vibraphonic III

Here the pictures which I promised. The sculptures are from an artist called Simon Ruscoe. Unfortunately one part of the most impressive sculpture is currently at an exhibition in London and will just come back when I am going to London. Hope you enjoy the other one showed in the pictures as well.

The other exhibition which I went to is created by an artist called Laura Kikauka. I talked to her at the first event in the

Phoenix. She is just the same like as her exhibition.

Court of Justice

On Thursday I joined a case in the Court of Exeter, dealing with a man, who was accused of mistreating a 15 years old boy. I know, why I don't want to be specialised in Criminal Law. Though it was very interesting for me. At the Criminal Court the lawyers still wear the wig and if somebody leaves the room he has to bow in direction of the judge above whom the royal emblem is on the wall. The building is very modern as you can see on the picture (published soon). The former Criminal Court is now private property and provides rooms for artists.

vibraphonic II

Yesterday I was at a nice event called Joint. It was Drum&Bass and I really enjoyed it, especially one of the DJs called "London Electricity". I saw some funny peoples again, who seemed not to have a mirror at home. It was not even a fancy dress (which I'm pretty used to by now), it was just awful! Unfortunately I hadn't my digicam with me. Though the people were nice.

Today was at different exhibitions who are presented in connection with the musicfestival. Some of them were in the Castle of Exeter, which is a former Criminal Court. At the ground floor there were nice sculptures (I will put some pictures of them in the blog later on, because I haven't taken them yet). I went to the exhibitions together with the director of the phoenix who organised the whole event. We had a nice talk to the artist of that sculptures, who originally comes from London. Downstairs in the former cells of the former Criminal Court were different small "interactive sound exhibitions" like a sound chair or a sound studio with different lines producing sounds, if you touch them. You could see the original graffity of the prisoners on the wall of the cells. One cell is even painted by an artist together with a former prisoner.

vibraphonic

The musicfestival started here in Exeter and I support them as a volunteer at some events. It's well organised and as the filmfestival a few weeks ago a really good mix of all (concerts, DJ's, exhibitions and workshops). I really enjoy it. It's called vibraphonic so you can have a look at their website if you want (I suppose it's http://www.vibraphonic.co.uk/). As I saw now, the phoenix (the location where the most of the events take place) offers a lot of nice workshops in April. Unfortunately I won't be able to join them. Though that doesn't mean that I don't look forward to Berlin!

Now I caught a cold. :-( Due to this I had to stay at home yesterday. It really knocked me out.

On the 20th of March I'm going to London again until I'm coming back to Berlin on the 22nd. So please keep that date in mind and let some space in your diary. I expect to meet you then soon! I really look forward to the legendary "Falckenstein-Pizza" as Pizza is really uncommon here and so really expensive as well. I never thought I would miss it so much. Of course there are a lot of other things I miss. Dispite this fact I reall can recommend Exeter. It's a nice city and I look forward to coming back in September to Klaus & Julias wedding.

London

Sunday, 1st of March
On Sunday 1st of March I went to London and came back to Exeter yesterday. @Philipp: Again, thank you very much indeed for your hospitality at your home! I had a really nice time!

Just arrived at 1.15 p.m. on Sunday at Victoria Coach Station I walked along the Themse River and was joined by a nice skyline of London.The last time I was in London there wasn't the London Eye as it was in 1996. I had really bad Bubbles (?) on my feet, when I finally arrived at Philipp's house in the evening.

Monday, 2nd of March

On Monday I joined Philipp and his flat mate on the way to their University, which is close to the Royal Court of Justice. I went inside the Court and had a look for the cases which are dealt with in the morning. Unfortunately I couldn't joined any judicial proceeding due to the fact that I had an appointment with the vice president of the English-German Law Society at 12.30 for lunch and there wasn't enough time left. The law firm of him was close to the Royal Court of Justice as well. We had lunch in a huge old building of the 15th century, where the barristers and soliciters use to have lunch. I had fish with banana on the top, small potatoes, tomatoes and a white sauce (really yummy!). For dessert I had an english pie with sauce. While drinking the cappuccino, we went through the hall and he explained me the historical details of the building. Very interesting and impressive! Back to his law firm he gave me some contacts which I can apply to. Though he couldn't help me further with regard to my career in England, I really enjoyed the time.

Afterwards I went through the city to the Piccadilly Circus, China Town, etc.

At 5 p.m. I met Philipp and Fabian again in front of the University and we went to a seminar, which was held by a German Professor about the Global Financial Crisis and possible solutions for that problem. This Professor tested me in my first Exam in 2004. He even remembered that and we had a nice talk afterwards in a pub, where we were invited of the organisation which organised this seminar. We had some wine and some appetisers.

Tuesday, 3rd of March

On Tuesday I went to the shopping streets of London (Regent Street, Oxford Street, Knightsbridge). I also met Paddington Bear at the Paddington Station and walked through the Hyde Park. At 5 p.m. I took the bus back to Exeter, where I arrived at 9 p.m.