Winter Meeting 2015

[Mimus]

Heya,

for those of you who did not yet read the thread about the last meeting (Summer Meeting 2015 - What happened): The meeting we had was awesome, but rather short due to a lot of rain and therefore some very wet tents, even on the inside due to some leaking.

This is why we came up with the idea to have another meeting this year to make up for the very short duration of the summer meeting. This meeting is supposed to take place in winter (so we have like half a year between the 2 meetings, more or less) and it shall not be in tents but in a warm, nice and dry place where we dont have to fear the weather (especially in cold winter nights).

Some more info on this first winter meeting:

1. Its not only for TWC members, just like the other meetings friends and family etc. are welcome

2. It is going to be in Germany this time, in Berlin to be more specific. There are several reasons for using Berlin:
a) The city has a huge airport and is close for people from the north (estonia and the baltic states in general, maybe even finland) so it is cheaper and more likely that there will be some people from there at the meeting.
b) The city is huge, so there is a whole lot of things to do even in winter when u can barely spend more than a few hours outside at once (I will show u a list of some things to do later).
c) Because we do not want to go camping (lol, wintercamping), we would need some kind of hostel. There are several cheap ones in Berlin, but more than that we (Lig and I) live in Berlin and can host the meeting in our apartment if we are not too many people.
d) even for people from the netherlands it should not be too far, since Lig and I drove the same way (just other direction) in the past 2 meetings and it was fine
e) and ofc people from eastern europe (poland, czech, bulgaria ....) would have a good chance to come, since its not far

The date for this meeting is quite clear, since there are not a lot of things to choose from. Most students have holiday around the end of the year, but people who work usually dont. However, there is a certain period (between christmas and new years and the few days after) when the meeting could easily take place without people having to take a lot of days off:
New years eve is thursday the 31st, that means friday (the 1st) is a free day at least for the people in NL and Germany, and I guess aswell for other countries. The 2 days after that are weekend, so free for most people aswell.

This means, we could have the meeting for some days from the 31st till the 3rd, maybe even a few days before the 31st for those who have holiday either way (which would be awesome, cause the 29th is my own birthday and i would LOVE to spend that with some of you ppl )

Berlin offers so many things Im sure we could spend a month and do sth every day, even in winter. Some things are:

- Spending New years at the party @Brandenburger Tor (free entrance, but SUPER FULL)
- go shopping (Alexa, Mall of Berlin, das Schloss etc. -> huge shopping centres with awesome christmas decoration)
- Bowling at American Bowl (they also have a restaurant called Play off with american food and special days like Burger, Spaghetti, Pizza day etc.)
- going to some cheaper clubs on new years who do not sell super expensive sylvester-tickets in advance (like Golgata-Club with free entrance or Soda-Club with free for women and 8euro for men, little-miss-sunshine free bar or living-room free bar)
- watch all the fireworks on new years from one of berlins big bridges
- we can aswell go in the famous e-sports bar interface (fifa, dota, LoL, mariokart etc. tournaments for you to compete in)
- go free dart-playing, pub quizzing, playing pool etc.
- one of the berlin street food markets (really cool, unusual food for low costs)
- some bar with nice happy hours (NSTAGS with a free snack for every drink, cheap cocktails etc.)
- some special bar (middle age, turn around with chairs on the ceiling, all chemistry bar, gothic bar etc.)
- one of the berlin winter markets (some are really huge and more like a fair, e.g. the one at the Alexanderplatz, lots of them also have ice-skating, shooting and more)
- go having fun in the snow at some hill in berlin
- indoor-pools
- go-kart driving inddor
- huge sportsfields (indoor) with tennis, volleyball etc.
- visit an aqua-building like SeaLife, Aquadom etc. with fishies
- ofc lots of cool restaurants in general like spanish tapas, real bavarian/german food etc.
- have a cheap sightseeing tour with the Bus100 where u see almost every kind of berlin sightseeing thing for just the price of a normal bus ticket
- etc.etc., so many things to do

Money-wise it would be even less expensive than the last meetings (which always were like 6 euro a night + food money) because you could sleep for free at our apartment and would only need to spend money for food (which is also less since i have a kitchen and would say im pretty decent when it comes to baking and cooking :P)

So, what do you people think? Suggestions, remarks? Who is interested in coming?


Mimi