From Hamburg to Leipzig in Germany, three months later

Well, it's already been a couple of months since the last time I wrote something here, in my blog about my life in Germany. I apologise, since I have met interesting people through the blog, and probably some of them are not returning to read it anymore. It is not entirely my fault I must say, I've been busy. It has to do a lot with my new job and my workload. Besides, I want to make a good impression and dedicate myself as much as possible to my new work.

Still, I'll try to post as often as I can. And reply to the questions of my new virtual friends.

First of all, I want to tell you about my experience in Leipzig. At the Games Convention. It was an incredible experience. With so many big companies: nintendo, microsoft, activision, konami, midway, sony, etc, etc etc.

We took a train from Hamburg, around 18:00 if I remember well. One day before the beginning of the Games Convention. The train was the same train we took one week before, that goes directly to Berlin and then goes further to Leipzig. Please take the opportunity to see where Leipzig is. I believe it is the second biggest city in former East Germany, after Dresden.

We arrived there around 20:30, and went directly to our hotel. It was not spectacular but not bad either. Bigger than most of the previous hotel rooms where I have been recently. In fact, I think I've never been in such a big hotel room in Europe before. It was extraordinarily big.

We were tired but still had time for some dinner. I went to bed around 24:00, thinking on the first meeting I was going to have around 08:30.

I took a taxi to the convention center, and had my first encounter with the difficult German dialect from Leipzig. The way people speak in Leipzig is especiall difficult, even if you are a native German speaker. At least that's what the German themselves say. For me it was difficult as well. I could only catch some words.

The Games Convention was amazing. I did a lot of contacts, I got to know loads of people and I worked a lot. It was one meeting after the other. Sometimes you only had time for a cup of coffe between meetings. I believe I was a bit dehydrated on the third day. I needed to drink more water.

You know already that my German is not great. So, it might be, or not, a surprise for you that most of the meetings were conducted in English. In just a couple of occasions I had to address people in German. But it was almost not necessary.

And about Leipzig, I did not know anything about the city. Nothing at all.

What a surprise was for me to know that in the church some meters away from my hotel Johann Sebastian Bach was buried. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to take my camera, and I did not have the chance to take photos of the church, the grave or anything from Leipzig. Except with my mobile. The photo above, from the Games Convention, was not taken by me. I took it from the internet. The following ones as well.


Behind the hotel, was a monument to the Holocaust. I remembered having seen a photo of the monument some years ago in the newspaper. But, not many people paid attention to it. Here is a photo of the place I found on the internet:

The city is nice to visit. There are some passages that are very nice to walk by, and more monuments that I did not have the time or chance to visit. We will probably return to the city later.