Hamburg - Day One

Hamburg - Day One

Here comes my traveller's diary of my School Trip to Hamburg from July, 8th to 11th.

8th of July. 4:45 AM

"Holy fuck! Why do I have to stand up that early?
Ye, right. School trip. You just do that once in your life, so pull yourself together and get outta bed now."

But I wasn't the only one with these feelings. Except for me 25 other people (and their drivers) had to get up at that inhuman time. Later we moved off to a near village, because we gave a friend of mine - called Meli - a lift, so not everyone had to drive alone to the 25 km far away school. There we met the others and our two accompanying teachers - Mr. S. and Mrs. K.. Against my expectations everyone seemed quite wide awake.

At that day it was one of my mates (Jasmin) seventeenth birthday.

Then we were getting into the bus. Our driver Thomas seemed to be a nice guy, considering he didn't moan when we started singing the "Tunnel-Lied" (tunnel-song) which means singing "Tunnel, Tunnel, Tunnel, Tunnel, Tunnel, if you drive in it gets dark and if you drive out it's getting light again" for the whole time you drive through a tunnel. That's kind of a tradition of our class xD We managed to sing for 8 km in the Rennsteigtunnel (Germanys longest street tunnel). Go we!

The music selection of our guys in the bus will be listed later. But I'll say that much: loud.music.drinking.8hours.nonstop

8th of July, 8:30 AM

We had been driving for 2:30 hours now. And some guys were already drunk! At least Flo said he was. And I do believe him in that point. They drank vodka mixed with coke and other strange combinations, because the teachers weren't supposed to notice that they brought alcohol. During that time my mate Katja and I talked and played games to kill the time (we had to drive 8 hours to Hamburg). We couldn't be arsed to be drunk that early!

8th of July, 2:30 PM

We finally arrived at our hotel. We had a room with 6 beds. Because we (Katja, Meli, Jasmin and me) were only four people, you can imagine that we had a lot of space for making a lot of mess. Later we planned a harbour tour. Hamburg is famous for having the largest German harbour, the second largest harbour of Europe and the eighth largest of the whole world.
It was just a bit sad that it rained the whole day (Well, it's always raining there!).

8th of July, 6:30 PM

We got some free time to spend in small groups. Because we haven't eaten anything proper til that, we decided to search for a restaurant or something. And because Jasmin has already been to Hamburg this year she knew where a cheap but good restaurant was.
So we ate directly next to the Alster (river in Hamburg). Of course I had to eat fish, because Hamburg is especially famous for fish. I went for salmon with pasta and a white wine sauce and asparagus. The whole dinner was brilliant, the salmon tasted excellent (even if I weren't able to recognize that there was any asparagus on my plate).

Later that evening we went back to the hotel. There at least half of my class decided to visit us in our room. In the end we were about 10 people sitting in one room and talking about stuff and you wouldn't even wanna know about what we talked. xD

9th of July. 0:45 AM

We finally kicked our classmates out and went to bed. That was our first and 19 hour long day.

tbc.