final germany post

this first shot was taken at a bier garden in berlin a few hours we were done with our exams. this post is mainly for Katrin, our former Chemical Technical Analysis teacher. i say former because she is no longer a teacher at the VLB and by next year she won't be working in the VLB's lab either. her husband Ingo will be leaving the VLB as well. this is all because of a stupid insident in CTA lab. there's this little stuck up bitch from somewhere south of the border. let's just say south of columbia and north of peru, but not brazil. she is not used to being corrected even though she probably gets corrected everyday of her life. i guess if she was on fire i might piss on her but not enough to put it out. she also has no ass. i guess you really could say she has negative ass. maybe some of you think this is a little harsh. if so, comment on it. the point is that the VLB lost one of their best teachers just because daddy's little girl got mad and was determined to get revenge. if you're reading this, you know who, GROW UP! enough ranting.
katrin in the middle. we all love you.
this here is also one of the best at the vlb. Heinrich. microbiology. this man knows what organisms like to eat and he's also seen jimi hendrix play on an island. what more can you ask for in a professor? see anyone in the background uninterested in our celebration?
this is mike from england on the left. he is an assistant for the CTA class. mike was very helpful in lab and a pleasure to talk to outside of class. the last photo is just a fun one of a few of us in hamburg. burghard and john bryce are on the left but not in the frame. from left, vinicius, simon, me, erica, felipe, and koji. as you can probably tell, we were having a pretty, pretty good time. bier and jager. this is also about 10 minutes before i almost get my ass kicked by five hamburgers for asking them why the hell they care so much about obama winning the democratic race. that's what jager does to me. got out of that one though and live to argue another day.

after this post i don't think i'll be putting anything on here about germany. that is until the next time i go there. i think i'm going to keep the blog and change the name. haven't really thought about a name yet. i'm also unvailing my secret you tube account to you guys. i wanted to get enough junk on there before anybody saw it. the videos are mostly very stupid but funny. more so if you know me and especially so if you're a new brewmaster or teacher from the VLB. just type in "threeajk" without the quotes. don't ask me what the name means. you'll never get it out of me. i had alot of fun doing this blog thing and i hope you've enjoyed reading it. stayed tuned for some american postings in the near future.

last of the brewmaster single shots

none of these really need any introduction. first is felipe from brazil. he graduated second in our class.
erica from canada sitting on a dock bier garden. erica was the third best in class.
and who's that guy with the ten day beard? that's right, it's me!
these last 2 are (above) the group of new brewmasters that decided to celibrate our exams being over by drinking more bier. of course. then below is a group of us directly after our last exam at the imbiss. all brewmasters happy to be done with exams.

even more brewmasters

this first shot is of Shinichiro Takeda from japan. we call him shin. sorry, it's the best one i could find of only shin.
then there's Vinicius Micai Nunes from brazil. we call him vini or vinicius. there's better shots of him but i chose this one for the action in the background. i'm pretty sure that black foot under the blur in the upper left corner is Thomas G. running to turn a pump off or something. others are goran and gokhan. both with 2 dots over the "o's".
here's the only loas guy shot i have. there's 2 of them. their names are Phanthanouvong Khamvathana and Somchanh Oupaxay. don't know which one this is. sorry
this is my favorite picture i took of john bryce, the other american.
to finish this post out and have enough singles to do another post i chose to put a picture of the class clown in for good measure. burghard. he's pretty, pretty,..... special.

brewmasters revisited

this first picture is blurry i know, so james gets 2 photos. this is Mr. James Sullie from Liberia man! i can't seem to find a better shot of him. i know i have one somewhere though. i also have a great video of him and felipe at our graduation party. be on youtube soon. i know i keep saying that but it's true. you just don't know the address yet.

this here is Serkan Erkan from turkey. i don't think i have a good picture of the other 2 turkish guys. sorry.
then here's our only german brewmaster from the course. Simon. everyone put this hat on at the bier garden that night. i wonder who ended up with it. some say he's a real upstanding young citizen. sometimes i say that. sometimes i say other things.
this is the best picture i have of Grace. this is early on in our german bier college experience at green week. grace is from brazil.

more brewmaster portraits

i know this first picture is Mapho. that's his last name and what we call him. his full name is Ardisak Mapho. he's from thailand. the next 2 shots are also thai guys, but i'm not sure which name goes with which face. i'm going to take the 50% chance that the first guys name is Songsak Hengprathanee.
then we have who i think is Sahachon Boonjit. sorry guys if i got your names switched. you didn't really talk all that much. by the way, did the thai guy above who i name as Songsak, did you get any of that nbb? you seemed to be trying pretty hard at the boat on the harbor. nbb is your dancing partner. i'll call her out fully in a day or 2.
then we have the other chinese guy who sang that beautiful chinese song on the boat that i recorded and the smallest chinese guy erased from my camera. you could have been famous. his name is Guoquan Zhang. we call him Zhang.
last we have Mr. Koji Onoda. he's from Japan. he's very smart and really knows how to use his head in a fight. that will be on you tube soon.

pictures of brewmasters

this is the start of the brewmaster portrait series. i still have many pictures from berlin and germany so i'm going to try to get some of the best ones on this damn thing. i was planning on getting a close-up of all the brewmasters from our class at the VLB, but i didn't get around to finishing what i started. i did get alot of them though. heres a few to start. number one photo is the classic swedish bombshell, Goran with two dots over the "o". if you see this goran, email me with your swedish email. the we have Mr. Dejan Vatovic from Serbia. he finished as the top brewmaster of our course.
next is Mr. Peiwu Wang from china. we called him wang. he was the tallest chinaman and was pretty good at soccer.
i have a bone to pick with this little guy. his name is Xiaohong Sheng. we called him sun or sheng or joy. the smallest chinaman. the bone is on our class excursion after our exams we went to this little boat in a harbor by the baltic sea. the whole class minus 2 and burghard. we took over the boat and proceeded to get drunk and sing songs from wherever we were from. well......
this chinese guy, Zhang, who i don't think i have a picture of, sang this beautiful chinese song by himself. i filmed it. i filmed everybody's performance and i will be uploading the videos to you tube shortly. anyhow, this guy sheng, asked me 3 days later if he could see my camera to see some pictures. when i get home to start uploading zhang's video is somehow not there. hmmmm. wonder what happened to it. go ask sheng.

lastly we have Mr. Sarunyoo Songkram from thailand. i think that's his name anyway. we call him "you". very nice guy. gives a good back massage.

more berlin by bike

even in berlin they know who's going to win. i'm a poet and i know it.
three aluminum fighters fighting while standing on water.
nice view of the spree.
german people trying to play country music.
bridge to a little island on the spree.

travels to and from a bier garden

well.... i'm back in tennessee now after a very long day and night of traveling and in the next few days i will try to finish up the documentation of the berlin part of my life. i think i'll keep the blog, but i guess at some point i need to change the name. i will also be working on getting the best videos i took on youtube. there's only about 5 on there now so i don't want to say the address yet. these shots are just some of a few of us going to a bier garden one day. i can't remember if it was after a test or why we went there other than to have a few biers. the last few weeks have really been a blur. we are all brewmasters now by the way. can't remember if i mentioned that or not. the first one is claimed by many brewmasters to be my best picture. i think it's pretty good but the first one who said this is one of the 2 in the shot. guess which one. he is sort of known for saying things that include the words "this is the best". next is erica, mahpo (could be misspelled), goran with 2 dots over the "o", felipe, McJohn, and koji on a bridge we were just under. then guess who on the other underside of the bridge we were just on top of after many biers at the bier garden. lastly, felipe doing something to some sort of statue. could be a lion. could be a goat. you can make up your own mind.

no more pictures for a week or so

i'm sitting here in this turkish internet cafe cheking emails. my internet connection is down at my apartment and i will be leaving for a class excursion at 5:30 am tomorrow morning until thursday. i will be leaving for home on the 8th of june. i guess i will have to finish up the german part of my life then. check back after the 8th.