Foreigners / Tujci

It has been a lovely two days. We had visitors. Paula`s sister Petra and her partner Aleš came for a one day visit on their way back from a Hannover WV beetle convention. Having people for a visit was great. The kids were excited, they could barely calm down, they were so happy to see some other face than mine and Paula`s. And it was what I needed, someone to go out with, drink beer and trash Slovenian politics and the general situation, while comparing it to the German superior situation. While discussing the Slovenian matters I found that I spoke of Slovenia as a foreign country. I felt like an old man giving advice on how we do it better here (in Germany) and how Slovenia has lost its compass. Like I am any more German than Brad Pitt could speak Italian in this scene of fabulous movie Inglorious Basterds:

How easily it is to become elevated, how easy it is to be exalted about »another« country`s situation. And I haven`t even done the 20 steps of becoming a German yet:

http://venturevillage.eu/how-to-be-german-part-1

All I have to say about it is, that we have had a couple of beers before, so I was of unsound mind. And feeling cocky. Well you can`t blame me, I am unsocialised for I have been secluded from grown up society for so long – a whole month :).

Back to the visit. We had a great time. Petra and Paula did some sister bonding. The guys went to conquer the town, which is even prettier during the night. There are so many lights, young people having civilized fun; the park is so quiet, the ducks sleeping on the bank). It was nice. We had Zwickl in original glasses that are awesome. Like true Balkan people the first thought we had was about how to steal the glass. We didn`t because Germans don`t do that. And when in Germany…

Gorgeous and tasty Zwickl. / Prelep in dober Zwickl.

What one can buy in German toilets. / Kaj se lahko kupi v nemških WC-jih.

This is how they celebrate May 1 st in Bayreuth. / Tako praznujejo 1. maj v Bayreuthu.

In the evening, when we came home, we watched the movie Perfect Pitch (Paula has seen it at least fifty times – that is her talent. She can watch a movie she likes countless times – other favourites of hers are The Notebook, Constantine and Cool as Ice (I know, I know, but what can I do)). And in it there is this song from a band called Foreigner. I don`t know why I haven`t googled this band on any other 49 occasions of watching this movie with Paula (yeah, Paula likes to share her enthusiasm). When I did, I realised that I do not know a band of which music I basically grew up on. Everybody who is a kid from 80`s and 90`s knows these songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgo_wNeBypA Although this one became famous because the sample was used in a not so recent hit.

Foreigners rule, who would have thought – like us, here in a foreign country looking on the troubles of home from afar.

Tujci Slovenci v Nemčiji:

Minevata prelepa dva dneva. Imeli smo obiske. Paulina sestra Petra in njen partner Aleš sta nas obiskala na poti nazaj iz Hannovra, kjer sta bila na srečanju VW hroščev. Imeti obiske je super. Otroka sta se tako razveselila, da sva ju komaj pomirila, tako sta pogrešala druge obraze in družbo. In obiska je bil ravno kar sem rabil, malo moške družbe, malo odraslega pogovora in malo piva. V pogovoru sva se dotaknila tudi slovenske situacije, kjer sem sam lahko predstavil boljšo situacijo tukaj v Nemčiji. Med pogovorom o slovenski situaciji, sem se vmes začel zavedati, da o Sloveniji govorim kot o tuji državi. Počutil sem se kot izkušen Nemec, ki daje nasvete drugi državi o tem, kako izboljšati situacijo in odpraviti problem. Kot, da sem vsaj približno Nemec, sem toliko Nemec, kot je Brad Pitt strokovnjak za Italijanski jezik na zgornjem posnetku iz filma Inglorious Basterds.

Kako z lahkoto postaneš vzvišen in pameten o problemih “druge” države. In to še preden sem sploh opravil 20 korakov od navodil “Kako postati pravi Nemec” (glej povezavo do zgornjega bloga).

Vse kar lahko rečem v svojo obrambo je, da sva pred tem spila nekaj piv, zato sem bil neprišteven. In nadut. Ne morete mi zameriti, saj sem bil predolgo brez odrasle družbe –  en cel mesec ;).

Če se vrnem k obisku… Imeli smo se super. Petra in Paula sta okrepili sestrske vezi. Fanta pa sva osvojila mesto, ki je še lepše ponoči. Imajo tako veliko luči na pravih mestih, veliko mladih se zunaj civilizirano zabava, v parku pa je tako spokojno, zraven pa še račke spijo na bregovih potoka. Bilo je fino. Pila sva Zwickl iz izvirnih kozarcev, ki so pravi lepotci. Kot prava Balkanca sva takoj začela razmišljati, kako bi se lahko polastila kakšnega kozarca, kar pa sva hitro opustila. Nemci tega ne počnejo in, če sva ravno v Nemčiji, delajmo kot Nemci delajo.

Zvečer, ko sva se fanta vrnila iz pohoda, smo pogledali še en film Pitch Perfect (popolni posluh v prevodu, ki ga je Paula videla že vsaj 50 krat – en od njenih talentov. Lahko gleda en in isti film neštetokrat – drugi takšni filmi so The Notebook, Constantine in Cool as Ice (saj vem, ampak kaj naj naredim)). V tem filmu je ena pesem, ki jo v izvirniku izvaja skupina Foreigner (tujec). Ne vem zakaj nisem googlov te pesmi med kakšno od 49 priložnosti ob gledanju filma (Paula pač rada deli svoje navdušenje nad filmom z drugimi). Ko pa sem jih končno Googlav sem spoznal, da sploh ne poznam glasbene skupine ob glasbi katere sem praktično odrasel. Če ste otroki 80 ih ali 90 ih, si poglejte zgornje povezave do videospotov in vam bo takoj vse jasno.

Tujci (Foreigner) so zakon, kdo bi si mislil – kot mi, tukaj v tuji državi, ko gledamo težave doma od zelo daleč.