Sunday, May 26, 2013

Wave-Gotik-Treffen

Wow I have so much to blog about! I went on a trip around Germany this past week. My first stop was the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig. It is a huge 5 day long Gothic music and art festival. There were 175 bands playing throughout the city on different days. I mostly walked around and took pictures of the beautiful people and buildings. I did go see Abney Park on Friday night because I love them and then I went to the big concert on Sunday night with Noisuf-x. I love the high of being at a concert, surrounded by people dancing and singing. It's wonderful. I think that was the most fun I had at WGT. The costumes were amazing of course. I was able to dress up a tiny bit but I didn't have room in my suitcase to bring too much. I started at 7am on Friday and got to Leipzig around 3pm. It was so chaotic that first day because I had to take another train to Halle to meet my couchsurfing hosts, then find Lintu and Thomas and view what little was left of the Victorian Picnic, check in to get my wristband for the events, and then I was finally able to go to the Abney Park concert. My first mitfahrgelegenheit (German carpool system) was really good, I had nice people and they got me to Leipzig pretty fast. My first time couchsurfing was also a lot of fun. I stayed with a couple who lived 30 minutes outside of Leipzig. Their apartment was really nice with a great view over Halle. They made me a huge breakfast every morning I was there (which I was not expecting!) and we watched some movies and just talked over coffee a lot when I wasn't at WGT. I got to meet up with Lintu and Thomas on the first day I was there but after that I'm not sure what happened. They just decided to ignore me the rest of the weekend. I have no clue if  I did something or what. They just wouldn't reply to my texts or calls so when I called them on Sunday and got no reply I just gave up and hung out with random people where ever I went, which was also cool. It really helped my German haha I was dumb and wore 6inch heeled boots on Saturday so now I have a terrible blister under my toe >_< They were super cute while I was wearing them though! Pretty much everyone I met was super nice and the bands/vendors were great. I didn't do much shopping since things are always way over priced at these events but I did get a hat and a t-shirt. Overall, very fun (minus the being ignored for no reason thing) and tiring weekend. I took about 180 pictures (yikes!) but because this blogging site has a monthly limit I had to really be picky. So these are just a very few of the costumes and building pictures. I have about 133 on facebook too so go check there if you're on my friends list ^_^






 Abeny Park
















 so cute ^_^

 Incubite

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