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Mixed bag.
Aug. 2nd, 2007 06:03 pmHalf my friendslist is travelling the world, so my already small readership has been reduced even further. So, rambling on about my own holidays seems slightly pointless, but as school starts on Monday and things will be more than hectic then, I'd better post now or I'll never get round to it.
Today was the big meeting at school before lessons start on Monday and I'm so not ready for school to begin. Probably because I'll be having visitors over the weekend -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paranoid_blonde and forgiveninasong - looking forward to that very much.
I'm not usually prone to what Germans call Lokalpatriotismus but I love my corner of the city, slightly run-down, multicultural and colourful. Last year or so, it was decided that the court buildings in the centre of town had become too small and outdated and that they were going to be moved to our quarter housed in a shiny new building on a big empty spot of wasteground. Yes, there was one early 20th century town house plus restaurant that had to be pulled down, but in that location even a complete remodelling wouldn't have returned the building to its former glory.
In today's paper (or rather in its online edition) I found out that the judges of the Amts- und Landgericht aren't happy with the move. Leaving the Altstadt with the river close by is bad enough as it is, but going to work where real people live that's terrible. In what I perceive as a thinly veiled racist remark one of the judges, Peter Rose, chairman of the judges' council at the Amtsgericht called my part of town "the backyard of the city" "wo ausländische Nischen-Ökonomien expandieren". Yes, a lot of people with foreign sounding names, some of whom I expect to have German citizenship, have opened businesses here, restaurants and travel agencies and internet cafes and 'callshops' and clothes shops and the usual assortment of import-export dealers. Yes, they're filling a niche - what's so bad about this? Yes, some of these enterprises might be somewhat dodgy - he doesn't say it directly, but it's certainly implied, but most of them pay their taxes
I guess they're just worried that they can't go to their favourite Italian restaurant anymore or nip over to one of the breweries to have a glass of Alt. Well, the best Lebanese is just around the corner and there's an Uerige across the street. They'll even have a view of the Kiefernstraße.
Today was the big meeting at school before lessons start on Monday and I'm so not ready for school to begin. Probably because I'll be having visitors over the weekend -
paranoid_blonde and forgiveninasong - looking forward to that very much.I'm not usually prone to what Germans call Lokalpatriotismus but I love my corner of the city, slightly run-down, multicultural and colourful. Last year or so, it was decided that the court buildings in the centre of town had become too small and outdated and that they were going to be moved to our quarter housed in a shiny new building on a big empty spot of wasteground. Yes, there was one early 20th century town house plus restaurant that had to be pulled down, but in that location even a complete remodelling wouldn't have returned the building to its former glory.
In today's paper (or rather in its online edition) I found out that the judges of the Amts- und Landgericht aren't happy with the move. Leaving the Altstadt with the river close by is bad enough as it is, but going to work where real people live that's terrible. In what I perceive as a thinly veiled racist remark one of the judges, Peter Rose, chairman of the judges' council at the Amtsgericht called my part of town "the backyard of the city" "wo ausländische Nischen-Ökonomien expandieren". Yes, a lot of people with foreign sounding names, some of whom I expect to have German citizenship, have opened businesses here, restaurants and travel agencies and internet cafes and 'callshops' and clothes shops and the usual assortment of import-export dealers. Yes, they're filling a niche - what's so bad about this? Yes, some of these enterprises might be somewhat dodgy - he doesn't say it directly, but it's certainly implied, but most of them pay their taxes
I guess they're just worried that they can't go to their favourite Italian restaurant anymore or nip over to one of the breweries to have a glass of Alt. Well, the best Lebanese is just around the corner and there's an Uerige across the street. They'll even have a view of the Kiefernstraße.
