Day 80, Monday, November 28 2011: Hollywood

I am very tired and exhausted from the weekend. It was great, but a bit too much partying. I am also a bit sore from the hiking yesterday. Today is the last day of my little crazy project and I guess I have been tired lots of times in the last 80 days. It was very hard to find the time each day to make a drawing and write a bit about it, thats why they are mostly sketches and not very realistic drawings, which are more time consuming. Now I did it, maybe not in the best quality I could do it, but I succeeded..yeah.. also it was my first ever blog! Only I could not resist sweets, I am desperately addicted, I am not sure if I ever could live without sweets, chocolate, icecream and co. At least I have improved a lot and do not eat so much of it anymore, the portions are more normal probably. The funny thing is when I started this project I didn’t even know that I kind of really would travel around the world, as I am always spontaneous, so I had no clue that i would go to Spain, USA and Thailand apart from Australia and Germany, which I already knew. :-) I am really not that kind of planning personality, it all just happens, one thing follows the next and I just listen to my imposes and my heart, that tells me where to go next. Well, only now I know then in 2 weeks from now I start back in Sydney in my job there for another 6 months with my 2^nd working holyday visa for Australia. Until then I can enjoy LA, will do more sightseeing, tomorrow I will go biking at Venice and Santa Monica Beach with Martin, a friend of a friend from Germany, take some acting classes, sit in audience for sitcom tapings, Warner Bros. Studio Tour, and much more. LA is just great, better than I thought it would be! Its all so surreal here, like in a dream, a weird feeling, which is simply hard to describe, the people here are crazy flirtatious and I am getting so many phonenumbers and marriage offers like nowhere else, I have been before. However so far noone of those guys I liked and also its a bit odd to me, when people you just met and talk for like 2 minutes, offer you to marry so fast! For a short stay here its just hilariously entertaining! Also the palmtrees are great here, there are so tall and beautiful, they look better than the shorter ones in Sydney. So for today I sketched a typically view you get in Hollywood, the street with cars, the Hollywood Sign in the background and lots of nature and mostly palmtrees!

Day 79, Sunday, November 27 2011: Hiking up to the Hollywood Sign

I am superexhausted, the party was great and we were dancing a lot at Playhouse and met some cool people, this time luckily I remember everything! Then I only slept like 4 hours and spontaneously went hiking with Miriam and Ina, 2 german girls from the hostel. We were hiking behind the famous Hollywood Sign, it was so great, the landscape is just beautiful and we were so close to the big letters, just behind them! I have never seen the sign from the back before. So I also did a little sketch, how it looked like. However it was kind of a strenous walk and I was sweating a lot, as it is very warm in LA. I never expected that as it is end of November, but its like summer temperatures during the day, more than 20 degrees and sunshine. Only at nighttime it gets very cold. Now I am supertired and will just quickly get a free Pizza from the Sunday night free Pizza Event from the hostel. All these events are really awesome, I am loving it here in LA, just everything is just great and superexciting and so surreal.

Day 78, Saturday, November 26 2011: Party in LA

Yesterday was awesome! At first was a preparty at the hostel, from where we were driving to the club Boulevard 3 with a Stretchlimo, everyone was so superexcited and screaming and dancing and celebrating inside the limo. For me it was my first limoride ever and I also for the others from the party, so everyone behaved like a little kid with enormously big exciting eyes. It was really that LA feeling like you see in movies or in TV. The club is beautiful with a pool, dancers and stunning lighting, mostly in blue. However I have no memory how I got home, which is a bit scary. This morning I woke up at 8 am in my bed with all my clothes and shoes on and had no clue how I came there. Usually I take off at least my shoes before sleeping! Luckily at breakfast I met some people from the party and they told me that we all took a taxicap home together and they helped me to get in my room as I was not able to find my keys anymore and they were searching them for me in my bag. Oh god I am so lucky, that they took care of me! One guy however has the same experience than me, he also has no clue how he got home, no memory at all. That never happened to me before, I always remembered at least bits! They also told me that one guy was flirting with me, but I told him that I just want to go home by taxi with my hostelfriends, so he got upset. Well I don’t remember anything, we are wondering if maybe someone put us something in our drinks, scary! Also today I feel so bad, like sick, I never felt so bad before, unless I am really sick! Its now evening again and I still have such a headache and feel so weak and hardly slept. Now its Partytime again, we are going to club Playhouse tonight. Actually I feel terrible, but who knows when I will be in LA again, so I just push myself.

Day 77, Friday, November 25 2011: MOCA

Today I was visiting MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art. I was with Miriam, a girl from my room for 2 days and we had a good time to see some great art and seeing a bit of Downtown LA and again it was superconvenient and quick to go from Hollywood to Downtown by subway. In my drawing I added some information of MOCA, even like the ticket price and the exhibitions going on there at the moment. Now back in the hostel I need to get ready for the Partylife in LA!

Day 76, Thursday, November 24 2011: Emails

Oh my god, that biking was too much yesterday! I can hardly move, I am totally soar! So  I am just having a Computer Day today, doing emails, updating Facebook with photos and researching some stuff. So I just scribbled some @ signs on paper for today.

Also I moved rooms in the hostel and now I am in a female only dorm, which I definitely prefer. It just makes it easier to change your clothes without worrying where to do that, when the bathroom is occupied. Again new people, every day people are coming and going. I am one of the few longterm guests, most others only stay 1 or 2 or 3 nights. Lots of travellers are doing a US trip and travel from city to city. Its really nice to meet heaps of nice persons in a short period of time. On the other hand its sad when they are leaving again. Or like last night I just talked to one girl a bit and this morning really early around 7 am she already checked out again and a new girl arrived. I even felt annoyed to introduce myself again to the new girl again then, I felt like, where is the point, as she might be leaving very soon again anyways. It gets kind of confusing with so many people and new names and new stories all the time. I never really stayed in a hostel before longterm, before I was also only a few nights in Australia, so I never experienced that kind of lifestyle.

Day 75, Wednesday, November 23 2011: Griffith Park

Today was biking day in Griffith Park, that was an exercise, all the time uphill! And there were only like 2 other person on bikes and they were wearing those professional biking attire and had racing bicycles and looked extremely athletic. I was figthing with my motivation and legsmuscles to make it all the way up. All other people were going by car, like its normal in the US. Actually I just did not know, that it would be so strenous, I just heard Griffith Park, well sounds good, give it a try, and thought more really of a park and not of an uphill roadway all the way. However the view of the city was rewarding! Also I found a little area there, which is called Berlin Forest at Griffith Park! "dedicated to the friendship between Berlin, Germany and Los Angeles; sister sites since 1967". There was a sign of Berlin and right behind it, you can spot the famoud Hollywood Sign. I like that connection between home and LA.

Finally I arrived at the Griffith Park Observatory and enjoyed stunning views, which was so very rewarding after going there all the way up by bike! Going down then was much easier though! Later in evening I was a bit driving around at Hollywood Boulevard up to West Hollywood by bike! In Europe or Australia that would be normal, however in Hollywood everyone is kind of staring at you, when you are using a bike and not a car. Again tons of people talked to me and I got heaps of phonenumbers, LA is really crazy, I never experienced that before anywhere else in the world. 

Day 74, Tuesday, November 22 2011: Venice Beach

It 11:05 pm and I just drew a sketch of Venice Beach, where I have been today with Jim, a guy I met in the hostel. It took us like 2 hours to go there and like 3 hours to go back, thats driving a car in Los Angeles and being perfectly stuck in traffic. It was a warm day, a bit chilly to lie down at the beach, but nice to walk around. Soo good after all the cold weather at home and in New York!