A lot of stuff has happened since I last posted here – most importantly, I am no longer living in Italy. Three weeks ago, I took my stuff and moved up to Berlin (yes, the one in Germany). Currently Ingrid just has a tiny room here, and we’re in the process of looking for a proper place to live. Which means that the new address and stuff will be coming up soon, for those to whom it may concern.
Fun how the internet can give you a first-hand look at what’s going on in the world. Take our foreign minister to-be, Guido Westerwelle: You can find this video how he refuses to speak English to an British reporter at his press conference.
If you check the press, they will talk a lot about if he can speak the language or not. Conservative paper “Die Welt” talks about that he needs to speak his mother tongue to get the nuances right. I almost fell of my chair.
Get it straight: The problem isn’t that he refused to speak English. The problem is that he couldn’t refuse without looking like an arse and, above all, that he was completely unable to answer a simple question, even in his mother tongue.
Please Guido, grow up. Until now, here in Italy, these little videos were always about Silvio. But watch this video of Berlusconi, where he insults the German MP Schulz and the entire European parliament, and compare it. This was one of the most outrageous moments of his career (well, one of many). But at least, while coughing up all this horseshit, he manages to not appear lobotomized. Sigh.
Auch von hier unten verfolge ich noch manchmal was in Germanenrepublik von sich geht. Nicht das es hier uninteressant wäre. Aber aus der Nähe ist es weniger lustig mit dem Silvio als von der anderen Seite der Alpen aussieht. Das hebe ich mir für ein andermal auf.
Aber immerhin: In Deutschland gibt es auch lustige Leute. Den Herrn Ackermann von der Deutschen Bank zum Beispiel – der ist gerade an allem schuld. Er kann einem fast ein bisschen leid tun. Verzichtet er auf seinen Bonus, ist es nicht recht – verdient hat er den ja sowieso nicht. Behalten wäre natürlich auch nicht so gut angkommen. Auf jeden Fall stehen die Tatort-Komissare Schlange um ihn zu verhaften. Wahrscheinlich könnte er sogar ins Kloster nach Tibet gehen, es würde nichts helfen.
For those of you who didn’t install Google earth: It’s also possible to view my new location on Google Maps.