Several days ago, I had an email from the Admin Departement that there will be 8 tickets to 20th Octoberfest given for free. I googled what Octoberfest is and found:
The Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
The Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an enjoyable event with an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
Oktoberfestbiers are the beers that have been served at the event in Munich since 1818, and are supplied by 6 breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr.[1] Traditionally Oktoberfestbiers were the lagers of around 5.5 to 6% abv called Märzen - brewed in March and allowed to ferment slowly during the summer months.[2] Originally these would have been dark lagers, but from 1872 a strong March brewed version of an amber-red Vienna lager made by Josef Sedlmayr became the favourite Oktoberfestbier.
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The Munich Oktoberfest, traditionally, takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in October. In 1990, the schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival will go on until October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is now 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. The festival is held on an area named the Theresienwiese (field, or meadow, of Therese), often called d’ Wiesn for short.
Visitors also eat huge amounts of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as Hendl (chicken), Schweinsbraten (roast pork), Haxn (knuckle of pork), Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick), Würstel (sausages) along with Brezel (Pretzel)), Knödeln (potato or bread dumplings), Käsespätzle (cheese noodles), Reiberdatschi (potato pancakes), Sauerkraut or Blaukraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian delicacies as Obatzda (a fatty, spiced cheese-butter concoction) and Weisswurst (a white sausage).
Seems nice nice interesting, then I googled how much the ticket worth and found the ticket was sold at IDR 695,000!!
OK!! I have to sent confirmation that I want this free ticket so bad!!!
The day after, an email pop up in my inbox:
Hellow there…
Lucky you!!!
Congratulations!
Grab the tickets guys..
You know where I sit!
I won!!!! yeaaaah!! I won the tickets! I was about to go to this Bravarian events!
Friday eve, I started the day with a bit depression of these people in my office that they were still haven't done their task which I need to send immidiately since I have to left the office soon for preparing my self for the events, I loosen up and decided to go home, took some bath, and returned back to the office to finish my work pending on other's hands..
Finally, Job was finished and sent out, and I went to the event.. caught in a jam and once I arrived..
It was so very Germany! it was so Bravarian. We were welcomed with huge beer mug filled with foamy cold yummy beer teased me up to finished from the very first time. Everywhere I looked was foreign people who some of them wore traditional bravarian costumes. Nice! Along the corridors, there were food stalls which looked so delicious, I started up with Hendl (chicken), Schweinsbraten (roast pork), Haxn (knuckle of pork, a cute piglet bit an apple which is chopped by the cook), cheeses, etc etc, and end up with Weisswurst (white sausage boiled in chicken borth).
It was the first time I hang up in this athmosphere, the music (they flew Germanese band here), the repeated toast, the overflow delicious beers, the delicious wiener (i barely found another "wiener" there hehehe), the dance, the traditional set table, the people, those all so taken me to be in flow with the whole situation.
10.45 pm.. I barely count how much I drank, I felt lighter and started to stand up in the chair, danced, sang (juat humming those Bravarian Hey HO!!! songs), yelled, and drank more and more beer, and I guessing myself was tipsy when I came back from the restroom and felt that I loose my balance to walk, but i was back, climbed up the bench, and drank more beers.. until 12.30 am.. I decided to home since I knew i am drunk already (yeah!! call me lousy, that was the very first time I drunk and it was fun actually, hehehe)
As soon as i get in the taxi and pretend to all that I was OK and not high, I felt this silence came up that led me hum along the way back home. Home already.. I kinda felt all of things are funny and sleepy and just let me sleep....
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