Extra! Extra!

Read all about it - yours truly was in a German newspaper! Check out the link here.

(this is the photo you would've seen if you'd clicked the link above)

The gist of the story is that my roommate's boyfriend and some of his colleagues are opening a cultural center in this building on Jakobstrasse where an old bar used to be. The center's going to be called the Gauss Haus, after the Carl Friedrich Gauss (click on the name to read more about the man), and it's going to offer a place where people of all ages and cultural backgrounds can meet to hang out and learn stuff. There'll be language learning classes (English, Arabic, German, etc.), math workshops for kids (led by my roomie), multi-culti breakfasts and movie nights ... it's gonna be mad cool and exactly what I want in my life right now.

I've been helping to get the place ready for the actual opening in February by painting walls, scrubbing floors, and drinking tea (tea breaks - I'm union, you see. We gotsta have our breaks). What's funny is that some little old men keep coming by the haus and staring in the windows because they didn't know that the bar (which closed down and whose space we now occupy) isn't there anymore. So, they keep trying to come in and ask for a beer. And we're there, covered in paint, like, "Well ... we're not that bar anymore, but if you come back in a week you can learn about astronomy!" And they're out the door ...

(PS: Link to the Gauss Haus website on the left-hand side.)