Green Cola at farmer fair NORLA in Rendsburg

Long time no green cola photos!
Here are some, from a fair in Rendsburg that is a town 30 minutes from Kiel. The NORLA simply is a farmer’s fair. I worked for the itzehoer insurance as green Cola in our nice frog-(quietsch)-green clothes
We supported a game with helium air balloons where people put their name on a little paper that we knot onto a balloon. We collected all balloons. At the end of each fair day we then let them all fly into the sky. The balloon that flew the farthest wins a prize (a bike).
As usual we also made photos with the visitors, which were uploaded to the company’s website photo gallery. Visitors can send them as online-postcards. We also had our bags full of give-aways, including the always most wanted green air filled plastic hands.

Because of a strong wind that we had that day, the balloon straps were extremely afoul (verheddert). The result was that most of the balloons flew in a big thick bundle together into the sky.
Too bad, but I’d say it was the mistake of the marketing guys who didn’t really plan this game enough…because:
We had no possibility to store the hundrets of balloons inside of the indoor fair tents where we wouldn’t have had the wind problem.
It’s always the well-thinking behind everything and a good marketing campaign/event needs more than only a good idea. Yup :P

Would have been great if we had side walls for our outdoor tent (we only had a roof and four open sides) to avoid the wind going though and to avoid escaping the helium balloons too easily, but well….

I asked if we have a net that we can hang around our tent. Nope, we didn’t have one, but a guy from the insurance company drove to a shop to buy such a net. Well, it was better than before. The balloons didn’t escape anymore, but still we had to store the balloons outside the tent.
We bind them with their long straps onto a steel pole next to our tent.
Unfortunately the wind caused a totally balloon-straps-clutter. Well, we did our best to solve the problem. Still we needed scissors to cut some “free”.

Hmm…sometimes I think I should get better paid because I often offer my ideas and help with organisation and fixing problems so that they feel great at the end of such a mistake-day, because everything went ok and their boss is happy because he thinks that the employee did a great job. Pah.

(Sales) Promoter are often more than only kind, nice looking, and nice smiling advertiser! I’m always too good for the world anyway *awwww-I know*

However, here are some of our promo pics…and me in green with my always big grin…*lol*

As you can see, it was a very nice sunny day, still very warm. Sniff. That was at the end of september…one of the last nice warm days of this year I guess…. Now it already is autumnal, colder, mostly rainy and (oh no) dark at 7:00 pm.

Steve was here and the party was hot and brutal

Oh oh, my last entry already is a few weeks ago…I always wanted to write something, but never had time or was too tired to turn on the computer.
So now, I’m back…hopefully writing more regularly from now on.

As I mentioned it to some of my friends via email, Steve from Sacramento,California/US (whom I know from Australia) was in Hamburg for a visit. YEAH! That already was at the 23rd of September (Saturday).

I drove to Hamburg and after a long time of driving around being totally lost (excuse: it was dark, I didn’t have a map, night-blind me, women don’t have a good orientation) I reached Andy’s house.
It was great to see Steve again after 2 years. He was still the same, only his hair was shorter (no punk head anymore, hehe). He had a friend with him. Also from Sacramento. Pink hair. Tattoo’s all over as well *g* I’d say two real California guys
Andy’s girlfriend Katharina was there as well. I haven’t seen her since Australia as well. Great reunion!!

After a big hello and a little chat with having a welcome beer we drove with the bus into town to party. First we were hungry, so we went to a noble sushi place called “Bok”. I was there before, so I knew that it was good. The Americans got a German Menu first and after pester me with questions about what-is-this-and-that we got English menu’s Here’s a photo of us eating:

After dinner we were ready for party on the famous “Reeperbahn”, a long street with lots of sex shops, bars, clubs, music halls where you can start your party night very well. It’s on of Hamburg’s must-see sight, so we brought Steve and his friend to it. read the rest of this entry…