Ner.d.

Alright. Well I'm staying. Honestly. I was formally accepted to my school last week after an entrance exam, and I finished my final exhibitions yesterday so it's done. Somewhat like dinner. I start school again at the end of Sept and until then, I'm moving to a tiny island in Northern Germany called Sylt and working at a circus school teaching children. That about sums up life. I feel you need to be informed about my new found home, now that it's official. I'm also a nerd, and do this kind of stuff in my free time, and decided to post it instead of telling everyone my facts in person. Here we are.


Vernon to Hamburg:

68844.4 football fields
8.26132e+6 yards
152062 pools
4.43840e+6 smoots
1.64179e+7 πεχυα
4078.92 nautical miles
8.03650e-10 light years
1.39833e+7 black cubits

You can fit 27.96661821013329.....etc Germany's into Canada: 9,984,670 km² (Canada's size) 357,021 km² (Germany)

Canadas population: 33,315,000
Germany's population: 82,217,800

• After Irish, Germans are the second biggest consumers of beer in the world. The average beer consumption of the country is 119 liters per person per year.
• Angela Merkel, elected in the 2005 elections, is first woman chancellor of Germany (she's a big football fan too, heh)
• Berlin became home to the biggest train station in Europe in the year 2006.
• Football is the most popular sport in Germany and ‘The German Football Association’ is the largest association of its kind in the world.
• German Autobahn is the oldest, and one of the densest, motorway networks in the world.
• Germany...
• became world’s first country to adopt Daylight Saving Time (DST), in the year 1916.
• is a member of NATO, G8, G4 Nations and the European Union (EU).
• is one of the few countries of the world where Holocaust Denial has been declared as a crime.
• is the homeland of numerous renowned scientists and theorists. They include Albert Einstein, Max Plank and Werner Heisenberg.
• is the largest economy, and the second most populous nation, of Europe.
• In case of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages; shipbuilding and textiles, Germany is the largest producer in the world.
• Many great philosophers of the world, like Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger, were German.
• The tallest church in the world, Ulm Cathedral, is in Germany. It is 161.53 meters (530 feet) high.
• The Wurzburg Residence of Germany boasts of housing the largest fresco ceiling in the world, measuring 7287 square feet and done by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian painter.
• World's most colorful caves (as per Guinness Book of Records), Fairy Grottoes, are in Germany.

Hamburg <3>Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg).

• 1,8 million inhabitants – second largest city in Germany
• an average of 340.000 visitors per day
• 6,44 million overnight stays in 2005
• 20,7 million business dayly-visitors
• 8% of the city area are waterways
• 22% take up modern and historic park grounds
• Hamburg is the third largest Musical city in the world

Me being silly:

Time Zone: GMT+1 ( daylight savings: GMT+2 )
Country Code ( telephone ): 49
Area Code: 40

Currently Hamburg has 79 museums.
Hambubrg has nearly 4o theaters.

41% of inhabitants are Christians, 10% of them being Catholics. Muslims (mostly Sunni) are 12% of the population. About 39% profess no religion. There are also large numbers of Hindus and Sikhs.

Hamburg is the birthplace of the Hamburger. This is not a myth. The beef patties a German immigrant from Hamburg sold in the 1850s in New York allegedly were named after the butcher and then became a generic term.

Hamburg is famous for kicking off the Beatles' musical career in the early 1960s. They often played at the Star Club located in the St. Pauli district.

Hamburg is the birthplace of Alsterwasser (a reference to the city's river Alster with two lake-like bodies in the city centre thanks to damming), a type of shandy, a concoction of equal parts of beer and carbonated lemonade (Zitronenlimonade), the lemonade being added to the beer and has me mildly enthralled.

The many canals in Hamburg are crossed by over 2500 bridges, more than Amsterdam and Venice ombined. Hamburg has more bridges inside its city limits than any other city or town on Earth.

Lastly but not least...

The longest German word verified to be actually in (albeit very limited) use is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. [which, literally translated, breaks up into: Rind (cattle) - Fleisch (meat) - Etikettierung(s) (labelling) - Überwachung(s) (supervision) - Aufgaben (duties) - Übertragung(s) (assignment) - Gesetz (law), so "Beef labelling supervision duty assignment law".]

*sigh* I'm in love.

Alright, so here we are and to finish this sucker off, I'm going to woo you with a few photos:

I didn't take any of these by the way, because I'm lazy and instead of editing mine, I decided to borrow...it gives a better idea of Hamburg...or something...I'm just being lazy...

Anyways, thanks to the lovely people on Flickr for lending their arts



THE Hamburg Beer...


Main Station

City Hall


If you take the train on the right, you'll get to my place.
Or take the left and transfer to U2 at Berliner Tor.

On the Harbour