It's me again, after quite a while... But this time I have some plausible excuses.  I was quite busy. I was on the road for more than a week and it all started Wednesday the 12th. That day I went to Berlin to see Josh Ritter again. As much as I was looking forward to see him again, I have to admit that the concert was not as good as the last one I attended.  I think there were several reasons why. First of all, the venue was quite crappy; there was no air conditioning at all and after a while the air got really bad and it got really hot. Then also the lighting for the stage (which was tiny) could not be changed, so the whole thing was some kind of red-light-district.  Another thing was that the concert was broadcasted live on the radio. That might have been a reason why he didn't tell us as many stories in between songs. But I love those stories! And what disappointed me most was that he didn't sing a song totally a capella.  That is always making me shiver. However, he was still fun to watch on stage. The happiness and excitement he shows on stage is so contagious! It's so much fun to watch him play his songs. he is always smiling and giggling like a little kid.  And he said he'll be back in January. I am really hoping for that because I will be there again for sure!

Josh Ritter performing in the "red-light-district" of Festsaal Kreuzberg

I then stayed in Berlin in my new apartment. I got the keys before the concert, so I had a place to say. However, there was nothing, really nothing in there. That was kind of adventurous  I stayed there until Friday and my parents came. We then spent the night with some my Dad's old friends and went to Halle the next morning. That day it was my Dad's and my aunt's (they're twins) birthday. So we had a fun day wit our relatives, but left the next morning again to go to Münster to see my sister. There I had another concert on Monday. Seems like I couldn't get enough that week.  Kristofer Åström was playing there. That was really cool, too. I just love him.  The support act was not the best but still they came back out for an encore. That was weird, but seemingly other people really liked them.  Anyway, Kristofer rocked and only finished after midnight.

Kristofer looking directly into my camera when I took the picture with flash.  Sorry Kris!

But that he finished that late was actually not really good for me because I had to catch a train at 4.26 the next morning to go to Hamburg because on Tuesday I had my knee surgery... Well, I somehow got out of bed and onto the train.  The surgery went well but when I woke up from the anesthesia, I almost got a shock: I had a HUGE brace on my knee. At first I didn't really know why but then the doc came into my room and explained everything. Since they punched little, tiny holes in my knee to force the growth of new cartilage, they had to protect the knee from being bent. So the thing is that I have to wear this brace for the next four weeks.  Until the beginning of next week I can bend my knee only 40° and believe me, that's really nothing! But next week they will change it to 60° and I hope that I will be able to walk a little better than.
But my knee is giving me some trouble now. It is still really swollen and today the doctor said that there is an effusion or something like that inside my knee.  That's really not good, I can feel that because it is putting pressure on my knee and that hurts. So now I have to see a different doctor on Monday (since I will be in Berlin) and today I got some pretty colorful tape on my knee. It looks really cool and is supposed to drain the fluid. I hope it works at least a little!

This week I was busily travelling again. On Tuesday me and my parents went to Berlin to furnish my apartment. That were two quite stressful but also fun days. On Tuesday we got (almost) all the furniture from IKEA and started setting some of it up. Wednesday almost all day we were busily puzzling the furniture together. Of course not everything worked/works absolutely properly but that's IKEA I guess... Well, still my apartment is really cool and I am excited to move in on Monday.  I still don't have a bed, though. They are having delivery problems everywhere in Germany with that bed, so I have to wait about 6 weeks for it and will sleep on only a mattress until then... Can't wait until Monday though!!!

But damn... I just realized that all my earlier pictures won't show up anymore...  I now also figured out why. Some time ago I cancelled my homepage because I only use my blog anyways. However, I didn't know that I have to have a homepage set up in order to be able to upload pictures onto my blog. Hmpf...  I don't think I will have the time and mood to edit all my older entries and put the pictures back up, so it'll stay like that...