We were having a near life experience.....

(Weimar, Germany, June 13)
Weimar was voted to be one of Europes cultural capitals a couple years back.. when this is told to someone, well it gives you the impression that its going to be quite amazing.. well i hate to burst your bubble.. NOT so much actually.. but i dont know how much of that is truely Weimars fault.. back at the orientation we were told that we would be left alone to wander aimlessly around on our feildtrips.. the exact words.. "we have learned from past lessons, that touring with large groups is really hard.. people always go astray".. generally when you say that you have learned from a lesson.. that means you wont make it again.. well guess what.. wrong.. it means we will get you the most awkward tour guide EVER.. he was pretty much afraid of his own shadow... and he can tour you around weimar.. so perhaps my hate for Weimar was the tour guide.. which by the way was ditched as soon as humanly possible.. (does that make me a bad person?).. to let you people know how special weimar was.. president Obama visited the buchenwald concentration camp which is about 10 minutes from wiemar the previous thursday.. in the end i aimlessly wandered around.. found some naked statues.... oh. and the germans never mow the grass... the grass in the parks was like 6 inches.. and people just chillin out.. it looked overgrown to me.. i guess not.. the naked statues also did not complain...

(Erfurt, Germany, June 13)
all of the titles for my posts are relevant.. (they are also all song lyrics taken from my ipod) but to this point.. none so much as now.. i truely did experience a near life experience while chilaxing in the main square.. i had just finished a turkish donair.. which are quite good.. i had never tried one before this trip.. and at the moment i was finished eating i think i was tripping out.. drugs.. it was totally a laced donair.. lsd probably.. anywho.. let me get to the point.. there were 3 buddhist girls walking to the square at about the same time i was.. they were complete buddhist girls.. they had the bags.. the shoes.. the pants.. the shirts.. complete.. and super cute to boot.. although it could have been the buddhist aura that attracted me.. who knows.. at this point in the afternoon the square was all but vacant.. besides the rats with wings.. there was these three buddhist girls.. and a longboarder.. and this square is huge... comparable to nothing i have ever seen..

on goes the ipod.. random songs... PoDdys tunes playlist.. on comes Raine Maida - yellow brick road.. at literally the same moment as the song.. one of the girls gets up and starts practising fire twirling... and the longboarder surfing around the square.. it may sound really odd.. but while the song played i watched the events unfold in front of me as if in a dream state.. the world slowed at that moment, the fire twirlers streamers slowly moving through the air in complete unison.. the longboarder seemed in supsended animation as he fell to the ground after he turned too tightly...and the chorus of the song reverberated in my ears.. "if i know now what i knew then, id back up do it all again.." for one song.. the world stopped.. and i had a moment unlike any i have ever experienced before.. probably the closest to clarity i have ever been.. that one moment justified my trip, and many doubts that lurked in my mind...

there could be many explanations for this event.. one being the laced donair.. perhaps the positive memories i can associate with all the elements involved.. the fire twirlers in thailand.. the long boarder.. well i think it reminds me of surfing.. which i have always wanted to do.. and had seen done on longbeach on vancouver island.. and the song.. i have great memories associated with it.. although that appears to be an explanation i remain uncertain as to why that happened.. but i can still even now as i write this down visualize with great detail that moment in time....