Chapter I
Ascents of the King))
My first experience in Germany
The world of the European Union
Friends, we stopped at chapter 11, but I decided to rewrite the first 5 chapters from 1 to 5, since everything is covered with texts. I wrote the text myself so that there would be no confusion. We need to put everything into chapters. I made some corrections, removed the double meaning, some mistakes, some moments in which there is no sense. Actually writing yourself is a difficult task. It is necessary to constantly edit the text, make constant changes and corrections. Plus, you need to add a literary syllable. To put all this together in 1 chapter, which turned out to be not so easy to do in practice. Yes, and I need to sort the text into chapters from chapter 1 to chapter 5. The work on chapter 1 is done!
Of course, it was interesting to go to Germany and learn something about my Prussian roots, about which I didn’t know anything at all, and sometimes I heard some stories about relatives who lived in Germany. I still remembered part of the name of the German city on the Main well in my childhood, and then, when I grew up, I realized that the city was called Frankfurt am Main. There was a certain split in my childhood thoughts from childhood, on the one hand, Russia won the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and, on the other hand, relatives lived in Germany, which created a sense of uncertainty in the adolescent consciousness, but in the end the communist Red Workers’ and Peasants’ Party prevailed and I became convinced a socialist and a communist. At some point, I became neutral towards Germany, reading books and studying the life of the German people, that many things became clear and understandable to me, including why this war of 1941-1945 was and why about 100 million people died.
Yes, in general, the European Union seemed mysterious to me, the mysterious world of a European person, which was interesting. In my parents agreed and it turned out to go to my relatives by blood in Germany to the city of Frankfurt am Main. I have never lived in another family with absolutely strangers, whom I never knew or saw, but although they were relatives, but still, some fears overcame me. Who are these people? I’ve been thinking and thinking a lot, what are they like? I was thinking that I am the same Prussian German as Baba Masha from the neighboring village. I didn’t know German from the word at all and had never been to Germany before, which caused me sarcastic irony. Plus, I have never been a follower of capitalist ideas and rather hated capitalism for its past. Neocolonialism, European colonies, fascism, for centuries European peoples such as: England, France, Germany, Spain and the European Union as a whole lived at the expense of their colonies and parasitized at the expense of slave labor, and even more so all this capitalist negativity gave strength to grow in me the “red idea”, socialism and communism in the Great inner oak of goodness)).
Of course, without any doubt I liked the city of Frankfurt am Main. The financial capital of Germany. A city of skyscrapers and fogs. Yes, our Boeing-747 plane flew up to this city late in the evening and, accordingly, you see a lighthouse in the sky above Frankfurt am Main Airport. A beacon that looks like a giant antenna, possibly for satellite or space communication with a red beacon at its end and you can see it from the fuselage of the aircraft as this red beacon blinks.
Most of all, I liked the old huge, simply gigantic train station of the city of Frankfurt am Main, it surprised and amazed me not only with its size, but also with its accuracy. The German railway system works like a Swiss watch. I don’t remember exactly how many access roads there were now. Maybe 25 access roads, and maybe even more than 50. Covered train station. You come to this station and you get the feeling and impression that it is covered with a dome. A huge number of people come, go and leave at this station with luggage and suitcases. People go everywhere. A lot of people. Hundreds of people. Thousands of people. Here it is important to understand based on your ticket, the number of your peron from 1 to 50, where the train will stand and the time of departure of your train, which is important. The station has two floors. Many different coffees. Small shops. You can also make Western Union money transfers from the station to anywhere in the world. A beautiful German train station. Everything is in stores, where you can buy a cell phone, a SIM card, a paid package of Internet services from 5 gigabytes.
I lived with relatives who welcomed me very warmly. Really happy meeting people I’ve never seen)) I had a 100 percent stupid face and a thought that stuck in surprise)). A lot of food. I had to eat something at the request of these people. Eat and drink)) I guessed that they arranged holidays not only because I came, but also to arrange a holiday in general to get drunk)). Feast. Lots of food. Alcohol. Music. To create an atmosphere of unique fun, but still in fact it turned out to be completely different, since I saw relatives in photos and heard only from my parents’ stories that there was a completely wrong opinion and appearance, but it was still very fun)). Fun and wonderful.
I was a student. Young. Handsome. Sportsman. Actively engaged in sports. The situation itself led me to a certain embarrassment in a completely new environment and atmosphere, but I must pay tribute to the German aunt and German uncle, their hospitality and attitude towards me. I lived in their house. I was allocated a separate room on the second floor, which pleased me and I could close myself off from them)).
I asked what I needed to buy or what products I needed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My aunt told me that I didn’t need to buy anything, that I was their guest and reminded them more of their youngest son, so that I wouldn’t worry and feel at home at their house. I asked any questions, asked, was not shy and was not afraid of anything. German hospitality. The age factor played a big role here. My aunt and uncle are already very grown-up people over 50 years old and I was really more like a son for them. That’s why they constantly tormented me)) and put in an awkward situation. They loved to torment me from the bottom of their hearts and drive me so that I would not relax)). They bought and gave me a jacket, because they thought that I could freeze on the street, because at night at the end of the month of May it was still damp, cold and a rich fog lay on Frankfoot. I was glad, of course, that they bought and gave me a new jacket, which was water-repellent, waterproof. I tried to explain to them that I live 7-8 months when it’s cold, and in winter the temperature in Novosibirsk drops to -40C degrees. Perhaps the translator played a bad role and translated something wrong)). I tried to explain to them that I don’t feel cold or cold wind, that I tolerate cold very well and I didn’t need a jacket, but in the end my aunt insisted that I wear a jacket.
As a result, in the city of Frankfurt itself, I had my favorite places where I liked to walk and walk. The very center of the city of Frankfurt am Main was a huge square, on which there was a restaurant on 3 floors and at the same time there was a single restaurant on 3 floors on the square.
The square itself and the German engineering idea were made very difficult, since the square itself had incredible acoustics. Everything seemed much louder, but your voice sounded different. All this was undoubtedly interesting and mysterious.
What I didn’t like was the prices of housing and apartments in Frankfurt am Main. I found a newspaper left by someone and abandoned on a bench in the park. A newspaper and a journal that someone may have forgotten. As a result, it was interesting to scroll through the German magazine of someone local edition. In general, I was interested in one question: how much does an apartment in Frankfurt am Main cost?
- How much is a house with 2 floors in Frankfurt am Main?
- How much does a large apartment in the heart of Frankfurt am Main cost;
- How much is a small apartment for one person?
Let’s stay, for example, in large apartments from 75 square meters and above 100, that prices beat any records. - 260.000 euros;
- 290.000 euros;
- 340.000 euros;
- 390.000 euros;
- 560.000 euros;
- 610.000 euros;
- 710.000 euros.
The prices are very expensive, I thought that these people really went crazy)). You will work all your life to earn 710,000 euros and buy an apartment, if one life is enough for you at all, working 24 hours a day to earn for this apartment.
Let’s go back to the city center, to the central square and the restaurant that stands on this central square in the direction of Frankfurt. A beautiful place. Excellent cuisine, classic coffee, cappuccino in the end, where I made friends with my first Greek friend. David worked as a bartender and when he came again, David saw a cross on my neck, which indicated that I was an Orthodox Christian, and David was from Greece, and in Greece the main Orthodox Christian faith, which turned out that David and I were co-religionists. Yes, he was Greek by nationality, but Orthodox by faith, since the Greeks are an Orthodox people. The Greek and I were the same age. David was a couple of years older than me. As a result, I asked the Greek to show me the night Frankfurt am Main. What? Where? Where to go? It is advisable to save money. David knew Russian not badly, as he lived and worked in Moscow at one time. I liked to go to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which is located on Volkhonke Street in Moscow. The Greek was a cheerful guy with an incredible sense of humor and he liked my promising idea to get out somewhere on the weekend and light up in the night city.
As a result, we became friends with the Greek and became good friends and comrades. Grpek showed me the part of Frankfurt that I knew myself. A couple of times we went to the Frankfurt am Main train station. The Greek explained to me how the German railway works, that the whole of Germany is divided into lands and how you can save on tickets. Where to go, and where not to go.
For all this useful information that I received from the Greek, I had to put down and treat him in one of the nightclubs in Frankfurt. He explained to me and showed me what a red light street is. We walked along this red light street, where all these transparent windows and windshields and a lot of hot German women invite you for a massage. It was all awesome fun and incredible. Not so much attracted to it. The incredibly elongated and large red lantern street of Frankfurt. All these naked and naked women, of whom there were hundreds and hundreds more surprised me. I’ve never seen this in my life)). So many women prostitutes in one place and even more surprised that in Germany, there is a trade union of German prostitutes.
It’s been about 1 month since I arrived by plane from Novosibirsk to Frankfurt am Main. We got on the phone with the Greek and went to a nightclub and in the club I met an incredible, beautiful, smart, lovely, sweet, kind, charming, charming and seductive German girl, whose name was Elena. It will be difficult to explain in words how it happened and when the spark passed between us. The spark that broke out between us and turned into a flame of the fire of love, probably happens once in a lifetime. Rather, this happens between a man and a woman once in a lifetime. Love at first sight. We liked each other it was an incredible state when two people are attracted to each other like a magnet, an unknown electric force.
It was almost morning in Frankfurt around 5-6 o’clock in the morning. We were almost alone in the nightclub and I decided to take Lena and her friend Vanessa by taxi. Russian Russian Translator We had some problems understanding each other and I used a translator from English to Russian and from Russian to English. I did not understand the problems of a terrible accent and part of the words of the speech English turnover and did not take it by ear, so that it would be very fun. After all, she communicated more in German at first, when we were sitting in the club in four, when David was still with us, but Lena quickly realized that I did not understand German at all and switched to English, in which we more or less understood each other, but still ours, and more precisely, my level of English wished to leave the best wishes.
As a result, the three of us ended up at the old Frankfurt train station. Me, Lena and Vanessa. Vanessa took with her from the nightclub an unfinished bottle of black rum, which we drank at the train station)). That’s where the misunderstanding arose that Lena and Vanessa had to go to the German city of Karlsruhe. I thought then that Karlsruhe is a street in Frankfurt or a suburb of the city of Frankfurt am Main. At that moment I was critically stupid)) and he didn’t know Germany at all. Lena, she tried to explain all this to me at the Frankfurt train station. As a result, we all ended up at the Frankfurt train station together, where I began to understand the situation and what was happening. I bought Lena a bouquet of roses. All the roses that were in one vase. There were about 35 of them. 35 very beautiful roses.
At that moment I was not at all interested in where Karlsruhe is and what kind of place it is)) I didn’t care)). We drank coffee and sat for quite a long time and waited for our train and went to Karlsruhe. I really realized only on the train that it took a long time to go there and this is not a street in Frankfurt am Main and not the edge of the city. Of course, at that moment I was just beginning to understand how the German railway works and works:
- that Germany is divided into lands;
- there is a short ticket for a short trip;
- there is a long ticket that allows you to travel on German trains for 24 hours.
When the three of us were already traveling to Karlsruhe, I thought that I would have to go back to Frankfurt, but which ticket would I have to buy? A short ticket or a long ticket for the whole day? I’ve been thinking a lot about how the German rail transport system works, and the most important thing is not to make a mistake when buying a ticket.
In a foreign country, I’m traveling by train in an unknown location with a girl I see for the first time)) in some kind of aggregate romantic state of complete flight of thoughts and freedom, of course, I was glad that it would finally be possible not to see relatives for some time and be further away from them. To see Germany from the window of a flying train. Everything is so new, everything is so interesting, everything is so amazing. The new horizon of events that opened up to me in space and time was incredible.
We were driving and laughing, I thought this was the best development of events)). I always ask myself, how do I do it? how did I find adventures on my buttock area? You will always find trouble or some adventures on your head)). This is a rhetorical question many of us ask ourselves: “How do you manage to do this, produce this house around you?”. Not everyone can do that, but there is such a breed of people)).
As a result, Lena and I came to the German city of Karlsruhe. In the center of this city there is a pyramid, and behind the pyramid there is a museum, and, to be precise, the German Kunsthalle gallery. While we were on the train, we didn’t get much sleep, we took a nap. Tired. When we came out on Karlsruhe Lane, it was raining. We got wet in the rain because there was no umbrella. We got into a taxi and arrived at Lena’s apartment. It was already about 12:00 in the afternoon. I wanted to tell her something, and while I was waiting for her with Vanessa in the living room, I fell asleep on the couch dead. Yes, it was a dead dream and I woke up only in the late afternoon at 18:00. Strong fatigue knocked me down.
All this is somewhat vaguely similar to the scene from World Warcraft, when Arthas climbs the peak of the “Icy Mountain”. Actually, as we all go up the career ladder)).
