Kirmes im Hasenheide Park (Carnival in Hare Heath Park)

Thanks for the spelling Christina...
So, the tandem saga continues. Last week I met Christina for a trip to the Neukölln's carnival in Hasenheide Park for a little amusement park vocab lesson. It turned more into a cultural lesson as I was in turn told off, stared at angrily and serenaded.

We saw cookies with different loving messages on them (some in Turkish). I got the photo off just before being angrily told 'Kein foto.' I learned not to give the thumbs up to the guy working the bumper cars. (He really did do a sweet job parallel parking that thing though!) Apparently thumbs up can be really bad in some countries. He kind of frowned at me, walking away with his blue, but mostly white stonewashed jeans a gait that screamed 'fuck off.' On we went to the Euro Ball game (kind of looked like Skee Ball) and to "Break Dancin': The Ride." We circled back to finally relax for a little beer and a serenade...

The best part of the night was watching a 4 piece band perform classic American songs under a beer tent. With all of 6 people looking on, the leader singer - sweet toupe not to be forgotten - just belted it out. Sadly I didn't capture all of this CCR song, but you get the gist.