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Berlin by mortiziia
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On Saturday I went to my first KZ (concentration camp), Sachsenhausen, which lies only a few kilometers away from the capital. I should have written about this a few days ago, but I didn´t have the time, so now I´ll have to squeeze a few things more together. My apologies. Well, Sachsenhausen is at the end of the S-Bahn (urban train), line 1 to Oranienburg, and the camp is surprisingly near to this little town, Oranienburg. That´s one of the most impressive things: Sachsenhausen stood at walking distance from the village, but there was a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, which stood straight INSIDE the village. Amazing. It is explained in the camp that the Government in the Third Reich used this vicinity to intimidate the inhabitants and show up in places where news and progress didn´t spread as fast as in bigger towns.
We arrived at the KZ at 14,30 thanks to my two wonderful Spanish mates, who came too late (40 minutes) and I had to wait for them under the sleet. Then of course we lost the train we were supposed to catch…As a result, I could´t see the medical experiment chamber, the autopsy room nor all of the huts where the prisoners lived. On 16,30 everything was so dark and the museums started to close… not to mention the bitter wind that blew in the huge flat area of Sachsenhausen (I got a cold). I shall go there once again, this time alone.
On Sunday I eventually went to the K17, unbelievable! There was a concert, Gorgoroth and 1349. I liked 1349, even though I had been told they were shit; the concert was fucking great. After the concert I had the chance to take a picture of Gorgoroth´s singer with me and a friend, still I can´t believe it 
I arrived home at 5 am. The next day my cold had grown worse and I couldn´t move, had a little fever and pains all over my being. I stayed in bed most of the day, but on Tuesday I had to go back to slave away at University, at 8 am. Later on I had agreed to meet Reme to go shopping: yes, I hate shopping, but I made a good profit of it!! As we were heading towards the train station in Friedrichstraße, a young girl working on a promotion came to me and told me: "I don´t know if this is the sort of metal music you´re interested in, but anyway… There is a concert tonight, for free, the band is KoRn. Here´s the address and your invitation." FOR FREE? KoRn?? I couldn´t believe it, but I went there all the same, on my own: nobody wanted to come with me. Actually, KoRn is NOT the sort of metal I´m interested in, but anyway I like Jonathan´s voice very much and paid 30€ this summer to see him live, so I couldn´t miss this opportunity.
There were hundreds of people standing at the door of Huxleys Neue Welt (the concert hall) when I arrived, and I feared that there wouldn´t be place enough for everybody, for in the invitation it was printed that only early-arrivers could get in. But we all went in, eventually. I had no idea of how this Huxleys Neue Welt would be like: it turned out to be a pretty spacious hall with good acoustic. The concert was much better than the one I paid for in Spain even though they played exactly the same songs and in the same order.
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