The waveguide
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I am just curious, if in your places there is also something special about the First of May.
I currently live in Berlin, and in the night between April 30 and May 1st it is one big war here. A crowd (mostly students and teenage) is throwing beer bottles into police, and huge amount of policemen dresses as Terminators is chasing the drunk crowd. It is all going on at night, and helicopters are scanning the ground with their strong lights. Like in those action-movies when they are searching for criminals and illuminating the earth from above. Actually already yesterday, April 28, we've seen kids coming from all over Gremany to participate in these chasing games and in bottle-throwing. I did not know all this 3 years ago when I just came to Berlin for my studies, and my first First of May night me and my friends spent running from a police in a huge crowd of people. We did not do anything (we were good stupid students who knew nothing about that), but somebody threw his first beer bottle and the chase begun.
So this year we are getting out of Berlin and going to Thale in Saxony-Anhalt part of Germany. There they celebrate the Walpurgis Night (Night of witches). I have never been to that before, but it sounds much friendlier than staying in Berlin. And much more misterious.
And the First of May is the day-off here (in my institute also they gave us the May 2nd free!). That's the best part of it!
How's the First of May in your place? Any action? Any days-off?
I currently live in Berlin, and in the night between April 30 and May 1st it is one big war here. A crowd (mostly students and teenage) is throwing beer bottles into police, and huge amount of policemen dresses as Terminators is chasing the drunk crowd. It is all going on at night, and helicopters are scanning the ground with their strong lights. Like in those action-movies when they are searching for criminals and illuminating the earth from above. Actually already yesterday, April 28, we've seen kids coming from all over Gremany to participate in these chasing games and in bottle-throwing. I did not know all this 3 years ago when I just came to Berlin for my studies, and my first First of May night me and my friends spent running from a police in a huge crowd of people. We did not do anything (we were good stupid students who knew nothing about that), but somebody threw his first beer bottle and the chase begun.
So this year we are getting out of Berlin and going to Thale in Saxony-Anhalt part of Germany. There they celebrate the Walpurgis Night (Night of witches). I have never been to that before, but it sounds much friendlier than staying in Berlin. And much more misterious.
And the First of May is the day-off here (in my institute also they gave us the May 2nd free!). That's the best part of it!
How's the First of May in your place? Any action? Any days-off?
