Give it 2 me

Le penseur

I was terribly busy last week, mainly because of a series of meetings at Nokia: company’s introduction, legal aspects, employee’s benefits explanations and all this stuff. A lot of Finnish employees were attending too and it was funny to listen to their accent We also had a sort of short cultural introduction, although I didn’t really need it since I already have a couple of Finnish friends.

I spent the whole weekend with Christian. It was really nice: he cooked for me (I’m totally spoiled, I guess I will never learn how to prepare a decent meal), I spent all my money at the boutiques on Ku’damm, I let my nipple piercing being stretched… and the fun suddenly ended I was not expecting that the operation would have been even more painful than getting a new piercing Unfortunately for Christian, I was a bit, let’s say, grumpy for a couple of hours… But the evening was really relaxing, with some good food and a couple of movies.
On Sunday we strolled around Berlin, mainly Gendarmenmarkt, Scheunenviertel, Unter den Linden and Potsdamer Platz. Because of some military parade, Straße des 17. Juni were totally closed and the city felt incredibly empty, it was an awkward feeling. At least I saw the recently (obviously on July 4th) opened American embassy which finally completes the Pariser Platz complex around the Brandenburger Tor, landmark which has been gently forbidden for Mr. Obama’s speech planned for Thursday. They said that only official state representatives are allowed to use the famous spot… He will eventually use the Siegessäule and one million visitors are expected to fill the Tiergarten around it.