April 15th

So not covering the Petits Fours, today... waited waaay too long for that.
Germany's Next Top Model was on and priotities shifted there, haha.

Anyway, conducting(?) a dancing class was pretty fun, we danced the chicken dance and refreshed some disco fox. Aaand we took some photos on my laptop, which I totally left at work. Craap.
After work, Steffi came over and we, wait for it, booked our trip to London!!! Aaaaaamaaazing!!!
From June 19th to June 24th, 5 lovely days and hopefully not too rainy!

Oh my God. I just realized. Oh no. In July, have 2 festivals in one weekend. Craaaaaap!!!
There's "Songs on a summer evening" in Bad Staffelstein/Banz' monastery and Ankerberg and they're on the same weekend. My mom got tickets for Banz and we're going with some friends of hers... it would be my first time and we'd be camping... Ankerberg is a rowdy heavy-drinking kind of festival on a raceway near Chemnitz, I'd sleep at a friends' house (whichever one) and it'd be my third time there... Oh and I'd be going with a big group of friends...
Craaaaaaaap I don't knoooooooooooowwwww!!!!!! I have no idea which one to go to. My mom got the tickets as a present and, I mean, she can take whomever she wants and she asked me if I'd want to, but if she has someone else who needs a card... I won't be in her way. I love the music there and I always watch that festival on tv, but it has never, since I started watching it, been on the same weekend as Ankerberg!
As a person who cares too much and feels overly protective of their friends, I would much rather go to the Ankerberg festival, because I know they're gonna be drunk as heck and do all kinds of stupid stuff (helloooooo kiss of last year and hellooooooo sprained ankle. and mud. lots of mud and rain.) and I'd feel much better when knowing that they're safe.
But also, as a person, who enjoys good music and the sight of Bodo Wartke playing the piano (*drool giggle awe*), I would also love to go to this indie sitting-on-plastic-bags-with-a-bottle-of-wine festival. BUT it's camping.
Ankerberg is just dirty. You go home, take a shower and cuddle up in blankets after the party is over...
Banz is freezing your butt off, sleeping in a tent next to your mom and her friends and feeling gross and dirty kind of thing...
As I said, I'd do both, but since they are on the same weekend... I would probably miss out on Banz for the sake of my friends' well-being. I know how they can get. Yeees, they'll survive without me... but why count on it? In Banz, I'd be worried all night if they all got home safe and didn't end at the ER at 3 a.m. with a sprained ankle, like Andy did, last year. Last year was fun, no doubt. I enjoyed it, it was awkward at times, REALLY awkward twice and stressfull in the end... but everyone, including me, had an absolute blast.
Recently, I looked at pictures I took last year with some people there and some of the guys I had barely met, are now know so well.
Take AJ. I had met him once before at a club and I remember us talking about what it matters where you come from and how it changes the way people look at you. Really interesting and I remember thinking 'Oh wow, he's ACTUALLY smart! Much smarter than the rest of the bunch.' At the festival, we took a picutre with some other friends. Now, almost a year later, when Andy is being an ass to me and AJ hears about it, he steps in for me, tells Andy off and tells me that I deserve so much better :) We've grown closer together totally without any kind of physical relationship, a situation I prouldy smile upon, because it's so perfect that way. And he started dating one of my best friends, Mäddi, too, which is very very nice to see. They're so effin' perfect, haha.
Andy and I last year, compared to this year, is just a whole new level. Ankerberg-friday at, say 8p.m., we were best friends, met at a party through friends, started chatting online, hardly met each other again for years. At maybe midnight, I knew the time of this sweet innocence in this friendship would soon be over and now it's just way too different from back then.
With Helge, it was just like with AJ. He was my best friend's best friend and that was it. I met him the same evening I met AJ and I know he liked my curves, that's all. Now, I'd say we're good friends and I care a lot about him.
So weird, all the things that can change in the matter of just one year. The crazy stories of my life...