Change

Well guys, what shall I say:

Has change finally come to America?
Was this the most important election since Vietnam?
Will everything be fine now?

I have no idea, but yesterdays elections have brought an indisputable winner:

Sena...sorry...President Barack Obama!!!

We watched the results in a students' bar next to Columbia University. I think every place was totally crowded yesterday, people had fun, drank a lot, and were excited about their next man in the White House...so in this bar, the Pourhouse, too. There were 22 (!!!) TV screens and 1 large videowall to watch the CNN-protections on.
Starting at 6pm every single state that voted democratical was celebrated. Few expected the result to be that significant, accordingly great was the people's delight. When it was over many champaign bottles were opened...everybody waited for their new president to give his introduction's speech in Chicago, where 240.000 of citizens had come together.
When he entered the podium and started speaking, a whole nation was listening. In my opinion he is rhetorical amazing...the main message of his speech was: Change has come.
After ending half of the people in the bar were crying, loughing, and totally happy at the same time. I've never seen something like that, wow! It gave me the creeps! God bless America! ;-)

Let's see what the next 4 years will bring...

Max

Excited folks

Live

Color by numbers

settled

President of the United States


Yes we can

Trick or Treat!

All people out there,

the night of the nights for many New Yorkers is over: Halloween, when everyone is someone else. One who hasn't experienced this yet wouldn't believe what's going on there. The streets are totally crowded, and you can see the best, and funniest (sometimes uggliest) costumes ever.

Our halloween started, guess where, in a line in front of a costume store. But finally, we were able to get the things we were looking for...

scary, isn't it?

We decided to start with the Greenwich Village Parade, the biggest one in whole NYC, to celebrate this scary night with 60.000 others. Though we wanted just to see the parade, we somehow where suddenly part of it, I don't even know, if we were allowed to :-) But that was great, the 6th Ave from Spring str. to 21st str. was one huge, awesome party. There were a lot of different parade wagons, and everyone played another type of music, or had another topic...a Jaegermeister wagon, a Trinidad&Tobago wagon, a "Witches in Bikini" wagon, and so on...
After leaving the parade on 14th str. (serious lack of restrooms and beer outside :-) )we got to a rooftop party in SoHo...they really were making "Glühwein" when we arrived there :-) Tasted like Austrian winter!
A little later, after a fruitless try to get into a party in a Brooklyn warehouse (there were about 500 people in front of it in a line, waiting to be let in) we visited a nice bar in which a friend of a classmate celebrated her birthday. I came home at 6, and I have to say: Halloween is awesome!!!

Max

Rudolph

Versace model

Little Spidey

yo

Peace

Peter saw Angels flying

supersize

Jaegermeister

orange

whatever

heroic

Chinese baby gymnast

Asian Teletubbies

Santa rocks (but not as much as the Christkind!!!)

Smurfs

Witches in bikini

Bender

Gandalf

firefighters