrogant, are rude and closed people with whom you could not possibly make friends, should prove as groundless as abroad widespread prejudice against Germans. Certainly give a Frenchman with whom one talks to in passing at a bus stop or in a bar, not just their phone number. Even more important is, they simply learned to know not as fast as the much more affable Anglo-Saxons. But that's what we're used to at home. And the beauty about them is that reading their communication codes similar to ours. I mean, if they give you their phone number but then they actually want, that you will meet again.
They are also a different, but incredibly friendly prejudice affirmatively culturel. By Elise I was in an exhibition of Czech art technology, after we had the latest Kaurismäki movie viewing. Sunday we were with her friends in an exhibition by a crazed American artists, the sculptures of frozen Vaseline tinkering, potatoes spread on the floor and a whitewashed
monster with a bloody nose while filming, as it chases a princess with bare buttocks, the lower legs are made of glass. The nice thing of such modern art is that it always produces strong
reactions in parts of the public. You can count on encountering an angry husband, his wife anpfeift angry that he would say nothing at all and he
not know why he should waste his valuable time here as she pleads with him, the voice to cut, because that's all it really is only a matter of aesthetics.
Then we learned at the Museum Café, two Russian painters know that should be very tolerant. My truthful answer to your question about my career - this was after all the other women presented as
Buchbinder interior, graphic designers and geneticists - as they did with a dismissive gesture. This was not a problem that came before in the most distinguished families.
French women may always be trusted only if they want to do in culture. So I went instead prefer to Regis in the Max Beckmann exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. Instead of drinking it struck me then, "Paris by Night" before. This extraordinary Program point was the fact that he me with his car to the most beautiful squares of Paris was driving and told me that are on the roof of the Paris Opera hives at home. We also visited the Paris Ritz and a further fine hotel whose name escapes me. Send to visit hotel's Regis' passion. If you have such good nerves as he and approaching waiters in livery casual means you have not yet decided, while perched on upholstered furniture from the days of Louis XIV, while leafing through bindings from the hotel's library, this is actually a great fun.
In general I think the effort to acquaintance with the opposite sex to be a national sport. To achieve this, the French do not shy away from trouble and no place is holy. My experience so far
most spectacular in this area was the chicken-like southern French, which I breathed in the Louvre in his ear: "C'est magnifique, Botticelli. So cleverly, he was the first step, as clumsy as he was, however, in further pursuit
his advances. Instead of showing a skillful blend of distance and perseverance, he put himself pushing for every shot directly behind me, and revealed to me intimate details ausseinem life. And so I was forced me despite its pleasant appearance, by skillfully and unexpected hooks beating in the hall with the Sienese school to put our relationship after five minutes to an abrupt end. Now I am waiting for the next out in the dig will worship while I just pray the Our Father.
my Dutch boss has developed despite Vorweihnachtsstress and its complex, multi-day meeting with representatives of the statistical offices of member countries, an elaborate plan of how I should throw myself into the
coming months on longitudinal business data in order to fathom company formation, company growth and corporate dying in greater detail. Eventually I made the mistake of this research area as
"business dynamics to describe, "and now I get regular calls from the jump, what it once was because now with this dynamic on safety, with which I was engaged there. The neighbors wanted to know what I'm doing for now just in Paris.
any case, can I be sure I will from my boss now treated with kid gloves after his compatriot Mortein announced Sloops at one of our Christmas dinner after
extensive use French red wine with a sonorous voice, that his hatred of Germany was genetic. This failure was my boss so embarrassed that he then came to my office to get a great deal about apologizing to me, and the although he is a taciturn Frisian otherwise bear, at most times put his head through the door to ask "so far, so good?". But I found that I had defended himself quite well, as I asked the Dutch, as it was actually issued for the Dutch at the last World Cup, I could not even remember her performance.
The Englishman, the first September 2001 as the most important day in his life called, I confirmed that it would do well to win every thirty years times a game against the Germans. The only pity is that this in big games usually wrong decisions the referee is based, and want to set real triumphs are only minor qualifiers, while not afterwards be different than the Germans reached the final. The Flying fists, but then again I could stop by, I refrained to recall various penalty duels, and speak instead on the Sunday market at Place de la Bastille came. When brooding about the ideal preparation of a Rascasse Corey and I could then see each other again. Football rivalries are in principle very well, but you must not go too far.
