[Lapjos]

To follow the new trend of posting photos of one's home I would like to post photos of my home :-] btw thats in the South-West of Germany

I think it would be a good idea that theres a new thread for every country. So that there are threads with pictures from Finland, Sweden, France etc. and in this case Germany. Like a kind of virtual culture tour

So, Germans post your pics



This shows the very beginning of the Black Forest. The photo was made from a watchtower 547 m above sealevel.



Here's plenty of 'Fachwerkh�user'



Another one



My neighbour's house. App. 20 % of the houses in my village are 'fachwerkh�user'

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[Lapjos]

A little variety



That's our house



Overview over the centre of my village. Looks like the total opposite of Shizos and Gimbal8s quadratical right-angled appartement blocks

I hope more pics and threads will follow

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[[Shizo]]

Awsome place! Your house is big ;)
You should take pics of "lifestyle", it's hard because you're used to it and dont see anythign exciting about it.

[Coaster]

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Wow, your pretty short

[Lunatique]

Wow, very different feel. I would love to live in Europe. . ..

[Rat]

I wanna be there!!!! Especially seeing as how it's sunny in the pics, and pouring rain here...

[edraket]

Cool man!
You live near the Black Forest?
Thats really neat man. Soem pictures of regular stuff would be nice. Like..what you eat or where you shop or something.
But nice pictures.

My pictures are coming up. I still can't use ftp on my server and I don't feel like uploading it through the webinterface thingie.

[Lapjos]

Ok, more pics from my ordinary life here..

What can be more ordinary than school?



Well, you have to do something sensible during math class Shot through the hole of my folder

Alas I didn't make photos from the party of this course...would have been funny



We dissected fish heads in biology and as it is not good to waste food we ate the rest of it afterwards



Notice the vine bottle on the right side. Alcohol in school, take this you dried up americans

[Lapjos]

More pics...



German mailbox....you know, I think a mailbox is like a point of no return. You have a letter, maybe an application and are standing in front of this yellow thing. You can either go back and edit your whole letter or say it is done, throw it in and hope that luck is on your side.



Well, it's a garbage can. The black colour means that it is for things like...eh..wait a second, just have to check...trash seperation is so automized that I dont think about it any more. Ok, there's socks in it and some old food.
The green one (not visible) is for paper things while the yellow one (also not visible) is for things like plastics.



German car number. The D is for Germany (Deutschland), the next row of letters indicates the region your from. It can vary from one letter for big regions or cities like Cologne (K) or Berlin (B) to two letters for middle-sized regions like Offenburg (OG) and three letters for small ones like Northeim (NOM). There are some exceptions, e.g. Hamburg is big, but nevertheless their plate starts with 'HH', that means 'Hansestadt Hamburg' (Hanseatic City of Hamburg).
The second row of letters usually consists of the initials of the car's owner, in this case HL for Heinrich Leitermann.
The numbers have no other meaning than to enlarge the number of possible combinations
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[Lapjos]

What I eat???



Today it was this for breakfast. Short baguettes with nut-nougat creme on them.
Usually I eat this or cornflakes with milk and yoghurt. For drinking there's tea or o-juice. Most Germans prefer a sweet breakfast over a stout one with sausages, meat etc.




My desk. It is quite messy



Here I usually learn and draw.


So, that was it for the moment
Hope you enjoyed your tour

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[horstenpeter]

Hey neat pictures you're capturing our region well there

Love your thoughts on the mailbox, I know I've felt that way a million times (Same with the send button in the mail program ).

I wish I had a digicam, could add some fun stuff from over here.

BTW what kind of russian book do you have on your desk ? You people learning russian ?

Like the pic of the fish as well, the blurring makes it look even more violent.

[Lapjos]

Hi Horstenpeter,

Aren't you from the North?? It's a real pity that you don't have a digicam, it would give a broader picture of our country :]

Yes, I am learning Russian, but not in school. There's no school here that offers this language, so I attend the Russian courses at our local community college (VolksHochSchule). I just have started so I can't speak much and I am not learning it by hard as it is not that necessary for my upcoming adventure. I will spend next school year in Latvia, so I focus on learning Latvian but as there's a great minority of Russians there it is not that bad to know at least some phrases and words

The Photos are actually for my Latvian hostfamily (alas I dont have one yet) to show them where, with whom and how I live.


Two more. This time it's people. Yeah, they aren't as pretty as Lunatique's cute asian girls but decide yourself



My grandmum



My granddad

[Rat]

Your school looks so much more fun than mine. Okay, maybe not the math class, but we don't even take biology. It's sort of part of science, and the only thing we get to dissect is cow eyeballs (my nonno eats those things!).

Well, enough complaining about my life. That mailbox looks forbidding! It looks like it wants to eat you or something.

Wine in school?? The only time I get alcohol of any description is at home...wine, Kahlua, brandy...only sometimes, though.

[[Shizo]]

Great pics, first ones are very sharp and colorful.
Say.. on zwoderschreibtisch.jpg it had a book that says "K/\|-04|/|" is that Latvians' or you can read Russian? :)

[horstenpeter]

Hey what the hell is going on ? Everybody seems to know stuff about me. Recently somebody recognized my style, even though I can't remember ever posting anything in that style at the place he said he'd seen it

Actually, I'm from the south, I live between Karlsruhe and Pforzheim (a bit closer to Karlsruhe though). I'll be moving to the north (Rostock) likely this summer though, so maybe you read about that somewhere.

Anyways, I'll see whether I can dig up some old pictures tomorrow, or maybe I can convince a friend to lend me his cam for a day

I still have some pictures from an abandoned army base near Berlin on my server, maybe I'll post those ? They're black & white though.

[[Shizo]]

post army base! that would be leet

[Lunatique]

Finally all of your pics are showing up(only half of them did before).

Man, the European design sense is definitely more pleasing for my taste. I've always wanted to live in Europe.

I love sweet breakfast too! I've been eating a lot of bread with hazelnut cream spread in the morning.

Your granps are pretty too. Old folks have a unique beauty all their own. It's a sense of peace, the aura of wisdom, and a lifetime of stories.

[Coaster]

Actually Rat, remember when those people in Ms. Chungs class got hammered at lunch time until the end of the day? And everyone made them think they got a bunch of people pregnate?

Someone came to class after smoking some marijuana too, I prooobably shouldn't say his name though. He was telling us it was pretty scary, like he was in third person and everything was a cartoon.

*sigh* Its ignorant teachers and stupid students that make life really easy.. exept for in spelling/grammer type classes.

[horstenpeter]

Shizo, most of the pictures of the base were destroyed because my camera broke. So all I got is some of the surroundings.
But I guess you'll like this, it's near the barracks:

[Lapjos]

@Shizo: Priwet!
Yep, I can read Russian as far as the alphabet is concerned. I do have problems with the rest though

@Horstenpeter: Hey, you are living quite close to me (60km) You aren't by any chance from Rastatt or Gernsbach? Some of my relatives are living there.
Maybe you cold take photos of the old town of Gernsbach. It's quite nice there =)

Great photo!! I love the 'sculpture' of the Russian soldier!

@Lunatique: Sorry, that the photos didn't show up before. Actually, this provider is one of fastest ones around and has good overseas connections esp. to the us, though I don't know about the ones to china.

So if you want to live in Europe why are you still in China?!

I agree with you on the design issue.

[Brain]

Sweet piccies dude! Looks like yet another place to visit goes on my list. Very scenic indeed @:-)

And how easy is it to spot the person who's read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? @;-)

[horstenpeter]

Lapjos, no I'm not from those places, though the man I'm taking care of as part of my Zivildienst is from Gernsbach, and my father will work in Rastatt starting this summer

The sister of my grandma lived in Bad Rotenfels, maybe you know that place

I'm from a village called Pfinztal, but there's really no reason for you to know it.

Here's another picture from the army base:


...but that about covers the good ones from there. At least those that survived. I think I'll go there again this summer for the sake of getting it all on film before they tear it down.

I'll see about getting some pictures from the area online, but getting to Gernsbach in the near future is highly unlikely

[Guy]

wow. those are some might sweet photos. i've always wanted to go to Germany and other parts of Europe. now i really want to go.

i think i'll follow this trend and take some pics of the area i live in to share with the rest of you.

[[Shizo]]

ARMY BAZE RULEZ!!! Go take pictures dude, the abandoned army base is a really interesting subject.

Lapjos: privet, brat! :)

[Lunatique]

Lapjos- because there's a super cool girl here, and I can chill out and do my own paintings/make my 3D short film without worrying about money.

[Lapjos]

These are good reasons

More pics will follow the next days.

[UPDATE]I do now have a latvian hostfamily. YEAHHHHH!!!